I agree, Yertari, but that doesn't stop the laymen from considering the electronic music used in video games to be a good example of trance, or techno, or whichever.
This is why, to the vast majority of people, the techno music in games is seemingly fine. When in reality it blows. Not because techno blows, but because it is written by people who don't know what they are doing. It is easy to make a beat, and some cheese bass and some synths as compared to say, what Nobuo Uematsu does. Where, useing the same instruments would be possible, but even the most tone deaf person on earth could tell that one is good and the other bad.
Because a lot of the electronica scene has subtle rules that the public doesn't seem to know about nor care about, the genre gets flooded with junk. Just like any genre that is widely popular.
More so, because the yuppies that go to raves and dance clubs don't care a lick about what they hear, as long as it has that beat. And almost all electronica has written into it's rules that that beat must be present.
The fact of the matter is, these people would have no problem dancing to a bass drum, snare and hihat hit on the 8th notes.
It is a lot the same for all pop music in history... mostly crap, with some good sprinkled in somewhere..
It is just that Electronica is particularly easy to write badly, since you don't -need- to know anything about notes or chords or how to write lyrics....
Where as, other pop musics, like rock and roll, required some melody, and lyrics... and a good singing voice..
This is why, to the vast majority of people, the techno music in games is seemingly fine. When in reality it blows. Not because techno blows, but because it is written by people who don't know what they are doing. It is easy to make a beat, and some cheese bass and some synths as compared to say, what Nobuo Uematsu does. Where, useing the same instruments would be possible, but even the most tone deaf person on earth could tell that one is good and the other bad.
Because a lot of the electronica scene has subtle rules that the public doesn't seem to know about nor care about, the genre gets flooded with junk. Just like any genre that is widely popular.
More so, because the yuppies that go to raves and dance clubs don't care a lick about what they hear, as long as it has that beat. And almost all electronica has written into it's rules that that beat must be present.
The fact of the matter is, these people would have no problem dancing to a bass drum, snare and hihat hit on the 8th notes.
It is a lot the same for all pop music in history... mostly crap, with some good sprinkled in somewhere..
It is just that Electronica is particularly easy to write badly, since you don't -need- to know anything about notes or chords or how to write lyrics....
Where as, other pop musics, like rock and roll, required some melody, and lyrics... and a good singing voice..