I'm 18 and the first time i heard trance was in 2000 although I liked the other electronic music at the time (non-edm) like Jean-Michel Jarre (his early stuff), Enigma, Vangelis and Eduard Artemiev. I really never got seriously into trance before 2003. Now i still listen to it, but the music has changed. Once in a while there will be a track that stands out, but thats a relatively rare occurance, considering how much music i listen to everyday. For the most part I listen to an extreme variety (from noise to, well, anything really) but I tend to favor a darker sound.

I'm 19 and started getting really into trance about a year ago. I like mostly listen to 90s-00s stuff and lately became obsessed with anthem/uplifting trance

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Trance blows.

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26

that makes me an old man compared to you guys.

into trance: 1999

loved tiesto: 2000->2004

been broadening my tastes every year since i got into EDM. this years flava is definitely tech-house with a melodic touch aka neo-trance or whatever the hell you wanna call it...

for the record what people call trance these days is not trance.

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I'm 22. I started out with Eurodance tracks from 97/98 and and became exposed to trance around the end of 99. I went through a huge cheese lovin' phase that lasted for years until I progressively began to realize that it wasn't so much about that instant hook or candy sound that made a track great or memorable, but rather qualities of detail, layering structure and depth that really indicated the longevity and replay value of a song. In fact, you may notice that some of the tracks you love the most on first listen turn out to be the most annoying down the road, and the ones you didn't think too much of at first end up being the most enduring.

My favorite trance is classic/oldschool (circa 90-97), just because it actually represented the term "TRANCE", by being darker, hypnotic and yet euphoric. Second to that I would say I like the better midschool years (98/99/2000/2001) with its epic and progressive jewels. Nowadays I find myself listening to some of the modern (ofen darker) progressive trance, house and also some fluffy uplifting (non-)trance for ephemeral enjoyment. I also fancy dark ambient every so often.

I find the modern interpretations of tech- electro- and minimal- to be rather disgraceful to electronic music (the other side of the spectrum from all of the gerber-fluff uplift coming out). Taking away subtle beauties and replacing them with cold hard random sounds that can't figure out where they are going does not provide any meaningful innovation to the EDM genre. I find it pretentiously underground rather than genuinely underground.

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my name is john i am 24 and i like teens

for serious i am 24 and started listenin to trance @ 2001 with trax like tiesto's silence and sweet surrender..
also emerson and sasha scorchio

i really loved trance releases till 2003 -04 after then its hard to find some real good trance tunes..but if u search u can still find em..
Big names like tiesto,pvd etc suck nowdays
if i have to name one producer from past that i really liked is Rank 1 (or better are)

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Im 16 and I got into trance around 2005 when I bought Daft Punks new album(it was some bundle) It was one of those pure trance cds,had armin( ) ferry,tiesto,4 strings and dj sammy(lol)

I'm 16, I got into edm at 13, gave up on commercial sometime last year.

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I'm 19, was vaguely into dance when I was younger, remember buying Trance Nation Four when I was about 11 (because Sandstorm was on it) then discovered loads more tracks on it I liked. Then didn't really touch dance again till 2005 when I got into it through stuff like BT, Way Out West, and early 90s stuff like orb, fsol etc. From there I got into prog house and trance, and recently I've been doing a lot of Hard Dance.

My views on trance are that when it's good, it's very good and I love it but the genre isn't very consistent. I also hate uplifting, hard and tech ftw.

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I'm 14, turning 15 this august. I really love epic/uplifting trance and I'm trying to find really classic sets of these genres. Artists such as Blank and Jones have really good productions imo. Anyway, started listening to club and dance music in general and then Trance about a year ago and I think Trance is still awesome but since I didn't listen to it in its prime (1998 or so) I still like the stuff on ASOT today since Armin puts some classics onto it and some uplifting tracks as well. Wish I was born like 5 years earlier so I could've gone to some really cool clubs with uplifting stuff when I'm this age since uplifting is pretty much underground nowadays, hard to find some really good stuff. Hopefully uplifting Trance will resurrect soon in the future.