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Originally posted by t�bias Some additional facts about trance music: Different types of Trance Music Acid Trance Goa trance Psychedelic trance Minimalist trance Progressive trance NU-NRG Hard Trance Dream Trance The Best Trance Artists of all time Paul Van Dyk, Brian Transeau (BT), Ferry Corsten, Sven V�th and Underworld. The Best Trance DJs of all time DJ Ti�sto, Sasha, Digweed, Oakenfold. The Best Compilation Trance CD Series Global Underground. The Best Live Trance Sets The DJ Ti�sto Majik Series. Defining Trance Stereotypes Nightclubs, Ibiza, Drugs and Rave Culture. Homes of Trance Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Cheese One must understand the concept of 'cheese' to understanf Trance. Cheesy tracks are designed to appeal to the masses with cheap effects, a lack of mucical integrity and often really embarrassing female vocals. The sort of songs that people like but 6 or 12 months later they won't admit to ever listening to, or buying for that matter. For further information see artists like DJ Sammy and Scooter. Trance is the Superior EDM Genre for Parties Although the popularity of Trance has been volatile in recent years you will find that the majority of the TOP10 DJs in the world have their roots in Trance and form an integral part of their sets when they travel the world. For getting the crowd to dance and the atmosphere to be electric there is no better music. The Music They Play in Heaven Just to see if you are still reading, Trance has been verified by scientists to tbe music played in heaven, and this is little suprise to Trance fans. ....to be continued. ---------------

Oh fuck off trancecracker. You're neither contributing to the thread or offering anything other than personal bias, and a pretty shit personal bias at that.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Oh fuck off trancecracker. You're neither contributing to the thread or offering anything other than personal bias, and a pretty shit personal bias at that.

What's shit about it? Debate or stfu!

Actually, System-J is right, even though he's not exclaiming it in a very nice way.

Stating things officially as "The Best" isn't a very good approach, unless you're just casually alluding to something as your personal "best" or "favorite". We have to take into account the subjectivity involved in things like music and artists.

He should use terms more like "Popular" or "Great" and "Famous".

No he's right. Many many scientists have said that Trance is the only music they listen to in Heaven. In fact, i'm a scientist myself. So believe me when I tell you, Trance is even the music God listens to when he's taking a 20 minute super dump on the can, sometimes known to us as a "meteor shower" or "what happens when tobias thinks".

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Originally posted by t�bias Some additional facts about trance music: The Best Trance Artists of all time Paul Van Dyk, Brian Transeau (BT), Ferry Corsten, Sven V�th and Underworld. The Best Trance DJs of all time DJ Ti�sto, Sasha, Digweed, Oakenfold. The Best Compilation Trance CD Series Global Underground. The Best Live Trance Sets The DJ Ti�sto Majik Series.

This is purely subjective.

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that sweetheart trancebrat provided my lovely avatar.

I need to ask Amber if she can find me a decent avatar.

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Originally posted by 3xx3r7 I need to ask Amber if she can find me a decent avatar.

What did you have in mind, Stan?

Electronic Music 101 - "3 part documentary on the origions of House Music and Electronic music in general".

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Originally posted by muckluck No he's right. Many many scientists have said that Trance is the only music they listen to in Heaven. In fact, i'm a scientist myself. So believe me when I tell you, Trance is even the music God listens to when he's taking a 20 minute super dump on the can, sometimes known to us as a "meteor shower" or "what happens when tobias thinks".

The best way to get into the scene is to listen to as much and as many different genres of music (electronic and none) as possible. Noobs should browse the "What are you listening to" threads and try to "come accross" some of those tracks/sets listed. WWW.DJMixes2k.com is a good source for free bittorrent good trance sets.

There are also MANY good internet radio stations that ONLY play edm (electronic dance music) so here is a short list (with links) of those:
90 FM
Radio 1 (More here than you could ever listen to)
1Club.FM (channel for each genre)
ETN.FM (a personal favorite)
Proton Radio
Pulse Radio
Music 1
After Hours DJs (More amatures but still very worth checking out)

just click a link to one of the stations and then there should be a link on the page that comes up for a radio feed that uses either Real Player or Windows Media Player or sometimes both. Searching either of those players on google will lead you to a free download of the player if you don't happen to have it.

And lastly...browse the forums, all the ones you can read . Although there is a wealth of stupid crap that people post, there are also many excellent discussions of music, termanology, shows, producing, artists, and anything else you could possibly be interested in. You just have to filter through the junk to find it.

good luck

This isnt so much beginers advice on trance, but beginer's advice for tranceaddict:

We all snap at each other, alot of times we state our opinions as facts, we flare up in huge arguments over things that from the outside seem very pointless, but dont let this fool you.
We post the way we do because it is fun, if we were all to show up at the same party one day we wouldnt start fighting each other like it might seem, there is a strong difference between the way we act as message board posters and the way we act as real people.

As far as trance goes, you'd be suprised where you might find it, some kids have lived in places for years completely oblivous to the music that is around them. When you read a message board and see pictures of kids partying in far off lands dont let this convince you that good dancing doesnt exist near you. Often a decent party is only a couple hours of driving away, and local DJ's often are just as capable of rocking a dance floor as the biggest superstar DJ's. Try and search for communities of EDM fans near you, and if you find a great piece of music that is only known in your region, share it!

Here is another:
Not all DJ's that are refered to as 'trance DJ's' play exclusively trance music in their sets. Actually, most of them play tunes picked from many genres, although the overall vibe of them is usualy trancey. One example of this could be Paul van Dyk, who has never actually admitted to being a trance DJ. He insists that he plays 'electronic music' and only classifies it into 2 categories "good music", and "bad music". If you are looking for good tunes, dont be afraid to look outside the trance category, some of the mose succesful 'trance djs' are doing the same thing!

I hope this was helpful, I would like to hear recomendations from the people who are putting each other down

Im quite surprised at your sudden reversal of behavior system-J. You used to seem like you defended alot of those very same artist that you bitched that guy out for, I think that situation could have been handled differently, not that it really matters though.

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Originally posted by Atari Addict And lastly...browse the forums, all the ones you can read . Although there is a wealth of stupid crap that people post, there are also many excellent discussions of music, termanology, shows, producing, artists, and anything else you could possibly be interested in. You just have to filter through the junk to find it. good luck

Atari Addict is right. Infact this thread is a good example. A few gems of good advice smothered in a healthy dose of dick measuring and throw away comments.

My gf pointed out to me the reason why trance can be so compeditive but on the flipside so unified across the entire globe is that its all about the emotions. The music is emotional and that attracts people that are passionate and (not to broadly generalise), but in my experiences usually quite deep thinkers. Trance lovers really have a big emotional investment in their music. I'm not saying this isn't the case with other music, because most music is designed to give that sort of reaction but trance really takes that to the extremes. Its specifically designed to completely fuck your head up with the most amazingly beautiful or twisted buildup possible. No holds barred... no exceptions.... well except maybe progressive... but thats not really trance is it?... hehe... jk

So if your ever browsing the boards and encounter <> telling you that your an affront to all things trancey and that you should fuck off back to watching saturday morning RnB hits, just because your asked who DJ Sammy was, its not his fault.. he was just born that way

My tip is obvious, but make sure you download all the tracks here.

learning about trance, and i mean REALLY learning about trance, is like researching a school paper. like researching a school paper, only there are no official resources, 99% of the unofficial resources are wrong, and any teacher who could tell you about it with accuracy either hates you, is hated by you, or is long retired. so have at it.

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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!

Andain = Motorcycle (same producers - Josh)

So what exactly is "cheese"?



You've probably noticed people throwing the term around these days like their dirty underwear, but what are they really talking about?

Here are some threads that will give you an idea...

- The meaning of Cheese, with regards to Trance today and before
- Examples of trance cheese
- looking for some lame ass cheeze

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Originally posted by Zombie0915 I find this guide more helpful and informative than ishkurs rantings: http://www.ethnotechno.com/defs.php some of the explanations contain info that kid here might not agree with, but in reality there are no definitions anywhere that kids here will not find something to disagree with. This site is also a helpful guide: http://www.plato.nl/e-primer/ but really the best guide is listening experience

+1 on the last line.

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