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Teh c0r: trance that has remained in your collection
So I know it's fun and has been fun to hate on trance these days and everyone has moved on to either house or techno. But there has to be some small part of you that longs for that nostalgia; that perfect track that was dropped at your favorite rave or festival which transcended your soul to another elevated form of consciousness. Or what audio novelty coincided while you got fucked hard off some proper good pills? Either way, what incarnation of trance has remained in that obscure section of your music catalogue that still comes out on those rarer and rarer moments of your busy, adult lives? What has stood the test of time under an ever more stern and assiduous eye? Share with me, oh c0r, your facets of secluded but unforgotten pearls of harmonious wonderment which once reigned supreme upon this electronic wasteland.
The ones that still get play from me
Solid Globe – South Pole
DJ Elb – Relieve My Pain
Elude – Fareday (Massive84 Remix) [Wish I had a wav or flac of this]
Ronski Speed – Sole Survivor (Sebastian Sand Remix)
Hydroid – Blue Tubes (Ava Mea Remix)
Leama – Requiem for a Dream
Vadim Zhukov – Silver Star
MK-S vs Robert Nickson – Fallback
Ferry Corsten – Punk (SF Love Parade 2005 Fuck…)
Jose Amnesia – The Eternal (Pulser Remix)
Oct-04-2016 17:30
SYSTEM-J
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
Re: Teh c0r: trance that has remained in your collection
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Originally posted by Zharen
So I know it's fun and has been fun to hate on trance these days and everyone has moved on to either house or techno.
You're behind the times, mate. It's become the in thing to drop a pitched-down trance classic into the mix. Notable examples of big DJs doing it recently include Nina Kravitz, Bicep, Patrice Baumel, Space Dimension Controller... even Sasha has overcome his crippling embarrassment about what he played in the '90s and has been sighted dropping Age Of Love and Sacred Cycles. It's becoming such a trend that the obligatory Wunderground parody has sprung up: http://wundergroundmusic.com/all-dj...e-song-by-2017/
Tale of Us closed their Space set with 'Children' this past weekend, lol.
Imagine how many children listening to that were like, "Whoa, what's that?"
Too bad there isn't any new trance worth a shit to garner any momentum for a comeback.
Last edited by OrangestO on Oct-04-2016 at 18:21
Oct-04-2016 18:16
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
quote:
Originally posted by OrangestO
Too bad there isn't any new trance worth a shit to garner any momentum for a comeback.
Not in the 140bpm, off-beat bass, silly rave bollocks sense of "trance", no. But the music is getting very, very trancey again, albeit at a slower and groovier pace. Michael Mayer summed the trend up neatly in a recent interview:
quote:
Trance for me means hypnotic music, something that puts you in a trance. That's a great thing, what techno music should be about. Obviously the term got taken over by a type of music that I don't cherish that much, but at Kompakt we always wanted to bring trance back, in a nice way, in a non cheesy way.
That's something we did we projects like Kaito from Japan and now, if you look around, the music has become very, very trancey again. Now nobody lifts an eyebrow if something sounds trancey, it's become normal and free from this big room Tiesto trance world. I think it's managed to rehabilitate the term trance.
I admit I've always associated 'trance' with the 140BPM rave music of yesteryear. Total generalization, I know.
I guess that just stems from missing out on its 'golden era' and my limited experience listening to it.
Once I got a taste of the watered down stuff, I left it alone for house and techno.
That said, I'm all for slower and groovier trance music.
Do you have any other recent examples of it (albums) besides the posted tune, which, by the end, I agree is as trance as a track can sound in 2016. I dig it.
Oct-04-2016 19:02
Lira
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
Dostovesky. Kandinsky. Radiotrance.
The best Russian art ever arted came from these guys, trance couldn't have been an exception
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Oct-04-2016 19:36
SYSTEM-J
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Location: Manchester
Albums? Not many of those around these days. If you check out the likes of Petar Dundov, Chymera, Luca Bacchetti, Chaim, Guy J and that man Khen, you'll find plenty of individual tracks and EPs, however. And that's just a few off the top of my head.
That's how genres die. They lose speed and stamina until they grind to a halt and become ambient #HandsUp4TrapAmbient
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Oct-04-2016 19:45
OrangestO
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Albums? Not many of those around these days. If you check out the likes of Petar Dundov, Chymera, Luca Bacchetti, Chaim, Guy J and that man Khen, you'll find plenty of individual tracks and EPs, however. And that's just a few off the top of my head.
Huge fan of Guy J, but I never considered his music trance
Oct-04-2016 19:47
OrangestO
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Originally posted by Lira
That's how genres die.
Or how a genre is reborn?
Considering the recent trends in house and techno, slower and groovier trance seems appropriate if it's going to make a full-fledged comeback.
Ambient trap?
Oct-04-2016 19:51
SYSTEM-J
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
quote:
Originally posted by OrangestO
Huge fan of Guy J, but I never considered his music trance
You don't think tracks like Candyland, Nirvana and Twice In A Blue Moon sound trancey? You should have been tipped off when he went through a spate of remixing classics like Heaven Scent and The Fade a few years ago, which marked his unashamed entrance to arpeggio land.
#HandsUp4TrapAmbient
