Good thread. Let's see...

Chicane - Red Skies
L.S.G. - Firefly
Galaxy - Dreamland
Armin - Blue fear
X-Trax - Plan 94 (Northface Remix)

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^Galaxy - Dreamland

Ordinary People - Mahatma (The Lords & Ladies of Shamballa)

Last edited by Mattsanity. on Aug-17-2012 at 15:12

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Originally posted by rubez i'm not talking your standard (though amazing) club tracks, but not to disclude anything with a clubby edge - as my second example has. it just has to be spine tingling, atmosphere inducing TRANCE... only 5 star, exceptional peices need apply. stuff that stands the test of time. think hard before you reply, random guff shall not be tolerated. a good indicator should be, you are encapsulated by the track entirely - from beginning to end - at which you wipe a small tear away

First one (from 1990) that came up to me reading the above. But I think the vocals make you like or hate it:

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Accadia-Blind Visions (club mix)
Cressida-No More Lies (Original Mix)
Itamar Sagi-One Million Oaks (Funk D'Void Remix)
Francois DuBois-Blood (Miami 2006 Edit)
Airwave-Batignolles Blues

BT-Mercury & Solace -----if I wanted to gain club cred I wouldnt mention some of the following cuz they are too widely known...but they sound so good I could not help myself
Luminary-My World (Andy Moor Remix)
Thrillseekers-Affinity
Dark Heart (Monolythe Remix)
Grace-Not Over Yet (Spirit of Grace Remix)
Pendulum-Plasticworld

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpk6PFKcMkg
damn this tune is so off-the-f$$cking hook

you need to give it a listen...one of the all time best tracks !

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Traumatic - Tribal Symphony (1994) (check >5:30 too)

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LSG - Nethetworld (Vinyl Cut)
Astral Projection - People Can Fly / Dancing Galaxy (a bit clubby)
Etnica - Starship 101 / Moon Influence
M.I.K.E. presents Fascinated - Totally Fascinated
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 1
Solar Fields - Black Arrow / Spectral Nation

Was hard to think of a tune i thought was a master piece. I mean you have to put it into context and think about what was done before, what makes this different ......

I picked this one for a few reasons . ANd although i love scot project, this is hardly my favourite tune but there are things about it that set it apart.

i found at the time EDM tended to have very predictable percussion with the offbeat hihat , the 32 bar opening that was almost always kinda the same. Form was also predictable, drums where never really given much care in that they didn't really give a track any sort of definition that would sort of make it part of the track's quality.

the play on meter in this tune is interesting. The triplet over top the 4/4 meter and how the accents outline a polyrythm fist with the hihats, then the detuned saw synth. That bass line was for the time pretty unique. The kick drum, well not really new but new enough in that it was really only a certain style of music where you had a kick drum that wasn't a 909. And the reverb tails on the kicks which were all made by the producers at the time because sample cds with that stuff didn't exist.

Don't really care the melody. The form is immaculate tho. He uses everything to increase the overall energy from metric modulation to arrangement building the entire time in a way that was kinda unprecedented. IN many ways very non dance. I think that is what i liked about alot of german hard trance is that they really didn't follow the typical dance form. Well at the beginning. Like every genre , it sort of became a parody of itself.

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