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What first got you into trance?
What first got you into trance?
Was it a:
- party you went to
- radio station you listened to
- trip to Europe
- girlfriend / boyfriend
- DJ
- track you heard
- cd you borrowed from a friend
- mp3
- anything
Even if it was Alice Deejay's 'Better off Alone'... We all had to start somewhere.. 
Children from Robert Miles. The first time I heard the intro with piano, I thought: 'Damn, music can be perfect!'. Actually, I didn't know that it was called trance, but once I knew it, I couldn't stop discovering the world of trance. And I even started making trance now 2 years ago :-). Now I'm sure trance will guiding me trough the rest of my life......
Gloomy
I think initially it was Clubbers guide to 98' CD and i liked the trance tracks like cafe del mar n that. Then children, but at the time i didnt realise what it was called until i started reading magasines and trance became big in 99.
I went out clubbin with a few mates, dropped a pill and just lost it to system 7, Laurent Garnier and Tsuyoshi Suzuki, it was amazing; that was me hooked.
I think for me it was listening to Dr. Trance on the radio late one night.
I first heard trance on the internet from trance[]control. I then went out and bought a Paul van Dyk CD which was my first real taste of trance...I would then be forever hooked.
Naiveness... I loved Prodigy and only knew it as "techno" so I asked someone for a Techno CD at some CD store and they gave me UNited DJ's of AMerica volume 10 - Taylor... so it was Taylor - Slide and Maria Naylor - Other Side that got me into the whole trance scene
a friend who actually hates trance suggested a used ORIGINAL trance nation 2cd, for $20 cdn. that's as lucky as they come.
and then the next landmark after that was probably burning magik 6, which opened my eyes to tiesto
Basically just the uplifting synths and vocals, even though I have been listening to it for years, it's just got better & better.
i'd been into techno/electronica until....
i heard Alice Deejay's "Better off Alone" and then ATB's "9PM" back to back on the radio and then, boom, i was in love with all trance
It was a CD that my friend let me borrow when I first got my computer. It was mostly rock but he had a few Antiloop songs on there (I know it's not trance but it got me interested in electronica). Then after that I would search for Antiloop stuff on the internet and find sites w/ other types of electronica music and my interest grew from there. Finding site after site, artist after artist (that's how I found this site too). I found Tiesto just as he was getting big, I remember doing searches for his songs and CDs on Napster and getting only a few results (sometimes I wouldn't get any!) O well, there's my story 
Song that got me hooked: Gouryella- Gouryella
I just moved into Miami, when Children by robert miles began getting played, I wasent as hooked, maybe I wasent interesd in music back then, then Insomnia came, still, wasent hooked, when 1 afternoon, I was listening to the radio, a mix of lots of eurodance, I like it, so I heard Luna - Bailando, I was grooving to it, when all of the sudden, Push - Universal Nation came on.. I was WOW!!! what is this ! I turned up the radio, and the next song was Alice Deejay - better off alone, no one knew the name yet, it was only on the mix, then I heard some other tunes such as Lange, and so on, I was , what IS this!!!! is awesome!! Alice deejay tune got so much request that the dj had to give the cd - r to the radio station so they could play it, then it was all over the radio, Kay cee - escape, then ATB - 9pm, all this tunes. I searched for this tunes, when I downloded a tune called Sasha - Xpander, I bought the dammm CD with it.... and here IAM !
on a totally different note, i was never that impressed w/ push - universal nation, and im still not really even tho its classic.
its the SAME damn 4 bars repeating for the same song.
the same tune for the whole, damn, song. i used to hate it.
but i know why people like it
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| Originally posted by Trance Outlaw I think for me it was listening to Dr. Trance on the radio late one night. |
damn i would have to say i started lsitening to trance[]control-atomic dance explosion. my friend was playing it on a car ride home and the songs bass hit so hard. then i started getting into tiesto with songs like sparkles.
i started out listening to fatboy slim, chemical brothers, and atari teenage riot (heh what a combo )... then at one point i downloaded gatecrasher-wet and i was hooked
I had just moved to Orlando to start a new job. The guy who sat next to me was one of the first to introduce himself....and soon thereafter started sending mp3s my way. Soon I was borrowing cds and asking for more mp3s on a daily basis...I was hooked...and he is now one of my best friends!
what got me hooked into trance? cd compilation called "dreamdance volume one" - all the classics are on it, "insomnia" by faithless, "x-cabs" by neuro, "l'esperanza" by sven vath, "age of love" and many many more... that was around 1996... then i started djing two years later and 12" called "1998" by binary finary fell into my hands...THAT DID IT...respect...
what a great thread, almost like when did you first fall in love :P haha...i really can't thing of an excact song or time but after downloading PvD live at gallery turnmills i just had to grab every trance dj set i saw and the songs grew from there...
I'd have to agree with Robert Miles - Children in '95. Man, my friend said he just got it and played it in the car on the way to Seattle. Just a great CD with friends an a trip.
That and the fact that the Portland/Seattle scene at the time was all about Trance. We hated house so much back then that we "Boo-ed" Bad Boy Bill of the stage. haha. (I know we were disrespectful, but man it was not the music in our cities at the time.
Payce
My first trance experiance would have to be when i was younger...i came home on a head full of acid and my mate gave me a CD(urbal beats 1) to "chill" out with...i flipped through songs and wasnt to interested, then i stumbled upon RITM - OBE. i was completely stunned i thought i was in a dreamworld...i had to keep opeing my eyes to make sure i was alive, i think that song is more breaks..but it got me started in electrica music, which for some reason i use to hate
What got me...
I use to think Trance was just a bunch of repetative club music for ghetto, trendy ravers that have no life (or music education). In fact I use to talk a bunch of shit about trance, especially after hearing the chart toppers on mp3.com (which was one of the only places I could hear trance besides the clubs). I would think:
What no chord change for two minutes?
What no main melody, just a bunch of effects for the first minute?
What, a simple arppegio holding the song together?
What, a 909 again, how many times can it be used?
Then sometime in late '99 or early '00 I was out clubbing semi drunk on the dancefloor and something different happened. It was a beautiful synth lead, drowning in reverb and delay. I looked at my group of friends dancing with me and I yelled "I can feel it, I can feel it". And with wave after wave of chills flowing through my sweaty body I forgot about my everyday worries and felt free and happy. I danced with my eyes half closed for the next three songs feeling each one of them along with the rest of the crowd and then an even more beautiful synth lead came in and everyone was cheering. It was, Out of the Blue.
The next week at work, I spent the whole time doing searches on Napster for Trance music and using suggestions from write-ups on Amazon.com I found melodic/Uplifting trance to be the only thing I listen to and create. And about what I said before, now I enjoy some of the trance chart toppers on mp3.com.
One of my cousins introduced me to The Visions OF Shiva "Pefect Day" in 1993!
I have listened to house music and techno since the early 90's about 2 or 3 years ago I went to a rave and thought it was cool. This past year my buddy Rob has given me some cd's to burn and thats where I heard Sasha & John Digweed Northern Exposure. I started to search the net for trance music as well. Before this I only knew this sort of music as being called house music. Rob also introduced me to other DJ's in the states like Frankie Bones, Maa Bell, and Bad Boy Bill to name a few. They were nothing like the Europe sound of trance but I still liked them. Ever since my collection of trance has been growing as well as my knowledge of the music and DJ's. I still have a lot to learn though and if it were not for this cool site called TRANCE ADDICT that I just happened to stumble upon one day, I might have been still left in the dark.
Thanks!
Joker
Definately, DJ Tiesto's Walhalla got me into trance music. But the first "trance" music i liked is ATB - 9PM till I come, but is this trance music? hmmmmmmm.....
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