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I'm 20 and I approve this message:

Trance blows.

26

that makes me an old man compared to you guys.

into trance: 1999

loved tiesto: 2000->2004

been broadening my tastes every year since i got into EDM. this years flava is definitely tech-house with a melodic touch aka neo-trance or whatever the hell you wanna call it...

for the record what people call trance these days is not trance.

I'm 22. I started out with Eurodance tracks from 97/98 and and became exposed to trance around the end of 99. I went through a huge cheese lovin' phase that lasted for years until I progressively began to realize that it wasn't so much about that instant hook or candy sound that made a track great or memorable, but rather qualities of detail, layering structure and depth that really indicated the longevity and replay value of a song. In fact, you may notice that some of the tracks you love the most on first listen turn out to be the most annoying down the road, and the ones you didn't think too much of at first end up being the most enduring.

My favorite trance is classic/oldschool (circa 90-97), just because it actually represented the term "TRANCE", by being darker, hypnotic and yet euphoric. Second to that I would say I like the better midschool years (98/99/2000/2001) with its epic and progressive jewels. Nowadays I find myself listening to some of the modern (ofen darker) progressive trance, house and also some fluffy uplifting (non-)trance for ephemeral enjoyment. I also fancy dark ambient every so often.

I find the modern interpretations of tech- electro- and minimal- to be rather disgraceful to electronic music (the other side of the spectrum from all of the gerber-fluff uplift coming out). Taking away subtle beauties and replacing them with cold hard random sounds that can't figure out where they are going does not provide any meaningful innovation to the EDM genre. I find it pretentiously underground rather than genuinely underground.

my name is john i am 24 and i like teens

for serious i am 24 and started listenin to trance @ 2001 with trax like tiesto's silence and sweet surrender..
also emerson and sasha scorchio

i really loved trance releases till 2003 -04 after then its hard to find some real good trance tunes..but if u search u can still find em..
Big names like tiesto,pvd etc suck nowdays
if i have to name one producer from past that i really liked is Rank 1 (or better are)

Im 16 and I got into trance around 2005 when I bought Daft Punks new album(it was some bundle) It was one of those pure trance cds,had armin( ) ferry,tiesto,4 strings and dj sammy(lol)

I'm 16, I got into edm at 13, gave up on commercial sometime last year.

I'm 19, was vaguely into dance when I was younger, remember buying Trance Nation Four when I was about 11 (because Sandstorm was on it) then discovered loads more tracks on it I liked. Then didn't really touch dance again till 2005 when I got into it through stuff like BT, Way Out West, and early 90s stuff like orb, fsol etc. From there I got into prog house and trance, and recently I've been doing a lot of Hard Dance.

My views on trance are that when it's good, it's very good and I love it but the genre isn't very consistent. I also hate uplifting, hard and tech ftw.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid gave up on commercial sometime last year.

I'm 14, turning 15 this august. I really love epic/uplifting trance and I'm trying to find really classic sets of these genres. Artists such as Blank and Jones have really good productions imo. Anyway, started listening to club and dance music in general and then Trance about a year ago and I think Trance is still awesome but since I didn't listen to it in its prime (1998 or so) I still like the stuff on ASOT today since Armin puts some classics onto it and some uplifting tracks as well. Wish I was born like 5 years earlier so I could've gone to some really cool clubs with uplifting stuff when I'm this age since uplifting is pretty much underground nowadays, hard to find some really good stuff. Hopefully uplifting Trance will resurrect soon in the future.

I'm 25 years old (26 in July) and have been listening to Trance since 1995. I've liked dance music as a whole since 1992 though (yes yes, I was listening to Prodigy - Experience at the age of 10/11, rofl....I'll blame my sister for that!)

My love for Trance is stuck in the 1997-2002 era. More specifically the 98-99 era has to be my favourite.

Trance now is nowhere near as good as it used to be, and for me, doesn't feel as "real" as it used to, thanks to the digital productions people make rather than proper studio equipment. Tracks don't sound as raw anymore to me :-(

Favourite tracks of all time are either:-

Gouryella - Gouryella
Faithless - Why Go (Ferry Corsten Remix)
or
Liquid Child - Diving Faces

Favourite tracks in the last year or so:-

Cape Town - Metaphorique (Ferry Tayle's Neverending Story Mix)
or
Ahead - Back To Reality

I'm 23, started in 1995 with the release of Wipeout for the PSX (awesome soundtrack on every game in the series). I got into Sasha and Digweed soon after (Northern Exposure series, GU, Communicate, etc.), then found Warp Records (Aphex, Autechre, Boards of Canada). Late 90s trance/progressive and anything on Warp Records ftw.

Now I'm more into deep and tech house, thanks mainly to the amazing mixes in the DJ promotion forum.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid I'm 16, I got into edm at 13, gave up on commercial sometime last year.

But only in theory. I bet you still listen to it.

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Originally posted by chadi But only in theory. I bet you still listen to it.

no, I really don't..

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Originally posted by wotyzoid no, I really don't..

Depends on what you're referring to as commercial.

Do you mean all commercial music period, or just the ones that feel like you're listening to a nursery rhyme, or even a christmas carol like jingle bells? Something you'd never waste your time hearing again.

17 now, started listening to psy trance in 04. Then I heard some Rank 1 and fell in love. I was stuck in 99-01 for a good year only listening to sets that came out then. Recently I'm still into trance but it just takes me a bit longer to find good tracks I like.

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Originally posted by chadi Depends on what you're referring to as commercial.

commercial trance.

I'm 18. Contemporary trance sucks.

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I'm 18. Contemporary EDM sucks.

Fixed.

What remix of Liquid Child do you mean?

I quite like the Thumper! Remix as well as the Tom Wax & Jakarta Remix

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Originally posted by chadi Fixed.

I beg to differ.

Ah, I much prefer the mixes that were released across 98-99 personally mate

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Originally posted by Gauss I beg to differ.

Although trance in particular has suffered mighty commercial and quality abuses, it would be largely irresponsible to single it out as the only style that has gotten progressively worse.

i've seen twenty-one harvests

the first electronic music i got into was stuff like tangerine dream, jean michel jarre, jan hammer when i was relatively young, because of my parent's record collection. i grew up mostly listening to jazz, new age, and some classical music. i listened to a good deal of 80s new wave and synth pop. i more or less rejected buying music because i was an angsty misanthrope. my dad brought home thomas dolby's mind's eye series in '94 and it was actually the inspiration for me to start 3D modeling as well as being an early exposure to different sounds. i've been interested in the future as a theme since as far as i can remember, so when I started to hear electronic music it naturally appealed to me

around '98/'99 a high school friend introduced me to the drug world and the kind of happy hardcore and cheesy euro trance he was into. everyone knew the songs like 'sandstorm' and 'castles in the sky' at school, and I had no idea because I was way too lost in my own world (a huge freak). anyways I started to learn about it and I found a ton of music in the libraries to start and I also had access to a shitload of illegally downloaded music. from about 2000-2004 i was into very mellow, bittersweet, futuristic trance music like Joker Jam - Innocence, Space Manoevers - Stage One, Airwave - Ladyblue, V-One - Dead Cities, Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp, Hydra - Affinity, Kamaya Painters - Summerbreeze, Vercetti - Skimmer, Art Of Trance - Madagascar, Moogwai - Viola (original), cygnus x - superstring (Original).

I was a new age kind of listener going in, and even to this day, atmosphere is the main thing I listen for.

I still can listen to tracks like this and be swept completely away, but I wonder if it is more because of nostalgia than because of the music itself. I think it's probably both.


collecting music accelerated when i started driving and needed a soundtrack for my car. i had a huge collection of illegally acquired music.

When I entered college in 2004, I started DJing and clubbing. My taste in music completely changed. I deejayed a lot of commercial house and progressive trance. I remember when my friend/dj mentor told me 'house music is where it's at'. I was extremely reluctant because my exposure to house was limited to Jerry Ropero and MoS shit, and I really bought into the 'children of the future' vision that trance promised. Anyways, I made a good chunk of change deejaying and also started to appreciate some of the house music i was exposed to.

Then two things happened - I started digging back in time and listening to older music, and I began to lose an interest in a lot of the trance music i had liked as a result of playing house music at parties and getting more in tune with my body and with a party atmosphere.

In a short time I stopped playing trance entirely. I began to buy music, and I deleted all of my illegal music (mostly shitty quality setrips anyways). I went through a desyn/sander k/big room phase, and then a prog house phase.

I fell in with deep house and techno, and that's essentially what I am into now. I'm on a constant quest to return to the raw, to attune myself more carefully to the spiritual messages that we embed in music through the process of creation. I go out several times a week and let my body feel rhythm until it's saturated from head to toe.

i like to say that I like music in which I feel like I can drown myself. atmosphere, depth, repetition, music which surrounds you and involves you, rather than music which demands your attention. i really am into loose organic arrangements, lush sounds. i like music that is about the sound and not about a set 'narrative'/arrangement. i like music that heals, i like lots of repetition because i feel it creates a basic 'framework for freedom' that allows you to just simply be yourself. current 'trance' offers nothing like this.

so now i'm very much into dubby techno, deep house, chicago house, detroit techno, and some tech house.

i would say the tracks that currently define the sound i'm into are:

quince - vitjazzdepth (will open my upcoming promo)
felix leband - whistling in tongues (todd terje remix)
kerri chandler - vector graphics
rennie foster - monochasm
kuniyuki - precious hall
xdb - descap
rhythm & sound - see mi version (basic reshape)
williams - love on a real train (studio version)
guillame & the coutu dumonts - mederico
substance & vainqueur - libration
quince - sub 01

etc, i don't want to give away my entire tracklist lol

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Originally posted by chadi Although trance in particular has suffered mighty commercial and quality abuses, it would be largely irresponsible to single it out as the only style that has gotten progressively worse.

True, but you can't say it applies to all EDM either.

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Originally posted by newbie . A Radio DJ in Chicago played 25 minute megamixes, which I enjoyed for 4-5 years. .

WBMX ...the hot mixes????

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