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Ok this is going to be a long post so I apologize in advance.
On the subject of BT, he was first signed to Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto label in 1995 at least 3 years after some of the works we sited earlier as "trance tracks". So he is in no way responsible for the beginning of trance. He is however, one of the key players in evolving the scene and bringing dance/trance music to a wide variety of people.
Wicked Neo, Kevin Saunderson who was the main person behind Inner City was one of the original Detroit techno pioneers, he recorded some of the hardest and most mechanistic techno to come out of the Detroit but routinely hit the mainstream dance charts as well with productions for his techno-pop act Inner City. His Inner City productions consisted of much slicker, house-inspired tracks underpinning the vocal workouts by Paris Grey and his wife Ann. I think just because "Good life" hit the Top Ten in the British Charts, doesn't necessarily make it a pop hit.
Here's and article I found in one of my old magazine on the subject were discussing, I don't agree with it 100% but I'm going to post it to aid the topic at hand.
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The word tracne had been in use since way back when, but the first proper trance records wer the distinctly European pulsing sound of producers Jam & Spoon in 1992. 'Stella' and 'Age of Love' ushered in new standards of production in hard, fast dance music.
Throw in teh even faster, harder but quite similar music coming out of Germany's Eye Q and Harthouse labels, and you almost had a scene. Soon People were referring to trance as it's own genre, a trippy alternative to techno. It also took off in Goa, at tripped out full moon parties. Soon Goa trance (aka psychedelic trance)was spinning off on its own tangent, with mulit-layered records helping to mirror the LSD that was so popular on that scene.
As far as popularising trance goes, and the arpeggio'd takeover of clubs the world over, we have to tip out hats and/or point the finger at one Mr. Paul Oakenfold. Just as he did with indie dance, it was Oakie who saw the music's universal potential and turned a specialist genre into a behemoth that is now massive.
Take that what you will, hopefully new discussions arise from it.
What I'm really trying to accomplish with this thread is for us 'Trance addicts'as a whole, document the beginning and significant points to where trance began and where it is today. Once I have enough info I'm going to write an aritcle on the subject and submit it to SWAMPER to see if we can have it posted on the website, so people just joining or even addicts who have been here awhile can become better educated about the musical genre that brought us all together anyway, "TRANCE".
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Peace!
