Trance is so vastly misunderstood...

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Hi all,

Some of you may know the record label 'anjunabeats' (as per sig)...

It's responsible for a huggggge catalog of some of the finest music on the planet (imo)...

They sign up great uplifting and progressive trance artists for example.

What I'd like to say though is that trance isn't what a lot of people think it is. When you say the word "trance" to someone they automatically think of utter garbage like Cascada and Basshunter...

This isn't proper trance music!!!

I think if you're one of those people who don't listen to trance much that you should perhaps listen to a few tunes from artists like Above and Beyond...

I'll get the ball rolling with a few tunes which may make you're perception of trance change somewhat... ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsuVTRaglY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LNeMUaJEac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Iq5sOIKAo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhip6_ynBn0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymPtypbwjLQ

Some sad and some uplifting tunes there, if you like any of these I can recommend some other artists who make similar (there are many) or if not, well oh meh, least I tried to spread the love :)

edit - if you like these tunes and want to listen to some more Above and Beyond are airing their weekly radio show at 7pm - 9pm gmt time : http://www.di.fm/mp3/trance.pls
 
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That first song would be infinitely better without the lyrics. To be honest I think that is my only reason for not listening to most of it, the lyrics always seem like a tacked on after thought and are always really, REALLY bad and just don't really fit.
 
Ah youngster - you're so late to the party :D

Above and Beyond are great but... - look up:

Future Sound of London
Orbital
Jam and Spoon
Cafe del Mar - Energy 52
Laurent Garnier
Marmion
The Orb
Underworld
Cosmic Baby
Chicane
Way Out West
Y Traxx
Lustral
Nalin & Kane
Agnelli & Nelson
Binary Finary
Paul Van Dyk
Humate
Blank & Jones
Gouryella
Lange
Lost Tribe
Matt Darey
Mauro Picotto
Push
Salt Tank
Steve Morley
Age of Love...

The list goes on.

All the trance coming out now is just old stuff rehashed. You want the good stuff, hunt down albums like Gatecrasher Wet, early Slinky, Cream, Global Undergrounds by Sasha, Digweed, Dave Seaman, Nick Warren, Paul Oakenfold, Deep Dish, Daren Emmerson. Find stuff by Satoshi Tomiie, Sander Kleinenberg, Anthony Pappa, Seb Fontain (early stuff).

Hunt down the early Northern Exposure CDs, especially 1 and 3. There is so much out there and the modern stuff just doesn't have the depth nor the originality that it used to.

EDIT - sorry just read that back - a little pretentious, but I've been a DJ for many years - since about 2000 - I'm a little jaded with electronic music these days. Boo - I think I'm getting old!
 
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I don't mean to troll or be an arse, but I'm sorry to say that all of those tracks sound pretty much like well-produced but ultimately generic music to me - sorry!

I like some of pretty much all genres of music, but I can't help but feel that Trance as a style hasn't really developed in the 15-20 years it's been around. I heard pretty much everything in those tracks you've posted coming out of the underground happy hardcore, rave and house movements of the late 80s and early 90s, and I have a few mixes knocking around from the same era that are pretty similar, albeit not as well produced. The fourth track ('Good for Me') is the most interesting to me because of the missing four-to-the-floor, but unfortunately neither that nor any of the others stand out for me at all. Fair play to you for posting them, but I think I'll stick to more interesting dance :)

arty
 
I agree with you, big fan on the anjunabeats label and general trance :)

Like this track at the moment, stunningness. Big fan of Sunlounger / Roger Shah to.

 
arty said:
I don't mean to troll or be an arse, but I'm sorry to say that all of those tracks sound pretty much like well-produced but ultimately generic music to me - sorry!

I like some of pretty much all genres of music, but I can't help but feel that Trance as a style hasn't really developed in the 15-20 years it's been around. I heard pretty much everything in those tracks you've posted coming out of the underground happy hardcore, rave and house movements of the late 80s and early 90s, and I have a few mixes knocking around from the same era that are pretty similar, albeit not as well produced. The fourth track ('Good for Me') is the most interesting to me because of the missing four-to-the-floor, but unfortunately neither that nor any of the others stand out for me at all. Fair play to you for posting them, but I think I'll stick to more interesting dance :)

arty
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Heh that first Above and Beyond one actually borrows some from FSOL - Papua New Guinea...
 
arty said:
I don't mean to troll or be an arse, but I'm sorry to say that all of those tracks sound pretty much like well-produced but ultimately generic music to me - sorry!

arty
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You're right.

There's far better trance music than Anjunabeats.
 
SteveOBHave said:
Ah youngster - you're so late to the party :D

Above and Beyond are great but... - look up:

Future Sound of London
Orbital
Jam and Spoon
Cafe del Mar - Energy 52
Laurent Garnier
Marmion
The Orb
Underworld
Cosmic Baby
Chicane
Way Out West
Y Traxx
Lustral
Nalin & Kane
Agnelli & Nelson
Binary Finary
Paul Van Dyk
Humate
Blank & Jones
Gouryella
Lange
Lost Tribe
Matt Darey
Mauro Picotto
Push
Salt Tank
Steve Morley
Age of Love...

The list goes on.

All the trance coming out now is just old stuff rehashed. You want the good stuff, hunt down albums like Gatecrasher Wet, early Slinky, Cream, Global Undergrounds by Sasha, Digweed, Dave Seaman, Nick Warren, Paul Oakenfold, Deep Dish, Daren Emmerson. Find stuff by Satoshi Tomiie, Sander Kleinenberg, Anthony Pappa, Seb Fontain (early stuff).

Hunt down the early Northern Exposure CDs, especially 1 and 3. There is so much out there and the modern stuff just doesn't have the depth nor the originality that it used to.

EDIT - sorry just read that back - a little pretentious, but I've been a DJ for many years - since about 2000 - I'm a little jaded with electronic music these days. Boo - I think I'm getting old!
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These days I'm into a a few producers -

Above and Beyond , Sasha, Gabriel and Dresden, Smith and Pledger, Daniel Kandi, Matt Hardwick, Super8 and Tab, Gareth Emery, Dan Stone, Sean Tyas, Simon Patterson, John O'Callighan, John Askew, Mat Zo, Lange to name a few...

Really loving Mat Zo's producing at the moment though - really something else :)

I really am late to the trance party tbh. I used to listen to quite a few of those producers when I was 16 (10 years ago) but now it just sounds dated and generic... Trance has definitely evolved and it's got richer for it I think. Those producers I mentioned have a lot more modern sounds than the list you mentioned I think... It's almost like a different genre of music altogether. Trance has by its very nature evolved and is continuing to diversify in so many ways at a pretty quick rate.
 
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