Trance music
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elbows
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Yeah, dont pay too much attention when I talk about genre labels because I get all confused and I just see it all as one big evolving melting pot really, especially with that era and the growth of electronic music of one sort of another.
Personally Im not sure I fully recovered from what happened after the mid 90's, bland trance and superstar DJs were a dead end for me, and my genre confusions made it hard to find out what interesting new shoots were growing. I guess trip-hop saved me for a while, and these days I just stumble around the internet and consider myself very lucky if I find anything new that I love, couple this with getting old and I find it almost impossible to find a 'scene' I can submerge myself in.
Im 45 mins through that mix you linked to, interesting stuff, enjoying it but probably a bit too proto for me, suspect the aspects of trance I loved were the humour and people pushing gate sequencers too far
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
that's lovely, but i don't see the relevance
trance
this is also a music form called 'trance'
that's lovely, but i don't see the relevance
this is also a music form called 'trance'
lighterthief
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That's a great article and mix - cheers for sharing
butcher
boner at the ready
UMR made me pop my ravin cherry there, then at Tysen St, Submaniac @ 414, Cloud Nine, PLUR @ the Drome, Pendragon @ the Academy, Undertow @ Trenz, the Chunnel Club.......them was the days, I can still see people dancing to the street sweeper outside the Fridge.
chazegee
Number two.
Whenever I talk to people who are into trance, I talk about how the originators, like Hallucinogen and Green Nuns of the Revolution, got ripped off by the Jet setting DJ's like Tiesto.
That's about it for my chat on the subject.
Oh, and Samsara was ran by the Megatripolis peeps.
That's about it for my chat on the subject.
Oh, and Samsara was ran by the Megatripolis peeps.
http://www.discogs.com/Andrew-Souter-Abduction-Mix/release/176491
The only trance album you ever need
That is a blummin marvelous tracklist there!
The thing about trance, is that it means different things to different people.
I reckon so many different types of electronic music have been labeled as trance due to lazy journalism that many people just don't know what it is.
I think Tiesto VanDyk and Buuren have kinda monopolised the scene lately (just see how much their record labels are pumping out
it's staggering) which has put off quite a few people and almost defined the Trance music market.lol
chazegee
Number two.
You fell into my know to much about twance twap.
You fell into my know to much about twance twap.
Its extremely frustrating to listen to and I can only compare it to really bad sex, or being massaged by someone who doesn't know what they're doing and just leaves you feeling angry and irritated
I hate it because it feels like lots of build up with no climax
No basslines, nuthin dirty or sexy
It feels completely lacking in soul or depth of any kind
It's located in the upper body, nothing happening below the waist
to me it sounds sterile, linear, european all of which may be great in different contexts but not what I want from music
I appreciate that different people have differnt tastes, I'm not saying that it's bad music in any way, just that I really, really hate it
I couldnt have put it better myself.
So i didnt'
'trance' to me means altered states - and in terms of music this can mean accessing such states through music alone, without the aid of drugs. for this to happen the music generally needs to be rhythmic and insistent, so traditionally Western music forms have been completely unable to get to this point. having said this, i am unaware of contemporary people falling into trance states listening to contemporary rhythmic music, i wonder why that is? perhaps it is cultural relying on suggestability as much as the actual music itself? the culmination of intense rhythmic music can lead to an ecstatic state, i believe this was known in the west 1000's of years ago but was forgotten or lost or even proscribed; and was then, at a popular level, rediscovered comparatively recently, with the revelation of music forms such as jazz, itself partly the product of West African rhythms. Wave on ...
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
this about the dance music genre trance rather than music that sends you into a trance for ritual purposes though
yep, i grasp the difference: but listening to any form of music is in a sense altering the state of consciousness, even if only mildly?
Can't beat a good bit of cheesey trance, I know I shouldn't like it but it just feels so good!
whatever turns you on!
yes, but this thread isn't about that, as prescient a point as it is
more sort of retrospection than prescience really, since i was picking up on the "interested to hear anyones views on the trance genre" thread, which also mentioned words like "trippy" and "psychedlic", which are indeed references to altered states, even if mainstream culture has begun to absorb such references and trivialise them as is its wont.
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