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Originally posted by trancepunkk just so u know, dirty south is one person anywayyyy....i have really hated this massive rise in cheesy electro tunes this year (dunno about you guys but it has become immensely popular in aus) and their hasnt been that much happening in terms of trance, if it werent for above and beyond, bt and svd the music this year for trance would have sucked...

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thanx for the clarification.

the cheesy electro tunes are popular all over the world now , thats why , if you go to clubs with people just going out to dance , you will see it is the best sound that keeps people dancing .I am not talking about people who have a good knowledge in edm , just the majority of clubbers , its the in sound right now , i like some of it , but the rest is pure cheese , i agree.

However , i think there has been alot of good trance this year , besides above and beyond and svd , check out kamil polner , optik , aurosonic , alex monakhov , oh .. just look at my previous post , lol.

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Originally posted by Sykonee On the trance side, the biggest pushes appeared in prog psy and neo-trance, both of which seem to be reproducing trance's initial appeal (hypnotic stylee).

i don't believe i'm familiar with this term... but i'm intrigued? especially since i've been liking alot of prog-psy (admittedly more on the prog side than the psy side) this year

as for uplifting trance... there's been FAR too much of the 'discover sound' dominating just about every set i've heard this year resulting in alot of it sounding samey. hopefully it won't be too long before discover's bubble bursts & everyone gets sick of them

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Originally posted by isoterra i don't believe i'm familiar with this term... but i'm intrigued? especially since i've been liking alot of prog-psy (admittedly more on the prog side than the psy side) this year as for uplifting trance... there's been FAR too much of the 'discover sound' dominating just about every set i've heard this year resulting in alot of it sounding samey. hopefully it won't be too long before discover's bubble bursts & everyone gets sick of them

I think there is a certain amount of hype involved in neo-trance, its yet another subgenre of a subgenre

But in my opinion it is just a word to describe that some older trance sounds are starting to appear in other genres - be that minimal, electro or tech house.

I know beatport is not a good source of 'genre' filing, but they added Abyss - Mind Games as tech-house. This is as good example of neo-trance that i can think of.

Hearing those kind of tracks out at a party (when you were not expecting them to appear) are a far greater buzz for me this year, than going to an advertised trance night and partying to as you say Discover trance.

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Originally posted by isoterra i don't believe i'm familiar with this term... but i'm intrigued? especially since i've been liking alot of prog-psy (admittedly more on the prog side than the psy side) this year as for uplifting trance... there's been FAR too much of the 'discover sound' dominating just about every set i've heard this year resulting in alot of it sounding samey. hopefully it won't be too long before discover's bubble bursts & everyone gets sick of them

Listen to Sven Vath's Mysteryland set from this August. That will give you a good sense of how the word is being applied.

Some artists in on the act are:

Mathew Jonson
Gabriel Ananda
Gregor Tresher
Deetron
Tom Pooks
Extrawelt

Some labels where so-called "neotrance" has recently appeared:

Kompakt Extra
Datapunk
Cocoon
Great Stuff Recordings
Wagon Repair
Treibstoff

Some examples are:

Tom Pooks - Pablo Assan's
Gregor Tresher - The Now People
Deetron - Isotope
Tigerskin - Neontrance
Gabriel Ananda & Cio D'or - Lauschgoldengel
Extrawelt - Titelheld

Mathew Jonson - Marionette came a bit before the neotrance "wave", as did Hawtin's DE9 stuff (such as The Tunnel), but both could also be included as examples.

Great stuff, this. It made my year.

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Originally posted by kr00t0n I certainly think 2006 has been a better year for trance than 2004/2005.

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cheers for the replies rvk/cobalt..

i've just been checking out alot of the aforementioned artists via samples on beatport. while alot of it seems musically quite fresh, i just can't get into the whole 'soft kick' thing.. i'd have to re-edit most of those tracks with stronger kickdrums if i wanted to make use of them. the style kinda reminds me of âme - rej.. i remember hearing a dj play a re-edited version of that a couple of months back; all it did was layer a stronger, more danceable kick on top but it worked nicely


gabriel ananda - tai nasha no karosha.. this i quite liked.. although it's a bit older. has more drive to it

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Originally posted by isoterra cheers for the replies rvk/cobalt.. i've just been checking out alot of the aforementioned artists via samples on beatport. while alot of it seems musically quite fresh, i just can't get into the whole 'soft kick' thing.. i'd have to re-edit most of those tracks with stronger kickdrums if i wanted to make use of them. the style kinda reminds me of âme - rej.. i remember hearing a dj play a re-edited version of that a couple of months back; all it did was layer a stronger, more danceable kick on top but it worked nicely gabriel ananda - tai nasha no karosha.. this i quite liked.. although it's a bit older. has more drive to it

Ame - Rej (Pastaboys Club Mix) is the one that drives along in my sets

The drive comes when you pitch up these tracks to a trance-serviceable 138 - 140.. although maybe Cobalt will not agree there, I think that they then sound very 1995-96 techno/trance hybrid genre style rather than glitchy

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I enjoyed a lot of the trance that was around this year and there was plenty to keep me happy. However the amount of Tyas style records that were around didn't really help the genre. Also the type of style championed by Giovanni Otiovanni seemed to be really popular however I really dislike this type of stuff. 'Linking People' was a lot of peoples favourite tune at the time but I absolutely hate it!!

Some of my favourite producers this year were lange vs gareth emery, david west, above and beyond, menno de jong and various others and there was some awesome stuff out! However there seemed to be a slight shift away from the uplifting style of trance that I adore, tunes such as 8 Wonders - Sex on the Beach were hard to come by but there was still a lot of other quality stuff, but the floaty trance that I adore was definately lacking a bit!

While the productions were generally good I was quite diasppointed with the quality of the DJs. A lot of trance jocks seem to be playing similar sets, and seemed to choose tunes that weren't really my favourites. This was not always the case and I heard some fantastic DJ sets from Above and Beyond, M.I.K.E., Matt Hardwick, Ben Gold, DJ Yahel, Johan Gielen and various others. However there have been other DJs who have been far more disappointing and I seem to be hard pressed to find the uplifting euphoric sets that I once thrived on!! Here's to next year and hopefully more floaty trance!! For a start that 8 Wonders track is being released in Jan!

Oh, and also on another note, I started DJing in the summer and will hopefully have my first mix up on the board within the next week!

I started going to house, breaks and minimal parties this year and I've enjoyed them a lot.
Then I went to see Tiesto in November and it made me realise how much I still love trance.

So from what I've heard this year, it's been a good one across the board.

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Originally posted by Sykonee 2006 was the year the word electro lost all meaning. On the trance side, the biggest pushes appeared in prog psy and neo-trance, both of which seem to be reproducing trance's initial appeal (hypnotic stylee). Heck, even some epic trance producers went for a simpler sound this year, although their arrangements are still predicitble as fuck. We're probably on the verge of a retro trance emergence. I suspect this will be the hot sound of 2007, on all fronts. (prays for the return of acid along with it)

I agree, the cycle is coming around again and I think we will see the early retro trance sound come back and with a new twist hopefully. Hell, it already came around for house, now it should progressively shift to early trance.

Since the legal clubbing age in Toronto is 19 and turning 19 in 2006, I found myself learning more than anything. I think the one thing it confirmed for me (I had always thought this, but never really had physical proof to insure my brain I wasn't crazy) that big names really do not guarentee a good party, good music does. In a year I saw Deep Dish, Armin, Oakie, Kleinenberg etc, I can say that non of these supposed legeneds of the decks brought anything quite that exciting to my ears. I have learned that I am not a natural clubber this year, I can't just go out to see a DJ for the sake of it, I must need some encouragement. The city I live in is full of misleading fake little boys with headphones that are nothing more than followers and anyone who has eyes and isn't afraid to offend anyone can see it. Respect to the people here that are the exception to that rule and want to be unique, this goes for DJ's globally.

From the music side, it was like any other: there was really bad, commercial stuff that everyone hated on and made assumptions about entire genres based on 2 or 3 tracks and there was lots of good stuff by people who no one has ever heard of. Pretty much like every other year.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced any party from 2003 and back I only remember bits and pieces...i've combined those memories into one awesome party