When I was a lad and hard trance was so popular you could buy compilations of it in the supermarket, there were two main strains. You had European hard trance which was DJ Scot Project / SHOKK / Fluchlicht and was basically Euro trance pitched up at +5. Then you had UK hard trance, which was more like (not-NY) hard house with big trancey melodies over the top, made infamous by labels like Nukleuz and Tidy Trax. Stuff like this:
Ah... those were the days. Anyway, quite a lot of this old stuff is on Beatport, so you shouldn't have any trouble finding enough tunes.
Registered: Aug 2010
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
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Originally posted by wotyzoid
Don't assume.
Oh, well it's too late now anyway. I've already spent too much time searching around and buying the music. Maybe I'll end up with a fancy combination of the two.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: corner of the garden
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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
On a slightly related note:
I don't suppose anyone has my old mixes? I've lost all of them.
My files (search OrgaNik, Mystery, Nik) that are larger than 50,000 KB
OrgaNik - Beaten To A Pulp (A Tribute to Big Beats & Breaks)
OrgaNik - Slipping Towards Insanity (Ambient Set)
Tranceaddict dot com presents Tranceaddicts Unite 4
A file named organik_tekkno which when viewed in Winamp is "Organik - Call the Genre Police!"
OrgaNik - Breaking Daylight (Prog Breaks)
Nik UKTA Radio 10.03.2008 (128 kbps)
Al Azar - At The Edge Of Tomorrow
Glaciation - Glaciation
Mr. Mystery - Personal Classics
There may be more on my external drives from school but I don't have access to them right now.
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Sep-04-2014 12:47
Mr.Mystery
Static Guru
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa
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Originally posted by Echo of Silence
OrgaNik - Slipping Towards Insanity (Ambient Set)
Tranceaddict dot com presents Tranceaddicts Unite 4
Organik - Call the Genre Police!
Nik UKTA Radio 10.03.2008 (128 kbps)
These ones I don't have (and the last one I can't even remember). If you could upload them to a dropbox or something at some point, it'd be cool.
Sep-04-2014 15:03
Echo of Silence
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: corner of the garden
Okay, those four are in a MrMystery folder in my mediafire account:
The one you can't remember, Mr. Mystery - Personal Classics, is the one you put together back in October 2009 for Jack's thread "TAs share their classics." Good stuff.
Your TL and description of tracks:
Mr Mystery
01. Pink Floyd - Echoes
What's there to say about Floyd that hasn't already been said? Being the godfathers of prog, they introduced me to the wonderful world of 20 minute tracks as well.
02. BT - Firewater
Hands down my favourite BT track, although unfortunately rather poorly mastered (in case you were thinking I was causing those distorted peaks).
03. Jean-Michel Jarre - Millions Of Stars
Generally, I'm not that into Jarre (shock!) but this track just strikes a chord for me. Hauntingly beautiful.
04. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Hearing this for the first time as a pre-teen has to have been one of the most intense musical experiences of my life.
05. Apollo 440 - The Machine In The Ghost
I never did figure @440 out - sometimes they produce some utter toss and in the next minute something absolutely beautiful like this.
06. Sasha - Baja
In my opinion the weakest track on the Xpander EP was Xpander itself - I could had placed any of the other 3 here but this one seemed to fit best.
07. Orbital - Style
I could had easily just slapped the entire 'The Middle Of Nowhere'-album to this mix but in order to keep it under 80 minutes I had to narrow it down to just one... I don't think I've listened to any EDM album as much as that one.
08. Yello - On Track
Yello were way ahead of their time when they did the 'Pocket Universe'-album. This is one of the reasons I ever got into EDM. Thanks for playing this to me, dad.
09. The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive
Again, just about any track from the 'Vegas'-album would had made the cut, but this is the one that really got me into producing breaks/big beat.
10. The Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel
I'm not even sure I have words for this. Perfection defined.
11. Junkie XL - Billy Club
The intensity of early Junkie XL tracks/live shows even impressed The Prodigy. Too bad he went on to become what he is now...
12. The Prodigy - Climbatize
Speaking of The Prodigy... is that not the best bassline ever?
13. Hybrid - Finished Symphony
These type of tracks only come by once every blue moon... absolutely beautiful. I don't know what it is about mixing traditional instruments with electronic music but it just works for me almost every time.
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Sep-05-2014 14:39
Mr.Mystery
Static Guru
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa
No, I meant the last one I quoted, the TA radio one
Sep-05-2014 15:14
Mr Game+Watch
Luka Luka * Night Fever
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
Got a few tunes to play out for the genre comp, most of them will be pretty well-known unfortunately but I think they represent my own personal take on 'hard trance' well. Including a hard trance remix of my favorite trance track ever Now I gotta do a trial run and play around with the order some...
I still have some tracks to find but I have a general idea on how the mix will turn out and I will try to have it done by next week
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Now I gotta do a trial run and play around with the order some...
