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| Galapidate |
| I'm trying to figure out what year trance "officially" began as a genre. By that I don't mean tunes from way back that sounded like trance. I mean like when DJs spun and someone would ask what genre they'd call it trance. |
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| Laushinameee |
| a stupid question like this deserves & will get a whole lot of stupid answers. |
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| Galapidate |
| WTF dude? I need to know for a project. And I don't think it's a stupid question because I don't think everyone on the board knows the same year. |
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| Laushinameee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Galapidate
WTF dude? I need to know for a project. And I don't think it's a stupid question because I don't think everyone on the board knows the same year. |
There isnt a year. What you have described just didnt happen. That isnt the way the world works. |
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| Radagast |
There is no definite answer to this. The following is probably the closest answer to correct you'll find:
But the word "trance" was probably coined by Mark Reeder, and MFS may have been the first actual trance label. Around 1991. |
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| Galapidate |
| Ok maybe I was wrong by thinking there was one specific year, but maybe a "set" of years like early 90s or whatever. Thanks Radagast. |
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| davidclarke |
| well PvD & Sasha were both still labelled as 'epic house' djs in around 96. trance is just a stupid word, it doesnt exist 'officially'. Stupid question. |
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| Torley Wong |
One man's epic... *sighs* oh, n/m. ;)
| quote: | Originally posted by Radagast
But the word "trance" was probably coined by Mark Reeder, and MFS may have been the first actual trance label. Around 1991. |
Learned something new -- didn't know about the coining. Thanks, Radagast.
Galapidate, what kind of school project is this for? It's cool you're doing trance. I'd have to concur, early 90s. Have you read the following article, as it gives more background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music
I believe this to be a valid question, because even in a satirical context, it calls into question the sometimes absurd "precision" of the genre classification system... and yet how it is a "necessary evil" when it comes to accessibility.
To ask "Why?" or "Why are things the way they are?" is very important, even if it seems naive, for a youthful imagination is a wonderful thing. To challenge ideas and introduce your own is paramount to a fundamental system of freethought.
Of course, the Renaissance was not concretely known as such when Leonardo and friends were alive. Similar cases can be made for the Golden Age of science-fiction, or even pornography. It's quite retroactive -- hindsight.
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| davidclarke |
| asking why things are the way they are? simple answer, the UK media started calling djs like PvD, Sasha & Nick Warren trance. Thats it. Its just a stupid term that has absolutely no meaning. Stop trying to intellectualise a load of bull & a really dumb question. |
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| Radagast |
| quote: | Originally posted by davidclarke
asking why things are the way they are? simple answer, the UK media started calling djs like PvD, Sasha & Nick Warren trance. Thats it. Its just a stupid term that has absolutely no meaning. Stop trying to intellectualise a load of bull & a really dumb question. |
Electronica is definately a stupid term that has absolutely no meaning, since that's what marketers labeled big beat(and other stuff?) and somehow it became a common term for all of EDM. I don't know about trance though. |
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| Torley Wong |
| Yes, "electronica" in the late-90s. As in MTV Amp. As in the TIME magazine article featuring a big layout of the Prodigy posing boldly and proclaiming a Stateside revolution. As in Madonna releasing a remix album titled Veronica Electronica or some such name, which never... materialized for the Material Girl. And other such events. Some say it means only "commercial electronic music". Others say it applies to all, a complete-coverage blanket term. I don't mind the term much myself but because it carries that sort of baggage, it is frowned upon. Oddly enough, the word itself is merely Electronic with an A. As in Electronicall. :D |
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| davidclarke |
| all words like this are bull. Everyone has their own idea about what these words mean, for some people, sasha is and always has been 'trance' / for others, atb is trance. Trying to figure out when trance 'officially' began is just plain stupid in so many ways. |
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