Trance music seems to have gone badly off the boil in recent years, I really can't stand the recent pop/trance/house crap that stinks up the airwaves. I'm too old and busy to keep up with the more underground club scene so I can't comment on what is happening there. However Trance music in the early to late 90's was the first music I really fell in love with. I liked plenty of Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, Classical etc but due to my college years it was Trance that resonated with me the most and largely does to this day. I hear some tracks and it sets off butterflies in my stomach as I recall hot nights in the Balearics with friends and lots of alcohol. Anyways, I'd like to know if any other Sciforumers feel the same way or even if they hate Trance music. To give you an idea what I'm on about please check out 10 of my favourites: Xpander – Sasha For An Angel – Paul Van Dyke Strangeworld – Push Eugina – Salt Tank Love Stimulation – Humate Waterfall – Atlantic Ocean Papa New Guinea – Future Sound Of London Scorchio – Sasha & Emerson Everytime – Lustral Mystery Land - Ytraxx
I like trance music but it sort of takes a back seat to house and progressive house music. Which I don't mean to correct you but Sasha plays more Progressive House than Trance and Xpander is not a trance song. Hernan Cattaneo, Satoshi Tomeii and Digweed are my favorite DJs period. However, my favorite Trance DJ is probably Christopher Lawrence. His trance is a bit harder than Oakenfold and Van Dyk's more epic style trance.
Really? I would consider Sasha a trance DJ (many websites also do) but of course he is involved in other similar genres. As for Xpander I would call it Trance but for semantics I suppose it could be considered Prog-House, Electronic, Prog-Trance, or whatever! For me it is all about the mix between chilled out samples and catchy beats, one minute you want to jump up and dance and the next moment you're drifting off into a more relaxed euphoria. At least that was my experience between 1997 and 2005.
Nah. I still consider him a Prog house DJ. I've seen him and Digween more than once before. They both spin progressive house. Albeit Sasha tends to be more on the trancey side (and throws in breakbeats here and there) whereas Digweed tends to get a bit on the darker, harder hitting house side. Listen to Sashas Global Underground Ibiza CD (particularly the first one) and you'll quickly realize that it's way more progressive house than it is trance. Plus, you have to remember, a lot of people confuse progressive house with trance. Even my friend Scott here plays progressive house mainly but some songs do sound a bit trancey: http://www.nelsen.net/ Nah, from the time my 'roll' started until it started to come down, I liked the music full throttle. If I wanted to calm down and relax at a party, I'd just go into another room with more chill music. Then when I had my rest, back into the main room where the music is at full throttle.
Oh sure, there's noithing like a banging club at 2am with a DJ that seems in tune with exactly what the crowd want to hear and keeps spinning massive Trance anthems one after the other. On the other hand it was just as sweet to wake up at 10am and roll out on the balcony with a cold drink and listen to the die hards at the pool with a portable set up crank out some more mellow Trance (I'm thinking PVD, Energy 52, some random chilled out stuff thrown in). Shit I wish it was still 1998! The club scene where I live started to die when the decent DJ's went abroad or up North and left us with wankers that will play hip-hop, house, 80's rock and Britney Spears all in the same set!!
If you think PVD is mellow trance, I'd like to know your idea of hard trance. Trance by nature is not mellow. It's supposed to be fast and hard hitting. I still like the 'little bit' slower, bouncier and harder hitting prog house. If you like more relaxed kinda music, Danny Tenaglia plays some nasty, dark down tempoish house.
If you like mixes... http://www.johndigweedtransitions.com/ You can link to the mixes page where it has a shit load of other mixes. Digweed has a lot of hour long Transition sets where another DJ follows him. I've gotten several of them now. I just downloaded sets from the WMC by George Acosta, Ferry Corsten, Dirty Vegas and Paul Van Dyk. You should check them out. Oh, and I'd HIGHLY recommend downloading Josh Wink's Essential Mix set (under House). It's incredible.
I love everything you posted. Tiesto (unmentioned), being my favorite. I love running to his music. It keeps me pumped from the first step to the last. ~String
I like Tiesto but like I've mentioned, prog. house is my favorite. A bit lower, harder hitting, and bouncier. If you haven't seen this, you need to..particularly the first four or so minutes. The dude with the violin...OMFG. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I would have lost my freakin mind if I was at this party... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZmE3fUKU5U
Ferry Corsten and Armin van Buuren are pretty good. Armin has been mass-producing stuff very rapidly in the past 5 years - can't keep up with him, but he makes a lot of good stuff. Ferry Corsten cranks out some charms every once in a while too. See "Made of Love" on Youtube - a crappy vid, but good music.
Yeah, about that. They only allow you to DL 4 or 5 mp3's per day. And for some reason, it also won't let you download mixes past a certain page. Example, in the House section, I can't download anything past page 5. Oh, and you have to use IE. For some reason, Firefox has a download manager that you can't use there. Oh, also, don't try to right click and save as. It doesn't work. Just single click the download link beside the mix and the little window of Save, Run Cancel will pop up. You will also need to remove the 'mp3' option from your WNP player because it will open instead of the DL option window. Now, you can send them a $10 'donation' through pay pal and all the aforementioned restrictions (according to them) get lifted. Never been to a rave nor listened to much electronic dance music, have you? There are plenty of house/breakbeat/trance songs with lyrics. Madonna's Ray of Light is technically a trance song/beat.
