it's not as if 'trance' has one specific musical meaning these days anyway. just because the uplifting/melodic type dominates the market, it doesn't make it synonymous with the name 'trance' itself; there are plenty of other styles around if you bother looking.

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Originally posted by Ishkur actually, they call it Urban.

i'm presuming he means stuff like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...7647446-2248653

in which case r&b is a far more common term... well, in this country anyway.

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Originally posted by Ishkur actually, they call it Urban.

Not sure who "they" are meant to be, but this the first thing that appears when you search for "RnB music" on Google.

http://www.thesituation.co.uk/usartists.html

Line 1: "Gucci Mane has been attacked in jail by a murderer who reportedly had an issue with the Atlanta based rapper."

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Originally posted by Fundamental Not sure who "they" are meant to be, but this the first thing that appears when you search for "RnB music" on Google. http://www.thesituation.co.uk/usartists.html Line 1: "Gucci Mane has been attacked in jail by a murderer who reportedly had an issue with the Atlanta based rapper."

classic

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Originally posted by Subtle Ishkur: what music do you listen to ?

What you're really asking me is what's my favourite trance music?

Here's what I currently got queued up at the moment:

Abfahrt - Come Into My Life (Hart Fab Mix)
Age Of Love - The Age Of Love
Art Of Trance - Cambodia
BBE - Flash
Breeder - The Chain
Christian Morgenstern - Hawaii Blue
Cosmic Baby - Heaven's Tears (DJ Kid Paul s Mix)
Datura - Yerba Del Diablo (Yaqui)
De Niro - Mind of Man
Deepsky - Seance
Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp
Electric Skychurch - Deus
Fuzzy Logic - Obsession
Rabbit in the Moon - First Contact
Resistance D - Cosmic Love
Sonic Fusion - Emotions
Spacepunks - Another Space (pussy 2000 mix)
Spicelab - Amorph
Steve porter - Mindless
Trancesetters - roaches (bugs in slacker bassment mix)
Underworld - Thing In A Book
William Orbit - Water From a Vine Leaf
X-Press 2 - Supasong
DOM - Lightspeed
Force Legato - System
Voltage Control - Apocalypse
Blue Amazon - And Then the Rain Falls
Trisco - Muzak
Tungsten - Carbine

Most of these are on the music guide.

Some really nice stuff in there (yes, I am aware of stuff pre-98, my brother got into the scene in the early nineties)

But what stuff do you mainly listen to from the past, say, 3 years?

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Originally posted by Ishkur What you're really asking me is what's my favourite trance music? Here's what I currently got queued up at the moment: Abfahrt - Come Into My Life (Hart Fab Mix) Age Of Love - The Age Of Love Art Of Trance - Cambodia BBE - Flash Breeder - The Chain Christian Morgenstern - Hawaii Blue Cosmic Baby - Heaven's Tears (DJ Kid Paul s Mix) Datura - Yerba Del Diablo (Yaqui) De Niro - Mind of Man Deepsky - Seance Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp Electric Skychurch - Deus Fuzzy Logic - Obsession Rabbit in the Moon - First Contact Resistance D - Cosmic Love Sonic Fusion - Emotions Spacepunks - Another Space (pussy 2000 mix) Spicelab - Amorph Steve porter - Mindless Trancesetters - roaches (bugs in slacker bassment mix) Underworld - Thing In A Book William Orbit - Water From a Vine Leaf X-Press 2 - Supasong DOM - Lightspeed Force Legato - System Voltage Control - Apocalypse Blue Amazon - And Then the Rain Falls Trisco - Muzak Tungsten - Carbine Most of these are on the music guide.

holy hell, till the end that was pretty much alphabetical.

Oh for fuck's sake. It's fun to generalise every single track in a genre kids! Watch:

Ever since 1996, house music has been a bar of someone else's music stolen and looped to death over a filtered beat. Since this is not what house music used to sound like, all house sucks! ALL OF IT.

Now excuse me while I make a crap analogy towards "the zone", when had I ever been in the fucking zone I'd realise it has nothing to do with hypnosis, deprevation of emotions or any of that crap I just linked it to. Because it's actually a heightened state of awareness where you can make correct decisions very quickly due to adrenaline and such and such.

I'm sorry, but please tell me why a genre suddenly loses all merit because people have realised that hooks are a lot more interesting than endless bland acid loops. Tell me that "Twelve" by Tilt is big anthems, snare rolls and hooks, that it can't take your head someplace else, and that it has less merit than some shittily produced German track from 1991. Go on. Say it and believe it.

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> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Oh for fuck's sake. It's fun to generalise every single track in a genre kids! Watch: Ever since 1996, house music has been a bar of someone else's music stolen and looped to death over a filtered beat. Since this is not what house music used to sound like, all house sucks! ALL OF IT. Now excuse me while I make a crap analogy towards "the zone", when had I ever been in the fucking zone I'd realise it has nothing to do with hypnosis, deprevation of emotions or any of that crap I just linked it to. Because it's actually a heightened state of awareness where you can make correct decisions very quickly due to adrenaline and such and such. I'm sorry, but please tell me why a genre suddenly loses all merit because people have realised that hooks are a lot more interesting than endless bland acid loops. Tell me that "Twelve" by Tilt is big anthems, snare rolls and hooks, that it can't take your head someplace else, and that it has less merit than some shittily produced German track from 1991. Go on. Say it and believe it.

ishkur have you thought about becoming a journalist or maybe write a book or something?
your writing style has everything... the flow... the structure... vocabulary... professionalism...

just a thought

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- hello and welcome glad u cud join us this is a state of trance episode blah blah blah
- waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaaaah whineeeeeeeeeeeee blah blaaaaaaaaah
- that was the newest track by blah bla and before that was blaaaaaaah
- waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....the end
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Just out of curiosity (and I may possibly be turning this into an FAO Ishkur thread), but, Ishkur, what do you constitute as the last real "trance" set spun, and list any (if there are) djs/producers that still produce and mix this "real" trance you speak of. I'm not trying to sound sarcastic, though it may come out as such, just interested.