San Diemus Football rules!!!

Hook records is like that - just like bill and ted's excellent adventure, the Amiga computer and the Sierra computer games (Space Quest and Kings Quest) many people arent going to know what im talking about here ....but those that know....they like, understand man.

Hook records was perfection. It filled that gap between house, prog and techno. And then....then it disappeared....it disappeared when progressive trance (that gap between house, prog and techno) disappeared....and we got lead into an Armin cheeze led revolution (along with britney, the playstation and anything by Eiffel 65)

so yeah you old k*****z...let us all know about Hook.

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Last edited by Light The Fuse on Feb-23-2008 at 13:45

You probably mean Hook Recordings, Chris Cowie's label.

Yes it was indeed perfection with such artists as X-Cabs (and other Cowie's aliases), Transa and Christopher Lawrence.

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i like u but be careful or youll start sounding like JP off grandma's boy

how can he see me?????

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ps. Dont fear the reaper is an awesome tune!

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Yes heard it for the first time about 24-25 years ago and have liked it ever since. Then forgot the whole thing for about a decade until i rediscovered it a few years back after hearing it in an episode of Supernatural.

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One of my favourite classic labels. They brought out a good amount of good techy trance.
Chris Cowie, Lawrence and the Transa brothers sure did a hell of a job. I wish they would put up their entire back catalogue on digital download.

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Originally posted by RebeL9 I wish they would put up their entire back catalogue on digital download.

w#rd to da m0f0

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Superb label

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Definitely man, Hook recordings released some amazing stuff! Another great example of such music (mid-90s progressive/euro/hard trance) were some stuff released by React(reactivate compilations etc.) as well as the stuff from Fluid recordings (which border-lined with the beginning of quality "epic" towards the end of the 90s, e.g. Andy Ling- "Fixation"), Bonzai records, Suck Me Plasma, Fire Records and Superstition.

This type of trance was amazing, since it usually achieved a perfect balance between crazy, energetic, full-on poly-rhythms and addictive emotional
(which were powerfull, cinematic and dynamic rather than cheezy and watered-down) melodies IMO. It is true that after that point , trance became too melodic and anthemic (at times plastic, clinical...trance by numbers), losing in this way its' underground, youthful rave nature.

You mentioned some classic adventure games which i loved! I don't know why, but such trance brings to mind classic Amiga/Atari ST 2D scrolling shoot'em'up games like Project- X, Parallax and R-Type-1. Maybe because the soundtracks of these classic scrolling games featured music that resembled this stuff? I can't be sure, but i surely remember a graphic demo demonstration in PC (which was released in 1995 if i remember well) which featured some amazing trance of this type. I was 14 at the time but i was mindblown!


Ih anyone has any hookrecording-collections (such as this)

http://www.discogs.com/release/146141


can he/she upload it please!


Until then, lets all trip with these amazing mid-90s prog-trance tracks!:

Blue Alphabet- "Cyber-Trance"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBh...feature=related

Transa- "Prophase" (X-Cabs Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc8B...feature=related

LSG - "Casseopaya"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgg_...feature=related

Quench - "Dreams"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPNq...feature=related

Yes.

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