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Originally posted by SPANIARD Nice. By any chance, you have any sets by him from around that time? Would be interesting to hear what he played back then.

His first CD (I think called Rise), I can look it up later, had a lot of tracks from his mixtape "Prophecy". Only 4 tracks on the CD were not on Prophecy. The 4 tracks not on Prophecy were awesome but Prophecy has got to be one of the single best mixes ever put together. You can put that tape on and really zone out.

Unfortunately I don't have that tape any more but you can probably find that CD. It's an acceptable substitute.

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Yup it was Rise
http://www.discogs.com/release/134484

I also had a 12" of probably his first big track "navigator". It captured that '96 - '98 scene vibe kinda well. Not sure if I still have it though. If you can find that you can get an idea of what he was like then. I actually have barely heard any of his stuff since '99.

Last edited by ohbeone on Mar-31-2008 at 18:13

Cheers for the info

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced any party from 2003 and back I only remember bits and pieces...i've combined those memories into one awesome party

Oh man I just remembered one of the other best mixes from those days.

DJ Trance - Acid House '96. Much good stuff on that.
Shortly after he changed to Jason Blakemore since what trance meant had changed.

Who can forget, RAW - Redrums...blaarghahghaghag (homer simpson drool sound)

found the first cd i burnt when i got a burner

pvd - for an angel 98
atb - 9 pm
atb - dont stop
moby - we are all made of stars (tiesto remix)
u2 - elevation (pvd vandit mix)
dj sammy - boys of summer (thats right bitches)
pvd- face to face - piano out take
tiesto flight 643
darude - drums of new york

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Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs I didn't mean genres, it was a figure of speech for my many nights of being completely smashed on substances... As for other releases I remember having a fancy for, Tunnel Trance Force rings a bell .

Okay, I also used to listen to Rave and some (Happy) Hardcore next to your examples.

By the way Tunnel Trance Force still exists, No 44 !!!, although I didn't listen recently.
www.tunnel.de

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Longest (classic) Trance playlist on YouTube (5000 tracks released up to and including 1997), click here

Tooo many to mention, but this is a track that started my interest for electronic music.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vzaBJlVqcTw

And here is a list of all my favourite tracks in my life (also alot of commercial trance there, which i liked at my beginning):

http://www.addicted-music.info/alie...efavourites.htm

I just admitted to have spent money on the Vengaboys album in the other thread, I don't need to be embarassed again.

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i remember laut sprecher - omnibus was all over the radio when i was just getting into EDM and i looooooooved that one
i also was listening to
Velvet Skies - Planet Violet forget which mix but when i went on youtube to check i felt about 100x gayer for listing this after watching the video...
noemi - in my dreams
dj session one - journey through time
holy men's color of sound

god i know there was more and it is all horribly embarrassing i am sure i will have to do some searching

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Well said. I enjoyed reading your experience and it makes me reflect on my own. I was reminded of my first party. I actually can't remember the name anymore but it was sometime toward the end of '96. I had barely even heard a little mellow trance. A mixtape which started with Robert Miles - Children. I had no idea what the dj's were doing. I thought they would take a drum beat from one record and sample it then take a synth from another record and sample that and put them together lol! I had only been told they were 'mixing'. Anyway the venue I was at was an old place originally made for a boxing arena. So the dancefloor was basically down in the area where the boxing ring would be. I was sitting on a railing behind the crowd just watching people dance with my head in the path of a lazer getting totally lost in the whole spectacle of it all. I definitely wanted more but had no idea I would ever fall in love with the music, the dancing and the whole experience so much. I just love when a crowd stops being a crowd and a dj stops being a dj and everyone is just lost in the moment, on the same vibe, experiencing something beyond just partying. That's what it's all about to me.

I started my edm journey with a lot of scooter and tiesto. As ridiculous as Scooter is, I still love all of their insturmental tracks to this day, there are some really good ones. Other then that, they are the catchiest group ever hah.

With that said, I'm very glad I've come a long way since then.

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Originally posted by SPANIARD Cheers for the info

I just realized something awesome about this. I was driving to work thinking about the good ol days of '96-'99 and how there was a style of trance that just doesn't seem to exist anymore and then realized that on Christopher Lawrence's Rise CD is one of the best tracks I can remember from that period. I even knew it was track 5 lol so I looked it up. Magic Alec: Resonance. This song has one of those buildups that not only gets you building up and up but it explodes into a nice frenzy of 303's and awesomeness that always made any crowd go insane. This was one of the tracks not on his Prophecy mixtape and the track is also on a Thomas Michael Tape: Supernova of which I've been trying to track down but to no avail.

Anyway i just wanted to comment on that. Definitely find Rise. It's a great disc. And I noticed that htfr and other record stores have resonance '96 presses so I might even have to pick it up.

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Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs Marc Et Claude - I Need Your Lovin' (Like The Sunshine) OceanLab - Clear Blue Water Spiller - Groove Jet* Sylver - Turn The Tide* Fragma - Everytime You Need Me York - Farewell To The Moon

Gosh, I remember those.
Time passes by like a highspeed train when you stay at the platform of a train station in a small village - "whooosh-ziuuu!"

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