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Posted by Kakoroto on Oct-13-2004 07:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Here's my input:

Many people will agree (atleast those I have met) that Paul Oakenfold's album 'Tranceport' was the very first album that got them hooked on trance music. Many of these people are proud to admit it because, in their honet opinion, it fscking rules! It may be a compilation, not even songs BY Oakenfold, himself, but it's a GREAT introduction into Trance music nevertheless.

It also helps that you can buy it on CD at places such as Wal-Mart. So if you're looking for an introduction into Trance, definitely check out Oakenfold's Tranceport.

This is just what I have gathered from observing people's 'best of anthems' lists.

Strange but true. Me and my friend fall under that catagory and for some reason so do many other people. This was the first EDM CD I bought back in 2001 and to this day is still one of my top favorites.

Posted by bbjosh on Oct-13-2004 07:26:

OMG!!!

Sasha - Live @ The Eclipse, Coventry, England 05/12/1992
Carl Cox - Live @ Colours, Glasgow, Scotland 19/05/1996
Sasha - Live @ Alexandria Palace, London, England 31/12/1998
Sasha - Live @ Portrush, Ireland 14/02/1999
Paul Oakenfold - Live @ Gatecrasher, Sheffield, England 20/06/1999
Paul Oakenfold - Live at Home @ Space, Ibiza 25/07/1999
Paul Oakenfold - Live @ Creamfields, Liverpool, England 29/08/1999
Paul Van Dyk - Live @ The Loveparade, Berlin, Germany 07/07/2000
Sasha - Live @ Privilege Manumission, Ibiza 04/08/2002
James Zabiela - Live on The Essential Mix 22/02/2004

this must be the most correct part of this thread so far, haha, excellent sets,

i got the oakenfold ones, all his 99 world tour sets are among the best ever in my humble opinion

Posted by webmeister on Oct-13-2004 12:23:

Re: Beginner's Guide to Trance.

quote:
Originally posted by t�bias
The Tranceaddict Forums say upon entry: "You'll find the people in our forums are friendly and willing to help you out to further develop your musical knowledge"

We really should get around to updating that

Posted by tbh on Oct-13-2004 15:04:

Thanks for your kind words people.

May I recommend some top albums:

1. Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure 1
2. Sasha - GU013
3. Sasha & Digweed - Renaissance The Mix Collection vol 1
4. Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport
5. James Holden - Balance 005
6. Paul van Dyk - Vorsprung Dyk Technik
7. Underworld - Anthology 1992-2002
8. Sasha - GU009
9. Paul Oakenfold - GU007
10. Leftfield - Leftism

Also worth getting: Nick Warren - GU024, DJ Tiesto - In Search of Sunrise 2, Hybrid - Theme From Wide Angle, Robert Miles - Dreamland, Way Out West - Way Out West s/t debut album '01, DJ Shadow - Entroducing, Sasha - Involver, James Zabiela - Renaissance Presents Alive, 2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax, BT - Ima.

Posted by trewqy on Oct-13-2004 15:15:

Download "Ibiza's Children". NOW.

You'll appreciate the music and the culture even more after seeing this.

Posted by itsTrueSonic on Oct-13-2004 22:51:

quote:
Originally posted by trewqy
Download "Ibiza's Children". NOW.

You'll appreciate the music and the culture even more after seeing this.

ditto!
a great training guide to the different types of trance out there. except psy or hard progressive.

Posted by t�bias on Oct-14-2004 01:09:

Anybody got tips on threads outlining the best tracks of 2004, the best of all time, the best of a particular genre, or similar?

Posted by eRRaTiK on Oct-14-2004 02:32:

search function seems down but here's a few that i've got bookmarked...

[best of...]
- Best Ever Uplifting melodies
- Big List of * CHILLOUT & AMBIENT * Tracks
- CDs from 98/99 + 2002 Eras
- Trance Classics [1992 - 2001], please help me...
- Progressive Trance
- Top 30 Techno Songs
- Tranceaddict's Top 100 EDM Tracks
- Best trance tracks with Piano 01 02
- Breaks
- Best Mixed Album
- Vocal Trance 01 02 03

[2004...]
- Funky House and Deep House tunes of 2004
- Best 2004 Tracks until now ! ?

[of interest...]
- choons for a wedding reception
- Cheesy Trance Tunes You Cant Help But Love...
- Searching for classical music behind Trance tracks
- Depressing Vocal Trance
- Favorite Movie Theme's Made Into Trance Songs

Posted by ionized on Oct-14-2004 03:16:

In the interests of offering my opinion on this delectable subject...

Trance changes faster than you can keep up with it. The idea of anyone being really at the forefront of it is fabrication. My advice is just immerse yourself in it and dont worry too much about what armin or tiesto are currently spinning. Find your own taste for it...

More often than not, the most innovative tracks come from complete unknows who have, up until release, just been hacking away in their bedrooms, waiting to unleash their tunes onto the scene.

Some producers that are definately worth checking out and will give you a decent slice of the uplifting side of things:

Airbase
Oceanlab
Solarstone
Re:Locate
Signum
Pulser
Push

But there are soooo many more. Look and ye shall find...

Posted by Spacey Orange on Oct-14-2004 04:36:

Don't want to sound like a Mr. Mystery, but isn't the A Small History of Trance thread enough? Maybe any substantive info here should be added to that thread.

Posted by mndeg on Oct-14-2004 04:41:

trance snobs are the sucks.

Posted by Dave Piazza on Oct-14-2004 04:50:

quote:
Originally posted by naxus
I'm a new member of the forum, I'm a "beginner" and I will present myself here in this topic. I'm sorry if this post is a bit off thread, but I didn't find an ideal section to do this and this section is for "beginners"

I'm Italian, my real name is Andrea. Here in Italy there is an horrible dance music culture...
most songs are similar to happy melodies over simple (very simple) kicking bassline. It's a SIMPLE music to do. Many songs have also stupid lyrics and they are all similar each other! I don't know if you ever listened to it, but I can tell you that very much people hate it! It's considered (often rightly) as a music genre for idiot people.
I think you call it as "Italodance"... the only one kind of dance music that is diffused here in italy is House music.
It's a drammatic situation here in Italy. I like trance so much that I can tell you that I LOVE IT, but as you surely know trance music is quite unknown in Italy, and it's very difficult to find trance CD's for me.
My favourite trancer is Dj tiesto. As I told you before it's difficult to know trancers, trance situation and find CD's... the result is that I only know a few of trancers... I like songs of Armin van Buuren, Motorcycle, Andain, Ferry corsten, Thrillseekers, Paul van Dik, Paul Oakenfold, Dj tatana. I like trance very much but I don't have a trance-culture...
I'm sorry for my bad english-speaking, for this reason I found it hard to explain what I want to tell you.
I hope that I will find some help in this forum!

I think that this is a very interesting thread, I will follow it to learn some about the born and the grown of trance music.

Thank you all!
You're great!

Ciao!

Ciao!

Benvenuto Andrea!! io sono molto felice per incontrare altre italiani che gode musica electonica.
Quale citta tu abiti nel Italia?

i mei genitori sono di Calabria. Ma io sono nato e abato nel Chicago.
.....
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When I visted Italy last year I also noticed a very limited dance music culture as well. My cousins were very much into house music and had no idea what I meant when I told them I like trance. I believe the reason could be to lack of exposure.The club scene isnt really dominate nor are dance radio stations. But I think given Italians musical culture I think thy would embrace the melodic forms of EDM ( electronic dance music).

Posted by Spacey Orange on Oct-14-2004 04:57:

quote:
Originally posted by mndeg
trance snobs are the sucks.

Posted by ionized on Oct-14-2004 05:27:

quote:
Originally posted by mndeg
trance snobs are the sucks.

yeah, I much prefer those blue collar, working class types myself...

Posted by eRRaTiK on Oct-14-2004 09:32:

quote:
Originally posted by Spacey Orange
Don't want to sound like a Mr. Mystery, but isn't the A Small History of Trance thread enough? Maybe any substantive info here should be added to that thread.

no, it's not. This thread covers more than simply the history of trance. The 'small history of trance' thread should be about just that - the history.

Adding discussion about fave uplifting tunes and key words used in the vocabulary isn't appopriate for that thread (as it is off topic), and there's no easy way for a beginner to locate that info (ie. it'd easily get lost amongst the tens of pages of posts).

treat this as an index of a more comprehensive "beginner's guide" book if you will, where the 'small history of trance' thread is but a chapter of it.

Posted by Spacey Orange on Oct-14-2004 09:45:

excellent point. makes sense.

Posted by eRRaTiK on Dec-12-2004 21:48:

quote:
Originally posted by trewqy
Download "Ibiza's Children". NOW.

You'll appreciate the music and the culture even more after seeing this.

I thought I already posted a link to the Ibiza's Children post already, but apparently not.

Anyways here we go:

Ibiza's Children - Documentary

(and yes, download it NOW!)

Posted by Fitzpatrick on Dec-13-2004 01:30:

quote:
Originally posted by mndeg
trance snobs are the sucks.

i'm a trance snob....

kidding.........

Posted by rooibos on Dec-13-2004 04:11:

quote:
Originally posted by eRRaTiK
Begin with a Small History of Trance.

I like how that post has AudioGalaxy links.

Posted by ch00nage on Dec-13-2004 06:04:

Posted by Desty Nova on Dec-13-2004 07:55:

It's interesting that people critize trance (and EDM) for all sounding the same and being too repeative while listening to music that is taking more and more influence from it so that it itself won't be too repeative.

Posted by eRRaTiK on Apr-02-2005 06:13:

Thread - That One Track That Reminds You of Summer

...

Godskitchen Classics 3CD (2005)

CD1 - Trance:

code:01.   	Three Drives On A Vinyl - Greece 2000  	 	
02.   	Tiesto - Sparkles (Original Mix)  	 	
03.   	Paul Van Dyk - Alive (Vandit Vocal Mix)  	 	
04.   	Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Gabriel & Dresden Sweeping Strings Mix)  	 	
05.   	Marc Et Claude - La (Moonman Flashover Mix)  	 	
06.   	Art Of Trance - Madagascar (Ferry Corsten Mix)  	 	
07.   	Ferry Corsten - Punk (Original Mix)  	 	
08.   	4 Strings - Into The Night (Original Instrumental)  	 	
09.   	BBE - Seven Days And One Week (Original Extended Mix)  	 	
10.   	Delerium Feat Sarah McLachlan - Silence (Tiesto In Search Of Sunrise Mix)  	 	
11.   	Armin Van Buuren - Blue Fear  	 	
12.   	Blank & Jones - Cream (Long Version)  	 	
13.   	Veracocha - Carte Blanche (Original Mix)  	 	
14.   	The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia (En-Motion Mix)  	 	
15.   	Binary Finary - 1998 (Paul Van Dyk Mix)  	 	
16.   	Tiesto - Urban Train  	 	
17.   	Ayla - Ayla (DJ Taucher Mix)  	 	
18.   	Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Three N One Mix)

CD2 - Hard Dance: tracklist here.
CD3 - House: tracklist here.

Some good ol' classics in that collection.

Posted by muckluck on Apr-02-2005 07:04:

quote:
Originally posted by t�bias
The backbone of any decent debate or discussion is a strong opinion.

Uh. No. The backbone of any decent debate or discussion is fact. Where the hell did you learn to debate, clown college? Unsupported opinion will get you nowhere in any debate.

Posted by void_dj on Apr-02-2005 12:30:

Trance is a genre that once was a literal embodyment of its namesake, with long loopy melodies designed to induce daydreams in the head and movements in the feet. It succumbed however to the lure of the commercial and sold itself out as a one trick pony, with every tune parroting the same failsafe devices to drive crowds into either a frenzy of dancing if this didn't bother them or a frenzy of denying they ever liked trance/listening to prog instead/stroking their chins if it did.

It has the potential for the deepest brilliance but all to often opts for the shallows.

(Plz don't get mad, its only my oppinion)

Posted by djdk on Apr-02-2005 14:00:

quote:
Originally posted by tbh

Sasha - Live @ Alexandria Palace, London, England 31/12/1998
Paul Oakenfold - Live at Home @ Space, Ibiza 25/07/1999
Paul Oakenfold - Live @ Creamfields, Liverpool, England 29/08/1999

these are really the reason I still own my cassete walkman, the sasha one is the 1sr essential mix I ever recorded. Even when I listen to it now it doesnt sound dated at all, absolutely awesome

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