Please stop using that word.

I suppose it is better than calling it prog though

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Originally posted by djnitride Please stop using that word. I suppose it is better than calling it prog though

It's been labelled that by quite a few labels, I think there's no way back now!

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Originally posted by RossB94 It's been labelled that by quite a few labels, I think there's no way back now!

Worthless labels.

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Originally posted by RossB94 This "Trouse" idea sounds great on paper.. whether the paper is made out of shit I'm yet to find out.. Another Trouse producer = Ben Gold??

Ben Gold sounds completely different than this, something between prog and tech trance.

"Trouse" producers i'd consider:

-Avicii
-Laidback Luke
-SHM

Well i consider that trouse is a commercial style... so labels started using the term... wether they're worthless or not i think there's no turning back, Tiësto must be proud, he invented a genre... according to Wikipedia the first trance song was Age of Love , what is the first trouse song?¿ It's exciting to witness how a genre borns but it's difficult to make a mental idea of it.

Certainly the 1990 trance is completely different to the actual "trance" so for dignity of the true genre a new name was needed

It would have been better if vertigo-house would have stayed back in the early 90s.

Many early 90's track now could be called Trouse after Trance became popular.
Trouse also could be Tribal House instead of Trance House like the first one below.

IMO eg:

Astrospider - Ritmista!
Get Decor - Passion
Chubby Chunks - Testament One (1993)




No, I don't think we need Trouse, fuck it

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Originally posted by euphoria You can produce a house track at the same bpm as a trance track and it doesn't make it trance. It also has to do with the sounds used, and the overall layout of the beats among other elements. Your assumption sounds extremely narrow minded. If a song has a really slow BPM it doesn't automatically mean that its house. It can be deep progressive trance for example. Many trance tracks are based on the 4x4 beats whereas house is more variable.

i disagree with this. ive asked about this before and never got a clear answer, just as theres no clear definition laid out in your explanation above "sounds used ... overall layout of the beats". i dont think its being narrow minded its just speaking in a general sense and not being overly anal about definitions. 99% of trance tracks are around 135bpm. 99% of house is 125-128bpm. bpm is not the sole difference, its just a really really big one, the main one.

theres certain things about trance that you dont get in house. trance had more storylike cinematic themes - hard to explain in words. very few house tracks have the same hypnotic melodic elements that some of the great trance classics had.

In general, you can see this in house too but less often, in trance you rarely see a track without:

-Strings
-Rolling bassline
-Punchy kick

more... thinking.

Bah, Norman Feller was making 'trance-house' way back in '93.



Admittedly, one of the other cuts from that EP was anything but house.

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Originally posted by stevö 99% of trance tracks are around 135bpm.

No, wrong. The typical epic trance tempo is 140bpm. The typical progressive trance tempo is closer to 130bpm. Psy trance is often clocked at 150bpm. Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace, arguably the first trance record, is 120bpm. This track is at 110bpm, but most people would say it's very trancey:

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