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depends where you live....
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance man
Hey the tracklist is good.. but there are some old tracks there which I wouldn't want to hear in a club like Rank1 - Airwave, 1998 and For an Angel.. Those tracks are great, but they are sooo overplayed..
I reccomend you to play the track
'Flutlicht-Icarus(Daedalus Mix)' ( which you can get in this site  ) I just listenned to it and it's fu**ing awesome..I'm sure the crowd will love it. Good luck |
It all depends on where you live... I have been to lots of trance parties and trance club nights here in the Victoria, BC, Canada, where most trance is NOT mainstream and still relatively underground... I have NEVER heard Airwave, 1998 or For an Angel at ANY event I have been to, so in this area they ARE NOT overplayed. I think a lot of DJs take their music a little too seriously (not that this is necessarily a bad thing) and aren't willing to play any well-known anthems. Obviously some of them are overplayed on compilations and mixed CDs, but that doesn't mean cuz people might have it on CD they shouldn't be played at parties. Most people (including me) LOVE to hear tracks that they recognize, so DJs shouldn't go to the other extreme and ONLY play unknown underground tracks.
Personally I would LOVE to hear some of my personal favourite anthems at parties sometimes... so far the only big well known anthems I have heard at parties here have been Freefall - Skydive (once), Robert Miles - Children (once or twice), Bedrock - Heaven Scent (once), Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation (a few times), Delerium - Silence (a few times) and maybe a few others, but that's all I can remember right now... Normally, we don't hear many well known anthems here. Most Trance DJs (at least here) prefer playing more underground less-known tracks (or at least not the anthems), but DJs shouldn't be afraid to throw in the occasional anthem (most of them are anthems for a reason - cuz they are awesome tracks)
DJs should also remember that not everyone is as well-versed in the music as they are. They should be playing to the crowd and not ONLY for themselves or fellow DJs or the few people there that are as well-versed in the music as they are. I'm sure that many tracks that are considered anthems and overplayed in other places, like Europe, many people here have rarely or never even heard and would not even recognize them at a party.
Sorry if I'm ranting here, but I'm dissapointed with a lot of the trance I've been hearing lately at parties, especially a party I went to here last Saturday where most of the music was fairly bland and boring (minimal and bass heavy) without many good builds or breakdowns... It was mostly the type of music that in my opinion does NOT make good party music. Sure some great tracks were played, but in my opinion it was more suitable for listening in your car or at home or work rather than at a party... There was also a complete lack of cheesy stuff, which isn't always a bad thing or even necessary... But, It can really help get the crowd into it and pumped up... Altho, even some of the best progressive anthems with great builds are not cheesy at all... There's lots of great trance out there and I'm just not hearing it on a regular basis, except from a few good DJs.
I can't complain about all the parties I've been to though... I've also heard some great progressive epic trance. About a month ago, I went to a party where Scott Stubbs (from Las Vegas) spun an incredibly uplifting set of hard fast progressive trance. I didn't recognizing barely any tracks from that set, some of which sounded anthemic and could have very well been anthems that I'm not familiar with or just really awesome new underground music, so either way it can be done...
I guess I'm ranting more about too much bland (non-party)trance at parties and not enuff of the much preferred uplifting progressive/epic trance, regardless of whether the tracks are well known anthems or underground gems.
Sal
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love them.
A MUST HAVE!!!
