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This is the earliest item in Discogs' tomes that marketed itself as 'Trance Classics':
Hard Trance Classics From Deepest Germany
Those really aren't classics.
Seriously though, there were already plenty of tracks considered classics by '95, but the reason many of them weren't on future 'classics' compilations boils down to licensing issues.
This '99 issue of Muzik Magazine did a big feature on the history of trance (kinda'), which namedrops a bunch of early trance labels (MFS, Eye-Q, Music Research) that had petered by the time such compilations became far bigger business:
The A - Z Of Trance (skip to page 65)
So it's not that the early classics weren't known, they just weren't available for licensing.
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