Well, if you're talking about straight-up trance music (Armin, PVD, Ferry Corsten etc.) then no, we don't have many dj's or producers at all that I know of. Certainly none that have been heard of overseas.

If you want to extend trance music over into the progressive genre however, then we have a fairly decent array of producers/dj's. The most famous, of course, is Anthony Pappa, who attained worldwide notority in the trance scene because of his remix of Chicane - Offshore '97 and then his own production "Skydive" under the alias of Freefall. Then we have DJ's like Kasey Taylor (who's getting plenty of gigs in the UK and being plugged heavily by John Digweed) and Sean Quinn, who both have produced part-time, with tracks that have made it kinda big O/S (in the progressive scene anyway - although I'm pretty sure that Quench is one of the two, in which case their track - forget the name - actually charted here and O/S) and then the more techno oriented DJ's like Gab Oliver and Simon Digby who have also produced stuff that's been taken to O/S.

Then there are progressive labels in Australia like "Zero Tolerence" that are among the most famous progressive labels in the world. In the progressive scene, Australia and Isreal are the two countries producing a disproportionate amount of stuff, and its lead to world-wide notority in a sense. But that's only really progressive though, and not really any other genre.

If you want a list of Aussie artists that people may have heard of overseas, then perhaps this may help:

- Anthony Pappa
- Our House (Sean Quinn + Kasey Taylor)
- Cass
- Freq Nasty (apparently?)
- Nu Breed
- Madison Avenue ( )
- Bluephaze
- Ocean Wave (Kasey Taylor)
- North Atlantic
- Infusion

And I'm kinda struggling beyond there actually. There are other famous DJ's producers of course (BeXta/Endorphin et al) but they haven't really been able to breach the overseas market.

However, the scene is becoming so much stronger here, so it's only a matter of time before one of us Aussies does something big to make everyone take notice.

But until then....

Wow, informative post renegade, I never knew Anthony Pappa was Australian.

Just you wait.
within a few years you'll be talking about Taktickle as Australias pioneer trance DJ.
hopefully anyway.

Anyway, as far as I can tell the scene here isn't too big. We got Tiesto and some more coming but no locals.

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the local trance scene is non existant...there are quite a few hard trance djs who will occasionally play a decent track but 90% of their sets consist of really shit music

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the local trance scene is non existant...there are quite a few hard trance djs who will occasionally play a decent track but 90% of their sets consist of really shit music

Am I the only Aussie TA who actually likes hard trance?

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new set online, Summer Journeys

wow! that was informative! Thanks. This is why I like this forum, its friendly and informative!

I didn't know Pappa was an Australian! I didn't know anything about the progressive side of Australian music either... hmm, intriguing ...

yep, real trance only comes out in sydney when the internationals come around, which is a real shame but hopefully something that we can fix.

Can i suggest you guys check out Altitude at the Dendy Bar on 5th July. (I know i have posted before, but hey - it's a good thing

It will hopefully quench all your thirsts for melodic uplifting trance and we hope to start bringing out the internationals as well.

Check http://www.altitude-club.com/ for more details

cheers
morro

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morro

the reason they play hard trance is coz aussies love it !
aint u aint alone, i love hard trance =)

Lets not forget dj peewee ferris. I think his track genesis was played by tiesto going back a few years now.

yeh Pee Wee is pretty rockin and his track Genesis was also [layed by PVD @ Home, London in 2000. Awsome track! I really think that more trance DJS need to get into clubs like Altitude cause I reckon that haeps of Aussies love Trance anf Uplifting Trance but there are no club trance DJS. Hopefully Altitude can turn this around!
Hopefully one day i can play uplifting trance there!

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the local trance scene is non existant

sadly this is true. but we have some very fine prog dj's/produces.