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Unique/Legendary/Trademark sounds that made history

A thread dedicated to those special classic sounds that remain unreachable.



That pad type sound is the trademark and soul of this track. Tons of remixes were made, but nothing comes close to the depth, air and warmth of the original.

Inb4OffshoreChordsAndOutOfTheBlueSupersaws.

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Originally posted by Robotrance i remember getting a gig during holiday in balearic islands and put these tracks on, the mananger asked if i wanted to give him a heartattach and threw me off. it was a bar.

lol

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Originally posted by Robotrance the roland 909 hats. 909 HH 909 OH 909 RC i just fucking love the sound of those, and any variant of them. to me they define electronic dance music.

Yep, it's the entire 909 machine in general - all the instruments sound great. You'll never get the same sound with digital samples, either.

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the 808 is of course another one but thats more hiphop 80s, a little before my time. also i dont like the sound of it. too minimal.

You can do some heavy stuff with the 808, as well, although the 909 is definitely more suitable for Trance.



Try and replicate that using software/samples.


Btw, wanna link us to your previous releases/stuff? I'm genuinely interested in hearing some of the stuff you mentioned releasing some years ago.

that one squealey drum and bass noise, shits in everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE5UTC891B0&t=2m31s

You could add the Amen break to that as well.

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Originally posted by Viber Inb4OffshoreChordsAndOutOfTheBlueSupersaws.

Well, that's not the point really. Not casually I underlined "unique" in the title. I talk about a particular sound/element that made some tracks legendary. Maybe I shouldn't have used the term "trademark". It deceived many thinking I was simply referring to "classic sounds".

Another example of what I'm talking about is something like the main riff in "As The Rush Comes" by Motorcycle. That sound is actually the track. It defines it and gives it a certain uniqueness. No other track has that sound, or at least nothing came close having that specific color/warmth/character or however you wanna call it. If you wanna hear that sound you simply have to play that specific track.

I'm sorry if many didn't actually get what I meant.

Oh, in that case:



dat lead

Well, since we all speak from different experiences; to me a couple awesome turning points for trance were: ridiculously long breakdowns and buildups (like the supernatural dub of Tilt- Invisible, and lots of Mike Koglin stuff) Robert Nickson's rolling basslines and smooth, tuned bass falls, and Andy Moor reshaping vocals as instruments. stuff just absolutely definitive of good trance!

That first one is a killer Robo!

Derb! haha

Cowbell and Donks, maybe even layered.

Surprised nobody's mentioned the arpeggiated supersaw yet.

There's a synth that can never be used in any other tune again, because it's so strongly associated with this:

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Originally posted by aquila Surprised nobody's mentioned the arpeggiated supersaw yet.

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Originally posted by Viber Inb4OffshoreChordsAndOutOfTheBlueSupersaws.

also @ Mr.Mystery. It's amazing how Sandstorm can still make a crowd go mental these days. Just brilliant .

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Originally posted by Storyteller

D'oh. At least I posted the vid :P

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also @ Mr.Mystery. It's amazing how Sandstorm can still make a crowd go mental these days. Just brilliant .

It always surprises me how that track's so popular. The bass is weaker than a Dolly Parton record and the clucky robot chicken synth is as annoying as the Crazy Frog.

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Originally posted by aquila D'oh. At least I posted the vid :P It always surprises me how that track's so popular. The bass is weaker than a Dolly Parton record and the clucky robot chicken synth is as annoying as the Crazy Frog.

I'm guessing you're really young, and weren't around when that track first landed. At the time, it was a pretty new sound for a lead line, and it absolutely decimated dancefloors. The only reason people crap on it now is because it got too huge, and you could hear it everywhere; us oldsters remember hearing it on the dancefloor the first time, and it was magic.

Back to the thread topic, I'd put up the lead from 1998. It was afaik the first time that what were basically pads became a lead; you can draw a pretty straight line from 1998 to Airwave.

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Originally posted by Storyteller

I'll see your Alice Deejay and raise you:

And how could I not:



(this is for the old people. Anyone born after 1985, don't worry about this post)

Yes. Timeless

Yes, something like this

Hahah omg farris that's going to be in my head all day now

Dun...dun dun tssss, dun...dun dun tssss...zombie...zombie natioooooon
Tu tu tu tu tuuuuuuu, you know the rest

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