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Originally posted by Phil raa y'z that stupid....Gatecrasher put sheffield on the international map for entertainment. Tiesto puts a country on the map for doing the music at the worlds most famous sports event.

its stupid because they make it sound as if tiesto is the only thing (musically) to come out of holland

.... couple people actually really made me fLip on them when they told me that all electronic music ripped off other mainstream music or something like that.

I was like, how DO YOU DARE SAY THAT? That makes no sense! Its just plain idiotism, ignorance and stupidity!

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I don't get that pissed. It depends though...

An 'emo' girl I know once said that trance is the only type of music that has no emotion in it. Fair enough, I like my banging tech-trance, it's a type of music where 'emotion' isn't the point... but a lot of trance does have emotion in it. Just because the singer's not blatantly singing about how he got dumped, doesn't mean there's no emotion, it's just more subltely expressed


For people who just say 'trance is shite', I just agree to disagree, they probably haven't even heard much proper trance. And I even have to agree sometimes, in the last year or two the majority of trance has been a bit on the crap side.


The 'real instruments' thing pisses me off. It's just different ways of producing a sound, it doesn't take away anything from the music.


I guess the main thing that pisses me off is that generally I'm quite open-minded with music, so it's annoying to meet people who're not (like emo girl mentioned above.) OK so I don't enjoy most of the music but (with the exception of the lyrics ) I can respect that, like any music, it takes a certain amount of effort and talent on the musicians' parts to make it.

50 cent etc, on the other hand... doesn't take a lot of talent to make stuff like that, I guess the 'talent' is more on the side of labels/marketing/etc, but... music is music, people can listen to what they want. If they genuinely enjoy the music that's shoved down all our throats, then there's nothing wrong with that, it's only music!

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Originally posted by Joost Well, Tiësto has even received a "Medal of Honour" from the Dutch Queen for "putting Holland on the map in the international dance-scene!" And he's a quite regular guest in talkshows and stuff.

why the fuck is he wearing a jersey in front of the Dutch queen? Put a suit on you fucking degenerate :P


as for the post, edm is actually IMO quite hard to get into. it took me years to really get into it. it's up to us to, when we hear 'trance sucks, etc' to give these people a cd like GU 13 or Tranceport.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Trance has all but died in the public knowledge anyway.

At least it has in the UK...

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike Social outcasts are often of the opinion that they must have a drink before being able to loosen up with their inhibitions, thus being able to have a good time. There's a word that sums up this sort of behaviour, and that word is 'reject.'

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Originally posted by stevebutabi why the fuck is he wearing a jersey in front of the Dutch queen? Put a suit on you fucking degenerate :P

I don't respect the royalty (in this country at least, dont know if their Dutch counterparts are any better..) but yeah it would be a bit different if they were giving you such a big award, I'd try to look good for anyone who did that p

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Trance has all but died in the public knowledge anyway.

I agree there isnt much about trance in the uk anymore, hard dance seems to have died in the last year and it's nearlly all rap and rnb everywhere you look, mayb some 'Hed Kandi' house - even the bouncy scouse house seems to be heading more underground.

I just laugh at their ignorance.

Theres a tiny scene of people in Colorado that know good music. You could count them in a club though. Mostly Denver residents. I had a good experience with them seeing Corsten and Van Dyk live.


Trance is somewhat "exclusive" where I live. Most Americans still worship the whole rap/hiphop/rock/pop shit thats on the waves. So they think trance is "that techno shit they play at clubs sometimes" lol.

"Music for the mind. Not the masses."

Me: "YO Trance!"
Trance: "What nigga?"
Me: "DIS DIS, DOUBLE DISS!"
Trance: "Bitch! I'm gonna...*breakdown* AWW SHIT"
Me: "*PISS PISS*, DISS, TAKE THAT TRANCE, *PISS*, DUPLEX DISS!!"
Me: "I STILL GOT 90 SECONDS TO RUN AWAY ******!"
Trance: "Face me, hidden in my memory, hold me, I remember, sitting in my memory, I remember."

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Addy fo SHADDY ! hiccup, KA pladdy.

some wannabe: "trance sucks"
*chainsaw sound
me (with blood all over me): "say again?"