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| quote: | Originally posted by nrjizer
Sure, it's not exactly any secret that I had questionable musical tastes when I was 14/15 (a lot of us did). But within a year or two I grew tired of it, and never regained the interest. And yet, stuff like this still sounds as awesome today as it did in 1992:
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Does anyone still spin these kinds of records? I'd totally go see them play. |
I've got a decent collection of oldies from back then, on vinyl and CD. Some of that stuff is almost impossible to mix with the enormous variety of tempos and of course the biggest thing that makes them so fresh, the fact that they weren't geared towards DJ's - they were SONGS. I read an interview in 1995 about Sven Vath's stated goal of the Eye-Q and Recycle Or Die sublabels (not so much Harthouse) were to be song oriented such that 20 years down the road they'd still be listenable. I think he hit the mark, but even with much of the Harthouse material.
I do spin some of it out, but it usually ends up being Hardfloor's material and a few random tracks. 160+ bpm Spicelab tracks don't work all that well in the clubs (but were fckin GREAT in a big dark warehouse!), especially since many were 18 minute tracks with 5 minute ambient intros and outros! LOL
| quote: | Originally posted by nrjizer
That's funny, because it was right around 1998 that the majority of trance music being produced and played became stale and trite. Could it just be that there's hardly been anything interesting coming out of that genre for the last 10 odd years? |
It started long before then, more like 1995/1996, when the experimental phase was ending and the pre-epic phase was starting. You could argue that the 1997 release of the JP-8000 and other virtual/retro synths allowed for some fresh breath to be breathed into the genre, but that didn't last long. Nobody bothered to do much more than use the presets and the standard supersaw sound...
Who knows what my perspective on trance would be if I didn't find it impossible to find good music in 1997 and subsequently dropped outta the scene almost entirely from 1997-2000. All I know is that I've liked it since 1992 and have been back and forth with it since I started DJ'ing in 2001 (as a trance DJ). Things have changed every few years, and it's given me some growing pains with it along the way, but generally speaking there's still good trance out there, but it's ever increasingly hard to find (and ever increasingly blurring the lines with other genres).
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