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Originally posted by Digital Aura I was pretty excited about comin' to Europe ... that was before I even had this for a reason!! WOoHooT!

what's the dates your coming over to quaint old europe

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Originally posted by djSlain here in San Diego, CA, u can't listen to trance unless your asian. rather silly and stupid. i'm hispanic and i go around with my headphones listening to trance and i meet someone. "Oh u like trance? but u don't look asian" ugh! the second that Alice Deejay released Better Off Alone, the Socal Scene has been ruined by 15 year old doing the old "mr roboto" and all this PLUR PLUR! shit

LOL, i lived in california two years and i had a project with an asian (hes chinese) that played better off alone while we were at another chinese persons house for a school project

people here don't even know what trance is

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Heh, at my college I had to do a group project in a business class. The purpose was to "start" a business of some sort and present to the class a "business plan". My group's idea was to make a club that played the same kind trance that you'd hear down in Florida or in California. So, when we presented, I had burned for everyone in the class a copy of "Paul van Dyk - Live @ Energy 2003". Here was the result:

Me: "Ok, so to just give you an idea on what trance music is, here's a recording of a concert by Paul van Dyk".

One kid: "Who's Paul van Dyk?"

Another kid: "Trance music? You mean like Yanni or Enya?"

Me: "No, that's new age."

Same kid: "Is there REALLY a difference.....?"

So yea, I'm one of the few ten people in the state of Indiana that listens to electronic music.

In, my town there is nothing. I am in a relatively small town in Illinois. There is 2 stores on in my town that sell dance music, one being Best Buy and the other being Sam Goody. Best Buy doesnt have shit, lots of Louie Divito and Sam Goody has "Reflections" for $20(so i dont buy cds there).

i never really understood how anyone could say rave or EDM culture was ever MAINSTREAM or BIG when more than half the country has no idea what EDM or even "techno" music is. sad.... very sad...

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IMO the U.S trance scene isnt very big.(when compared to rap, and pop) And with the RAVE act its now even harder for it to grow. All those drug addict morons overdosing at events and the blind public who live and breathe on the media's opinions are a couple to blame for this. But wat can ya do...if u in a big city u got a good chance at seeing the big headlines a couple times a year. I wish it were bigger Maybe i could get a resident job if it was.

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Originally posted by CGRumler Heh, at my college I had to do a group project in a business class. The purpose was to "start" a business of some sort and present to the class a "business plan". My group's idea was to make a club that played the same kind trance that you'd hear down in Florida or in California. So, when we presented, I had burned for everyone in the class a copy of "Paul van Dyk - Live @ Energy 2003". Here was the result: Me: "Ok, so to just give you an idea on what trance music is, here's a recording of a concert by Paul van Dyk". One kid: "Who's Paul van Dyk?" Another kid: "Trance music? You mean like Yanni or Enya?" Me: "No, that's new age." Same kid: "Is there REALLY a difference.....?" So yea, I'm one of the few ten people in the state of Indiana that listens to electronic music.

HAHA, new age
did you tell him the difference?

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Originally posted by mndeg HAHA, new age did you tell him the difference?

No, I just gave him the cd and told him to find out for himself.

its safe to say that Toronto has one of the biggest trance scenes in north america... there is a wealth of clubs
not to mention Guvernment, the best club I've ever been too on this side of the Atlantic, and pretty much gets every person on a north american tour

but relative to the european cities, north america is far behind when it comes to pretty much all genres of electronic

Im gonna be moving to london for school in a year and half, the nightlife/music scene was a major deciding factor

i can't say i agree about being far behind. Not when it comes to knowlege for those of us who actually love the scene. But its not the popular music areound canada. It still quite underground. Montreal Scene is very pumping, id say more so then toronto. We get tons and tons of great talent from europe. As for trance i don't think its as big as Techno/house in mtl, no where near as close. If there are large trance events its always a DJ from europe comming here. Not to many montreal residents play trance. In ottawa, there isn't a huge scene. It actually slowly recovering from the lost of our main club 2 years ago. And now slowly creeping back. But for the most part we all travel to montreal anyways. Mostly Prog/house in Ottawa. Almost no trance played in clubs.

I'm actually a S. Florida resident and even here, where the scene is rather larger than other areas in the U.S has seen a dramatic dropoff.

I remember in the middle to late 90's there used to be a lot of different events going on all the time related to EDM. Now all of a sudden w/ the "X" and the media, clubs have closed, parties arent thrown that frequently, and only a select group of clubs are open for dance music (most of which are on S. Beach & there isnt that many). As far as buying music, u really have to know where to look to get the good stuff, most sell records and not cds. I know w/ me and my friends, I'm always the one finding everything, then I give diff. mixes out to friends etc.

There have been attempts to do a lot w/ the Party 93.1 thing on the radio, but most music played on that station is cheese central! The only good music to come on there is the Global DJ Broadcast w/ Markus Schulz and the occasional set by George Acosta (both shows come on sunday nites 12am-4am )

The club scene on the other hand is just like the others ... we get the occasional quaterly visit from the Tiesto, Corsten, PvD, Armin, etc. Again, nothing frequent. Other than that, its locals which arent that impressive and play diff. styles than trance (breakbeat mostly and DnB).

I feel w/ the media pressure and immature pill heads out there, it just kills the scene w/o them even knowing what the "real" scene is all about. They get to go see DJ Marky Fresh (made-up) at some hole in the wall club where people go just to roll their asses off and then the clubs that really make a stand to promote the true to heart dance music suffer in the process where city officials wanna shut it all down because of these wack ass promoters & their children poppin' beans every 2 seconds (ive rolled and have nothing against it, but immature people who cant cope). Thats my stand on the EDM Scene in the U.S !