TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Music Discussion
-- Worst Period of Trance
Pages (2): [1] 2 »
Worst Period of Trance
I've recently decided to go through all my tracks and create best of spring/summer/fall/winter compilations beginning with summer of 1999. All my seasonal compilations were coming out fine with massive tracks finding spots in all the seasons; I had to make painful decisions concering which songs to include and which to exclude as there just isn't enough room to include more than 8-10 songs per CD.
Then I ran into summer and fall of 2002. I was struggling, struggling to find anything worth burning a CD for. Crap like DJ Dean - Play It Hard, Matt Darey feat. Marcella Woods - U Shine On, and DJ Sammy & Yanou - Heaven typified the garbage on my HDD for this period. After some painstaking work I was able to fill up this black whole in my collection (I was forced to borrow tunes that caught my attention later in 2003, but that were released in the 2nd half of 2002).
GOD, what an awful period for Trance, don't you agree?
for regular trance yea, but 2002 was AMAZING for great hard trance.
lots of great german acts with cool sounds
What did you have on those CDs? I'd be interested to know. 
| quote: |
| Originally posted by Fundamental What did you have on those CDs? I'd be interested to know. |
| quote: |
| Originally posted by Nautilus DJ Choci and The Geezer - It's Beyond Control (Hennes & Cold Remix) |
| quote: |
| Originally posted by Nautilus I'm still working on Fall 2002, but Summer 2002 went like this: Rapid Eye - Circa Forever (Rapid Eye Remix) Project Medusa vs. Exor - Moonshine (Exor Mix Part II) Plastic Boy - Silver Bath (Original Mix) DJ Choci and The Geezer - It's Beyond Control (Hennes & Cold Remix) Pulsedriver - I Dominate U (DJ Scott Project Remix) Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire (DJ Scott Project Remix) H2J - East & Central Joker Jam - Innocence Telepopmusik - Breathe |
Was a far better period than now IMO. Hemstock & Jennings - Crimson Soil for example, is a track I really liked.
Late 2003/Early 2004 for me was the worst period.
Super-saw trance from everybody.
In 2002 I was blown away - seemed not so much pure-trance, but certainly a lot of good stuff out there. The peak of Tiesto's career at least.
Hope you've got Solarcoaster in a comp somewhere. 
The only thing bad about this period of trance is having to read posts like this. Dude, we already know some people aren't happhy. But there's no need to keep creating threats about it.
| quote: |
| Originally posted by kadomony for regular trance yea, but 2002 was AMAZING for great hard trance. lots of great german acts with cool sounds |
i thought 2002 was a decent year imo...
My top 30 of that year
01 paul oakenfold // southern sun (tiesto isos remix)
02 shane // too late to turn (armin van buuren remix)
03 gouryella // ligaya
04 hemstock & jennings // crimson soil
05 plastic boy // silver bath
06 altitude // altitude (shokk remix)
07 kansai // roccoco
08 sinead o'connor // troy (push remix)
09 kosheen // hungry (satoshi tommiie remix)
10 ayumi hamasaki // boys & girls (push dub)
11 art of trance // madagascar (push remix)
12 solar factor // no return
13 marco v // godd
14 starecase // faith (loafer remix)
15 oceanlab // sky falls down (armin van buuren remiix)
16 greed // strange world (lemon 8 remix)
17 milk inc. // walk on water (frank trax remix)
18 drax & scott mac // angel (magik muzik remix)
19 perpetuous dreamer // dust wav.
20 solid sessions // janiero (armin van buuren remix)
21 airwave vs. rising star // sunspot (dcml mix)
22 lustral // broken (way out west remix)
23 db boulevard // point of view (lange remix)
24 dave matthews band // the space between us (tiesto remix)
25 tiesto // in my memory (airwve vocal remix)
26 andain // summer calling
27 signum // second wave
28 tilt // headstrong
29 minimalistix // close cover (airscape remix)
30 bomfunk mc's // live your life (push remix)
edit : in fact it was a very good year looking at that list - 2004 was quite poor for me and 2005 was average...which does'nt look good for the future 
how about 02's sensation the anthem? classic.
| quote: |
| Originally posted by Nautilus I'm still working on Fall 2002, but Summer 2002 went like this: Rapid Eye - Circa Forever (Rapid Eye Remix) Joker Jam - Innocence |
2002 was a great year IMO.
2002 great
2003 ok
2004 not great
2005 pants
2006 awful
Now thats Pure trance, Asot type stuff. Progpsy etc for instance is utterly on fire this year.
'02
Nitromethane - Time To Die
Sasha - Airdrawndagger
GTR - Mistral
Sun Decade - I'm Alone
Ghostland - Guide Me God
Project Medusa vs. Exor - Moonshine
Revolution 9 - The Weapon
Ralphie B - Massive
Shmuel Flash - Chilling Moments
Rapid Eye - Circa Forever
Aquanuts - Deep Sea
John Askew - New Dimension
Ashtrax - Digital Reason
Subsky - Four Days
Joker Jam - Innocence
Solid Sleep - Club Attack
Lexicon 4 - Reach Me
Midway - Monkey Forest
Conjure One - Tears From The Moon
Roc Project, The - Never
Andain - Summer Calling
Solar Factor - Urban Shakedown
Lustral - Broken
Accadia - Blind Visions
BK - Revolution
Rhythm Gangsta - The Crowd Song
Corderoy - Sweetest Dreams
Atrium - Golden
Eon - Pocket Damage
Accessive Rhythm - Activate
Planisphere - Teardrop / Moonshine
Airwave vs. Rising Star - Sunspot
Three Drives - Carrera 2
Katana & Mark Norman - Dulce Vita / Overkill
Atlas - Compass Error
Midtone - Pearl
Bedrock - Emerald
Oceanforce - Energy Flow / Euphoric Dream
Klea - Tic Toc
What a horrible year
This year has been awful. To exaggerate it's almost the middle of the year and I haven't heard anything worth listening to with the exception of Allure's release of 'The Love We Lost' which is starting to grow on me and 'Escape' by Airbase.
in my mind 2002 was the best year since 1999...so many releases in exactly my style of trance...its true that 'Airbase - Escape' would've been the only song of this year to get into my 2002 top list...
2006 so far has been really good for progtrance. Tegma, Vibrasphere, The Digital Blonde and the heaps of good stuff coming soon fron Iboga, Tribal Vision, Spiral Trax just to name a few.
In my opinion, 2005 had to be the worst year.
Nothing interested me much and for most of that year, i was stuck in the years 99-04.
2004-date.
2003 wasn't amazing but had good stuff, 2002 was great, 1990s through to 2001 were awesome. 2004 onwards only have odd songs worth it.
Yeah 2006 sucks, I haven't seen one really amazing release yet, well until probably Novocain by Kalafut & Fygle is released, and Colour My Eyes by Mark Norman, or other tracks from ISOS 5, which I think sound pretty nice IMO. It might not be really hard stuff but thats not what i'm into. I'm into now more prog house/trance and prog breaks or "trancey breaks". I just find some better made tracks with more passion, and still have great melodies but are less theatrical, they are just pretty spacey and a bit more subtle. Sentient Audio Collective and Proton Music are two labels that I think have been and are making some great music this past year and this year as well. So these are two labels to really check out.
| quote: |
| Originally posted by THE_Chris 2004 not great 2005 pants 2006 awful |
My personal favourites from '02:
Tillman Uhrmacher - On the Run
Frank TRAX - Nebuchan (ORGAN Remix)
29 Palms - Touch The Sky
IIO - Rapture (AVB Remix)
Dreamcatch - I Don't Wanna Lose My Way (Niels van Gogh Mix)
Ian Van Dahl - Reason (Hemstock & Jennings Remix)
Altitude - Altitude (SHOKK Remix)
Jurgen Vries - The Theme (DuMonde Remix)
Rank 1 - Awakening
John Askew - Vellum
John Askew - Are You Reading Me
Hemstock & Jennings - Arizona
Tiesto - 643 (Love's On Fire)
Ferry Corsten - Punk
Mauro Picotto - Back to Cali
4 Strings - Take Me Away (Coast 2 Coast Vocal Mix)
Disco Brothers - Final Frontier (Regeneration Mix)
Disco Brothers and Breeze & Styles - Take Off
Mark Richardson & Phil Reynolds - Supernova
Mark Richardson & Phil Reynolds - Vinyl Addiction
Organ Donars - Locked Tight (Trance Mix)
Guyver - Serious Sounds
BK & Dave Randall - Ascension
i just want to add one of the best and propably one of the most underrated tunes of 2002:
Hemstock & Jennings feat. John 00 Fleming - The Nazarean off the Genetica EP.
amazing tune and so much better than the stuff H&J spits out nowadays.
Powered by: vBulletin
Copyright © 2000-2021, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.