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qwerty
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: NYC, USA

So what happened to trance then?

Hey all,

I was never a hardcore fan of trance music like some of you guys but i certainly did have love.

In 2004 i had a 40 gig drive full of outstanding songs. It was a massive effort because i would come here and essentially download almost every track which was recommended. The last time i did this was about 2005 and it got to the point that for every 100 songs i downloaded, they were all fucking shite apart from 1-2.

Hmm whats a few examples i used to love:

Binary Finary 98, some of PVD, some of Tiesto (Traffic), then theres a bunch of random tunes which i really enjoyed as well such as Push Universal nation etc etc and im mortified that i no longer have all the tunes i used to love.

I spent a couple of hours this morning hitting posts here and it turns out that i feel like i dont fit in any more. Some of the stuff you guys listen to is fucking garbage these days. I get the impression some of you are here purely to grip a strong hold of ANYTHING trance related no matter how shit just for the sake of being a trance fan.

So what it comes down to, is i want those beats again, the quality stuff which builds up and contains quality samples. Not something with "bleeps" and "clicks" or some nonce who descides to remix a coldplay song.

In other words, when people say "what music do you like" yesterday id have said trance but today im embarrased to say this.

I take it that 96-03 was the golden age of trance and after this creativity just died across the board?

Apr-23-2009 12:53 United States

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Sand Leaper
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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway

Re: So what happened to trance then?

This is probably one of the most beaten to death-subjects covered on this forum, but nevertheless:

quote:
Originally posted by qwerty
I take it that 96-03 was the golden age of trance and after this creativity just died across the board?

Not really. 96-99 were the years trance broke into the mainstream. Its creativity had flatlined before this. If you ask around, 95-96 was about the point in time when most oldschoolers had given up on trance, as they saw where it was headed.

I have always found it funny that so many people on this forum STILL consider 1999 to be the "golden year" for trance, because musically, it was the absolute nadir of the epic trance-blueprint. You can only stand around waiting for the biggest supersaw for so long.

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Apr-23-2009 13:04 Norway

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MSZ
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: kill me

cry baby? shut the fuck up

Apr-23-2009 13:05 Canada

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coroknight
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Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Deeper

Qwerty, the deal is that most of us have gone through a phase where all we listened to was trance. Then we began trying other genres such as house, techno, etc. and tastes begin to expand. Right now trance, as you describe it, is in a slump. Their are still some movers and shakers but good tracks are fairly hard to come by.

One track i really like is "Estiva - Les Fleurs" but I mostly listen to house and techno. For a while BPM was a big deal for me but now I listen to all kinds of stuff.

Apr-23-2009 13:07 United States

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Meat187
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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: The Night's Plutonian Shore

It's spelled 'qwertz' you loser!

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Apr-23-2009 13:10 Germany

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qwerty
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: NYC, USA

msz go suck a dick you ****.

Yeah i didnt know if it was just me or just the fact that is the genuine truth. That is why i posted. Theres no point in me poncing around trying to find decent beats if none actually exist.

Apr-23-2009 13:12 United States

Zak McKracken
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Registered: Jun 2003
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quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
It's spelled 'qwertz' you loser!

what kinda keboard do u have?

Apr-23-2009 13:13

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qwerty
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: NYC, USA

Yeah i attempted to do that as well. I thought, shit theres no good beats any more and by that time my mates were raving about house... for me not the same thing or even closely related to the tingling feelin a sick trance tune executed well would provide.

Apr-23-2009 13:15 United States

qwerty
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: NYC, USA

Yeah qwerty

You have a mad keyboard, i take it when you type yaught you get "zaught".

This aint even my account, i lost my password but username qwerty password qwerty is a classic.

Apr-23-2009 13:16 United States

Meat187
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Registered: Dec 2007
Location: The Night's Plutonian Shore

quote:
Originally posted by palm
what kinda keboard do u have?

Stupid question, a qwertz-keyboard of course!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ

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Apr-23-2009 13:16 Germany

qwerty
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: NYC, USA

I wonder why bother?

Im confused why someone at some point went, "look yeah im from Switz/Germ so i want my Y to be a Z and my Z to be a Y, it makes all the difference".

Apr-23-2009 13:26 United States

SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester

Re: Re: So what happened to trance then?

quote:
Originally posted by Sand Leaper
Not really. 96-99 were the years trance broke into the mainstream. Its creativity had flatlined before this. If you ask around, 95-96 was about the point in time when most oldschoolers had given up on trance, as they saw where it was headed.

The old-schoolers may have given up on it, but I personally think 1996-1997 were the best years for trance. You had a few tracks like Children and Seven Days And One Week in the charts, but they sounded almost nothing like what was happening in progressive and goa trance in those years.

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