whats this euro trance stuff? compared to what, american trance?

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soulful/latin/deep house + jazz

Let's see...

- Some semi-cheesey stuff (Benny Benassi - Satisfaction), and some really cheesey stuff (Ian van Dahl... ugh), not Euro-Dance though, really
- Trance... for 6 months or so
- Progressive trance
- Carl Cox-style techno
- Progressive house
- Lately progressive breaks

Right now it's mostly prog, and alil techno. I've been into EDM for just about a year.

1978- Heard pop's James Brown records and liked em. Was fascinated by Sugar Hill Gang's "Rappers Delight"

1982- Entered the breakdance scene and became a B-boy.

1983- Discovered reggae here and there.

1984- Discovered the difference between rapper and popper.

1985- Left breakdance scene.

1986- Listened to rap on radio when it came on.

1987- Started recording Nintendo music, love of "electronica" was born forever.

1988- Got 1st turntable and the vinyl "Rap The Beat" for 12th birthday. Love of rap solidified for many years. Wrote first rap called "RC Pro Am rap".

1992- Got deeply into reggae, namely dancehall. Recorded everything I heard on radio shows. Got first mixer and began mixing everything. Began buying at least $150 of rap vinyl each year.

1994- Heard a remix of Two Tribes by FrankieGTH. Liked "trance" but couldn't find much. Still recorded video gamed music, along with listening to anime soundtracks.

1996- Formed group with longtime friends Hammiz & Ice called "Da Box Bustiz" and wrote 95+ tracks of rap, rock/metal, reggae/junglist/dub between then and the fall of 2001.

1997- Left "hip hop scene" as I saw it was becoming a commercialized/mainstream piece of shit joke of a genre it is today. Still recorded and wrote raps though.

1999- Heard new electronia in line for Star Wars tickets. Reasearched more. Found "trance" in summer of 1999. Downloaded anything and everything on Napster. Trance is what I listen to 95% of the time up till now.

Electronica (Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, etc)
EuroDance (Ministry of Sound and Cream compilation albums)
Trance
Tech Trance
Techno, Tech-House, House

still love some good trance, but I just need something more now

Pretty much only New Order and Front 242 while I waited for Trance to be born

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Top 40's
Industrial
Punk
Techno
Acid House
Trance
Breaks
Progessive

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Eurodance
Trance
Prog
House
Techno
Breaks

IDM next?!

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"Trance is dead. Ferry Corsten killed it." -Ishkur

early 90's - The Cure
mid 90's - House
late 90's - Goa, Psy Trance
early 00 - Trance
Right now - still trance, but heading into breaks and prog.

Pop
Euro
Trance
Progressive
Progressive breaks
Progressive

beginning:

hip-hop
eurotrance
trance
hardhouse
trance
techno
trance
house
trance
progressive
breaks
drum & bass
ambient/experimental
rock

end

nowdays i listen to: mostly rock (trail of dead, motorpsycho, explosions in the sky, moguai etc), progressive & breaks (holden, zabiela, nathan fake, sasha, luke chable, slacker etc. labels: alternative route, bedrock, border community, end rec, jukebox in the sky, cuba etc.), ambient & experimental (warp).

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beginning:

hip-hop
eurotrance
trance
hardhouse
trance
techno
trance
house
trance
progressive
breaks
drum & bass
ambient/experimental
rock

end

nowdays i listen to: mostly rock (trail of dead, motorpsycho, explosions in the sky, moguai etc), progressive & breaks (holden, zabiela, nathan fake, sasha, luke chable, slacker etc. labels: alternative route, bedrock, border community, end rec, jukebox in the sky, cuba etc.), ambient & experimental (warp).

ps, trance was with me for a very long time, but i never listen to it anymore. and in case you wondered, i don't miss it either.

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BEGINNING (when I first got into music, age 10 or so)

- Most pop music (spice girls , trance that was on the radio (Robert Miles, Lost Witness, etc)

- Around 1999 I went off pop and listened to more dance, like the trance on Ibiza, Breakdown, Euphoria, etc compilations. And big 1999 tunes. Also was into Eminem (heh, I still listen to Marshall Mathers LP)

- 2000 I bought more trance CDs Decided I was interested in being DJ, mainly so I could play all that great music. Bought my first vinyls at the end of 2000, even though I had no decks, except the crappy deck on my dad's hi-fi.

- 2001, trance addiction continued. Listened to as many trance shows as I could on Beat 106, a local station. Heard Strange World (2000 remake), Flesh (Tiesto mix) for the first time, tunes that would become some of my all-time favourites. Saved up money, and bought decks by the end of the year.

- 2002, my personal favourite year for trance. That year I didn't really listen to much except uplifting trance, and a bit of other styles of trance, like tech-trance.

- 2003, continued loving trance, but my tastes started to diversify a bit - not only getting into more prog trance and tech-trance, but listening to other styles of music too, especially Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, rock stuff like that.

Now it's 2004 and I still listen to trance. I still like uplifting, but I'm quite fussy now (to be honest I don't think my taste in uplifting has changed much, there's just less good stuff and more ASOT crap), I like plenty prog and tech trance. Apart from trance I listen to a bit from most styles, like electronic (Underworld, Unkle, Faithless...), still into RHCP, not as much into Foo's and I also like hiphop (underground stuff I don't know the names of, also NERD, Snoop, etc). I'm more open-minded about music than ever, in my playlist and CD collection you'd find some rap, some hard rock, some electronic, and I plan to get into even more good music of different genres...

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