the scene here in australia is not that big with dance/trance music but starting to get popular i guess

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Down under is great, oh so is Australia

yeah, napster sure got everyone hooked then ...

despite the popular thought that north america is retarded when it comes to everything, we do have some underground stuff going on here and there that just confirm the fact that we are retarded
however, we do have places like virgin megastore (the only one in vancouver) and we do have max graham (even tho he's not that great) and the rave scene here and fairly big for our city
when it comes to getting music, ebay, virgin, small record shops, european online stores usually do the trick. and who can forget AG and the good ol napster (back when it was still operational)

Really it's just MP3s for me down here in small town New Zealand ... I was living in Scotland until a few weeks ago and I thought I was hard done by there compared to the midlands ... alas how wrong I was! You won't hear any trance in this country if you live outside of the 3 big cities.

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Mainly MP3s for me too, but all the Gatecrasher/other popular british albums come out here and I buy them...

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Originally posted by Kia Kaha Really it's just MP3s for me down here in small town New Zealand ... I was living in Scotland until a few weeks ago and I thought I was hard done by there compared to the midlands ... alas how wrong I was! You won't hear any trance in this country if you live outside of the 3 big cities.

I would hardly say we are hard done by here in Scotland

We have one of the greatest clubs in the world (the Arches) which hosts three of the best events out. Between Inside Out, Colours and Pressure you can expect to see about 8 or 9 of the worlds top top DJ's every month. Outside of Glasgow it is pretty bleak though!

Not only am I from USA, I'm from NH, USA. Not only am I from NH, USA, I'm from Durham, NH, USA. Nowhere even near any of the three excuses for cities that NH has, which are probably Nashua, Manchester and Concord. When I buy stuff since I've downloaded it already and like it, I go to Boston because that's where the cool record shops are. HMV even has soundproof rooms so in your genre room they play that music on the system and none of the rooms can hear the other rooms, it's cool. But I have to say, I get 70% of my music from audiogalaxy (which some I then buy later) and I learn about new music both here and through my other friend who has better connection than me and he gives me big amounts of music sometimes. So mostly through connections made by other songs, people and websites do I hear about the music I haven't already listened to. I've found that advice from other people provides the fastest road towards geting new music online, dn't ever try to just find it yourself, that sometimes can be really inefficient...

ok hehe,

lets talk about america. i've been listening to trance for a while. i remember i started to get obsessed after i heard dj mirco (do europeans even know who that is? hes a ny dj) drop Gouryella - Gouryella and i knew that i wanted to be a dj. i remember after that i started to buy up a lot of stuff off the selves and found the best single dj cd...Oakenfold's tranceport. how classic is that cd hehe. then one of my best friends older brothers friend (i know this gets confusing hehe) is kinda your swinging business man living in london travelling the world and he told us about gatecrasher. we quickly bought the gatecrasher red cd and finally realized what good dance music was hehe. that of course led to more and more blah blah blah. i tell ya i'm so used to being the only one that knows anything about trance that this bored is scary hehe, but recently i'd say since maybe last october you start to hear a little bit more of it around. i remember first it was sandstorm, then you start hearing derb on the radio, then rapture of course and i shit you not only a little while ago i heard andian summer calling on the radio. great song please don't ruin it america hehhee. talk to you guys later.

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yea, i dont even get a dance radio station, i see dance on mtv2, but its like CASSTLES IN THE SKYYY x10...:-/

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Top 10:
Noel Sanger - Kali Ma (Markus Schulz Remix)
Sirocco - Destination
Paranoid Jack - The Big O
Starkid - Crayons (Smight Mix)
Mavi - Fallen
X-Press 2 - Supasong (Soul Mekanik 1 AM Mix)
Viframa - Unknown (2003)
Rollerball - Albinoni
Nugen - Deliverance
Matthew Dekay - Passion

As far as the trance club scene goes:

In the Bay Area CA most of the music that is played is Carl Cox style (Hard house ?) NRG (blah), and more progressive non-melodic/non-uplifting stuff.

Trance, deep trance, uplifting trance is only played at a couple of clubs and their track selection usually is pretty poor and stays completely away from anything remotely popular. Everyone here is afraid of being trendy, so we end up with a lot of ugly, cutting edge progressive music that is good to dance to, but lacks any emotion.

Radio play:

We only have trance played on the college radio stations around for only a couple hours out of every day.

So I found out and got into good trance with Napster and TrancEaddic

i did see dj tiesto - urban train (or is it suburban?) on mtv2 late at night one time but thats as good as it got that boring rainy night. the internet by far is the best place for me to get trance, despite the fact that i live in ny, and not to mention i have no record player(or at least a working one)

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Where I live in Belgium most of my (uninitiated) friends look at me as if I'm a cretin when I tell them I'm into trance. Not a chance of hearing it in a club/at a party either.