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i've converted 5 people thru various djs at arc. one guy already had an open mind about it so he went into sander k in august expecting a good time. his friend on the other hand went into it disliking the stuff. it took him three hours of low end specialists and sander k for him to finally say, "i love this shit!!" and he had a smile on his face. two others i converted when my birthday entourage went to arc 10.24 for danny tenaglia's backups. they said, "we have newfound respect for u because u do this shit all night and still lead a somewhat normal life." 5th person (at least she's female!) said she didn't like it when she heard it before, but i asked if it was when she went to korean clubs and she said yeah. so i said, come to arc, danny howells is something else. sure enough, she went 12.27 (i guess the canned food discount helped too) and stayed five hours along with me and my friends! she thoroughly enjoyed herself. so those're my feats. i guess i don't need to tell u guys this, but i wish more people understood that pop stuff on radio isn't trance or whatever genre of electronic music, and that being in a club, a big dark room, with all the lasers, music, people surrounding u... it's what makes it all a worthwhile experience.
as armin said...
"It's very important to try to help the genre itself to evolve. I consider Paul Oakenfold to be the godfather of trance, and he is just one of the most important people for electronic music, in general. Many people make trance into a formula, but trance isn't a formula! It's a genre that is strongly based on emotion. It's still a very young genre. I'm not talking about commercial trance that you would hear on the radio; I don't consider that to be true trance music. I'm talking about true trance."
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