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What was '99/'00 all about? (pg. 8)
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| shades_of_gray |
| quote: | Originally posted by raydn
1999/2000 was for me .... Gatecrasher / Cream / Oakey (& Essential Tour) / Judge Jules Weekend Warmup / Dance Anthems (Dave Pearce) / A Trance Communication Release / Additive Records / Black Hole Recordings / ITWT / Neo Records / Flammable Records / Hooj Choons / Crosstrax / WHOOP! / Platipus / Xtravaganza / Ministy Mag / Muzik / M8 Mag / Deejay Mag / WAX Mag / Trance Nation CD Series / Gatecrasher: wet / Cream Live and Ibiza Arrivals and Departures / MOS Clubbers Guide / Magik 1 - 5 / Solar Serenades / In Search Of Sunrise / Lange / Matt Darey / Ferry Corsten (moonman) / Space Brothers / Olmec Heads / Solarstone (Z2) / Transa / Trouser Enthusiasts / Vincent De Moor / Trillseekers/ Signum / (en-motion) / Tiesto / PVD / Armin / Hybrid
tunes... (trance)
Loop Control - Exceptionally Beautiful
Dawnseekers - Gothic Dream EP
Yahel & Eyal Barkan - Voyage
Tilt - Children (Tilt's Courtyard Mix)
Cascade - Transcend (Transa Remix)
Freefall - Skydive
Breeder - Beetlejuice / Tyrantanic / Twilo Thunder
Binary Finary - 1998/1999
Agenda - Heaven (Shane Remix)
X-Cabs - Neuro ('99)
DJ Tiësto - Theme From Norefjell (Magical Remake) / Sparkles
Veracocha - Carte Blanche
Atlantis - Fiji (Fontaine & Vern Original Mix)
Dejure - Sanctuary
Ayla - Ayla (Veracocha Remix)
Cequenza - Cequenza (Rapid Eye vs Thrillseekers Remix)
DJ Alici - Ankhesenamun (Steve Morley Remix)
Gouryella - Gouryella
Bedrock - Heaven Scent
Hand's Burn - Good Shot (Signum Remix)
Jon Vesta - Gull
Rapid Eye - Alderaan
Luis Paris - Incarnations
Cass & Slide - Perception
Chris Raven - I Know You Love Me Too!
DJ Sakin & Friends - Protect Your Mind / Nomansland (Lange Remix)
Fridge - Paradise
Fragma - Toca Me (In Petto Mix)
HH - ICE 794
Moonman - Don't Be Afraid
Lange featuring Sarah Dwyer - I Believe
Marc Et Claude - La
Liquid Child - Diving Faces
Lost Witness - Happiness Happening / Red Sun Rising
Lovechild - Liberta
Lucid - Crazy (Translucid Dub)
Lustral - Everytime (Nalin & Kane Remix)
Mauro Picotto - Pulsar / Lizard / Iguana
Natious - Amber
BT - Godspeed / Mercury & Solace
Andy Ling - Fixation
Nebular B - Liquid
Paragliders - Lithium II
Sebatu - Prayer (Mea's Main Event)
Ruff Driverz - Waiting For The Sun (Heliotropic Mix)
Silent Harmony - Save The Whales
Plantel Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun#
Heliotropic - Walk With Me
AGH - Yummy
Solar Stone - Seven Cities
Salt Tank - Dimension
Lost Tribe - EP
Katcha - Touched By God
Cygnus X - The Orange Theme (Remixes)
Space Manoeuvres - Stage one
Prima - Into The Sun (Trouser Enthusiasts Remix)
Skyscraper - The Hymn
Sunburst - Eyeball
Sundance - Wont Let This Feeling Go
Technique - Sun Is Shining
Sasha - Xpander EP
Nalin & Kane - Open Your Eyes
Luis Paris - Incantation
Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia
The Space Brothers - Heaven Will Come
Signum ft. Scott Mac - Coming On Strong
B.T. + Paul Van Dyk - Namistai
Brainchild - Symmetry C (Vincent De Moor Remix)
Ron Hagen & Pascal M - Forever (Mea Culpa Remix)
Airscape - L'esperanza
Jose Amnesia - The Eternal
Jose Amnesia - Last Sunset In Ibiza
Aurora - Hear You Calling (Blue Room Mix)
The Sneaker - Phase
The Def Set - Ogo
Paul Van Dyk - Another Way ⁄ Avenue
Armin - Communication (Original 12inch Version)
Kamaya Painters - 3-track EP
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just to add.................
Z2 - I Want You
Art Of Trance - Madagasgar (Ferry Corsten Remix)
The Generator - Where Are You Now? (Moonman Mix)
CRW - I Feel Love (R.A.F Zone Mix)
Free Radical - Unity Theme (Thrillseekers Avin It Mix)
Blockster - Grooveline (Matt Darey Remix)
Nat Monday - Nucleus
Amethyst - Andalucia
Johnny Shaker - Pearl River
Origin - Wide Eyed Angel
Danny Tenaglia - Turn Me On (Bedrock Mix)
Silent Harmony - Save The Whales
I.C.O.N - Voco Me (Flim Flam Mix)
System F - Out Of The Blue
Olmec Heads - Spiritualised
Stefano Libelle & HH - Slapbang
Vincent De Moor - Shamu
Matt Darey - Liberation
The Morrighan - Remember (Lange Remix)
Way Out West - Spike
Airwave - Above The Sky
Lost Tribe - Gamemaster |
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| arwoo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
The glory years of 99-01, as you people like to call it, were nothing of the sort. They just feel that way because that was when the majority of you first started getting into trance. With this whole new world of music being so fresh and new to you, there was no way you could differentiate between quality and crap, and so elect to just like everything, thus hyping the out of scores of ridiculously mediocre tracks. Honeymoon phases have a tendancy to dull anyone's sense of value or worth, but in truth the music had been stagnating since late 97.
Familiarity breeds contempt, so the longer you stay within a genre, the harder it is to find new music in that genre that excites you. It's called the Law of Diminishing Returns. So when you complain that today's tracks don't lift your skirt and it's just not like the good ole days of 99 when every track was awesome.......you're wrong. You've just grown tired and jaded of an old and busted music formula that overstayed its welcome well over six years ago. |
You havent the foggiest idea about whats going on in this thread do you ?
Ive been with dance music since 89-90 when i was in the UK. Going through from tracks like capricorn - 20Hz, the sasha and digweed thing, happy hardcore.
I can tell you when 98 landed there WAS soemthing different about the music. And when 99 exploded it WAS that damn good.
I dont agree at all with your post, its a load of poppycock. Ive grown tired of all, the music just isnt as good. |
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| Tranz |
| The pinacle of trance for me was Innercity '99... :disbelief |
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| Googooly |
| Some people need to stop living in past and look into the present. Trance is still as good as those years if not better. |
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| shades_of_gray |
| quote: | Originally posted by Googooly
Trance is still as good as those years if not better. |
No. |
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| Googooly |
| quote: | Originally posted by shades_of_gray
No. |
yes it is. |
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| Ian^ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Googooly
yes it is. |
prove it, without 200 spelling mistakes. you can't, because it's not true |
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| Googooly |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian^
prove it, without 200 spelling mistakes. you can't, because it's not true |
why would I want to prove it to you, I enjoy trance as much as i enjoyed 3,4,5,6,7 years ago and I still loveing it. thats enough for me.
My point is stop living in past. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by raydn
I had always been into dance since way back but I knew something magical was happening with the music from mid '98. Some excellent tunes from xtravaganza and hooj.
By the summer '99 there were so many tunes its was amazing they were played in every club, bar and radio station. There were possibly as many as 5 dance magazines and of course fast car, all with free CDs rammed with upfront tunes.
Judge Jules and dave pearce (seems strange now) I would say were very influential with dance anthems and jules's show fri and sat.
As cheesy as it got was synth & strings as someone mentioned (not that bad tho), vengaboys (good airscape mix tho), the launch, alice deejay - better off alone (signum mix still pwns :crazy:), atb - til i come
.... but it was '99 and nearly every DJ could have gotten away with playing these... because?...
Everyone seemed to be up for it and on the same vibe when you went out - '99 was a great summer. (Ibiza uncovered on sky one 2yrs previous have anything to do with this, shaping what 'our generation' (i was 19 then) expected - I wonder)
Oakies essenital tour(s) and possibly one of oakie's finest sets in june
Paul Oakenfold - Gatecrasher @ Lotherton Hall, Leeds, England
01. Planet Perfecto feat. Grace - "It's Not Over Yet '99 [Breeder's It is Now Remix]"
02. Space Manoeuvres - "Stage One [Tilt's Apollo 11 Mix]"
03. AMbassador - "The Fade [Fade Mix]"
04. Mara - "One [Hamel's Implant Remix]"
05. Space Brothers - "Forgiven [Origin Mix]"
06. Mauro Picotto - "Lizard"
07. Jon Vesta - "Gull"
08. Tekknova - "Last Trip To Paradise"
09. Art of Trance - "Madagascar [Ferry Corsten Remix]"
10. Push - "Universal Nation [Ferry Corsten Remix]"
11. Olmec Heads - "Spritualized [Astral Mix]"
12. Space Brothers - "Heaven Will Come [Olmec Heads Vocal Dub]"
13. CJ Bolland - "The Prophet"
wow :eyes:
Final note(s):
music was't produced for asot
people didn't collect every track heard on asot from p2p.
armin really was't that big a name in DJing.
ferry played something other than his own material (don't blame him now tho)
judge jules and oakenfold were on form (not sure i can say that about pearcy)
everyone wanted to be a DJ
most tunes had either a pvd, lange, dary, ferry or dumonde remix
ministry of sound and nukleuz were credible labels
majority of vocals had meaning (chakra / s bros etc) / were minmal
vocals were not cheesy or should i say there were less songs with cheesy vocals.
nearly every tune (major labels neo, nukleuz, xtrav, perfecto, am:pm) released was guarenteed a chart position, it was not uncommon for the charts to be domonated with dance music.
... think ive said enough of how i remember it.
TUNE!
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well thought out post, i respect that. |
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| est |
| quote: | Originally posted by Googooly
yes it is. |
Forget it googooly, you'll never convince him. He's a 1999 freak.
Yeah, there was something special about 1999/00, and I didn't realise how good I had it then. It's not fashionable to say 'I love trance' now that hip-hop is the trend.
But what I've got now that I didn't have in 1999 is the realisation that it's not just a trend for me. I still love trance, despite that none of my friends do. Today, it's all about the music, and I've only realised that since my friends have deserted trance for the next bandwagon. Trance music is taking priority over my friends these days, and that's down to sheer love of the music. I only wish I'd realised back in 1999 that it wasn't the going out with my mates that I loved - it was the music. |
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| raydn |
spose should hadd ferry remix of adajo for stings to the list really :) if anyone heard this played out it will send shiver down your spine
| quote: | Originally posted by Googooly
Some people need to stop living in past and look into the present. Trance is still as good as those years if not better. |
I disagree - the atmosphere is not there its just not the same.
Don't get me wrong i still enjoy trance, i just think its lost the underground sound and feeling it had. It is ironic that it has lost its underground sound since it had it when it was most popular in '99 and lost it now when no self repecting trance release will chart.
Back then it wasn't all lovey dovy love songs for the radio but about having fun to banging tunes. All tunes today seem to try to hard to be either the next cafe del mar or have the most perplexing and pointless vocals or over complicated melodies that run start to finish with the the standard breakdowns for 7 - 9 mins.
I wouldn't totaly blame asot or gdjb but more the cheese and fluffy sounds that comes out of trance around the world from above & beyond.
This is debate that will go on for a while and no one is right or wrong...
However some nice 'trance' tunes i liked this year
Outburst - Vengeance
Johan Gielen - Dream Child
Vadim Zhukov - Fate / The Stranger
Christain Zechner - Stella Winds
Green Martian - Ladies & Gentlemen
Solid Slide - Belo Horizonte
The rest of the tunes I would consider 'good' are in the prog scene which imo is busting a nut at the moment with creativity some excellent productions, there would be too many to list. |
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| Estella |
| quote: | Originally posted by raydn
I had always been into dance since way back but I knew something magical was happening with the music from mid '98. Some excellent tunes from xtravaganza and hooj.
By the summer '99 there were so many tunes its was amazing they were played in every club, bar and radio station. There were possibly as many as 5 dance magazines and of course fast car, all with free CDs rammed with upfront tunes.
Judge Jules and dave pearce (seems strange now) I would say were very influential with dance anthems and jules's show fri and sat.
As cheesy as it got was synth & strings as someone mentioned (not that bad tho), vengaboys (good airscape mix tho), the launch, alice deejay - better off alone (signum mix still pwns :crazy:), atb - til i come
.... but it was '99 and nearly every DJ could have gotten away with playing these... because?...
Everyone seemed to be up for it and on the same vibe when you went out - '99 was a great summer. (Ibiza uncovered on sky one 2yrs previous have anything to do with this, shaping what 'our generation' (i was 19 then) expected - I wonder)
Oakies essenital tour(s) and possibly one of oakie's finest sets in june
Paul Oakenfold - Gatecrasher @ Lotherton Hall, Leeds, England
01. Planet Perfecto feat. Grace - "It's Not Over Yet '99 [Breeder's It is Now Remix]"
02. Space Manoeuvres - "Stage One [Tilt's Apollo 11 Mix]"
03. AMbassador - "The Fade [Fade Mix]"
04. Mara - "One [Hamel's Implant Remix]"
05. Space Brothers - "Forgiven [Origin Mix]"
06. Mauro Picotto - "Lizard"
07. Jon Vesta - "Gull"
08. Tekknova - "Last Trip To Paradise"
09. Art of Trance - "Madagascar [Ferry Corsten Remix]"
10. Push - "Universal Nation [Ferry Corsten Remix]"
11. Olmec Heads - "Spritualized [Astral Mix]"
12. Space Brothers - "Heaven Will Come [Olmec Heads Vocal Dub]"
13. CJ Bolland - "The Prophet"
wow :eyes:
Final note(s):
music was't produced for asot
people didn't collect every track heard on asot from p2p.
armin really was't that big a name in DJing.
ferry played something other than his own material (don't blame him now tho)
judge jules and oakenfold were on form (not sure i can say that about pearcy)
everyone wanted to be a DJ
most tunes had either a pvd, lange, dary, ferry or dumonde remix
ministry of sound and nukleuz were credible labels
majority of vocals had meaning (chakra / s bros etc) / were minmal
vocals were not cheesy or should i say there were less songs with cheesy vocals.
nearly every tune (major labels neo, nukleuz, xtrav, perfecto, am:pm) released was guarenteed a chart position, it was not uncommon for the charts to be domonated with dance music.
... think ive said enough of how i remember it.
TUNE!
:happy2: |
What a post! :)
I'm not getting into the mentioning of tunes, because they've all been mentioned, which brings back so many great memories by the way! Someone needs to pull a Psy T and devote a 400 minute set to this golden year. The highlight for me, and still my fave to this day is Planet Perfecto feat. Grace - Not Over Yet '99 (Matt Darey mix) It seems anything that Darey, Corsten or Oakenfold touched turned to gold. You had Push, Kai, Sunscreem, Digweed also. Enough of the bullocks of '99 being overrated merely because it's the first year we were introduced into trance. I've heard earlier works. They sound too lifeless, mechanical and robotic. Like everyone's said before, it's the FEELING that will forever distinguish '99 from '93 to 2005. To me, it's euphoric. I don't think that adjective can be used to describe any other trance year, whether it be past, present or future.
Excellent thread :D
The new Pryda's "Aftermath" track really brings back that '99 feeling to me. Check it out. Also, I can't remember what year Origin's "Refined Intricacy" was, but another gem. |
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