How to introduce Trance to someone...

TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Music Discussion
-- How to introduce Trance to someone...
Pages (3): « 1 2 [3]

Posted by DTTA on Nov-21-2005 10:38:

^^^ spot on. I have the same interest -- found something really good and want to share this find with friends.

Posted by Antony on Nov-21-2005 12:49:

quote:
Originally posted by nfekted
you guys that are saying "let everyone listen to what they want to listen"....i agree with you 100%. I woulnd't like it if my friend tried to get me to listen to hip-hop LMAO!!!! okay okay sorry. But what you guys have to understand is that Antony has such a strong love for Trance(all edm i hope ) that he wants to show his friends what they're missing. I know i went through that phase a while ago. I wanted to get so much of my friends into it. I guess we all love trance sooo much that we want to spread the love.

exactly

Posted by Zombie0915 on Nov-21-2005 14:11:

The way I did it when I was living in the dorms, I would crack my door open and play the stuff on my stereo constantly. It wasn't just trance, and it wasn't obnoxiously loud either. Sometimes people would come into my little cell and ask me about the stuff I was listening to, I made a couple good friends that way. I would also drive around in my car with the windows down and the music playing, again not obnoxously loud and not only trance music.

Generally if you just listen to the stuff and somebody who likes it happens by they will approach you and ask about the songs. Another thing that helped me was on some nights when the EDM radio shows would come on the college stations, kids tend to be more accepting of stuff when it comes through the radio compared to stuff that comes through the internet.

I have only taken like 2 of my non EDM friends to parties and when they got there they were APPALED. Don't take your friends to a happy hardcore/DnB event for their first time, that was a bit too crazy for them and strangers kept walking up to them trying to sell them drugs, they left like an hour later and slept in the back of my car for the rest of the night.

Generally the more effort you put into this the less succeful you will be, at least that is what I have noticed.

Posted by Sanjoy on Nov-22-2005 08:57:

quote:
Generally the more effort you put into this the less succeful you will be, at least that is what I have noticed.

that's what i have noticed too.. i tried to "force" one of my friends into liking trance 5 or 6 years ago, without any success.. but then a few months ago, i listened to G&D's remix of Coldplay -Clocks (from one of G&D's Essential mixes) on my pc. -he heard it, and he did actually like it, and asked me if i had more music of more or less the same style.. so i just gave him some songs and remixes from Gabriel & Dresden(/Andain/Motorcycle)and Markus Schulz +some classics.. and a few weeks later he told me that he had become addicted to Chicane -Saltwater and a few weeks ago I heard him singing the lyrics in Deepsky -Talk Like A Stranger (Markus Schulz mix)..!

and yesterday at school, i took a quick look at one of my classmate's iTunes library.. this guy loves rock/metal/punk, so i got i bit shocked when i saw the name "Probspot" in his iTunes library! well i thought i saw "probspot" there, but when i looked closer i realized that it was "probot", not "probspot".. then he asked me what probspot sounded like, so i played "foreplay" for him, and he fell in love with it instantly!!!!! i gave him all the probspot stuff i have, and he spent the rest of the day listening to it!
in a way, I can see some similarities between probspot's works and the stuff this guy normally listends to.. it's hard to explain, but i have listened to some of his music, and i can clearly see a connection there.. so i think that's the "entrance key" to the world of EDM -you must find a connection between the stuff a person normally listens to, and some edm-songs.. and at the same time make that person forget those standard trance-stereotypes.. because after this guy had listened to all the probspot songs, he said: "wow, is this trance? seriously? and I thought i didn't like trance!!"

Pages (3): « 1 2 [3]