I want to bring up a new topic to see what people think about it in terms of the history of trance.
While I was growing up in the USA, I hadn't heard of trance until it was definitely in full swing. BUT!
I always downloaded music on my computer. And this is a long time ago. Pre fraunhaufner or any kind of theft. I'm talking about the old Amiga demos and how they always featured elite hacker programmers making impressive vector balls.. But accompanying these demos invariably was some kind of swedish tracker who tracked up some genious tune in .mod .s3m .xm or .it format.
I'm going through my collection right now to pick out the trancy ones and see if they have dates in the comments field.
baroque - freefall (1990)
This song is a bit slower than modern trance. And since it wasn't meant to be DJed since it is a stand alone track, it isn't as long, and changes things up about twice as fast as a trance track. But you can hear a melodic dance song.
jester of sanity - elysium (???)
Doesn't have a year written into the sample names but I know it's old.
I don't want to say that any of these are where Trance came from. But I think that trackers definitely took electronic music with dance beats and worked in very structured melodies into the music.
What does everybody think?
-Esper
Apr-20-2004 00:18
TAnt
Senior tranceaddict
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Location: San Antonio, Texas
Awesome job on your post man..
Apr-20-2004 00:47
halexander837
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Location: Palm Coast (FLA)
Wow, that's a lot of history. Those CD's today are so hard to find now.
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Apr-20-2004 00:57
DJ FC
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Great thread. Great work compiling all that info.
Apr-20-2004 02:45
Jozef
Junior tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Great post, very informitive
Apr-20-2004 03:33
Pio
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: NYC-New Haven- San Juan-Amsterdam / PRTA #1
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Originally posted by gabor3000gt
also the essay on minimalism is superb! Congrats to both of you!!!
Originally posted by GT40
Was'nt Sven Vath making trance in the late 80's.
Don't think he started doing trance till the beginning of the 90s with Eye Q/Harthouse. He was in some euro dance project in the late 80s though, the name of it eludes me atm.
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Jun-08-2004 13:13
websley
Senior tranceaddikt
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Helmond
Great history!
I myself couldn't give such a history, I only kept up with trance from 1999. (The magical years)
Mayby you forgot to mention "Jean-Michel Jarre", who had great influence on nowadays' Chill-Trance and Ambient styles, great work though!
