Was there a backlash against trance in 1999?

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Posted by Mattsanity on Mar-28-2020 23:24:

Was there a backlash against trance in 1999?

timo maas must've been making a statement...

Posted by Sykonee on Mar-29-2020 02:14:

Ya' think?

(yep, 1999 release as well)

Posted by Ishkur on Mar-29-2020 02:18:

Shit nigga there was a backlash in 97.

Posted by Mattsanity on Mar-29-2020 02:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Ishkur
Shit nigga there was a backlash in 97.

Damn it started even earlier? Wow.

Posted by Mattsanity on Mar-29-2020 13:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Sykonee
Ya' think?

(yep, 1999 release as well)

Armand moved up 64 spots in the 1999 DJ Mag list. He must've been trendy that year.

Posted by Swamper on Mar-29-2020 23:40:

I can't personally comment on whether there was a backlash then since I was still very new to everything... I was listening to Trance but I was not attending parties/events following the culture much.

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Originally posted by 2techs
Armand moved up 64 spots in the 1999 DJ Mag list. He must've been trendy that year.

I went to my first rave in March 1999 - Armand was one of the headliners (along with Carl Cox). Changed my life! I'm also in the 2nd vid for 5 seconds... lol

Posted by Dj Pluviose on Apr-01-2020 08:58:

I'm sure the Germans and Dutch had disagreements with where EDM was commercially being directed. And of course, there was probably a huge rift between stylistic differences between Eye/Harthouse vs BlackHoles

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Apr-01-2020 10:39:

It's more that 1999-era drumroll trance was seen as cheesy music for teenagers by everyone in every other scene, especially as it attracted the "cyber kids" who dressed like infantile imbeciles and sucked on dummies and lollipops on the dancefloor. I'm reliably informed the North American equivalent was the "candy raver". Trance crowds back then were basically the equivalent of those EDM morons wearing fluorescent "RAGE" outfits. It also achieved a tyrannical global dominance over the club scene for a few years around 1998-2000.

Posted by Mattsanity on Apr-02-2020 22:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Swamper
I can't personally comment on whether there was a backlash then since I was still very new to everything... I was listening to Trance but I was not attending parties/events following the culture much.

I went to my first rave in March 1999 - Armand was one of the headliners (along with Carl Cox). Changed my life! I'm also in the 2nd vid for 5 seconds... lol

awesome footage, wish I was from that era. the house and trance crowds must've been mutually exclusive back then.