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Posted by Snarfer on Jan-14-2003 05:25:

Armin, Ferry, Tiesto, PVD are trance.

I'd like to think Keoki's old albums such as "All Mixed Up" borderline on Trance, but have more Techno-like qualities. As quoted by someone I can't recall: "...Keoki's steam-hammer Techno sets."

Trance is euphoric, techno usually isn't...on that note, Trance focuses more on the melody. One can usually hum a trance tune days after.

Techno can be cheesy, techno can't.

I'm one of the few out there(until I came across this site)who still believe in trance. Most have moved onto progressive.

Best trance tune ever: Ascension's "Someone" (Slacker and original vocal mix)

Posted by Bryant on Jan-14-2003 05:49:

America is so ignorant and naive! Techno, Trance, House it's all the same to America.

Posted by miss roxy on Jan-14-2003 05:53:

I think those who are not familiar with the different styles of electronica generalize all the styles into "Techno." I used to be guilty of it before I started getting into electronic music. I generalized HHC as techno! Friends of mine who are not really into the scene do it. It's ignorance is what it is.

Posted by shao on Jan-14-2003 06:08:

OMFG!!! heheh, if an american walked up to me and started talking about progressive i'd flip out. Because i mean... i think a FEW people have actually 'heard' the term trance (at the same time not knowing what it means...) but progressive? mm... i don't think many americans know of progressive as a genre of music.

Posted by apostrophe on Jan-14-2003 06:43:

i have seen people in this forum not know what progressive is... so...

i can understand....

Posted by Verona^My on Jan-14-2003 12:16:

blah, here I just call what I listen to synthesizer dance... They seem to understand synth + dance more than non def. music genre names.

Posted by Werewolf on Jan-14-2003 13:14:

quote:
Originally posted by apostrophe
i have seen people in this forum not know what progressive is... so...

i can understand....

well, I still see those ppl...

Posted by undertensecond on Jan-14-2003 13:28:

trance = relaxation
techno = headache

Posted by XxremedyxX on Jan-14-2003 14:09:

America should be ashamed for being so ignorant! I have gotten many of my friends into trance and all the electronica genres. Just recently i was listening to some with my friends who usually listen to rap.. and they were like wow! this sounds so awesome... can u burn me this cd? haha i was surprised they even liked it. It was a compilation i made between hard trance and uplifting. So i'm always trying to make the trance scene big around here. One time i filled out this radio station survey and under comments i put Richmond, Virginia needs to have a Trance/Dance radio station and if we had one then i'd listen to the radio. We just need some decent clubs now so that big name dj's can come and spin.

Posted by Bryant on Jan-14-2003 19:46:

techno does not equal headache.

Posted by Snarfer on Jan-14-2003 23:52:

Trance = Music

Posted by uberclkgtr on Jan-15-2003 00:05:

quote:
Originally posted by djchamps
In Australia, alot of trance CDs are called dance

even the albums in record stores are titled and labeled as dance
its just for marketing purposes?

No, it's called "dance" because that's what the music is for, for you to dance to. It's also a catch-all term that encompasses many different sub-genres. A large music store such as Virgin isn't going to have a progressive breaks section separate from a nu-skool breaks section, are they? I know of EDM record stores that don't even have that.

quote:
Originally posted by shao
OMFG!!! heheh, if an american walked up to me and started talking about progressive i'd flip out. Because i mean... i think a FEW people have actually 'heard' the term trance (at the same time not knowing what it means...) but progressive? mm... i don't think many americans know of progressive as a genre of music.

You should get out more. Some of the biggest clubs in the country have solely progressive nights. Buzz in Washington DC (best club in the USA according to URB magazine 3 years running) was progressive-themed and had a few thousand clubbers turn up every week. Arc/Vinyl in NYC is the same. And there are tons more. In fact, the USA probably has a better appreciation of progressive than many European countries, countries who's clubbing culture is more into trance. Trance was never widespread at clubs in the USA. Even less so now that it has almost run it's course.

Posted by AC. on Jan-15-2003 00:16:

Well I've seen this problem too.
But on the other hand I dont blamer them since they dont lissen to this kind of music nor do they blame me for not knowing what to call indie-pop/rock/what ever/whatever

Posted by mndeg on Jan-15-2003 03:07:

synthesizer dance? sounds like some kind of robot music

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on Jan-15-2003 13:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Snarfer
Trance = Music

your sig is punching to the beat.. im listening to marc la cruz remix of pacific wish

sorry that was a bit off topic

lol

Posted by skware on Jan-15-2003 17:02:

Please enlighten one of those mentioned TAs in training, how is prog different to trance. I've been listening to the music for a while, and enjoying it, but not really understood the difference enough to talk about it. Yes I know wveryone has bitch fights when genre definitions come up, but humour me.

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on Jan-16-2003 13:36:

quote:
Originally posted by mndeg
synthesizer dance? sounds like some kind of robot music

Im the leader of the autobots

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