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Posted by Fragrant-Sense on Dec-09-2007 10:12:

What are, IYP the best albums of the last year

Hey everyone, I feel like I've been totally out of the loop, I've been a trance addict, since around 1999. I have an extensive collection of old out of print trance albums, whole discogs of quite a few artists, obviously just the albums not live performances. Anyway I was out of country for almost a year,in china and so I'm sure I've missed some good stuff, the popularity level of it is unimportant I just want stuff to search for so I don't have to go look through every artist individual @ thedjlist or something.


Posted by Sykonee on Dec-09-2007 10:19:

Of just trance? Probably Menno de Jong's Intuition Session was the best that I came across, although it wasn't super-fantastical or anything; just nice melodic stuff for the most part.


Posted by Fragrant-Sense on Dec-09-2007 10:29:

hard trance
progressive
melodic
even if it's not trance, if it was freaking amazing I'll give it a listen.


Posted by SMC on Dec-09-2007 10:57:

Trance:

Sound Field - Audio Surfin
Planisphere - Solarism/Solarized
Solar Fields - EarthShine


Posted by RapidFire on Dec-09-2007 11:25:

of all the mainstream artist albums out there I thought In Between wasnt bad at all. other than that I really enjoyed tom middleton's Lifetracks. its entirely ambient but its better than most of dance music's offerings this year


Posted by Fragrant-Sense on Dec-09-2007 12:17:

It's obvious de jongs album has made a lot of waves there are torrents of it everywhere.

While I'm not a huge GOA fan, I do like hard psy a lot, but more along the lines of hardestertrance which is as far as I know a long vacant vein of trance. However, the samples, from the soundfield album sounds like they've done an excellent job of fusing it with a, I guess I would say ambient progressive trance, cause it wasn't hard progressive sounding from the clips.

planisphere's sound definitely reminds me of airdrawndagger, though they obviously predate that album, but their current sound is definitely reminiscent of it. Hmmm found a third edition of the album which is a continuous mix by hybrid, I bet it's probably sick as hell, my very favorite version of godspeed was hybrids mix on renaissance america, is it just me or did the renaissance series completely deviate from a pure trance starting and into this disco loop crap that is really annoying?

I can't seem to find a torrent of planisphere anywhere, I normally buy all my music as long as it's on and indy non RIAA label which is like every dance label, but I'm poor as dirt right now and just jonsing for music. Last time I started spending on used albums on on amazon I ended up running up my credit card debt like a mother ******, stupid 1 click buy button.

Solar fields I'm sure will be good, but I haven't looked into it yet.


Posted by RebeL9 on Dec-09-2007 12:22:

yeah the Sound Field album was great. Easily one of the best trance albums of 2007.


Posted by Mr.Mystery on Dec-09-2007 13:57:

http://tranceaddict.com/forums/show...33&forumid=1&s=


Posted by Fragrant-Sense on Dec-09-2007 21:22:

forgive me if I didn't want to look through 20 pages, and I wasn't looking for a single album from each of you.


Posted by Neon Sky on Dec-10-2007 00:10:

Solar Fields' album Earthshine was great.


Posted by SMC on Dec-10-2007 01:03:

quote:
Originally posted by Fragrant-Sense
planisphere's sound definitely reminds me of airdrawndagger, though they obviously predate that album, but their current sound is definitely reminiscent of it. Hmmm found a third edition of the album which is a continuous mix by hybrid, I bet it's probably sick as hell, my very favorite version of godspeed was hybrids mix on renaissance america


Planisphere is not "they", it is one guy, Laurent V�ronnez (aka Airwave). And the hybrid edition is not by hybrid and has nothing to do with Hybrid.


Posted by rawbound on Dec-10-2007 01:11:

Asura - Life� is probably my favourite trance album of 2007. Haven't been listening to that much trance this year though. Otherwise if you're up for some lovely deep-/tech house, check out The Timewriter - Soulstickers.


Posted by TranceArmstrong on Dec-10-2007 01:13:

The best trance compilation is John 00 Fleming - Unfold


Posted by Paradox Lost on Dec-10-2007 01:26:

Compared to last year, I didn't find much content that drew me in in 2007, but here are a few that most certainly did:

John Digweed- Transitions, volume 2
Nick Warren- Global Underground 30: Paris
Global Underground- Afterhours: Ibiza
Hernan Cattaneo- Sequential, volume 2


Posted by Igaryok on Dec-10-2007 01:32:

I think Freaked Frequency-FF Syndrome is my favorite album of the year, It's so melodic and so well produced that it's unreal. The awesome part is that it gets better and better every time I listen to it. One of the very few albums where I love every single track.


Posted by Fragrant-Sense on Dec-10-2007 02:58:

quote:
Originally posted by SMC
Planisphere is not "they", it is one guy, Laurent V�ronnez (aka Airwave). And the hybrid edition is not by hybrid and has nothing to do with Hybrid.


airwave is an alias huh, I do like the work he has done under it. I'm sure I'll really enjoy all of planisphere then. what's the deal with the hybrid edition then?


Posted by SMC on Dec-10-2007 08:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Fragrant-Sense
what's the deal with the hybrid edition then?


It's a continuous mix of tracks from Solarism, exclusive and different versions/mixes of tracks from Solarism and mash-ups between tracks from Solarism and old Planisphere tracks (a selection of these appeared unmixed on "Solarized"). That's what "hybrid" refers to, it's all mixed and mashed for your listening pleasure.


Posted by Fragrant-Sense on Dec-10-2007 11:34:

ahhh hybrid was being used as an informal term, and I mistook it for a formal name, none the less I found a nice discog torrent of hybrid the group and am loving it, it's so hard to follow all the rabbit holes of trance, people who remix tracks really good, and then go find their stuff ect.


Posted by tranceCDs on Dec-10-2007 12:17:

Sunlounger - Another Day On The Terrace.

/thread.


Posted by SMC on Dec-10-2007 13:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Fragrant-Sense
ahhh hybrid was being used as an informal term, and I mistook it for a formal name, none the less I found a nice discog torrent of hybrid the group and am loving it, it's so hard to follow all the rabbit holes of trance, people who remix tracks really good, and then go find their stuff ect.


Make sure you listen to Hybrid's album "I Choose Noise" from last year.


Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Dec-10-2007 14:56:

Burial - Untrue


Posted by Fragrant-Sense on Dec-10-2007 17:18:

quote:
Originally posted by SMC
Make sure you listen to Hybrid's album "I Choose Noise" from last year.


Yeah it was in the torrent, may be you should do the best of last year too.


Posted by sljiva on Dec-10-2007 21:02:

I'm listening to Joris Voorn's From A Deep Place right now. The album is absolutely amazing, I haven't thought I'll hear something so good this year. Tracks like The Deep, Early Bird, Lucid Dreams and Dirty Thoughts are simply breathtaking.

Best album of the year right after the first listen. Aril Brikha's album sounds so cheap right now...


Posted by RebeL9 on Dec-10-2007 21:18:

quote:
Originally posted by SMC
Planisphere is not "they", it is one guy, Laurent V�ronnez (aka Airwave). And the hybrid edition is not by hybrid and has nothing to do with Hybrid.


actually. except for the latest Planisphere album all the earlier Planisphere stuff were produced by Laurent V�ronnez and George Petkidis.


Posted by SMC on Dec-10-2007 22:31:

quote:
Originally posted by RebeL9
actually. except for the latest Planisphere album all the earlier Planisphere stuff were produced by Laurent V�ronnez and George Petkidis.


You're right. But it seems like he has taken the project solo now.


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