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Posted by EnerJen on Mar-31-2004 04:22:

Question on song titles

I'm still relatively new to trance, and I come upon the words like "ft" "feat" "vs" and "with" alot in electronic music. I was wondering what they mean.

For ex: DJ Tiesto ft. Ferry Corsten - Dreamtime

Posted by Sid on Mar-31-2004 04:34:

simply means "featuring". so if you have DJ Tiesto ft. Ferry Corsten - Dreamtime, it just means that Ferry corsten worked on the production with Tiesto.

Posted by CrackedLcd on Mar-31-2004 04:35:

ft, feat, with = collaborations
vs = collaboration or a mashup bootleg

Posted by EnerJen on Mar-31-2004 05:15:

mashup bootleg? ?? ?

I'm guessing it's neither a collaboration nor a remix

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on Mar-31-2004 05:27:

Not a dumb question, just one that's been covered numerous times already.

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...highlight=feat.

Posted by Occasu on Mar-31-2004 05:43:

quote:
Originally posted by EnerJen
mashup bootleg? ?? ?

I'm guessing it's neither a collaboration nor a remix
It is sort of a remix. Usually it is 2 tracks interwoven to make a new one. An example would be "BT vs Sasha - Remember Magnetic North". The person/s that made it used BT - Remember, Sasha - Magnetic North and "mashed" them together.

Bootleg I think is a track that uses samples from another tune, or is a tune remixed without the original producers permission.

Posted by Torley Wong on Mar-31-2004 10:27:

I used to think it meant so-and-so DJ hated so-and-so DJ and the track was like a battle between the two of them... little did I know... I guess that's what I get for reading too much "Spy vs. Spy"... yipes!

Posted by Ste on Mar-31-2004 11:11:

sure is one dumb question

Posted by razzi on Mar-31-2004 15:52:

quote:
Originally posted by aspergian
I used to think it meant so-and-so DJ hated so-and-so DJ and the track was like a battle between the two of them... little did I know... I guess that's what I get for reading too much "Spy vs. Spy"... yipes!

hhahaahahhahahahahaa i would love to see a spy vs spy strip with turntables and scratching and stuff. hehe i can only imagine

what about presents? like, "dreas presents havannah - havannah"

Posted by trancintaiwan on Mar-31-2004 16:17:

usually i noticed when presents is used... its either introducing a new alias for the artist or the producer is featuring a new and relatively unknown artist

Posted by tranceCDs on Mar-31-2004 17:29:

Yup, dumb question.

Posted by Wildfir3 on Mar-31-2004 17:30:

There are no stupid questions, only stupid people

+1

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on Mar-31-2004 19:13:

quote:
Originally posted by aspergian
I used to think it meant so-and-so DJ hated so-and-so DJ and the track was like a battle between the two of them...

No, this isn't the rap scene.

Posted by beema on Mar-31-2004 19:20:

actually, the technical title of the song you are mentioning is DJ Tiesto & Ferry Corsten present Vimana - Dreamtime, which is the b-side to We Came.
"Present" is used when one or more artists are introducting a new alias of theirs, and usually gets dropped after the new alias is better known. ie: Agnelli & Nelson pres. Ultra or Agnelli & Nelson pres. Green Atlas.
The exception to this is Markus Schulz pres. Elevation - Clear Blue, in which case Markus Schulz, a well-established artist, is presenting Elevation, a newcomer. This caused a lot of confusion a while back...