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Trance Basics 101 - Tek Trance
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| Light The Fuse |
Was having a chat with senior Begic the other day and we were discucssing techno trance.
We both came to the conclusion that everybody is wrong :D
The stuff that is getting called tech-trance would be i guess Signum, Marco V, Mark Norman, even Tiesto calls himself a tech trance dj.
Now outta these DJ's personally Id say the only tech trance dj would be marco v and even then its pretty trancey tech trance.
Just because its driving and hard - does this make it tech trance>?
I think not.
Anyone who has listened to any techno must realise that techno is just like trance, there is hard, there is groovy, there is experimental.
The techno guys are calling James Holden a techno dj these days. Honestly id call it tech trance.
Dave Clarke - Tech Trance
DJ Preach Tech Trance.
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| sLiCk_NiCk |
i agree with ya jules
marco v is the pik of the bunch out of the few names u have listed. the rest are just harder and driving versions of trance..
cant give any examples atm seeing ive had this fkn headache for a day now after take off in adelaide..KILLA!
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| sLiCk_NiCk |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
who cares? |
obviously u dont
so just go down to semaphore and drown :) |
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| tachyon |
I tend to agree with you on the subject of signum. they does produce tracks which is tech trancey eg. second wave, first strike, but looking at their set they play a trancey set.
marco v sets lately i think a bit more trancey than it used to be? compared with his sets a few years ago at mysteryland, he played straight up techno tracks with trance. similar formula can be found in eddie haliwell's sets. he play techno tracks, then trance. refer to his essential mix on february.
driving and pounding doesn't necessarily make a tech trance track, imo. refer: tiesto - obsession (frank biazzi mix)
i agree with holden being a tech DJ these days, however it's slightly more into electro/tech rather than tech trance? my assumption here is based on the lack of hi hats on most of the tracks that holden played?
very interesting.
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| tachyon |
| quote: | Originally posted by echosystm
who cares?
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i'm feeling happy and cheerful enough today so i'll be lenient and overlook that comment.
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| Antistatic |
I agree with some points you raised, like the fact that it is driving and hard does not make it tech trance and that there are different sub-genres of techno and trance.
If you're gonna call yourself a tech trance DJ I think you're really limiting your style of DJing, that is, to what I would define as percussion-based dance music with melodic influences. I think it works better to call yourself a (general) trance DJ, thereby allowing yourself to touch on tech-trance tracks without dedicating your entire style to the genre.
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| jizza |
| quote: | Originally posted by Light The Fuse
The techno guys are calling James Holden a techno dj these days. Honestly id call it tech trance.
Dave Clarke - Tech Trance
DJ Preach Tech Trance.
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holden techno? clarke tech trance? who says this? |
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| vitamin v |
Drving and hard doesnt make it techy.
Take CL for instance, his sound is very driving but nowhere near the style of tech.
Signum imo, is not tech trance at all...i think that its more driving.I would agree, Marco V is probably the only real techy dj out of the ones listed.
Im not a big tech conosuier, but i think your argument is right, alot of trance is being labelled wrongly for tech, but it is hard to distinguish when alot of generes do overlap.
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| tachyon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Antistatic
I think it works better to call yourself a (general) trance DJ, thereby allowing yourself to touch on tech-trance tracks without dedicating your entire style to the genre.
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fair point there. i think you're either a techno dj or a trance dj. although the techno community normally rejects a techno dj who play trance as well. (see mauro picotto)
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| vitamin v |
| quote: | Originally posted by tachyon
i'm feeling happy and cheerful enough today so i'll be lenient and overlook that comment.
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Gerry for PM. |
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| Antistatic |
| quote: | Originally posted by tachyon
fair point there. i think you're either a techno dj or a trance dj. although the techno community normally rejects a techno dj who play trance as well. (see mauro picotto)
:thepirate |
Yeah the techno community (at least in Perth) has a certain degree of elitism, so I reckon it's far better to say you're a trance DJ and play some tech than the other way around.;) |
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