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If you could introduce someone new to trance who would the DJ or artist be?

If you could introduce someone new to trance who would the DJ or artist be?

You have a friend and you want them to listen to some great tracks to get them addicted to the genre.

Who would the DJ or artist be that you could show them what Trance is all about. You don't have to answer for just Trance, it could be for EDM in general.

What live sets or studio albums would you choose?

I'd just let them hear Global Trancemissions 01 and if they liked it i'd give it to them and say "Here, take Magik 6, Summerbreeze, TPOD, ISOS 2&3, and every other one of my crappy trance CD's as well."

I would pick the following Dj's

For male friends:
John "OO" Fleming
Deepsky
Astral Projection

For Female Friends:
Paul Van Dyk
BT
Chicane

James Zabiela. No point in fluffing things up.

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Originally posted by Radagast I'd just let them hear Global Trancemissions 01 and if they liked it i'd give it to them and say "Here, take Magik 6, Summerbreeze, TPOD, ISOS 2&3, and every other one of my crappy trance CD's as well."

Yep. Start him/her off with the classics.

For trance ... Markus Schulz
For EDM in general I find Sasha wins people over, they find more in his mixes that they can associate with what they see as "real" music

i think if your introducing someone into trance for the first time, especially someone that hasnt heard trance before, you need to ease them in gently. A girl in my workplace wants me to bring in an album for her so she can see the music i like, so i thought of Armins '76' Album. Its got some nice tracks which have been played on UK radio and has a touch of commercialism about it in that its more commercially acceptable than say Tiestos In Search of Sunrise albums, to the average listener at home.

Tracks like Burned With Desire and Yet Another Day are great to ease people into the genre, then theres the classics like Communication and Blue Fear, and lets face it, i reckon 90% of trance fans see those 2 as classics, all in all, a good album to introduce someone into the genre

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Originally posted by swisstoni5017 i think if your introducing someone into trance for the first time, especially someone that hasnt heard trance before, you need to ease them in gently. A girl in my workplace wants me to bring in an album for her so she can see the music i like, so i thought of Armins '76' Album. Its got some nice tracks which have been played on UK radio and has a touch of commercialism about it in that its more commercially acceptable than say Tiestos In Search of Sunrise albums, to the average listener at home. Tracks like Burned With Desire and Yet Another Day are great to ease people into the genre, then theres the classics like Communication and Blue Fear, and lets face it, i reckon 90% of trance fans see those 2 as classics, all in all, a good album to introduce someone into the genre

totally agree wit him!!!!!!!!!!infact armin ws someone who gt me into trance....so it hs to be HIM.

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Originally posted by TweeK I would pick the following Dj's For male friends: John "OO" Fleming Deepsky Astral Projection

Suprisingly good list here. I might give them some Nick Warren instead of Astral Projection though.

For girls, PVD, Armin, and Ferry Corsten (The last 2 with pictures attached).

gu13 and john 00 fleming's set at id&t last year worked for a friend of mine

i'm now testing him with some zabiela hehe

hehe... why not PvD's picture too?

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Originally posted by tribu Suprisingly good list here. I might give them some Nick Warren instead of Astral Projection though. For girls, PVD, Armin, and Ferry Corsten (The last 2 with pictures attached).

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Originally posted by swisstoni5017 i think if your introducing someone into trance for the first time, especially someone that hasnt heard trance before, you need to ease them in gently. A girl in my workplace wants me to bring in an album for her so she can see the music i like, so i thought of Armins '76' Album. Its got some nice tracks which have been played on UK radio and has a touch of commercialism about it in that its more commercially acceptable than say Tiestos In Search of Sunrise albums, to the average listener at home. Tracks like Burned With Desire and Yet Another Day are great to ease people into the genre, then theres the classics like Communication and Blue Fear, and lets face it, i reckon 90% of trance fans see those 2 as classics, all in all, a good album to introduce someone into the genre

Good, i agree with u.
I'll start off with whatever that is popular & melodic ones then slowly once he/she gets the kick of it (at this point she roughly knows how trance is like), I'll start upping the quality and down the catchyness(this is where the cheese toppings are imo) of the songs. Well, of cause there are some tracks that are both good and catchy.

I personally won't introduce ppl like Zabiela, BT, Astral Projection etc to someone who wants to get a 'quick start' to trance. Not that they're lousy, but they're more for 'matured' trancers imo. People will start running away from Trance once they find it boring, 'repetive'. Feed them with sweet melodies

Chicane's album, Far From the Maddening Crowds

It was one of the major players which got me into EDM when I was into rock/indie... so hopefully may work for others too

Armin.. 76 is a great choice. Another one would be Armin vs Corsten - Trance Match. Unfortunately I believe that only came out in Japan so you would have to get it as a pricey import, but that's one of my favorite trance albums.

Ferry (his earlier non-electro stuff) is great too for introducing people to trance.

Basically something not mega repetitive, that has a strong melody, and preferably mixed up with vocal and non-vocal tracks.

I've found that Airbase works really well (Rock, Ionize, Rise and so on)
And a track I always use is Solar Stone - Solarcoaster
Then if you see that the person likes it you give him some good liveset or something and hopefully he gets hooked
I guess 76 and Just Be would be good tools too :]

I've gotten several friends to start liking trance this way

did you all forget to mention tiesto's 2000 trance energy set?

I think i'll intro him into sorting out different genres first

I would say "hey, don't go into Electronica, it's not for you, leave it the fuck alone, don't even try or research on your own, I'm not giving it to you on a platter"

depends on the person, but i would say chicane, for most of my friends.

i took 3 mates to a sasha gig - theyd never been to and EDM event before and they were very impressed

The previous posts are all great.

I see one that seperates a male and female tastes which is good. What about someone who likes rock or rap and they want to try EDM or Trance what would you do? Who would you say is a mainstream DJ that is not commercialized? Do you intro them to Oakey, Sasha/Digweed? What about like the Global Underground or Ministry of Sound comps?

Remember this post will more than likely get neophytes to change their listening habits. This forum post would be a great place to start. So please suggest away.

I have found out personaly that people who like rock/metal always seem to enjoy DNB.Mostly Dieselboy and Bad Company.They also like The Crystal Method (i really dont know what EDM gendre they fit into thought)


As for rap lovers
But this tracks might work for them:

Bt-Knowlege of Self
Bt- Madskillz-Mic Checha
Roni size - brown paper bag (vocal mix)(its DNB by the way)
The Crystal Method - Trickshot

I would probably give them melodic stuff to listen to. If you give them a long club song then they'll most probably hate it because everyone thinks trance is just 10 minute songs that have the same beat. I would start the person off with:
ATB - 9 P.M.
Rank 1 - Airwave
Oceanlab - Satellite
Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Always works)
Yahel - Voyage
and stuff like that.

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Originally posted by DjArTiN! I would start the person off with: ATB - 9 P.M.

You kidding? I would say that was FAR from representative of trance... it's just a simple commercial dance tune. Also I dunno how big it was over in the states but it got #1 over here back in 99, just about everyone's heard of it... and most of them aren't trance fans, go figure.

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