Breaks are definitely making their impact into Trance (I expect that by 2004 it'll almost be 50-50 between breaks and 4 beat)
I personally luv em, but it pisses me a bit that most artist have to do breakbeats in a few of their tracks just to show they're cool and they know how.

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1998 and 1999 has been a very good year for oakenfold. Unfortunatley For him he is trying to gain somekind of new style into his music , and fans of oakie are finding it hard to like his new styles as they are to familiar with his old styles .

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" You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert."

My mate went to see him on friday at GodsKitchen, he played little or no breaks, his mixing was spot on, track selection was very good
his last 6 tracks were..
"amoeba assassin - Piledriver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oakie - southern sun
ppk - resureection (unknown new mix thats meant to be incredible)
cj bolland the prophet
mauro picotto lizard
M-Diva - Reachin out"
Don't sound bad to me

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Originally posted by patticus if you guys havent noticed, this style and QUALITY of trance doesnt exist anymore. or else every other dj would be playing.. the closest we get are the usual suspects. its not like oakie was the only good dj in 1999, EVERYONE ELSE was playing trance too. even sasha... if u look at his older essential mixes, they whip ANYBODY's ass... wicked trance.. so basically forget about 1999, and either love or hate the breaks

Its not like every dj is playing breaks, oakenfold seems to be the only one. IMO breaks suck, and will definatly not be the next big thing.

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Originally posted by Az My mate went to see him on friday at GodsKitchen, he played little or no breaks, his mixing was spot on, track selection was very good his last 6 tracks were.. "amoeba assassin - Piledriver!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oakie - southern sun ppk - resureection (unknown new mix thats meant to be incredible) cj bolland the prophet mauro picotto lizard M-Diva - Reachin out" Don't sound bad to me

Hey, don't sound bad to me!

I've got nothing against breaks, but it just doesn't evolve the same emotions out of me as it does in Trance.. give me my bloodi trance back! We're not b-boys!

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Melodic Progressive.

Better than sex.

Oakie getting back to trance is definately a good thing, the energy he had in his old sets was amazing, and the tricks he pulled whilst mixing lizard were out of this world according to my mate jon, we can expect good things from him this year

I remember the first time I saw Oakie live was back in 2000 at Homelands. What can I say absolutely amazing, I used to love his style of trance. the whole setup for those two hours left me gasping all the lights lasers and sound system. I remember recording each one of his world tours and listening to them on the bus on the way to college. I thought theey were pretty good. But since then for me he has gone pretty downhill. Playing to much commmercial vocal cheese, gone are the days when oaki used to set the trends and play choonz b4 anybody else played them. But then this was in the months leading up to the whole commercialisation of trance music before every tom dick and harry knew what trance was. More to the point Oaki has started to go more commercial, i was not one bit impressed when I watched him live at the NEC last October. i hope he moves back to his old more successful self. Enough of my waffling I am off!

I'm seeing The Chemical Bro feat. Oakenfold & Sasha & Digweed April 20th. I'll tell ya how it goes.

ok ok...ive commented on this from last years big oakey thread...even though you guys think he's played out and all, the man is a fuckin genius in terms of his musical selection. he's been behind several different music movements of the late 80's and early 90's. he's got a production list a mile long, a shweet ass record label w/ ma ho bag jan johnson signed....and he kicks ass in person. i think he's still one of the best dj's in the world...

check yaself b4 u wreck yaself

wurd son

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Originally posted by torontotrance Paul Oakenfold will always have a place in my music history because of his 1999 essential mix world tour. I personally don't like him now but the man will always be a legend in my book.

same here too.
His ess mixes from 1999 will never be beaten!!!

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Best of the best:
Laurent Garnier - sambu

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Originally posted by wookieslut dude there is like 3 other threads on this...stick to one of them ok?

Fuck off with these comments please. I have better things to do with my time than sit in front of my computer and refresh these forums.

I especially like the 2 years @ cream cds. Download it or buy it.

I hardly hear of people talk about his "perfecto presents another world" 2 disc releases back one or two years ago. The build up in energy to timo mass - ubik is fantastic. The first couple of tracks have an interesting bass to it that feels kinda unique.