I was just sat here wondering what kind of a state it is in.

Obviously in some areas EDM is more popular im guessing the North East coast, Florida/Atlanta, California and Chicargo but is the scene BIG in these places. Do alot of clubs play EDM whats the culture like? Is there much of a drugs culture. Are the clubs busy and is there alot of people still going "WOW what is this music, its amazing".

ONe last ques do the djs dumb down the trance at all and play more commercial stuff.

Please educate your fellow ignorant TA

nobody will go "WOW what is this music, its amazing" to trance.....lol

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Those are the places in the US where I'd say its big...but big is a relative term. Its nothing like Europe (except maybe South Beach where every restaurant, clothing store, grocery, hole in the wall pub, etc. has turntables or edm blasting out the front doors). Hip Hop is (unfortunately) huge everywhere. EDM in smaller cities is pretty much non existent. For those in the scene in the big cities, its pretty strong - Chicago has had tons of talent coming through and a lot of great locals (though most say its not as strong as 2-4 years ago). Unfortunately trance nights are few and far between in Chicago - very house/prog dominated. We really dont have any big local trance djs (hopefully I'll be the first someday!) but the best and biggest parties of the year IMO have been PVD, Armin, and Tiesto -so I think the market is there for trance. The djs/radio stations here who do play occasional "trance" tracks usually play DJ Sammy, etc - which gives the whole genre a bad rap for people who are not in the know. This makes it really, really hard for someone who says they play trance to make it in Chicago.

What about Europe...
I know the best DJ's are Dutch, but is the biggest and best Trance scene also in Holland?
Just wondered cuz lil ol' me has NEVER NEVER been to a club before and I will be in Holland this coming summer for 2 weeks and thought I'd like to check into this.

hey, lemme know!

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Originally posted by Digital Aura What about Europe... I know the best DJ's are Dutch, but is the biggest and best Trance scene also in Holland? Just wondered cuz lil ol' me has NEVER NEVER been to a club before and I will be in Holland this coming summer for 2 weeks and thought I'd like to check into this. hey, lemme know!

you'd be surprised how little clubs there are that have the big name djs playing in Holland, but if your here in the sunmmer then your in luck. EVERY weekend in the summer there is a big trance/dance outside festival with one of the BIG 3 (AvB, Tiesto, Ferry) always in attendance. In the UK the trance scene has gone back to its roots.

In 2000/1 every bar/club played trance and it got way too big. Now many of the big nights have all but vanished eg. Gatecrasher, Cream, MoS. Everyweek there is a quality trance line-up somewhere in the country mainly Godskitchen, Passion, Slinky, Gatecrasher (monthly Sheffied/London) but you need to travel now. IMO the scene is a lot friendlier now as people go coz they like the music as oppposed to it being the "cool" thing to do!

I can't really comment as I haven't been clubbing around here. But I have heard that the scene is very behind here. We did manage to attract Sasha and Oakenfold this year though (Pittsburgh area). Tiesto was on tour with Moby for awhile and they did a show in Philly which is across the state from me (about 6 hours).

But yeah, the scene is fairly dead around me.

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Originally posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 But yeah, the scene is fairly dead around me.

bummer, just move to Europe.

You know it makes sense.

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Originally posted by slinkyhead ONe last ques do the djs dumb down the trance at all and play more commercial stuff.

i've suspected that they do to some extent. obviously because say a tiesto doesn't play here as much as in europe he can just play a bunch of his classics as opposed to in europe...they are probably more critical and want to here all the new stuff...

i went to a tiesto set and he threw down just about every big tune he could think of it was great, but it wouldn't be great every night...

Must be nice to even have any trance concert at all.. the only thing that has ever came to New Mexico was DJ Irene and that was it.. which i wasnt to impressed.. there have been a few raves here and there nothing to great though.. I am even willing to get on a plane this summer to catch a great show..

The US scene -- much smaller in scale than the scene in Europe, first off -- seems to be in the midst of conflict between the commerical European big-hitters such as Oakenfold, Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Ferry, etc., and the native underground such as Christopher Lawrence, particularly here in California. You have fans of EDM who have come in contact with the music via the European media outlets versus the acidy techno and breaks that have been around for years from the desert raves.

I remember back in 2001 or so, when the electronica section in my local CD store grew fivefold, the United States was billed by many as the Next Big Thing in electronic music. I think Bunkka was Oakie's attempt to catch this failed wave, as the album has seen much more popularity here, I think, than anywhere in Europe.

Then you had the Gabriel & Dresden and Markus Schulz crowd emerge, which I think is going to develop into the American variety of 'mainstream' trance and progressive, perhaps to forge a new genre or two as well. I'd rather see the dark and hard style of underground trance, which only Lawrence has really broken out of, become more popular in the United States, but in doing so it might lose that very sound which makes it unique, restricting it indefinitely to a supporting role.

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if your here in the sunmmer then your in luck. EVERY weekend in the summer there is a big trance/dance outside festival with one of the BIG 3 (AvB, Tiesto, Ferry) always in attendance.

I was pretty excited about comin' to Europe ... that was before I even had this for a reason!! WOoHooT!

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