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Black people don't produce trance because trance isn't funky.
I'm sorry if that sounds "racist" to anyone but tap your PC brakes for a second and think about it: blacks created jazz, funk, soul, and house. The North American black community has always been ingenious at taking the inventions of boring white academic stiffs and turning it into something cool.
I'm not trying to bash trance here, please understand that, but trance is the culmination of "white" music. Straight 4/4 beats with no swing, carefully-crafted structure and sounds based on established formulas, and rigid adherence to Classical (even Baroque) chord progressions and motifs. If there's ever a remix of popular music, it's almost always rock music or emo punk.
Most of the black people *I* have been out with like to dance. They get funky. They don't wave their hands in the air. Again, make whatever inane PC comments you want about how I'm stereotyping but I live in a place with a huge black population (Toronto) and I think I've observed enough to make that call.
This is not to say that there aren't exceptions - of course there are. But you're never going to see a lot of black trance producers, nor are you going to see a large black trance audience. It's just the way it is.
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2009-02-21 - DJ Attention @ I'm So Popular
2009-06-18 - DJ Annoying @ People Need To Know Where I'll Be
2012-11-32 - DJ Insufferable ɸ Or At Least the Stalkers I Complain About
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