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MoonMan
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Derby, UK

The Real Origins Of Trance!!

Found this little article:

"The origins of trance music can be traced back hundreds of years to religious roots with tribal shaman, who with the aid of natural hallucinogenic and log drums, induced trance-like states on to the tribes people. The sound of trance as we know it, however did'nt emerge properly until 1991 in Germany, Israel and Goa.

The Repetitive nature of many of these early tracks in this era provided clubbers with the ideal chance to immerse themselves in a new style of music similar to how the origianl tribespeople did. Although, instead of buffalo skin stretched over a wooden log, the beats were created with machines and the nautural hallucinogenics were repalced with manufactured chemical alternatives, E etc"

PS: So things havent changed that much in the world we live in today, as Trance is the mainstream "clubbing music" and every week the masses induce drugs to stimulate the the natural euphoric feelings inside all of us, just like our ancestors did.

Anyone like to add their comments???

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May-31-2002 12:58

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oDrori
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Kibbutz Gaash, home of all the light in Holyland

Well:

The idea of dancing to get into Trance indeed is old, judging by this article... But the music those villagers heard was more like Techno / Tribal. Trance as we know it is indeed a new genre, realting to Techno or House that have existed decades before it, not to mention rock, classic, blues, tribal etc which have existed further decades, centuries, and millenia before...

Trance today is the mainstream IMO cause it's the newest... The good ol' neanderthals and pre-humans or whatever you call em heard tribal... techno... whateva... not Trance.

P.S. You are right these are certainly the origin of clubbing and electronic music at whole! (Thank you fathers, grands and so on )

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May-31-2002 13:07 Israel

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MoonMan
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Derby, UK

But whatever these pre-humans were listening to @ the time, be it either Tribal, Techno etc, STILL done the job of inducing a Trance-like state to these people. Maybye the earliest form of prehistoric Trance music was somehere between these two genres???

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May-31-2002 13:14

oDrori
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Kibbutz Gaash, home of all the light in Holyland

Could be... No one knows so your opinion counts just as much as mine

May-31-2002 13:21 Israel

MoonMan
TA's resident spaceman

Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Derby, UK

hehe We can only speculate.

I know onw thing though, i bet these ancients dance events were brutal hehe.

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May-31-2002 13:24

THE_Chris
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Ireland

Yeah... I can just imagine the great Paul Van Rock getting up on the top of the town rock to bang out an intense mix of rocky beats.....

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May-31-2002 17:44 Ireland

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davinox
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Registered: Dec 2001
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dude... i downloaded a track made in 4000 B.C.
It was pretty lousy.

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May-31-2002 19:33 Tunisia

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DJ A.i
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Jersey City, NJ

i truely believe that "TRANCE" was evolved from "NEW WAVE".

May-31-2002 19:36 South Korea

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Kia Kaha
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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Scotland

quote:
Originally posted by DJ A.i
i truely believe that "TRANCE" was evolved from "NEW WAVE".

What, as in Boy George, Duran Duran and that lot?

Now THERE's a theory I haven't heard before ... care to elaborate?

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May-31-2002 20:42 Scotland

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Izzy
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Registered: Apr 2001
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i also heard it was influenced by some of the early rock groups from the physcadelic era of the '70s
if you listen to some of pink floyds material you can definitly pick up on trance elements

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mos man
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Registered: Jan 2002
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quote:
Originally posted by Kia Kaha

What, as in Boy George, Duran Duran and that lot?

Now THERE's a theory I haven't heard before ... care to elaborate?

They were New Romantics weren't they ?

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May-31-2002 21:58 United Kingdom

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Sarcoman
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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto (Mississauga)

I wouldnt call what they were listening to 4000 years ago more like techno, as the name implies technology.

Trance and Techno, and much of electronica probably came changes in music from Disco. Some names that come to mind is Jean Michelle Jarre, Pink Floyd etc.

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