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I want to bring up a new topic to see what people think about it in terms of the history of trance.
While I was growing up in the USA, I hadn't heard of trance until it was definitely in full swing. BUT!
I always downloaded music on my computer. And this is a long time ago. Pre fraunhaufner or any kind of theft. I'm talking about the old Amiga demos and how they always featured elite hacker programmers making impressive vector balls.. But accompanying these demos invariably was some kind of swedish tracker who tracked up some genious tune in .mod .s3m .xm or .it format.
I'm going through my collection right now to pick out the trancy ones and see if they have dates in the comments field.
baroque - freefall (1990)
This song is a bit slower than modern trance. And since it wasn't meant to be DJed since it is a stand alone track, it isn't as long, and changes things up about twice as fast as a trance track. But you can hear a melodic dance song.
jester of sanity - elysium (???)
Doesn't have a year written into the sample names but I know it's old.
I don't want to say that any of these are where Trance came from. But I think that trackers definitely took electronic music with dance beats and worked in very structured melodies into the music.
What does everybody think?
-Esper
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