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Posted by basara55 on May-02-2003 16:03:

Trance in USA

What is happening with tru original trance music in USA ...

It seems like it is dying , At least it seems that way in south florida. Down here evrything is Progressive house , and some progresive trance.
I remember when in clubs all you could hear was trance.
What is the situation in rest of the USA and World?

Posted by AndskiSpeed on May-02-2003 16:07:

hm in my city its just mainly house and cheese, the odd trance DJ comes for a special event

Posted by Ste on May-02-2003 16:36:

i remmebr a long time a go a post about anne savage saying america was 2 years behind in the dance music scene, and quite a lot of people ubbishing this comment.

although if you think about it, prog started to make it big late 2000 and into 2001 over here, ie like when gatecrasher was prog almost every week.

are you all gonna be raving about hardhouse soon

Posted by wodak on May-02-2003 18:15:

I live in Louisiana and it's a little rare here. We get the usual Moonshine dj's roughly every few weeks. Tiesto's comin this month (which is a once a year thing) to New Orleans. I heard PVD is Comin this way to but I'm not sure. But as far as real trance and BIG dj's we don't get a whole lot either

Posted by Foxybaby on May-02-2003 18:20:

I wish I lived in Europe to hear the real trance djs and real music......but I am stuck in the states.....where we get to listen to "DJ Sammy" on the radio all the time!

Posted by King_Mack on May-02-2003 18:34:

quote:
i remmebr a long time a go a post about anne savage saying america was 2 years behind in the dance music scene,

oakenfold said the same thing. How the US was the leader in dance waay back when in the 80's and now they are really behind. I guess mainly cuz all the action happens in Europe. North American countries are too strict to have any great stuff happen

Posted by MindShifter on May-02-2003 18:39:

I was in Denver the other day buying vinyl, and I was askin one of the guys who worked there some questions and his response was "trance is dying." I assured him that it wasn't and he said "well it is in Colorado." Anyways I realized then that it was useless to argue w/ him, however I can say that out of all the electronic genres that they carry, trance and prog house are by far the smallest sections. It seems as though House is quite large, I have a buddy who spins UK hardhouse and thats it. However I do have one friend who spins hard trance, which is nice, other than me and my close friends who spin a range of trance to hard trance to prog house.

And as far as dj's in the clubs around here are concerned. Last time I made it down to the church, my roomie and I were talkin to the resident in the basement, who is an awesome dj btw, good mixin and great track selection. I asked him why he didn't spin upstairs in the main area, and he said that he used to, then the club started to tell him what to spin. So it was either do that and play in the main room, or play whatever he wants and play in the basement, well he chose the basement naturally. So when it comes to big name dj's we seem to have quite a variety around here, trance to prog house, to house to breaks etc. So thats cool I guess, obviously I'd personally rather hear trance, but I do have an appreciation for all genres, some more so than others though.

$0.02

Posted by BeatFreak on May-02-2003 18:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Dumonde Trancer

are you all gonna be raving about hardhouse soon

HA!! THAT'S not gonna happen!!

Posted by AntronVee on May-02-2003 19:04:

yeah in denver we sometimes get dj's such as pvd and tiesto but it rarely happens. we got sander k about a month ago so i guess it's ok, but i'd kill to hear dumond and shokk live!!!!!

Posted by wodak on May-02-2003 19:51:

Yeah Dumonde would kick ass. I'd like to see C.J.Stone, Snowman, or Ferry C. as well

Posted by TrAnCeAkI on May-02-2003 20:45:

detroit is well its ok i cant complain too much! well no actually i can because we dont get ANY KAI OVER HERE!!!!! we get tiesto!! ffs :P even though it was the techno city it has died down alot! all we get now it friggin hip hop crap!

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on May-02-2003 20:53:

Trance dying in the US? Did it even get here yet? Only thing around here is rap and pop music

Posted by AntronVee on May-02-2003 21:07:

yeah, i agree with teknohead...trance hasn't died in the US, it never grew in my opinion. maybe p diddy can change that

Posted by Freeza on May-02-2003 21:25:

Well I guess I'm lucky I guess...

All my favorite "Trance" DJ's come around at least a few times a year here...PvD, Ferry, Tiesto, Armin, Marco V, Scot Project, Johan...etc....

And I don't understand that Hard House comment? They've been playing hard house at parties here for years now (At least the ones I've went too...) I actually knew what Hard House was before I knew what Trance was

Posted by Ste on May-02-2003 22:51:

quote:
Originally posted by BeatFreak
HA!! THAT'S not gonna happen!!

i remeber when you (whiletrying not to generalise too much) said prog weas boring and mundane...

Posted by Cobalt on May-03-2003 00:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Dumonde Trancer
i remmebr a long time a go a post about anne savage saying america was 2 years behind in the dance music scene, and quite a lot of people ubbishing this comment.

although if you think about it, prog started to make it big late 2000 and into 2001 over here, ie like when gatecrasher was prog almost every week.

are you all gonna be raving about hardhouse soon

It's TRUE!

...but on a much smaller scale, I suppose. The culture isn't even a fraction of you Brits or the rest of Europe. Or the rest of the world, for that matter.