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Kinds of Trance ..

What kinds of trance do we have? and could you post some track names?
I dont know the difference between goa & acid
james holden = progressive ?
armin van buuren, ferry corsten = energetic ?
tiesto = melodic ?

sorry for this noobish question

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Originally posted by teknasia What kinds of trance do we have? and could you post some track names? I dont know the difference between goa & acid james holden = progressive ? armin van buuren, ferry corsten = energetic ? tiesto = melodic ? sorry for this noobish question

Genrification is so pointless Most artists overlap and are influenced by other movements, but whatever.

Armin, Ferry and Tiesto are the leaders of uplifting Dutch trance, which is typically the more anthemic and melodic kind of trance. However, Tiesto broke with that mold and now spins progressive uplifting funky tech-trance He's definitely the less melodic of those three right now.

Yes James Holden is progressive and tends to be more melodic and therefore "trancier" than your typical prog dj.

Goa and acid? I'm no expert in this area but there is an obvious difference which I can't really explain right now. Go to www.ishkur.com or something like that.

Acid is a kind of techno that was around in the early 90's

Goa and Psy Trance are similar (The same to my ears) and basically listen to stuffs by:

Astral Projection
Man with no name
Infected Mushroom
X-Dream
Hallucinogen

That kind of stuff.

I could care less about the sub-genres. I just know of these two "types" of trance: Good trance & Bad trance.

Okay this has to be said once and for all.

GOA = PSY

They aren't similar, they are identical/synonomous.

Just quite possibly I'm wrong, but I'm very close to 100 % that its the same thing just depends on what you like calling it. Personally I think psy sounds much more sexy then goa so I always refer to it as psy.

Someone plz correct me if I'm wrong, cause I need to know!

it's true, goa is psytrance, and the terms can be used interchangably AFAIK... goa is supposedly the name of the area in india where this type of music 'supposedly' originated. It is a real place, but i cannot tell you for sure whether or not that is true. Psytrance tends to be on the trippy side of the sample spectrum, :-)

BTW if you ever want to find out about all the funky little subgenres in music or just musical history in general ALLMUSIC.com is a great place (AMG) although they tend to stray away from electronic music (as it is a very very hard genre to catalog due to the vast vast ocean of electronic music)... For the most part they are up to date on who has released what and for bigger artists they even have bio's and stuff.. rather interesting, as well as the outcropping of certain genres its rather interesting...

from AMG.com (they call it "goa" psytrance)

Named after a region on the coast of southwestern India famed as a clubbing and drugging paradise ever since the '60s, Goa Trance broke away from the Teutonic bent of European trance during the early '90s and carried the torch for trance during the rest of the decade. The presence of LSD on the Goa scene � instead of the ubiquitous club drug Ecstasy � translated the music into an appropriately psychedelic version of trance that embraced the mystical properties of Indian music and culture. Traditional Indian instruments such as the sitar and sarod (or electronic near-equivalents) often made appearances in the music, pushed along by the driving, hypnotic sequencer music that trance had always been known for. The style is considerably less turntable-oriented than other electronic dance styles, especially since vinyl tends to melt in the heat (DATs are often used instead). As a consequence, Goa had comparatively few DJs to recommend it worldwide until the late '90s. Labels like Dragonfly, Blue Room Released, Flying Rhino, Platipus, and Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Fluoro became important sources for the sound. Oakenfold, Britain's most popular DJ, finally gave Goa trance the cache it had lacked in the past by caning it on the radio and in clubs across the country. The British sound system known as Return to the Source also brought Goa trance to the mainstream hordes, releasing three volumes in a compilation series of the best trance music on the scene.

umm.. oakie popularizing goa??? hurrrrrr.. no i can only assume they are talking about the track "LSD" by Astral Projection (remixed???)that he was playing in his livesets???

a history of electronic music

well there is cheesey trance and good trance... thats all you need to know

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Originally posted by smallSHEEP Acid is a kind of techno that was around in the early 90's

that only shows how little u know about it

goa trance is a sub-form of psytrance, which refers to the place is originated (Goa, India)

James Holden is not trance.

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Originally posted by NooKLeaR I could care less about the sub-genres. I just know of these two "types" of trance: Good trance & Bad trance.

lol.

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Originally posted by Teknoscaper. James Holden is not trance.

Er... yes he is.

And I'm sure people more knowledgeable on the whole psy/goa stuff will explain that there is a difference between them. Nowdays the terms are ususally used in the following manner: goa (aka full-on) trance is uplifting, to use an appreciable analogy, whereas psytrance usually denotes tracks on a progressive tip, a bit more minimal. That's perhaps not the best way of describing it but hopefully it's a tad clearer. So some full-on goa would be stuff like GMS, Talamasca, Alien Project, etc. Psytrance would be... I've no clue really. Ask someone else.

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Originally posted by starglider Er... yes he is.

you're obviously gliding among the stars mate, he makes one vocal track thats barely uplifting if you listen to it loud (Nothing) and suddenly he's a trance superstar

show me a trance tune he's made? Solstice? I've Put Out The Light?

work it baby work it...

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Originally posted by starglider Nowdays the terms are ususally used in the following manner: goa (aka full-on) trance is uplifting, to use an appreciable analogy, whereas psytrance usually denotes tracks on a progressive tip, a bit more minimal. That's perhaps not the best way of describing it but hopefully it's a tad clearer. So some full-on goa would be stuff like GMS, Talamasca, Alien Project, etc. Psytrance would be... I've no clue really. Ask someone else.

Yeah, you've pretty much got it right. But the line between the genres has always been thin and continues to grow thinner.

From Astral Projection's most recent album, for example, I'd say songs like "Electric Blue" and "Heaven's Gate" are Goa, whereas "Chaos" would be a good example of Psytrance with its somewhat more subtle melody.

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Originally posted by teknasia james holden = armin van buuren, ferry corsten = energetic ? tiesto = melodic ?

Goa and Psychedelic Trance ARE different. Listen to the album "Transistobeats 01" by Transistorhythm (Hypnotic Recordings, 1997) and then listen to the Various Artists compilation "Global Psychedelic Trance Compilation: Vol. 6" (Spirit Zone records, 2000). CD 1 of that GPTC Vol. 6 is Psychedelic Trance, while the album "Transistobeats 01" by Transistorhythm is Goa. These two albums CLEARLY show the differences between the two. Goa is WAY more melodic and faster (I don't know if speed does play an important factor here, since I have very limited experience in both sub-genres) than Psychedelic. Psychedelic is more minimalistic. Just listen to the two albums and judge for yourself...

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Originally posted by ali92 Goa and Psychedelic Trance ARE different. Listen to the album "Transistobeats 01" by Transistorhythm (Hypnotic Recordings, 1997) and then listen to the Various Artists compilation "Global Psychedelic Trance Compilation: Vol. 6" (Spirit Zone records, 2000). CD 1 of that GPTC Vol. 6 is Psychedelic Trance, while the album "Transistobeats 01" by Transistorhythm is Goa. These two albums CLEARLY show the differences between the two. Goa is WAY more melodic and faster (I don't know if speed does play an important factor here, since I have very limited experience in both sub-genres) than Psychedelic. Psychedelic is more minimalistic. Just listen to the two albums and judge for yourself...

ur actually right, goa and psy r quite different, goa is much more melodic, but psy is not more minimalistic, it depends, ill explain a little, there is this genre called psy or goa, what that u prefer calling it in this genre there are lots of sub generes, like minimal, progressive, full on, and so on, so i can say progressive psy, or full-on psy (which is the opposite of minimal) and so on... understand??

so how do you classify astral projection then

Astral P = Pure goa

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