How did Trance become (New) Trance

[EatMoreChips]

That was a mad club... anyone remember the tank??

Or the after hours rave in the NCP car park next door that got pigged?

I remember dancing in the car park after a water pipe burst in the club or something and everybody had to leave. I think the constabulary were involved at some point that night. Or I may be entirely wrong.

 

[pk]

I remember dancing in the car park after a water pipe burst in the club or something and everybody had to leave. I think the constabulary were involved at some point that night. Or I may be entirely wrong.

I was there that night - someone was swinging off the water pipe running across the top of the ceilings... it snapped.

They were cunts in there - management, security, all were cunts, and they had the taps turned off so you had to buy their pricey bottled tapwater.

Fucking rocked though.

 

[paolo]

Talking of which, was Final Frontier on Fridays or Saturdays? Bugger. Must be about 11 years since Club UK was closed down now, isn't it?

Final Frontier was Fridays. I went to the Saturdays (House stuff) sometimes aswell. I liked the insanity of Final Frontier... but then again there were alot more girls on the Saturdays.

 

[paolo]

I think Crasher kids had a lot to do with ruining everything, forever.

I was thinking the same myself - just about 10 mins ago before coming back this thread.

A similar thing happened - so I read - in NY around the time of Studio 54, with the Club Kids thing.

You go to a night, but it's "owned" by a fickle clique. They make it centre round them, alienate other regulars, then they move on and the night dies.

Funny old game the club world. In the long run none of them ever last. Trade (the only thing more hedonistic than FF imho) looked like it was unstoppable but even that came to end eventually.

 

[pk]

I was thinking the same myself - just about 10 mins ago before coming back this thread.

A similar thing happened - so I read - in NY around the time of Studio 54, with the Club Kids thing.

You go to a night, but it's "owned" by a fickle clique. They make it centre round them, alienate other regulars, then they move on and the night dies.

Funny old game the club world. In the long run none of them ever last. Trade (the only thing more hedonistic than FF imho) looked like it was unstoppable but even that came to end eventually.

Back on the late eighties/early nineties it all looked unstoppable... but we all have to move on eventually... if I did any LSD trips these days I think I'd just crumble like a cheap Rubiks cube...

 

[rubbershoes]

Funny old game the club world. In the long run none of them ever last. Trade (the only thing more hedonistic than FF imho) looked like it was unstoppable but even that came to end eventually.

trade may have been more , ahem, full on, but FF was far sleazier

If you go into the alcoves today , you're sure of a big surprise

am i correct to say that some of the stuff on the first two renaissance CD sets could be considered as early trance?

I'd say it was more progressive house than trance but what the hell do i know

 

[Apathy]

not read this entire thread but as i remember it from how it all happened in terms of the hype and getting the genre into the charts a lot of it was when Paul Oakenfold picked up on trance and especially the more dancefloor side of the Goa stuff and he then really pushed it, signed up 'Man With No Name' etc etc... and when Oakey decides shit is the new black, mixmag and DJ mag suddenly listen and then thats that! Obviously its a more complex story than that... but it was when i first saw it getting written about in the mags and all that

I used to think trance was the most original and exciting music going once upon a time

 

[EatMoreChips]

Funny old game the club world. In the long run none of them ever last. Trade (the only thing more hedonistic than FF imho) looked like it was unstoppable but even that came to end eventually.

Trade ended? When was that? I must've been out of the country for too long... Ah crap, it looks like everything I still associate with 'yoof culture' is actually very old and dead now.

 

[Orang Utan]

Re: FF (Final Frontier, not Fist Fuck)
Anyone remember the little cafe round the corner that everyone went to for a smoke afterwards? Used to score some wicked pink microdots there.