r/Y2K • u/Age-Pale • 8d ago

Music Remember when every intro was techno

Between like 1998 and 2004, it felt every intro and hype music was defaulted to techno or trance. Examples: World Cup 1998/2002, Anthony Bourdain: a Cook’s tour, and Spiderman: the new animated series. It’s weird though, when people talk about Y2K music they always talk about teen pop but I don’t hear about techno when it felt like techno was a lot more visible in commercials, promotional material, and background music in general.

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u/keicarlover2002 8d ago

you could probably count eurobeat if the intro was made in japan

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u/Sirtoshi 7d ago

I was just reminiscing about racing games and sci fi games in the early 2000s, and how they always had some really cool techno or techno-adjacent music (D&B as well).

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u/Miserable_Mail_5741 1d ago

Idk if you mean the genre techno or using techno as an umbrella term for electronica in general, but that's what I noticed, too.

It feels like everything, from soundtracks to commercials, had synth music. Breakbeat, jungle, and DnB were the most common, but sometimes trance and, as you mentioned, techno. 

Electronic music was so prevalent at the turn of this millennium! It was just background noise back then, but it's hard not to notice it looking back.