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Small history of Trance (pg. 8)
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Esper256
I want to bring up a new topic to see what people think about it in terms of the history of trance.

While I was growing up in the USA, I hadn't heard of trance until it was definitely in full swing. BUT!

I always downloaded music on my computer. And this is a long time ago. Pre fraunhaufner or any kind of theft. I'm talking about the old Amiga demos and how they always featured elite hacker programmers making impressive vector balls.. But accompanying these demos invariably was some kind of swedish tracker who tracked up some genious tune in .mod .s3m .xm or .it format.

I'm going through my collection right now to pick out the trancy ones and see if they have dates in the comments field.

baroque - freefall (1990)
This song is a bit slower than modern trance. And since it wasn't meant to be DJed since it is a stand alone track, it isn't as long, and changes things up about twice as fast as a trance track. But you can hear a melodic dance song.

jester of sanity - elysium (???)
Doesn't have a year written into the sample names but I know it's old.

I don't want to say that any of these are where Trance came from. But I think that trackers definitely took electronic music with dance beats and worked in very structured melodies into the music.

What does everybody think?

-Esper
A.T.
Awesome job on your post man..
halexander837
Wow, that's a lot of history. Those CD's today are so hard to find now.
DJ FC
Great thread. Great work compiling all that info.
Jozef
Great post, very informitive :D
YaleTrance
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Originally posted by gabor3000gt
also the essay on minimalism is superb! Congrats to both of you!!!:)


thanks :D
teknoking
bump
R.j.
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Originally posted by LoginZ


O.T Quartet – Hold that sucker down (build like a skyscraper mix Taken from « Hold that sucker down (1994) ».


I LOVE that track!

GOOD JOB ON THE POST I READ IT ALL!
GT40
Was'nt Sven Vath making trance in the late 80's.
Sand Leaper
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Originally posted by GT40
Was'nt Sven Vath making trance in the late 80's.


Don't think he started doing trance till the beginning of the 90s with Eye Q/Harthouse. He was in some euro dance project in the late 80s though, the name of it eludes me atm.

sandstorm03
Cosmic Baby 1991/1992 nuff said
websley
Great history!

I myself couldn't give such a history, I only kept up with trance from 1999. (The magical years)
Mayby you forgot to mention "Jean-Michel Jarre", who had great influence on nowadays' Chill-Trance and Ambient styles, great work though! :D
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