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Originally posted by Omega_Blue because it's obvious that black people don't listen to trance

This is a reason I also like dance music so much. OK, not for the lack of black people, but moreover to avoid the insesant infestation of hip hop heads and their ghetto folk and the troubles/bad vibes they bring to a party. House and Hip hop go hand and hand in the USA, but what about other countries? One thing I love about dance music is the variety of people that like it, the open mindeedness they have, their relatively above average intelligence, and most of them I've found have pleasant attitudes towards life, which contrasts the pervasive negativity, apathy, and ignorance of society as a whole. Not to say there are not morons in the dance scene.

I'm 23, Trance listener since the start of 2002.
One year ago I started research more about the 99/2000 era to check the hype about that period, and I confess the tracks back in the time were more interesting to hear, imo...
Each track sounded more different and was more "experimental", not the formulaic trance of 2004 and today.

My visions on trance:
- proper uplifting/euphoric trance is not more the main focus in the genre, giving space to more tech or prog sounds... read below
- markus schulz & crew minimal prog will continue...
- the prog trance producers (not mcprog or minimal prog included) are getting more prog house elements... a fusion of both genres, like used to be in the past...
- techtrance will continue to grow too, with strong influences of sander van doorn...
- psytrance will get more influences of trance, with more artists producing "morning" psy, using more melodic elements...
- talking about productions, psy prog (main the "dark" fashion) is getting close to the prog trance (not mc or minimal prog included)
- a new genre is starting: electro trance, with ferry corsten, marco v and m.i.k.e. being the starters, like noticed in their last artist albums...

other observations:
- jonas steur will keep using his bells samples and soon people will bash him, like happened to probspot... maybe jonas will buy a new sample pack and other vsts...
- gabriel e dresden fans will keep turning into g & d haters cus they r not more producing stuff about beautiful things or incoming rushes...
- paul van dyk will keep in first in the djmag pop pool, cus tiesto is not more a menace since the disaster in isos5 and is getting marketing problems...
- the above statement can be false if the new tiesto album get success, since bt is the main head in the project now, cus there was a change in the tiesto studio engineers (check the thread "tiesto 2000 engineer")...
- software will keep owning mixes, leaded by appleton life, close minded "i like to live in the past" purists will keep hating this, cus vinil is the bestest, and a set not mixed with vinil will sux always, till when is sasha mixing...
- mp3s releases will get more focus than vinil releases, since its more rentable to labels, cus its more interesting sell tons of average music in mp3 than one good release on vinil...
- im tired now... going to lunch... argentina 6 x 0 servia e montenegro, good game uh?

** this post is my humble oppinion, thanks for the reading, enjoy brasil team in the cup, ronaldinho for US president. **

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Im 20. Started listening to trance in 2000. I got into it by listening to trance radioshows. Back then there was tons of trance shows on commercial radio which used to air everyday. My first fav trance track that got me hooked to the genre was jan johnston - flesh (tiesto mix). I didnt fully get into it until around 2002/2003 where there was huge amount of excellent tracks being churned out by producers (imo). Started getting bored of trance in 2005 as it didn't give the same satisfaction that it used to and also due to the increase of shit productions/producers so i started looking for other types of music. At the moment, i mainly listen to progressive house but im also a fan of DnB/Breaks/other types of house. Still listen to the odd decent trance production.

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Originally posted by Wicked Neo 37, got into trance way back in 1985 by listening to the likes of The Ozric Tentacles who by the way are still making new albums Even thou the genre of trance had not really been defined back then, as far as i'm concerned the Ozrics had that sound to them, it was thanks to them that i got my first taste of 'trance' which still continues, i've never fallen out of love with trance and still enjoy it as much today as i did back then.

Usualy I read the whole thread before posting, but this is the FIRST time I have ever seen Ozric Tentacles mentioned here.

Back in '95 when I was a sophmore in High School, one of my friends gave me Strangeitude. He beat up some "hippy" and stole it from him. I was mainly into hip hop at that point.

This album changed my life.

"Sploosh" and the title track "Strangeitude" were diferent than anything I had heard.

After I found stuff like Aphex Twin, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, thats when I got turned away from rock and hip hop. Metallica and Tu-Pac just werent exactly breaking new ground like electronic musicians were IMO.

THen came Napster.

Ooooohhhh Maaan!

I found "Music for the Jilted Generation" at a record shop last week. Fuck. I mean EDM has come such a long way! I was never part of the rave/club scene as much as I would have liked, (although this prolly saved my life --see sig--) so I never quite grasped the idea of a "superstar DJ" concept until recently.

Now I am inspired.

I am inspired to be a part OF this revolution in music. To contribute my part to the open-source movement of the electronic music paradigm. To say that I am addicted to Trance doesnt do it justice. This music has become a PART of me.

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I'm 29. Got into trance 7 years ago.

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im 20 ...21 in august i used to love trance a lot ....listenning to it all the time but now it's changing it started to bore me like i dunno 1 month ago.I got sick and tired to listen to these djs i used to like and enjoy like pvd ...but well it's over the productions of all these djs sound the same to me and boring .....commercial and i think it's not trance but more "pop trance" so i kinda stopped to listen to trance.Lately i've been trying to listen to some house and more electro and i have to say i like it .its creative and original to me ...these things i was looking into trance but which seems to no longer exist in it .

so unless trance becomes what it used to be ...quality ...originality and creativity i won't listen to trance anymore or at least before a while

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I am 15 and I got into trance about two years ago.

I think many of the new trance songs are getting a little bit more creative rather then the cookie cutter sounds of 97-2003 (well you still hear a lot of it). Personally I love the oldschool electronic songs such as Dance 2 Trance - We Came in Peace because they are so much more trance like. Like they acually put me into a nice tranzy state of mind. The songs you here now don't even sound as complex or as interesting as the older ones. However Goa, Psy and Progressive Trance seems to be a good alternative to Trance because some of them still retain those oldschooler sounds (basically they can put you in a trance).

I'm 24 got into the EDM scene around 1999 but I think I was waiting for it my entire life. I just didn't connect to the music before that point.

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I started listening to Techno and Rave music back in 91 and the first time I remember something people were calling Trance was in 93. I wasnt really totally blown away until I was at a rave in Austin Texas back in 1995 called Prism. The night was nothing but hard uplifting hypnotic trance and I was hooked from that point.

Trance came known to me from Jam & Spoon's and Dance 2 Trance's more poppy offerings which would appear on euro dance compilations. This was around '93. I was 14. It wouldn't be another two years before I began to give up on euro completely and checked out all this trance stuff, usually with J&S as the guide (oh, this has a J&S track; let's check it out). For another two years, I snapped up nearly anything that had 'trance' on the title, or something weird and trippy (which most trance covers had back then). Got big time into old school German trance (EyeQ, Music Research, etc) and psy trance around the same period.

Once the anthems began to overrun everything trance though, I started to branch out into other forms of EDM: house, techno, jungle, hip hop, blah blah. This was about '98. Trance, for me, was getting boring, save some big prog numbers the likes of the GU comps were putting out. There was a serious decline in subtlety, which was what I initially enjoyed about it, and I was getting more and more pissed off at parties where the flow of a set would continously die with yet another overblown breakdown/build. By 2001, I'd all but written trance off, far more interested other music. PvD's Politics Of Dancing was the last trance release I bought for a long time.

These days, about the only trance that makes me go "Yes, that's how it should be done!" is coming out of the psy camps.

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I'm 23 and I've liked trance since around 2000 or so. When I first got into it, I listened mainly to prog of the kind Sasha and Digweed were spinning back then and ASOT-style trance. About four years ago I started really broadening my tastes in electronic music to include many more styles like IDM, ambient, trip hop, techno, psy and goa trance, tech-house, and a bit of "house house."

After reading about the history of dance music here and elsewhere, I came to believe that the main thread of trance had lost its way in the late '90s when the "big ch00n" became the center of the set, the big breakdown became the center of the track, and the big DJ became the center of the party. I regretted not having been around to experience the early '90s EDM scene which seems different from the really fractured, divisive, and DJ-centric one that dominates now. But maybe it wasn't really all that different and I'm just romanticizing something I didn't know firsthand.

I still listen to trance these days, mostly prog trance and prog house, classic trance (early '90s), and progpsy. And of course I listen to a lot of other genres, too.

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