Audiophiles who love their trance

Greenlizard0

Greenlizard0

Greenlizard0

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What tunes can you guys suggest really bring out the best of your equipment. I'm struggling to think of many.

At the moment I have :

Blank & Jones - Consequences
Rank 1 - L.E.D. There will be light (Marcel Woods Remix)
 
Try Plastic Boy - Silverbath on a massive soundsystem :) One of the best sawtooth riffs off all time in my opinion.

Although not all strictly trance , I'd recommend Sasha's productions in terms of sheer ear-candy. Xpander anyone?
 
Shipwrecked (Sean Tyas Remix) - Mike Foyle

Some of the best production I've ever heard.
 
Nilaya - Astral Projections (on their Another World album). Awesome layering only really shown on a good system with an uncompressed CD track. Mp3 compression destroys it so don't even bother.
 
BT really is in the upper echelons of amazingly mastered music. Mercury & Solace is audio-lushness!

As old as it is, the original mix of Lost Tribe - Gamemaster is incredibly well mastered and sounds VERY crisp and clean. :)

Also, Orbital - Halcyon & On & On.
 
Another one I've just remembered is Roger Shah Pres. Savannah - Body Lotion (Inspiration Remix). Not as good as the others I mentioned but there's some good subtle drums at the beginning.
 
krooton said:
BT really is in the upper echelons of amazingly mastered music. Mercury & Solace is audio-lushness!

As old as it is, the original mix of Lost Tribe - Gamemaster is incredibly well mastered and sounds VERY crisp and clean. :)

Also, Orbital - Halcyon & On & On.
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I'm amazed, I was going to post Gamemaster myself as the first thought that came into my head, staggered that someone else thought the same!
Halcyon & On & On just has a certain.... smoothness to it that means I can listen to it for hours on end, just washing over me.

Ironically that also reminded me of "Halycon" by Chicane, I think out of all their work it will probably work your speakers/cans the most

WOW is a good call too, unfortunately I have not the best rip of a Ajare I took from a housemate at uni back in 1999, 128kbit as well... :(

A bit too 'cheesy'/mainstream for many trance fans, but I think the main loop in Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap sounds phenomenal (even on my ancient cassette single!).

"Communication" by Armin is another one I usually slap on when I've got some new audio equipment, when it picks up half way through it makes me glad I spent the money :)
 
krooton said:
BT really is in the upper echelons of amazingly mastered music. Mercury & Solace is audio-lushness!

As old as it is, the original mix of Lost Tribe - Gamemaster is incredibly well mastered and sounds VERY crisp and clean. :)

Also, Orbital - Halcyon & On & On.
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Just wow :)

Edit:- What's 'BT' a song or artist?
 
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The level of detail BT goes into when producing music is insane. For instance after recording a live instrument (or indeed a full 110 piece orchestra) he goes back and adjusts every single note to the exact length, time and pitch. He even did the same thing after recording rain drops falling in his garden, adjusted every drop to be the exact same length and then used that in one of his tracks.

I also read he has hired mathematicians in the past to help compose music (hardly surprising when you have songs based on and named after the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio!) He writes his own plugins and programs and drum machines and... etc... to help with his production. Here is a snippet from an interview to give you a kind of idea of how seriously he takes his work.

This record really is like, three rivers that I love very much, it's the body of water that they all flow into and I had to go and find them. One being classical music. There's three pieces that have a 110-piece orchestra, a lot of intense, beautiful classical harmonies. And then glitchy, very sort of modernist, clicky kind of electronic stuff in the vein of IDM. I spent all summer writing thousands of lines of code to create BreakTweaker, which is responsible for all the splining micro-note values and granular surround sound. The third being asymmetrical meter isorhythms derived from jazz. A lot of the pieces have an incredible density and severity of meter changes.
You know honestly, more than anything, the most important thing for me to say about this record is that this is my first record that I've made since I became a father. And more than anything, this record is seven lullabies that I wrote with my daughter laying and sleeping in my lap. And I think, more than anything this humanist quality of this record and the kind of lullaby-esque quality to it has everything to do with that.
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Grrrrr said:
The level of detail BT goes into when producing music is insane. For instance after recording a live instrument (or indeed a full 110 piece orchestra) he goes back and adjusts every single note to the exact length, time and pitch. He even did the same thing after recording rain drops falling in his garden, adjusted every drop to be the exact same length and then used that in one of his tracks.

I also read he has hired mathematicians in the past to help compose music (hardly surprising when you have songs based on and named after the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio!) He writes his own plugins and programs and drum machines and... etc... to help with his production. Here is a snippet from an interview to give you a kind of idea of how seriously he takes his work.
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If I remember correctly, didn't he also release the first dance album recorded in 5.1?
 
A couple of my favorites:

ATB - Beach Vibes
Terra Ferma - Among the Stars
Yahel - Ocean
Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport (entire album)
Yahel - Bomb Creator
 
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