Well, it might not be a completely new idea for a topic, but who keeps count anyway?

So. How has your musical taste evolved over the course of the years of trance-listening?

Me? I started off with Scooter and similar stuff... that's completely unlistenable for me now. I moved on from cheese to cookie-cutter trance like Blank & Jones, which I can't listen to either nowadays. It's just way too... you know, beginner music. Simple and catchy.

So, after that I discovered the joys of Psytrance and goa. During this period I've found huge amounts of new, interesting artists, making complicated and wonderful music.

I still love psytrance, but my taste has evolved every way from there. For example Juno Reactor, completely uncategorizable music, and just perfect. Their album "Labyrinth" was what I had needed a long time - a fresh blow of change.

Then, my newest love is Orbital, whom I thought I hated. I'm going to buy every damn album by these guys, it's almost purely GOLD! Aural pleasure, and it has the same, cold, breeze of freshness as Juno Reactor!

So what about you?

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I've just expanded my listening tastes over the years. I don't think there was ever a time when I just listened to one style.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I've just expanded my listening tastes over the years. I don't think there was ever a time when I just listened to one style.

Examples! What did you start with? What came after that?

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I've always listened to shitty music. The degree of the shittiness,however, has decreased over time.


For example, I used to listen to really shitty music back-in-the-day. I now just listen to shit music( thats why I am on this forum ).

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I started off trance listening to gouryella, rank 1, blank & jones, greece 2000, planet perfecto etc etc back in the old days and i can still listen to them now. But i have also evolved to psytrance and goa, and what turned it all around for me was airdrawndagger.

From there i now listen to alot of techno and trance.

I still stick to the mainstream trance like "ASOT" and listen to stuff like "marco bailey - 160 minutes of"

Its all about my mood, when im happy ill listen to trance, when im moody ill listen to abit of psytrance/ techno.

When im optomistic ill listen to progg/minimal techno

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Originally posted by DJ Cinos Examples! What did you start with? What came after that?

Anthem house > trance, house, NRG, techno > anything break-beat > hell, anything.

Things just happened. I can't remember what order I found genres out. Every time I discovered a new genre I basically got into it.

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> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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I always listened to a wide range of music. If anything it is becoming narrower, as I am listening to less classical, rock, and folk etc. And focusing more on different types of electronic music as of late.

i seem to be de evolving my musical tastes


im listening to italo disco now



but its just a phaze.. i see my self getting into electro stuff like miss kittin and rex the dog

Well, if I count the first years of my life - I started with the commercial, Israeli full on.

Artists like Holymen, Eyal & Oren Barkan, early Infected Mushroom work and such was the key for me to the trance music.

We then called it "Acid", I think we were 8 or 9 y\o

Afterwards I discovered the internet, so I started to download songs off Napster and Kazaa, and after a couple of months I also discoverd the "Scouse-House", probably nowadays called uk cheese.

I think it was late 2002 when I joined a couple of Scouse-House forums, started to listen to Rez Q, Ultrabeat,Shelly and such.

In Feb. 2003 I joined TA, after searching for tracks in Kazaa and seeing the address on there.

Was pretty much a newbie (and still is) in everthing that was related to the good 99'-02' era of trance.

One of my first posts was a praising one for Carte Blanche, which I still think is amzing

In a couple of months I got to know another geners and sub geners, and got totally addicted to Uplifting, Epic and sometimes the more clubbish Hard Trance.

I was all into AvB, Tiesto, G&D [ old Summer Calling days ] and such..

After a year or so I also got to know Prog Trance and Prog House, and the related subgeners.

Now I'm still more into the Prog scene.
Artists like James Holden, Nathan Fake, Chab, Chus & Ceballos and many more influence me, but I never reject listening to other geners like Techno, Hardtrance and such.

mm, that's it I guess

When i was about 12 years old my idol was Michael Jackson and i bought all his albums over the years. It was my idol and i didnt listen to anything else really. After that i started listening to commercial Rap like Eminem, DMX, Ja Rule... shit like that.
When i was into rap i was really against anything 'house' (thats how i basicly called EDM back then, but i thought hardcore was the only 'house' music) related.
Then i began listening to EDM because i was bored with rap pretty soon tbh.
I began listening to hardhouse/hardtrance/retro then i went on to trance and now im more into progressive, house, elektro, ambient. Basicly anything that sounds good.

So you could say i made quite an evolution

But I still like good hardtrance, good trance and stuff. I still even like Michael Jackson his work. Anything up to 1995 anyway, what he made after that is pretty much crap. I dont listen to commercial rap anymore though. I really hate it even. And i dont like to listen to hardhouse anymore. But all the other genres i was really into when i was younger i still like now (if it is good)...

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6. Recorded In Rotterdam (Mixed By Michel De Hey)
7. Boogybytes Vol. 01 (Mixed By Kiki)
8. Addicted 1 (Mixed By Kosmas Epsilon)

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In EDM (techno, trance, house, breaks) I went from Music Instructor and Scooter to DJ Icey and Dj X. From Dj Icey and Dj X I went into Astral Projection and Yahel. From Yahel to Tiesto and Oakenfold. From those two i moved into Sasha and Deep Dish. From Sasha and Deep Dish into Chris Liebing and Hawtin. Now i listen to everything that is quality.

When it comes to hip-hop I went from Tupac to early Snoop Dogg. From Snoop to early Southern Rap (97-99 era). From Southern Rap to Biggie's first album (Ready To Die.) From Ready To Die to Masta Ace, Atmosphere, Vakill, Brother Ali (all underground acts.) From these underground acts I got into KRS-One, Rakim, and the old school. And old school led me to my present favorite hip-hop group.. The Roots.

I listen to The Roots because they are the best hip-hop "band" out there and quite frankly, they are geniuses.

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This is a pretty typical case for anyone around in Canada back in the early 90's...

Anthem house/Euro House like 2 Unlimited, Snap!, The KLF, Haddaway, Ice MC, etc.: Mainy because it was the most popular back then. Think trance at the turn of the century, only faaar more so.

Euro Trance like Dance 2 Trance, Jam & Spoon, and trancier remixes of euro house: A lot of early trance did cross over to the mainstream back then, so it was a natural progression into it as I was enjoying a lot of the spacey sounds coming from it.

German Trance from labels like EyeQ, Suck Me Plasma, and Influence: A lot of the early crossover trance was produced by Germans. Naturally, I started digging deeper.

Everything Else All At Once: Say what you will about how 'Electronica' was nothing more than a corporate-generated hype machine -it also brought every single other genre ('side from hardcore) into the limelight. Probably the best crossover compilation that I stumbled across was the soundtrack to WipEout XL, as it contained FSOL, Chemical Bros., Daft Punk, Underworld, Photek, Fluke, Leftfield, and The Prodigy (amongst a couple others).

Pretty much enjoy whatever comes my way ever since to varying degrees. Obviously some more than others but I don't discount anything else (unless it gets overplayed to redundency; then I'll just ignore it for a year or two).


Oh, yeah. Along side those more upbeat tunes, there was also my delving into downtempo right along side it, more or less going in this route: Enigma/Deep Forest ---> Beyond/Waveform Ambient Dub series ---> Eno-esque ambient ----> Everything Else All At Once

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