Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum and have been quite amused reading the huge number of posts slagging so and so DJ off and stating that such and such genre is absolute shit. Also read quite a few arguing about what type of trance is good and whats bad e.g. '98 '99 trance vs present day trance or techy trance vs armin style trance (please correct me now if I'm wrong but when you put ASOT I assume it stands for a state of trance).

Anyway, I think I'm gonna enjoy joining in some of the debates on here but was curious to know what sort of age the rest of you are and how long you've liked trance music. I'm guessing by a lot of the posts on here that many are in their teens but I could be completely wrong.

I would also like to know what your views on trance are at this time. Just a short paragraph is necessary. I will start us off so you know the sort of thing Im after.

I'm 23. I've liked trance since I was about 14 (1997ish). I still like trance but not as much as I did. Prefer the different styles that have developed - eg. tech-trance, electro-trance. I still think you can't beat pure uplifting trance but I find that I don't come across tunes of this sort that actually do it for me any more. Where as when I first got into it, they were ten a penny. Anyway I could go on and on but think I've set the picture...

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I'm 20. Got into trance very vaguely about 3-4 years ago, but only became really obsessed with it about one year ago. Started off liking epic trance - and still do - but now I prefer darker and deeper stuff, and I'm taking an interest in old 92-ish era trance.

I am 15-16 y.o. I started listening to trance when I was 13. I was listening mostly to classics, then I joined ta.com and I heard about a radio show, ASOT. I decided to tune in but after some months I saw that this type music is not my style and I didn't find it creative...too fluffy sometimes for me. The days passed and I quit listening to ASOT .

Now I am listening mostly to house (prog ,deep,chicago <3), progressive trance and anything that is good... I don't care about what genre it is. I still like some trance tracks esp. from Thomas Bronzwaer, J00f and his gang and from some others I forget atm.
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Welcome.

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Welcome to TA. I'm pushing 23, i got into trance.. Is there a right answer for this?? I started to listen to U96 in probably 93-94..
Went with that sound all the way until the eurodance era dried up.
Then when Storm - Storm, BBE - Flash, M - Razzia ´99 and tracks
like that started to come out i sort of evolved from faster and more simpler sounds to a more housy-tech feel with harder kicks and a little melody(?), then when Tracks like Ferry's It's Time came out i was already getting sickened by the cheese that came out, was it cheese or just something new and differented, i don't care. For me atm it's just spinning random tech-house and try to keep a decent flow.

i'm 20, 21 in august woohoo!

anyways, i always said to people i enjoyed electronic music (after hearing electronic sounding songs like take on me - a-ha; my sister was introducing me to those type of 80s songs). i didn't know much at all until i was in europe visiting family and watching mtv. don't stop - atb, king of my castle - wamdue project, better off alone - alice deejay were the ones that i remember.
that was when i was 14. when i came back to school, friends showed me aphex twin, and i enjoyed a good part of the stuff. then i listened to xpander.
went to see delta heavy, that changed my life too, just because it was the first concert/event i went to.
until about 2004, i listened to a lot of random things, not really knowing what to look for, but loving every single thing (i went to japan and went crazy for all the velfarre cyber trance cds). in 2004, i was randomly downloading things, and found ASOT 182. another change in my life. started realizing i like progressive trance/progressive a lot more than just cyber trance. i've been recording the ASOTs ever since.
then for WMC this year, everything kinda changed again (but not too much). i've finally found my favorite of favorite. sasha's one hour set blew my mind. it's chillout, it's summer-feeling, it's "happy"/uplifting, it's perfect for me. i don't really think there's a style to this type of music; it's like a mix of progressive trance and lounge and house.
as far as my thoughts on electronic music these days, i don't have that much to say. i've been having difficulty finding more stuff like above; i'm not too big a fan of the electro stuff; and i haven't been astounded by big ASOT-played tunes. and since the scene in houston is not that big, i rarely have the chance to see events anymore.

ok, that was a little longer than i thought it would be, but i have to kill time at work here, so there ya go.

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Originally posted by G-Con I'm 23. I've liked trance since I was about 14 (1997ish). I still like trance but not as much as I did. Prefer the different styles that have developed - eg. tech-trance, electro-trance. I still think you can't beat pure uplifting trance but I find that I don't come across tunes of this sort that actually do it for me any more. Where as when I first got into it, they were ten a penny.

that pretty much completely sums me up, even down to the age! Got into dance music in 1996 and trance properly you could say in 1998. Started going clubbing to big trance events late 2000, just as it was starting to decline.

Hey ... I born in 1981 ... and start to trance in 1999 close to 2000 ... I already listened EDM but dance music like mesopotamia, alexia, nick french, sect, shakira, th express and many others ... my friend show me Beach Vibes by E.F.F. but first i listened Finished Symphony soundtrack from SSX and then i change my music tastes, trance sucks today.

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<- is 23. I got into trance etc back in late 2001, early 2002. Tastes have changed a bit since then but its still all EDM

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21 in august, have been into electronic dance music since early 1997.
trance was never my focal point in music, but i do appreciate the olden days far more than the 'golden era' or the trance of today, if either of the latter two can even be called as such (trance).

i haven't heard enough 'modern trance' to have a deeper informed opinion of it.

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I'm 20, soon to be 21 this fall. I first got into the electronic music scene about 5 years ago in 2001 when I couldn't stop playing Enigma's "Sadeness". I remember hopping online to see what other music Enigma had made and I came across a song called Push The Limits with a remix by ATB. Later on, I bought his Movin' Melodies album.

I was hooked and really came to appreciate this type of music from playing instrumental pieces in band before. It was all about BT, Chicane, PvD, and ATB in particular for a good year after that. I bought a few of their albums and enjoyed them quite a bit, but it wasn't until I bought Max Graham's Transport and Sasha's GU:013 that all that changed.

I remember being so impressed by both mix cd's that I looked more into progressive house and that was back in 2002 when progressive was very unique sounding and innovative, unlike now, and that segued me into house. I've always been picky with music and I value instrumentation, layering, and "real" sounding music, so because of that, I just kept trying to find out all that I could since I felt naturally more drawn to house now over trance.

It's all about house and techno for me at this point for the above reasons and because I much prefer the more rich and rhythmic sound the genres offers. Trance unfortunately doesn't fulfill any of these things for me and sounds very fake on top of everything else, so I haven't bothered with it in years because the novelty and interest are both gone now, although I wasn't into trance all that long anyway.

Mainly the styles of deep house, the older progressive and tribal house, minimal techno, dub/lo-fi/acid-jazz, and some electro house are what I alternate back and forth between.

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