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I have been into electronica for a loooong time. I've been a DJ for about 3 months now, and am concentrating on hard trance. I also spin some hard house, but mostly hard trance

Lately, I've been getting this weird feeling about trance. I understand now why many people dislike the electronica genre, its so damn simple. I still love all my tracks, but sometimes I just wonder if there is something out there I haven't found yet. It's like I'm searching for something that will complete my musical needs.

I would like to start spinning house and drum n bass, but I can't afford to start picking records from all different genres. Do you guys ever feel like this? What did you do??


Rrrrrrrrg, its so annoying!!!!! I want to feel happy and stoked about my music and how I play it, but something inside of me is taking away from me fully enjoying electronica!!!!

I feel the same way on some days. Just can't find any music i want to spin or listen to. On those days I usually pull out the guitar and dust it off and play for a couple hours.

Sometimes it's good to have a change or get back to your roots!!

at times like these.....i close my eyes and imagine myself spinning in front of an enourmous crownd...and they're going NUTTZ!!

for me...whats driving them crazy is that funky beat of house music ...

you gotta think to urself...what am I playing thats making the crowd go insane

i know it sounds kinda stupid, but...it works for me, maybe it can help you

Yeah, I'm already spinning hard trance, acid and techno, but i want to do some breaks as well. And as with you, i know i couldn't afford to spin them all. Just do what i do with techno. You see, I go record shopping every week, so i go like 4 weeks getting trance and then one week i'll get techno, so i have some. After a while, it builds up into a collection.

So try just buying a few and finding out if you really like it and build your collection gradually

That just happened to me........last week......I said....I don't want to spin dance and house so now i have all my records for sale and now buying Breaks.........not bad b/c already had a good bit of them plus I know the rigt ppl to get them from.....

Trance tracks are usually quite simple. Period. That is part of what makes them trance--you can't have beats etc that are so complex and still have them lull you into a trance like state. Think about why Trance is called just that.

There are often times that I will get sick of listening to my tracks or mixes and so I'll stop for a couple of days. I listen to the music that I used to listen to or the radio etc and man, after just a few hours, I'll really start to miss Trance. It's not because the tracks are simple, it's because the tracks instinctively know how to heighten emotion--your emotion--to relax you, energize you or put your mind in a place that takes you away from life and puts you down where there is nothing more than music--simple trance music. That is what makes trance so increadible.

Trance doesn't have to be simple at all, only hard trance. There's lots of trance out there that's very complex and detailed, and I don't necessarily mean prog trance. Listen to some tracks on Platipus or something like that, or some goa stuff. They're much more musically complex than any other sort of dance music.

That said, if you spend the whole time listening to trance, it's easy to get sick of it, as it would be with any sort of music. Stick on a few CDs of something else and listen to that. Just because trance is your first love doesn't mean you can't like other stuff too.

i'm going through a period right now where i'm not buying records cause i don't know what to buy

i spin hard house and hard trance... but lately i'm really gettin into deep and progressive house... in fact i just produced my first track

so now i want to spin deep and progressive house, but i know i'll miss the energy that comes with the hard beats

i don't know what i want, crazy energy, or some soothing funky-type beats

I heard learnin to spin RNb and perfectn RnB...can teach you so much...and you could apply those skills when you spin trance and also improve the way you mix trance as well.

Thanks for the input. Im listening to DJ Dawns Jan 2002 set right now, and now I am so damn motivated. I just have to do what I love, and if people don't like it, they can go f*ck themselves!

Keep it pumpin people!!!!

Who gives a **** if its simple to make, when you are a DJ, your main priority is to make the dancers feel good...like taking them for a journey....

Trance sounds good..

RNB doesn't...

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Originally posted by Dj_Psygnosis Trance sounds good.. RNB doesn't...

You just summed up everything i've been trying to say to people for years in 5 simple words.

i know exactly how you feel, mikefasssy.

trance is my absolutely favourite musical genre (seconded by classical ) that i have strong feelings about. yet sometimes i get a strange sickening feeling when listening to it. it's very subtle and short-lived, but powerful. i don't know, maybe sometimes i just get a little tired of it all?

i think hard trance has a tendency to do this more than any other kind of trance, simply because of the (usually) simpler melodies and harder beats, which has a tendency to give headaches more often than "other" trance varieties.

then again, this morning on the subway i was listening to armin van buuren's "Boundaries Of Imagination" and thought, "wooow".

in the end it's just a common phenomenon - sometimes your mind simply gets sick of things. everyone that loves doing something (or listening to something) very passionately gets sick of it at times, even if they have been doing it for years and will keep doing it for years. just like one day you're healthy, and the next you're not.

p.s. isn't this more of a chill-out or music discussion topic rather than a "dj booth" one? heh

mike...

I'm like you.. spin hardhouse/hardtrance.. and yea, it gets old!

try to make some DJ friends that don't spin what you do... Maybe find a good breaks or dnb DJ that has a good record collection, and start spinning with them sometimes. it's a good change and can teach you alot.

If you get lucky, they'll be into your genre and not own much of it, so you could trade records for a little while here and there... that's always badass, assuming they have the respect to not f*ck up your vinyl and vice versa.

i hear ya on not having the money for records... but here's another idea.. buy a collection! When I got into hardhouse, I picked up 50 used hardhouse records for $200, all in very good condition. You can do even better than that.. start watching eBay

I bet you could get a set of used dnb records for dirt cheap if you are watchful and patient! there's nothing like getting a STEAL on vinyl and giving someone else some cash to buy what they really want

hang in there.. maybe put the covers on the decks for a week and listen to some other sort of music on MP3 or whatnot.. i have to do that from time to time, so i dont get burnt out! I'll push myself hardcore for a few weeks sometimes, then get burnt out... I'll spend a week listening to other DJs sets, stealing MP3s so I know what other records I want to buy, and explore other genres via MP3 mixing... It's all about change, diversity, and acceptance of other genres... you cant get stuck on the same thing forever and expect it to maintain it's intrigue (that's resevered for the 'fine women' category )

cheers!
-mer

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