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| quote: | Originally posted by Darkarbiter
Well they may induce the trance pheonmena, but as mentioned none of those acts are technically trance, not even classic trance.
Orbital is a confusing one though, I never understood why he's techno and not trance? |
Orbital genre-wise mostly belong to the early-90s "intelligent techno" movement (giving rise to later-term-IDM, although the term IDM nowadays is used to refer mostly to Autechre/Aphex Twin copy-cats/production-styles)-the golden era of electronic music- and as every "intelligent" artist of the period (Black Dog, B12, Biosphere, Aphex Twin, FSOL,The Orb, ì-Ziq, LFO, some releases by Pete Namlook etc.) they used to "flirt" with everything- techno, trance, ambient, house, breaks, world-beat, ethnic, dub etc. They surely have some german trance elements but presented in a more elegant, slower/more gentle way and i believe that some "epic" tracks such as Halcyon+on+on, the Lush series etc. had influenced the mid-90s style of epic house/progressive trance/house. The early 90s was a very revolutionary free-style era were many musicians had a style of his/her/their own. It was like the psychedelic 60s and 70s prog-rock but substituting the quitars with synths, drum-machines and samplers. Too bad that after 2000 (probably earlier) things started to become more "standard" and "clinical".
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