timo maas must've been making a statement...

Ya' think?




(yep, 1999 release as well)

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Shit nigga there was a backlash in 97.

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Originally posted by Ishkur Shit nigga there was a backlash in 97.

Damn it started even earlier? Wow.

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Originally posted by Sykonee Ya' think? (yep, 1999 release as well)

Armand moved up 64 spots in the 1999 DJ Mag list. He must've been trendy that year.

I can't personally comment on whether there was a backlash then since I was still very new to everything... I was listening to Trance but I was not attending parties/events following the culture much.

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Originally posted by 2techs Armand moved up 64 spots in the 1999 DJ Mag list. He must've been trendy that year.

I went to my first rave in March 1999 - Armand was one of the headliners (along with Carl Cox). Changed my life! I'm also in the 2nd vid for 5 seconds... lol

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I'm sure the Germans and Dutch had disagreements with where EDM was commercially being directed. And of course, there was probably a huge rift between stylistic differences between Eye/Harthouse vs BlackHoles

It's more that 1999-era drumroll trance was seen as cheesy music for teenagers by everyone in every other scene, especially as it attracted the "cyber kids" who dressed like infantile imbeciles and sucked on dummies and lollipops on the dancefloor. I'm reliably informed the North American equivalent was the "candy raver". Trance crowds back then were basically the equivalent of those EDM morons wearing fluorescent "RAGE" outfits. It also achieved a tyrannical global dominance over the club scene for a few years around 1998-2000.

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Originally posted by Swamper I can't personally comment on whether there was a backlash then since I was still very new to everything... I was listening to Trance but I was not attending parties/events following the culture much. I went to my first rave in March 1999 - Armand was one of the headliners (along with Carl Cox). Changed my life! I'm also in the 2nd vid for 5 seconds... lol

awesome footage, wish I was from that era. the house and trance crowds must've been mutually exclusive back then.

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