1998: found a remix of PvD's "For An Angel" on traxinspace.com (a then mod music site). first encounter with Trance.
(my response: that's nice.)

2000 spring: heard transa's remix of BT's "Mercury & Solace". first encounter with professionally-produced Trance.
(my response: *gasp* ........... FAAAAAAKKKING BRILL!!!!!! OH MY GOODNESS. i'm devoted to trance forever. forever... forever... forever... forever... *fades out*)

2000 spring: went out and buy all BT albums, and PvD's "Out There And Back" album.
2000 july: saw john '00' fleming's "For Your Ears Only" and "Slinky: Factor 3" in Sam the Record Man. bought Slinky instead of J00F -- BIG mistake. turned out that Factor 3 was nowhere as great as "For Your Ears Only", and was a non-factor.

2000 sept: made my first "favourite trance" CD. no beatmatching or mixing involved, absolutely laughable in my standard today.

2001 feb: PvD spun at the guvernment. that was the first DJ set i saw.

(my response: AWESOME EXPERIENCE. *repeats for 200 times*)

2001 oct: PvD's "The Politics of Dancing" got me fully addicted into Trance again. been leeching trance from AG ever since.

2002 feb: prepared for my first proper mix compilation. songs were selected, cover was made. everything was ready except i don't have a pair of decks, had to mix with Traktor, on ONE soundcard.

2002 june: shifted a tad bit to breakbeat trance. thinking to buy SL-1200, still preparing for my first proper mix compilation.........

(my response: will it ever come out???)

In 83 ... I was 5 years :-) No, in fact I grew with house/club/techno/trance songs, I cant remember me my first contact with trance 'cause I was too little.

I've a lot souvenirs also:

New order - Blue monday
Liaisons dangereuses - Los ninos del parque
Amnesia - Ibiza
Lil Louis - French kiss
Human ressource - Dominator
DHS - House of god

and all new beat songs!!!

I know that wasn't "strict" trance but that was my first electronic songs.

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Mr Sam vs Fred Baker - Forever waiting
Andian - Summer is calling (Airwave remix)
Kansai - Rococco
Young Parisians - U write the rules (Solar stone remix)
Midway - Inca
Hydra - Affinity
Scott Bond Vs Solarstone - Untitled
GTR-Mistral
The green martion – Wizardry
System F - Solstice

It all Started With Robert Miles - Children
Probably because of him im'e a Tranceaddict Today!!!

Ive enjoyed listening to electronic music since i can remember(mid 80s)kraftwerk,snap,prodigy,orbital,chemical brothers etc.
But trance as it is today is for me DJ Tiësto - Magik1 CD(1998).

It all started for me, perhaps unfortunately, with Fragma - Toca Me (just to clarify, that's the one without the vocals ). Heard it played on Radio 1's Dance Anthems a couple of times and for some weird reason it provoked me to buy a CD out at the time called 'Trance Mix '99'.

Thankfully this CD happened to contain many a top track; Veracocha - Carte Blanche, Binary Finary - 1999 (Gouryella Remix), Lange - I Believe, Blank & Jones - Cream, Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel...I was hooked

BTW this is my first post on the TA forums, and I hope I haven't broken anything due to my incompetence.

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Al Azar - At The Edge Of Tomorrow (A Retrospective) 16 tracks for FREE!

uhh, i remembered when i first starting to like trance music
when i listened to.. DJ Jean - The Launch
and DJ Jean - Megaman Techno Remix
and then I started to download most of his garbage
and as i continued to listen to trance, i then started to get into
the REAL shit..

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I heard "Never Gonna Come Back Down" by BT on the radio. I could'nt believe how awesome this song was (it's still one of my favorites today!!! ) That was about 2 years ago and I had just gotten Napster. That lead me to d/ling GODSPEED, another all time favorite, my first trance song. And that lead to Flaming June, Dreaming, and Namistai which lead to PvD and that lead to Oakenfold and the cycle just kept repeating......



I'll never forget the first time I heard a lot of those early songs. They were so different from the "regular music" I had been exposed to my whole life. Thank god for MP3s, I'd probably be listening to awful rap, rock, or pop right now if it was'nt for them. And I would'nt be DJing either!!! Trance has truly been one of the most important things in my life

Hey, I am new member to this site and it is amazing. HOWS IT GOING EVERYBODY! yaaaaaaaaaaa
Ya I Started listen to trance about a year ago my buddy from Vancouver came came up the coast and told me to listen to this new music that he was listen to. First time I heard it I said this is the best music I have ever heard a week later he took me to this rave party watch a live set of vicous vic. I was hook after that but when I saw Dj Sakin Live that really changed my view on trance I was just blown away after that I just started listen to the music differently now I FEEL IT.

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Originally posted by mixmastermike I was hook after that but when I saw Dj Sakin Live that really changed my view on trance I was just blown away after that I just started listen to the music differently now I FEEL IT.

welcome aboard mixmastermike =)

yea i got DJ sakin & friends' "Walk On Fire" album too. if you like DJ sakin's work you may like Chicane, and early works by BT and Paul van Dyk, then move on to Sasha's global underground mix albums if you wanna expand your view.

i first really liked it when i was listening to some random radio station at like 11 then i just got some random songs that my brother downloaded....went from their got more found more about it more people i liked......so like 4-5 years ago

Fall of 1999. My friend introduced me to Paul Oakenfold - Resident: Two Years Of Oakenfold At Cream - 2CD - 1999. Been hooked ever since.