I've recently decided to go through all my tracks and create best of spring/summer/fall/winter compilations beginning with summer of 1999. All my seasonal compilations were coming out fine with massive tracks finding spots in all the seasons; I had to make painful decisions concering which songs to include and which to exclude as there just isn't enough room to include more than 8-10 songs per CD.

Then I ran into summer and fall of 2002. I was struggling, struggling to find anything worth burning a CD for. Crap like DJ Dean - Play It Hard, Matt Darey feat. Marcella Woods - U Shine On, and DJ Sammy & Yanou - Heaven typified the garbage on my HDD for this period. After some painstaking work I was able to fill up this black whole in my collection (I was forced to borrow tunes that caught my attention later in 2003, but that were released in the 2nd half of 2002).

GOD, what an awful period for Trance, don't you agree?

for regular trance yea, but 2002 was AMAZING for great hard trance.
lots of great german acts with cool sounds

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What did you have on those CDs? I'd be interested to know.

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Originally posted by Fundamental What did you have on those CDs? I'd be interested to know.

I'm still working on Fall 2002, but Summer 2002 went like this:

Rapid Eye - Circa Forever (Rapid Eye Remix)
Project Medusa vs. Exor - Moonshine (Exor Mix Part II)
Plastic Boy - Silver Bath (Original Mix)
DJ Choci and The Geezer - It's Beyond Control (Hennes & Cold Remix)
Pulsedriver - I Dominate U (DJ Scott Project Remix)
Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire (DJ Scott Project Remix)
H2J - East & Central
Joker Jam - Innocence
Telepopmusik - Breathe

Some of these, like the last two, weren't officially released in summer of '02, however,that's when they caught my attention.

Some songs I will include in my Fall '02 Comp are:

Mirco De Govia - Things That Matter
Silvertear - So Deep
Driftwood - Freeloader
Insigma - Open Your Eyes
Gouryella - Ligaya
Ralphie B. - Massive

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Originally posted by Nautilus DJ Choci and The Geezer - It's Beyond Control (Hennes & Cold Remix)

this is the sound that was big in 02.

check out these tracklists:

http://www.slyfx.com/music/djdawn/T...July%202002.txt
http://www.slyfx.com/music/djdawn/T...uary%202002.txt
http://www.slyfx.com/music/djdawn/T...mber%202002.txt

puure CHOONAGE there

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Originally posted by Nautilus I'm still working on Fall 2002, but Summer 2002 went like this: Rapid Eye - Circa Forever (Rapid Eye Remix) Project Medusa vs. Exor - Moonshine (Exor Mix Part II) Plastic Boy - Silver Bath (Original Mix) DJ Choci and The Geezer - It's Beyond Control (Hennes & Cold Remix) Pulsedriver - I Dominate U (DJ Scott Project Remix) Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire (DJ Scott Project Remix) H2J - East & Central Joker Jam - Innocence Telepopmusik - Breathe

Come on, you can do better than that! Where's the Altitude - Altitude (SHOKK Remix) for a start?

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Was a far better period than now IMO. Hemstock & Jennings - Crimson Soil for example, is a track I really liked.

Late 2003/Early 2004 for me was the worst period.

Super-saw trance from everybody.

In 2002 I was blown away - seemed not so much pure-trance, but certainly a lot of good stuff out there. The peak of Tiesto's career at least.

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Hope you've got Solarcoaster in a comp somewhere.

The only thing bad about this period of trance is having to read posts like this. Dude, we already know some people aren't happhy. But there's no need to keep creating threats about it.

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Originally posted by kadomony for regular trance yea, but 2002 was AMAZING for great hard trance. lots of great german acts with cool sounds

yeah 02 was cool

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i thought 2002 was a decent year imo...

My top 30 of that year

01 paul oakenfold // southern sun (tiesto isos remix)
02 shane // too late to turn (armin van buuren remix)
03 gouryella // ligaya
04 hemstock & jennings // crimson soil
05 plastic boy // silver bath
06 altitude // altitude (shokk remix)
07 kansai // roccoco
08 sinead o'connor // troy (push remix)
09 kosheen // hungry (satoshi tommiie remix)
10 ayumi hamasaki // boys & girls (push dub)
11 art of trance // madagascar (push remix)
12 solar factor // no return
13 marco v // godd
14 starecase // faith (loafer remix)
15 oceanlab // sky falls down (armin van buuren remiix)
16 greed // strange world (lemon 8 remix)
17 milk inc. // walk on water (frank trax remix)
18 drax & scott mac // angel (magik muzik remix)
19 perpetuous dreamer // dust wav.
20 solid sessions // janiero (armin van buuren remix)
21 airwave vs. rising star // sunspot (dcml mix)
22 lustral // broken (way out west remix)
23 db boulevard // point of view (lange remix)
24 dave matthews band // the space between us (tiesto remix)
25 tiesto // in my memory (airwve vocal remix)
26 andain // summer calling
27 signum // second wave
28 tilt // headstrong
29 minimalistix // close cover (airscape remix)
30 bomfunk mc's // live your life (push remix)

edit : in fact it was a very good year looking at that list - 2004 was quite poor for me and 2005 was average...which does'nt look good for the future

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