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Originally posted by Scoops really.....really?

she's only 20...she was goin to sf when she was 10


a few my fav trance artists...

oliver lieb
M.I.K.E.
airwave
transa
tiesto (pre 2004)
ferry corsten (pre 2007)
thrillseekers
pvd
activa
progression
perry o neil
nitrious oxide
robert nickson (2003-2006)

Arnej

seriously speaking...

in no order

Matt Darey
Steve Helstrip
M.I.K.E.
Rank 1
Ferry Corsten
Paul Van Dyk
Airwave
Brian Transeau
Tijs Verwest

hello peoples of trance addict...i just want to tell you to put the top like this
1-...
2-...
3-...
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and sey somethings about your best artists
just this...peace...to understand each other

Fuck me. I thought this thread would end badly but not this badly.

So many names listed that 10 years ago weren't even producing - I thought this thread was "trance artist of all time", not "since you turned 16 in 2003 and started listening to Tiesto".

I mean the amount of people listing PVD? He didn't even break through until 98, by which point the likes of Oakenfold and Sasha were beginning to move on to other things after having been there and done that.

and JOOF? Much as he's a very nice bloke, again he didn't even come to prominance until the 2000's and even then he's hardly in the top 10 trance artists of all time. Christ I remember him Skol and Roosta trying to break through the london circuit in the very late 90 and after several years he was the only one that managed it.

Vincent De Moor - undoubtedly in the top 10. One of the best percussion programmers out there, never flip flopped on style and has been a major player as long as I can remember.

Anyone not putting Oakenfold in the top is a fucking idiot. Not that I hold some torch for him particularly, but speaking objectively he is without doubt the single person who pioneered trance the most both as an artist and a dj - he did it ALL before anyone else, has the most influence as a label in trance, and still packs out clubs, nearly 25 years after he started playing.

in terms of acheivements, he makes Tiesto, van Burren, Corsten and Van Dyk(e) look like amateurs.

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Originally posted by epic-mind hello peoples of trance addict...i just want to tell you to put the top like this 1-... 2-... 3-... . . and sey somethings about your best artists just this...peace...to understand each other

are u retarded? vdm, lieb. period.

Oakenfold remixing Justin Timberlake, Madonna and else , this affects actual perception of the artist

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos Oakenfold remixing Justin Timberlake, Madonna and else , this affects actual perception of the artist

Every trance artist old or new has or is currently doing this as well, and with even lamer people - at least Oakenfold did it first.

And Sasha's Ray of Light (Madonna) is considered a trance classic so that argument holds no water.

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos Oakenfold remixing Justin Timberlake, Madonna and else , this affects actual perception of the artist

Pretty much every producer has remixed commercial stuff. Lieb remixed David Hasselhoff

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Every trance artist old or new has or is currently doing this as well, and with even lamer people - at least Oakenfold did it first. And Sasha's Ray of Light (Madonna) is considered a trance classic so that argument holds no water.

Not many know this one and many less ever heard it an club. I heard it in a Belgium club and it was fucking aaaaaammmmaaaaziinngg. I bought the soundtrack CD of Pret-A-Porter just for this track.

U2 - Lemon (Perfecto Mix)

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Originally posted by trancedanne worst serious list so far

agree 10000000%

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Fuck me. I thought this thread would end badly but not this badly. So many names listed that 10 years ago weren't even producing - I thought this thread was "trance artist of all time", not "since you turned 16 in 2003 and started listening to Tiesto". I mean the amount of people listing PVD? He didn't even break through until 98, by which point the likes of Oakenfold and Sasha were beginning to move on to other things after having been there and done that. and JOOF? Much as he's a very nice bloke, again he didn't even come to prominance until the 2000's and even then he's hardly in the top 10 trance artists of all time. Christ I remember him Skol and Roosta trying to break through the london circuit in the very late 90 and after several years he was the only one that managed it. Vincent De Moor - undoubtedly in the top 10. One of the best percussion programmers out there, never flip flopped on style and has been a major player as long as I can remember. Anyone not putting Oakenfold in the top is a fucking idiot. Not that I hold some torch for him particularly, but speaking objectively he is without doubt the single person who pioneered trance the most both as an artist and a dj - he did it ALL before anyone else, has the most influence as a label in trance, and still packs out clubs, nearly 25 years after he started playing. in terms of acheivements, he makes Tiesto, van Burren, Corsten and Van Dyk(e) look like amateurs.

have to disagree there mate, John OO fleming for me is the trance Artist of all time! He has been playing for about 20 years i think. His production is class too.

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Originally posted by Timber have to disagree there mate, John OO fleming for me is the trance Artist of all time! He has been playing for about 20 years i think. His production is class too.

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Originally posted by Timber have to disagree there mate, John OO fleming for me is the trance Artist of all time! He has been playing for about 20 years i think. His production is class too.

Well i saw him back on the local scene in london when he couldn't get a big gig, and that was about 13 years ago so I think I know what i'm talking about in this respect.

Don't get wrong, I own a fair few of his tracks and i think he's done very well for himself, but you're completely deluded if you think that he's the biggest trance artists of all time.

It's like saying coldplay are the biggest band of all time. They've done well, sold a lot of records but in relative terms they've only just come up and don't have a shade on the likes of the beatles or the stones.

I the same way JOOF hadn't even cut his teeth before Oakey had done a world tour and payed to stadiums of 100,000 people, not to mention had several top 10 chart hits. (Grace - not over yet being one of them, which is one of the quintessential trance tracks of all time).

Pete Namlook

Art of Trance

Surprised nobody mentioned them...

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Well i saw him back on the local scene in london when he couldn't get a big gig, and that was about 13 years ago so I think I know what i'm talking about in this respect. Don't get wrong, I own a fair few of his tracks and i think he's done very well for himself, but you're completely deluded if you think that he's the biggest trance artists of all time. It's like saying coldplay are the biggest band of all time. They've done well, sold a lot of records but in relative terms they've only just come up and don't have a shade on the likes of the beatles or the stones. I the same way JOOF hadn't even cut his teeth before Oakey had done a world tour and payed to stadiums of 100,000 people, not to mention had several top 10 chart hits. (Grace - not over yet being one of them, which is one of the quintessential trance tracks of all time).

I appreciate you like Paul Oakenfold, and yeh he had done some wicked things, but where is he now? Also each to their own mate but you can't criticise people on here for having their own opinion, no matter who they admire or like.

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Originally posted by Adam420 Art of Trance Surprised nobody mentioned them...

This!

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Every trance artist old or new has or is currently doing this as well, and with even lamer people - at least Oakenfold did it first. And Sasha's Ray of Light (Madonna) is considered a trance classic so that argument holds no water.

OK look at a part of his latest track list:

09.Mike Danis � We Were Once Beloved (Deluna Remix)
10.Jillian Ann � Confess (Robert Vadney Dub Vocal)
11.Usher Ft Pitbull � Dj Got Us Fallin In Love Again
12.Nat Monday � Break And Fall (Adam White Remix 2010)
13.Philip D � Airport

Do you seriously think this is already serious?

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Well i saw him back on the local scene in london when he couldn't get a big gig, and that was about 13 years ago so I think I know what i'm talking about in this respect. Don't get wrong, I own a fair few of his tracks and i think he's done very well for himself, but you're completely deluded if you think that he's the biggest trance artists of all time. It's like saying coldplay are the biggest band of all time. They've done well, sold a lot of records but in relative terms they've only just come up and don't have a shade on the likes of the beatles or the stones. I the same way JOOF hadn't even cut his teeth before Oakey had done a world tour and payed to stadiums of 100,000 people, not to mention had several top 10 chart hits. (Grace - not over yet being one of them, which is one of the quintessential trance tracks of all time).

If someone's good who gives a shit how long he/she has been producing? It's all a matter of opinion anyway, so why bother with the attitude?

team sasha
oliver lieb
simon berry & associated projects
BT
solar stone
salt tank
matt darey
markus schulz
early chicane
ferry corsten

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Originally posted by Timber I appreciate you like Paul Oakenfold, and yeh he had done some wicked things, but where is he now? Also each to their own mate but you can't criticise people on here for having their own opinion, no matter who they admire or like.

I don't have an over appreciation for Oakenfold or anything like that - I haven't heard him play in over a year and even then it was decent, nothing to write home about. But this thread is about the greatest trance artists of all time. That means you have to be consider the history of trance not just the last 10 years or who your favorite DJ (I'd be listing someone else if that were the case).

Whether you like him or not you simply cannot ignore the fact he pioneered it, more so than anyone else and did more for it than anyone else. Just look at his discogs or DJ mix releases or his list of essential mixes or the sales of his GU mixes or completed world tours or club residencies or the label he owns or DJ's he brought up through the ranks or (I can keep going but I think you get the point).

Honestly I really don't care for the argument and I've not got attitude about it, everyone's entitled to their opinion but IMO I doubt JOOF even registers in the top 3 for people who aren't either an avid fan or have been around for more than a few years. He's a good DJ and Artist but still got quite a way to go.....

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Fuck me. I thought this thread would end badly but not this badly. So many names listed that 10 years ago weren't even producing - I thought this thread was "trance artist of all time", not "since you turned 16 in 2003 and started listening to Tiesto". I mean the amount of people listing PVD? He didn't even break through until 98, by which point the likes of Oakenfold and Sasha were beginning to move on to other things after having been there and done that. and JOOF? Much as he's a very nice bloke, again he didn't even come to prominance until the 2000's and even then he's hardly in the top 10 trance artists of all time. Christ I remember him Skol and Roosta trying to break through the london circuit in the very late 90 and after several years he was the only one that managed it. Vincent De Moor - undoubtedly in the top 10. One of the best percussion programmers out there, never flip flopped on style and has been a major player as long as I can remember. Anyone not putting Oakenfold in the top is a fucking idiot. Not that I hold some torch for him particularly, but speaking objectively he is without doubt the single person who pioneered trance the most both as an artist and a dj - he did it ALL before anyone else, has the most influence as a label in trance, and still packs out clubs, nearly 25 years after he started playing. in terms of acheivements, he makes Tiesto, van Burren, Corsten and Van Dyk(e) look like amateurs.

You're obviously a London boy (looking at DJ names you quoted) and had those typical 'Londoner blinkers' on to see only what was going on inside the M25. It was the rest of the UK's clubs that thrived and put the UK on the international map leading the way in the electronic dance scene.
I'd say clubs like Hacienda (Manchester), Lakota (Bristol), The Zap (Brighon) provided us with stars like Sasha, Way out West and John Fleming. Thats exactly why I signed them in the mid 90's while I was head A&R at Sony music.
I'd put Way out West at the top of my list of Trance producers (in their time).

I'd hardly say John Flemming was 'just sharpening his teeth' as you put it. In his time here (mid 90's) he had five mix albums and three singles in the UK Top 40 charts. I'd also been on many a road trip with him to festivals such as; World dance, Raindance, Tribal Gathering (many more) all 50,000 people + while holding a residency at the Zap in Brighton and Limelight in New York.

Oakenfold was great in his time, but he was the first DJ to turn things into a business. Sell out as we put it today. The one thing I admire about the aforementioned guys, they didn't do that hence my ongoing respect and admiration.

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Originally posted by Pete t You're obviously a London boy (looking at DJ names you quoted) and had those typical 'Londoner blinkers' on to see only what was going on inside the M25. It was the rest of the UK's clubs that thrived and put the UK on the international map leading the way in the electronic dance scene. I'd say clubs like Hacienda (Manchester), Lakota (Bristol), The Zap (Brighon) provided us with stars like Sasha, Way out West and John Fleming. Thats exactly why I signed them in the mid 90's while I was head A&R at Sony music. I'd put Way out West at the top of my list of Trance producers (in their time). I'd hardly say John Flemming was 'just sharpening his teeth' as you put it. In his time here (mid 90's) he had five mix albums and three singles in the UK Top 40 charts. I'd also been on many a road trip with him to festivals such as; World dance, Raindance, Tribal Gathering (many more) all 50,000 people + while holding a residency at the Zap in Brighton and Limelight in New York. Oakenfold was great in his time, but he was the first DJ to turn things into a business. Sell out as we put it today. The one thing I admire about the aforementioned guys, they didn't do that hence my ongoing respect and admiration.

While you're right about my main clubbing, djing and record buying patch (I did state in my previous post) I don't think you can claim the north or any other part of the country as the main reason for EDM explosion in the same way I couldn't claim London was.

It's not about that. I'm just saying, around 1995-97 I remember seeing JOOF regularly as the third or fourth name listed at very small events (200 or so people) which only paid a couple of hundred quid at best for a non headliner set and I'm sorry but the likes of Sasha or Oakenfold just wouldn't get our of bed that at that point. They were about as famous as any DJ's could be be at that point.

I also don't think he had any releases (singles) until about 1998. He had a few remixes, but nothing he wrote as such I but I know he didn't chart until 1999 so i think it's a fair comparison to say he was cutting his teeth at a time when Oaken fold had already done half a dozen essential mixes, had a an extremely popular GU under his belt and was listed at top DJ in the world for 97 and 98.

Again, I'm not some Oakenfold fan or anything, but speaking purely from an analytical point of view, when you add up the achievements I just can't see anyone eclipsing him. Yeah he sold out but as I've said before, if anyone was going to do it, I kind of think he got there first and was always a businessman, even before he started DJing.

I also don't think you can say the clubs up north or elsewhere had any more impact than I could argue london clubs did. The hac was legendary but so was the Que club and so was the tall trees in Yarm and so was country club and so was the arches and so was the camden palace and so was turnmills etc.

For instance the Hac gave us sasha and peach at Camden brought all the big dutch DJ's (first UK appearances for Armin and Ferry) who are all now the "top" trance DJ's.

in terms of quality WOW were fucking superb, but I'd sort of call them prog if anything now, but maybe that's more a change in definition rather than them changing their sound so much?

If this was about who was the greatest dance music DJ (not trance) - my vote would go to either Danny Rampling or Carl Cox. Danny in the words of Tall Paul is "pure music" and cox more so than any DJ I've ever witnessed can turn a mediocre party in to the club night of your life without fail.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN While you're right about my main clubbing, djing and record buying patch (I did state in my previous post) I don't think you can claim the north or any other part of the country as the main reason for EDM explosion in the same way I couldn't claim London was. It's not about that. I'm just saying, around 1995-97 I remember seeing JOOF regularly as the third or fourth name listed at very small events (200 or so people) which only paid a couple of hundred quid at best for a non headliner set and I'm sorry but the likes of Sasha or Oakenfold just wouldn't get our of bed that at that point. They were about as famous as any DJ's could be be at that point. I also don't think he had any releases (singles) until about 1998. He had a few remixes, but nothing he wrote as such I but I know he didn't chart until 1999 so i think it's a fair comparison to say he was cutting his teeth at a time when Oaken fold had already done half a dozen essential mixes, had a an extremely popular GU under his belt and was listed at top DJ in the world for 97 and 98. Again, I'm not some Oakenfold fan or anything, but speaking purely from an analytical point of view, when you add up the achievements I just can't see anyone eclipsing him. Yeah he sold out but as I've said before, if anyone was going to do it, I kind of think he got there first and was always a businessman, even before he started DJing. I also don't think you can say the clubs up north or elsewhere had any more impact than I could argue london clubs did. The hac was legendary but so was the Que club and so was the tall trees in Yarm and so was country club and so was the arches and so was the camden palace and so was turnmills etc. For instance the Hac gave us sasha and peach at Camden brought all the big dutch DJ's (first UK appearances for Armin and Ferry) who are all now the "top" trance DJ's. in terms of quality WOW were fucking superb, but I'd sort of call them prog if anything now, but maybe that's more a change in definition rather than them changing their sound so much? If this was about who was the greatest dance music DJ (not trance) - my vote would go to either Danny Rampling or Carl Cox. Danny in the words of Tall Paul is "pure music" and cox more so than any DJ I've ever witnessed can turn a mediocre party in to the club night of your life without fail.

Lets not hijack an interesting thread and digress. I wholeheartedly agree with you on the clubs side, I've had many a good night at the Hec, probably some of my best times. The only form of marketing back then (before internet) was Mixmag, this was the only international magazine. Any club who put monthly full page adverts became a worldwide brand. This is why the likes of Gatecrasher, Cream, Ministry of sound became Worldwide success they are today, not Hec and the other underground clubs that didnt advertise.

Oakenfold was the first sell out DJ, he was the first Tiesto/Armin of the 90's. One minute he was playing Man with no name, Astral Projection, Hallucinogen, (great Trance music- his famous Goa Essential mix) next minute he's in the charts with 'Bullet in a gun'. Take a look today at the backlash against Armin and Co for turning their back on the roots of Trance.

The topic is top 10 of Trance artists of all time. Has Oakenfold dedicated his whole career to Trance music? No, only perhaps five years out of his 25 year career. He used it to get what he wanted, then turned his back on it.
He doesn't win my vote sorry.

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Originally posted by Scoops really.....really?

i know he really doesnt produce, but he opened up trance/dance music to me when i saw him a few years ago. so thought he deserved a spot.

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