January 3rd, 2007

RoyaltyFreeMusic.com presents selections of lounge techno music that run the gamut of sub-styles and genres to encapsulate the many faces of royalty free music, and more specifically of techno music. Film and television professionals along with restaurant owners and others have chosen to incorporate innovative selections of royalty free music in the lounge techno music category to bring life to their projects with distinctive background music and production music. The techno music in the royalty free music library provides a flexible alternative to background music and production music purchased by major music providers by allowing professionals across industries to pay a one-time fee for unlimited use of the music.

But what exactly is lounge techno music? Many think that techno music, and specifically lounge techno music is the new jazz of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. But the answer to this question is important for those in the market to add new types of background music to their collections, as lounge techno music is a very specialized category of experimental music that can work wonderfully to enhance certain projects, but is certainly not perfect for every endeavor. Techno music in general has its roots in jazz and rock and has, since its birth in Detroit in the 1980s expanded into a variety of sub-categories. The name "techno" refers to the music as a derivative of technology and is widely accepted as the way to describe all forms of electronic dance music. It shares common bonds with both jazz and rock music because it emerged as a rebellion against not only classical music but mainstream pop music and has produced many new sounds and techniques that were never-before-seen in the music industry.

Techno music began in Detroit, Michigan with electronic dance music influenced by electro, New Wave, funk and futuristically-themed music that was the result of technological advancements at the end of the Cold War and in the increasingly-industrialized United States. Techno music eventually grew into an expanded subset of genres and by the 1990s had a global presence, played as background music in clubs and production music in films throughout the world. Like jazz music before it, and rock and roll, techno music started as an underground movement that exploded into a phenomenon of widely accepted and exciting musical innovations and experiments.

Lounge techno music specifically emerged in 2000 with the arrival of many more sub-genres and crossovers in techno music. Lounge techno music is a form of background music that has a retro feel and incorporates computerized sounds with smooth jazz and ambient effects. Lounge techno music is definitely jazz-influenced, and has been encapsulated by popular acts such as Bebel Gilberto and dZiahn & Kamien along with Groove Armada.
Like other types of techno music, lounge techno music features a plethora of percussive, synthetic sounds, studio effects used as the primary instruments and typically a mid-tempo beat. Many lounge techno tracks, and many within the high quality RoyaltyFreeMusic.com library offer strong melodies and bass lines tempered by melodic effects and an ambient feel. Like the most experimental forms of jazz, including acid jazz -- which is in and of itself its own category apart from techno, though it exhibits similar qualities - lounge techno music fuses some elements of classic jazz and sometimes light hip hop-inspired beats. One of the main qualities of techno music as background music and production music is that each song is extended and blends into the next, allowing a flow of sound that blends well into many cutting-edge soundtracks for film and television programs and captures the spirit of the young culture.

Is lounge techno music the new jazz? Certainly, techno music and jazz music have much in common, but there is enough experimentation within both genres to allow room for each to grow and change with new developments in technology and the music industry. RoyaltyFreeMusic.com is pleased to present a large selection of royalty free music in the form of background music and production music that fits within the lounge techno music and techno music categories to satisfy discriminating professionals with very specialized needs.

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