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Originally posted by Spirit5 I have liked Trance since I was 13, so it's been a long time. My peers never really understood it. I made many CDs for people in high school, but couldn't get people into it. I even offered to DJ at one of the school parties, since there was a kid named Kyle who had DJed a few of them. He played mostly hip hop and R&B, with some older dance-pop music like Michael Jackson. I had talked with him at one of the dances, and wanted to know if he had any trance, techno or house music in his collection. He had one song, so he decided to play it. Lo and behold people stopped dancing! it was much faster than the rap and R&B he was playing, but people were just not interested. That baffled my mind, as R&B and hip hop are played in clubs, but they are not nearly as fast as most EDM. The only reason I could think of..why people weren't dancing...is because they didn't know how to dance to any other type of music!

well teach them how to dance to EDM, problem solved!

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Originally posted by Googooly oh shut the fuck up please, what I meant was that If people say trance music is all the same...my answer is that so is rock music nowdays!!

That is not what you said. You simply attacked rock music for "sounding the same" and if you actually meant what you're now saying you meant, then your choice of wording is incredibly poor.

"rock music: they are all boring and pretty MUCH THE SAME!!!" is a completely blunt and ignorant statement.

You remind me of a much more hostile and defensive version of a certain member of this forum called "RaVeRSurGe" only I'm having a very hard time believing you are for real.

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Originally posted by aloep You remind me of a much more hostile and defensive version of a certain member of this forum called "RaVeRSurGe" only I'm having a very hard time believing you are for real.[/color]

You and me both

I count 3 hostile uses of 'fuck' in his reply to an, albeit derogatory, but ultimately more passively worded 'dis'

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Originally posted by aloep That is not what you said. You simply attacked rock music for "sounding the same" and if you actually meant what you're now saying you meant, then your choice of wording is incredibly poor. "rock music: they are all boring and pretty MUCH THE SAME!!!" is a completely blunt and ignorant statement. You remind me of a much more hostile and defensive version of a certain member of this forum called "RaVeRSurGe" only I'm having a very hard time believing you are for real.

lol @ you

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ok I make this clear, I really have nothing against any other genre of music in general, what I said about them was ONLY from my point of view and my opinon, I didnt mean everyone should dislike them!!

im sorry if I ofended anyone, I want the world know that trancers are NOT ignorant and smallminded!

heck I even listen to some indi(sp?) music sometimes, some of them al alright, and I love pink floyd & fredy mer queen(sp?)

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wow, i never expected this huge a reply. Thanks to those who took the time to respond.

Lemme start off by saying i'm in no way ashamed of liking trance. I didn't explain what i meant, but "embarassed" comes close to the feeling i mean. Basically that you aren't within the "norm" of most people (especially EDM people). Thats all, i meant.

I love trance, and almost everyone i know understands that. Its really funny, I have friends who will NEVER admit to liking it, but in my car or house they love it. So long as no one can see them, they like it! This is especially true in my EDM liking friends. I kid you not when I say that liking trance up here is tantamount to having lepracy. The worst part is this: Every person who hates (or says they do) trance got into EDM because of it (at least 99%).

Its really interesting to me how the rest of the world (basically outside North America) has EDM as a mainstream music source. My best personal experience with this is when I went to London a couple years ago. My friends (all native Britans) asked me what music I liked; so i said "techno." After that about 30 secs of silence ensued... Then they asked: "ok, what kind?" It never occurred to me that every one of them (about 5) had EDM to listen to their whole lives. It was "normal" and their most popular form of music. It took me a few minutes to understand that they knew about EDM from just simply living in Great Britan, not being part of any "scene." My friends who live there are not into raves, parties, drugs, etc. They are simply put: average, everyday people. Thats what made it so profound.

Thanks again for the great replies! Sorry I haven't posted in a while, been really busy.

yeah, everyone here thinks trance is for fags, and that only gay people like it. its really pathetic. whenever i cruise around town i always have my system jacked up blasting my top tunes of that week, and i get weird looks. apparently most people in this shity country would rather listen to the same butt rock that they've heard for 30 years than some new EDM, really sad.

kind of, tho' i don't really listen to it anymore, but whole electronic music is being bashed by emos and other newbs here :>

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Originally posted by bananas kind of, tho' i don't really listen to it anymore, but whole electronic music is being bashed by emos and other newbs here :>

where?!?!

when someone asks me what music i listen to, i just reply african drumming...

i wasnt embarressed about listening to trance when i did listen to it. its just people would constantly annoy me by telling me how much the music itself sucked and was for braindead people or only for ginos and such... so i figured wats the point of explaining if people fail to understand or just dont want to?
now that i've moved onto listening to a lot of progressive house, i dont even know how to start explaining what i listen to...
Me: dude im so l337 i listen to progressive house as opposed to hip hop
other person:

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