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Originally posted by G-Con (...) Prefer the different styles that have developed - eg. tech-trance, electro-trance. (...)

Let's start the bashing

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Originally posted by Omega_M this thread belongs to the COR

not really, because:

1. this is a criticism of the MD, it should be addressed by the residents of the MD, not those of the COR
   
2. threads like these offer more prosects for music discussion than 20 track recomendation threads put together
   
3. threads in the COR don't stay on topic for longer than 2 replies for the most part

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Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown. Sometimes vocals are also utilised. The style is arguably derived from a combination of largely techno and house as well as being heavily influenced by Goa trance. 'Trance' received its name from the repetitious morphing beats, and the throbbing melodies which would presumably put the listener into a trance-like state. As this music is almost always played in nightclubs at popular vacation spots and in inner cities, trance can be understood as a form of club or house music.

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I'm 18. My views on trance date back 1700 years, and were originally Arabic in origin, before being rediscovered by Renaissance thinkers to challenge accepted Western views, eventually supplanting the old Greco-centric perception of trance and paving the way for modern society.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I'm 18. My views on trance date back 17000 years.

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I'm 20, going to be 21 in two weeks yay!

Well I got into trance when I was 13. I think it started with a computer game soundtrack that I really liked called "Unreal". At that time, I wasn't sure what this stuff was but I really liked it. It was more melodic than the techno I had heard at the time, and I guess had ambient qualities to it, but it was quite energetic. I eventually got into more mainstream electronic stuff that wasn't really trance like Moby, Basement Jaxx, Enigma, Delerium, Daft Punk, The Prodigy etc.

I then discovered BT from a guy in a music store who was browsing CDs. He recommended me BT because his stuff was more melodic and that is what I was looking for. I heard some stuff at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, also called Movement, but that stuff just didn't appeal to me. I was really looking for stuff like the Unreal soundtrack...melodious stuff that had this beauty and other-wordlines. I especially liked this with Enigma and Delerium, because their music was definitely other-worldy, and a bit less soft than Enya, who I was exposed to early on when my dad would play her music.

What really took things off was when I discovered Paul van Dyk, and heard "For An Angel" and "Another Way". I quickly bought all of his CDs that were released at the time (2000). I got into progressive trance/house with Sasha & Digweed, Dave Seaman and Nick Warren at that time, and of course Paul Oakenfold, who was my favorite DJ. I bought all of his CDs as well, even the rare ones. Then I found Tiesto's remix of Silence on his "Another World" CD, and from that, I got into the epic stuff from Tiesto, Armin and Ferry. So I was into epic from about 2001 till 2005. Now i've gotten pretty sick of a lot of the epic stuff, and have found more melodic progressive breaks/house/trance stuff like Snake Sedrick, Jay Lumen, Retroid, Storyteller, V-Sag, Digital Witchcraft, Cassino & Laben, Benz & MD, Andrew K, Peter McCowan, and Damien Heck (among others). And for trance, I enjoy Kalafut & Fygle, Hydroid, Mark Otten, Probspot and Micro de Govia.

Im 24 been in and out of the club scene since i was 16. Always liked trance but my fav era was around 2002. I miss old style Bonzai trance tunes just arnt made like that anymore

Of the big names Armin has wqent too commercial and way down in my estimation. He was flying in 2004 then for some reason started to play tech-trance and ASOT by numbers. Tiesto has got back to the sound he was using around 2003 and all the better for it and is prob my fav of the bigger names the now

But im into all sorts of shades of trance realy. JOOF, Jon O'Bir, Menno De Jong & Sander Van Doorn are probably my favourites and all seem to be doing something a little bit breaking from the norm. Im pretty much into anything thats energetic and is good to dance to.

i'm 20 and grown out of trance about 2 years ago.

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i'm 18, been listening for only around 3 years.

i had always liked the synthesized sound of electronic music. i first found things i liked in 80s pop (most of which was horrendous, looking back on it), alot of which used synthesizers. eventually i heard a remix of i'll fly with you by gigi d'agostino and that was basically the track that got me into electronica. from that point i started a quest to find the type of electronica that suited me most.

the 'quest' started when i downloaded the ASOT 2004 mix from some random torrent site. i thought it was the best thing i had ever heard at that point, and it probably was. from there i branched off into basically every mainstream trance DJ, but i was limited mostly to things from 2003 or later. i did this for around a year and a half, and i gathered a pretty good understanding of the more mainstream DJs.

lately (about 7-8 months) though, i've become disenchanted with the anthemic epic trance that i'd been listening to for the last few years. for the most part it was just too cheesy and overdone. i began looking for new styles. i mostly stayed within electronica, and i really got back into the chemical brothers for a few months. with my new interest in big beat i also began listening avidly to bentley rhythm ace (still love them) and boom boom satellites (out loud was good), as well as a few older breaks/big beat acts. eventually i got disinterested in them, and my tastes shifted once more. i then became interested in brit pop (oasis, the stone roses), and i still listen to those alot.

most recently, i've been getting more interested in electronica again, though not the anthemic trance i was most familiar with. i've begun looking for a more eclectic and sample based style. i had already been familiar with old school albums like paul's boutique and some of the BRA stuff, so i started looking for house tracks that piqued my interest (speaking of which if anybody has good house they can recommend PM me). though i still listen to trance somewhat, my interests are moving toward psy and hard trance, two genres i hadn't fully explored before. i've also been considering getting into classical, but i haven't done anything about that yet.

overall i'd have to say that my journey through electronica has been extremely enjoyable, and i honestly feel as though this is 'the' music style for me, or at least at this point in my life.

27, got into edm originally through house and techno around 95.Started to appreciate trance the first time i saw sven vath spin.Listened to it pretty steadily until 2003...after that other than the odd track i couldnt stomach it anymore.If i had to pick a style of trance i would still enjoy, i guess it would be tech trance.The fluffy stuff and the epic stuff makes me cringe....Viva la filthy beats

I am amazed that on a trance addict forum, how many people are saying that they aren't enthusiastic about trance any more (for the most part anyway.)

Thought I should add that I love Techno (harder kind), electro house (steve angello style - some of you will tell me this isnt't electro house but then what else is it?) and last 12 months have really started to enjoy some more proggy stuff.

It;'s funny but I think the more I listen to other genre's the more I move away from trance. Having said that I think trance is still my first choice on the whole. But I sometimes think this is more because of just how passionate I "use" to be about it

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I'm 21, Started listening to trance about a year ago. I don't like alot of Trance that's been producing right now. I've been exploring other EDM genres like Hardtrance,Tech-Trance,Hardstyle and PsyTrance. I am enjoying these different kinds of sounds from these genres But Trance is what I love the most. The sound of trance I am enjoying are from Andreas Schmidt aka Ace Da Brain and Jonas Stuer. Very warm, melodic and uplifting tracks from these guys.