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To anyone not European
I was just wondering how you guys get all your trance in places like America, Canada, Japan etc. Before I joined Tranceaddict I thought that electronic music was only really popular in Europe. Have your countries developed their own scenes alongside ours? And how quickly do you get tunes over there from British and European labels?
I'm still amazed at how much you guys know about tunes, its wicked. Soon us....... the people of the future shall conquer the world with our music!!!
In America, I just order stuff off Amazon.com, and theres also some CD stores that sell "dance" stuff, but mostly shite. Oh yeah, theres also this little shop in one of the shopping centers that sells strictly trance. They are pretty good, but sometimes overprice their stuff.
England is generally good, but for some stuff you have to know where to go, because to be honest most for England is into cheesy bollocks!Especially the bloody women. What annoys me is its getting into dance, all these vocal re-releases of wicked tunes.
South Africa's dance music scene is very split.
In Johannesburg, Funk ownz.
In durban, its Hard House all the way.
And in Cape Town (my hometown) Hard House/Hard Trance/Epic Trance are the order of the day.
Having been in the UK for 4 monthes, its weird to see how different the scene is compared to SA.
SA is very much dance orientated, whatever the genre, but prog isnt popular. (thank God)
There you go, hope that was informative enough
Cheerz
kr00t0n
I go to clubs to hear music. And we've got some specialty record stores here that sell EDM vinyl. Pretty vibrant scene right here, though certainly still underground.
I get my TEKNO from
http://www.foreverandbeyond.com AKA http://fabdistribution.com <---US
http://majesticstore.com <--- US
http://www.sonicgroove.com <--- US
http://www.planetxusa.com/indexx.htm <--- US
http://www.satelliterecords.com <--- US
Clubs.
What got me rolling in the trance direction was a club where i heard AvB's Communication. OMG. I was like what is this. So napster (RIP) helped me find out more about it. There I found alot of armins songs/remixes. Then I found Tiesto, Picotto, Corsten etc. When I knew I loved this I went shopping. My main supplier is http://www.dancegrooves.com. Also shopped around to other ones that I found. But DG gives me the best rates and they ship almost overnight to the US. But the Detroit Techno scene is what got me into dance. But the one thing that keeps me so upto date is by finding some of the newest stuff here. Almost 200 of the vinyl I have bought in the past year is what was talked about on here and what I heard other various sections 
. And I have finally convinced my good friend who knows the owner of a record shop in downtown chicago to start carrying more trance and slowly phase out chicago's progressive image. I know that Chicago greeted Oakie, the Chemical Brothers and Sasha & Digweed so well when they came here on 4/20. I was among the thousands there that nite! Woot.
I used to get underground mix tapes, and some of them used to drop trance tracks. I remember hearing some old tracks, Robert Miles Children, Mauro Picotto - Lizard, Binary Finary 1998(PvD Rmx), Cafe Del Mar, Universal Nation, etc.... then the net started popping up with alot of MP3's, and the madness never stopped since. We get new musik before some of the top DJ's.
I live in Vancouver Canada. We do get lots of really good headliners (Marco V last weekend) but our local scene is all Jungle and Breaks. Music gets really trendy in this city, right now the "cool" thing to listen to is Jungle.
As for records, i order from the UK
napster did it for me pretty much
somehow i downloaded some trance not knowing what it was and then i got addicted
before that i was hooked on break beat, drum and bass, jungle and astral projection. so trance was a step up from all that 
Before Napster, I hit up the www.mp3.com and found Trance Control. Then with Napster came Oakenfold, and then came Morpheus and AG, which led to Tiesto, Armin, PvD, Ferry, Yahel, and all my other favorites.
I buy Vinyl online, get it shipped overseas, ebay, stuff like that.
But if it wasn't for MP3's, I never would have discovered trance.
there is a great interest in Electronica in the U.S., but it can't flurish because the Guitar rules all.... 
the scene here in australia is not that big with dance/trance music but starting to get popular i guess
yeah, napster sure got everyone hooked then ...
despite the popular thought that north america is retarded when it comes to everything, we do have some underground stuff going on here and there that just confirm the fact that we are retarded 
however, we do have places like virgin megastore (the only one in vancouver) and we do have max graham (even tho he's not that great) and the rave scene here and fairly big for our city
when it comes to getting music, ebay, virgin, small record shops, european online stores usually do the trick. and who can forget AG and the good ol napster (back when it was still operational)
Really it's just MP3s for me down here in small town New Zealand ... I was living in Scotland until a few weeks ago and I thought I was hard done by there compared to the midlands ... alas how wrong I was! You won't hear any trance in this country if you live outside of the 3 big cities. 
Mainly MP3s for me too, but all the Gatecrasher/other popular british albums come out here and I buy them...
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| Originally posted by Kia Kaha Really it's just MP3s for me down here in small town New Zealand ... I was living in Scotland until a few weeks ago and I thought I was hard done by there compared to the midlands ... alas how wrong I was! You won't hear any trance in this country if you live outside of the 3 big cities. |
I'm from nowhere, USA
Not only am I from USA, I'm from NH, USA. Not only am I from NH, USA, I'm from Durham, NH, USA. Nowhere even near any of the three excuses for cities that NH has, which are probably Nashua, Manchester and Concord. When I buy stuff since I've downloaded it already and like it, I go to Boston because that's where the cool record shops are. HMV even has soundproof rooms so in your genre room they play that music on the system and none of the rooms can hear the other rooms, it's cool. But I have to say, I get 70% of my music from audiogalaxy (which some I then buy later) and I learn about new music both here and through my other friend who has better connection than me and he gives me big amounts of music sometimes. So mostly through connections made by other songs, people and websites do I hear about the music I haven't already listened to. I've found that advice from other people provides the fastest road towards geting new music online, dn't ever try to just find it yourself, that sometimes can be really inefficient...
ok hehe,
lets talk about america. i've been listening to trance for a while. i remember i started to get obsessed after i heard dj mirco (do europeans even know who that is? hes a ny dj) drop Gouryella - Gouryella and i knew that i wanted to be a dj. i remember after that i started to buy up a lot of stuff off the selves and found the best single dj cd...Oakenfold's tranceport. how classic is that cd hehe. then one of my best friends older brothers friend (i know this gets confusing hehe) is kinda your swinging business man living in london travelling the world and he told us about gatecrasher. we quickly bought the gatecrasher red cd and finally realized what good dance music was hehe. that of course led to more and more blah blah blah. i tell ya i'm so used to being the only one that knows anything about trance that this bored is scary hehe, but recently i'd say since maybe last october you start to hear a little bit more of it around. i remember first it was sandstorm, then you start hearing derb on the radio, then rapture of course and i shit you not only a little while ago i heard andian summer calling on the radio. great song please don't ruin it america hehhee. talk to you guys later.
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| Originally posted by davinox there is a great interest in Electronica in the U.S., but it can't flurish because the Guitar rules all.... |
As far as the trance club scene goes:
In the Bay Area CA most of the music that is played is Carl Cox style (Hard house ?) NRG (blah), and more progressive non-melodic/non-uplifting stuff.
Trance, deep trance, uplifting trance is only played at a couple of clubs and their track selection usually is pretty poor and stays completely away from anything remotely popular. Everyone here is afraid of being trendy, so we end up with a lot of ugly, cutting edge progressive music that is good to dance to, but lacks any emotion.
Radio play:
We only have trance played on the college radio stations around for only a couple hours out of every day.
So I found out and got into good trance with Napster and TrancEaddic
i did see dj tiesto - urban train (or is it suburban?) on mtv2 late at night one time but thats as good as it got that boring rainy night. the internet by far is the best place for me to get trance, despite the fact that i live in ny, and not to mention i have no record player(or at least a working one)
Where I live in Belgium most of my (uninitiated) friends look at me as if I'm a cretin when I tell them I'm into trance. Not a chance of hearing it in a club/at a party either.
In Aus trance is not that popular. Styles like HI NRG, Techno and Harcore are more popluar because most of the population only know one thing, MOSH. It's sad but true and so anything they can't go psyco too they don't like as much. Plus Australia is just a little America and whatever America does we do it too so we arw also ruled by the guitar. It Sux.
I mainly get all my music from 2 big Record shops in Sydney, HMV and Central Station Records. But stuff from Europe is like always rare and labelled "IMPORT". Which automatically makes me pick it up. This means it is not produced in Australia which is a good thing. But other than that we pretty much get all the same stuff, even though it's ages after just that you never see it much and you gotta know where to look.
(HI NRG is not hi energy trance. It's like remixed destiniy's child and really cheesy stuff. If you wanna find out, not that I suggest you do, download something by Nick Skitz and you will find out)
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