I've been listening to trance for years now, but I still consider myself new to it -- just because there so much music out there to listen to -- so many genres. I mean even though a lot of the music sounds similar there are individual things about them that are unique. A song can start playing and I will automatically know which song it is as soon as the beat drops -- even though I haven't heard the song for years...

I feel that trance is only a gateway to itself [well in my case at least]. I've been listening to hiphop, rock and alternative my whole life -- but when I started listening to trance it slowly took over all my play lists. I just started spinning this week and I'm actually excited about it -- but hearing people say that trance is dead kinda gives me second thoughts about it -- sh*t...I'm not spinning for myself...

I don't understand why people would flame others just for the genre of trance they listen to. In the long run -- trance is trance -- you have to be open to it if you are a true trance head. Or, just respect it for what it is.

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Originally posted by Clovis So is iclone.

haha on th post we got out of subject... i love this forum!!!

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If trance has any influence, it's only the good one. It can really change one's character and seeing of the world.

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Originally posted by TranceIsFreedom If trance has any influence, it's only the good one. It can really change one's character and seeing of the world.

Probably the most positive comment since my paradoxal list...

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Actually, now that I think of it. My first experience with EDM was way back in the early 90s with Prodigy (Experience, and the jolted album), The Chemical Brothers and KDMF. After that I started listening to Latin Music, like Salsa, Bachatta and Merengue. Learned to dance to it and even sang it at a few occasions. Even through I had not idea what the words meant, but I have listened to the tracks enough times to remember the lyrics. The rhythm that I picked up from these genres (especially Salsa) gave me the awesome dance moves that I now use to dance to EDM. Then it was off to Hip-Hop and Rap. Damn, those were some crazy years. (Not worth talking about). I found trance while searching for techno. Picked up a few tracks by accident and didn’t even know that I was listening to trance until some friends pointed it out.

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Originally posted by iclone a reading from the book of TXTA :

LMAO. I think I know that song.,,

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Originally posted by DJ Bly How has Trance affected you? Do favoring a certain genre of trance like vocal, and epic make you a calmer person while hardcore and dark trance invoke a more aggressive personality?

i'm not writing all that shit again.

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Originally posted by noikeee i'm not writing all that shit again.

I know... I am soooo sooo sorry people. I think my brief apology thread got more hits than anything else I've posted. that was not pretty... =|

I call for url stays and title of the site changes.....

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hmmm, trance influence, my guessing for how the general story goes:

Its late 90's/early 00's, you are generally a lonely and perhaps geeky awkward teenager without their own little clique of cool kids in high school.

You get on napster/torrents/tranceaddict/digitallyimported or have an older brother or weird friend who has revealed this new thing called trance to you. You fall in love with it, you see the videos of the massives with the mega hordes of happy glowing people and feel like you are finally part of something, because you see something that you can fit in with.

You suddenly become nicer and happier and download a shit ton of tunes and dress funny, you aren't old enough to actually see these people in person yet, you just collect music and fantasize. You get ambitous about revealing this wonderful new thing to all the oblivous people you know and becoming mega rave superstar.

Its mid 00's your an adult now, you go out a lot, maybe you have trouble finding that amazing party that you were hoping for, but you search, and eventually you find one event. It is some amazing climactic experience for you, the closest the the fufillment of those teenage fantasies that you will ever get. You dive deep into your partying at this point, you have a little group of people you run around with and just love to death.

Give it a couple more years, no party since that first amazing thing has ever pleased you quite as much, your awesome group of friends have moved on with their lives and you don't see them around anymore, the sound is different, the parties are disappointing you, you are more observant of what is going on around you and realize that things have always been this way. You feel like you are in high school all over again.

It forks in two directions from here, you either adapt or grow cold. You will reach this "dont give a fuck" stage where rather than being this empathic sweet happy person you are perhaps a braver, louder, and brutally honest type. It doesn't necessarily mean you get rude, but you no longer have this fantasy in your head that you are chasing and trying to resemble.


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you start out all happy and sensitive then you just don't care anymore about what other people think and just do whatever the hell you want.

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I love your posts.

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