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Posted by Dusty Zee on May-06-2008 14:19:

Progressive trance

Hey guys, I'm Mohamed from Egypt. I'd like you to recommend me tracks / albmus that are similar to stuff like The Thrillseeker's "waiting here for you" if you don't mind. Thanks in advance .

(Sorry for my bad English and if it was posted before)

Posted by oldblue1224 on May-06-2008 14:47:

been posted many times, search for it on here

Posted by SMC on May-06-2008 17:25:

Re: Progressive trance

quote:
Originally posted by Dusty Zee
The Thrillseeker's "waiting here for you"

is NOT progressive trance.

Posted by hkaliher on May-06-2008 17:28:

ya just search for progressive trance if that's what you're looking for

Posted by Junior Wilkins on May-06-2008 17:43:

Re: Progressive trance

quote:
Originally posted by Dusty Zee
Hey guys, I'm Mohamed from Egypt. I'd like you to recommend me tracks / albmus that are similar to stuff like The Thrillseeker's "waiting here for you" if you don't mind. Thanks in advance .

(Sorry for my bad English and if it was posted before)

have you met my 2 friends from Egypt, Aly & Fila????

Posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs on May-06-2008 20:24:

quote:
Originally posted by Mattsanity
there was never such thing called progressive trance. there's progressive and there's trance. Ive always wondered who the hell came up with progressive trance.

anyway, tunes similar to waiting here for you yes I love that joint.

york ft ayla - cover me

yes! this was when tom colontonio was still only an edm listener!

Wow, could you be any more wrong?

Posted by PETRAN on May-06-2008 21:17:

quote:
Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs
Wow, could you be any more wrong?

Seriously...

Hey threadstarter, do you know of these two guys from Egypt Aly and Fila? They had a compilation recently called "Tranceworld-2". Its not "progressive trance", but its the kind of "Thrillseekers-trance" that you like. Now, i hope you are not an alt because i typed many words.

Posted by enydo on May-06-2008 21:33:

quote:

yes! this was when tom colontonio was still only an edm listener!

Whoa, you spelled his name right.

Posted by SMC on May-06-2008 21:48:

Posted by RebeL9 on May-06-2008 22:17:

you can tell if a person is a dickhead if he got his own quote in his sig

Posted by miamitranceman on May-06-2008 22:19:

quote:
Originally posted by RebeL9
you can tell if a person is a dickhead if he got his own quote in his sig

Posted by SYSTEM-J on May-06-2008 22:24:

Posted by Nostalgic on May-06-2008 22:26:

Why are people still taking Mattsanity so seriously?

Posted by whiskers on May-06-2008 22:35:

Posted by Clovis on May-06-2008 22:39:

quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Oh shut the fuck up you useless streak of week old piss.

Spot on.

Posted by Paradox Lost on May-07-2008 03:19:

quote:
Originally posted by Mattsanity
yes there is a such thing as progressive house but not progressive trance.

I would provide a response demonstrating the existence of Prog. Trance, but System J has done a fine job in detailing its nuances and cataloguing its progression in this thread, with the following excerpt being the most relevant to this discussion:

One of many discussions on Prog. Trance

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Originally a new style of trance that emerged in the mid-1990s which was more modern than the classic German style and different from the goa trance popular at the time. It was influenced by the British progressive house sound, specifically the short-lived epic house movement in 1995-96. Epic house is the bridge between old school prog house and prog trance. You can see this by tracking the sound of Sasha and Digweed in the mid-90s: they were playing Renaissance style prog-house in 92-94, in 95-96 it was epic house and afterwards it was progressive trance. People like BT, Quivver, Tilt and Blue Amazon who made their names in epic house also helped define progressive trance in the late 90s.

It sounded like a cross between classic German trance and mid-90s prog house. It was better produced and more melodic than classic trance, but shorter and less maximalist than epic house. The Platipus label are often credited with originating it.

At the turn of the millenium it became deeper, darker and less melodic: the Twilo sound epitomised by the likes of Breeder, Sander Kleinenberg and Tilt (and of course, Xpander and Heaven Scent). Then people started making it smoother and more twinkly: first Above & Beyond and then Markus Schulz and Andy Moor. It ceased to be much like it used to be and basically became a twinkly, moodier version of all the other trance around. That was about 2004. Since then it's been shit.

Of course, there are exceptions to this general development of sound. Underworld's Dark Train mix of Dark & Long, for example, was made in 1994 and yet was so far ahead of its time it was still in the box of every prog trance DJ at the end of the decade and beyond.

If you read on, you'll notice a point of contention between him and Ishkur, though they both acknowledge the existence of Prog. Trance, albeit defined along different lines.

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mellow tunes like james holden that emerged around 2001 and his overrated balance comps.

Yeah, I really think he made too many Balance mix comps for his own good.