Tranceport ia a classic trance compilation. Some of these tunes are still amazing. I don't know if they are badly produced or badly mixed or anything, bu these tunes have this mid-end-of-90s melodic trance trippiness. Its a special atmosphere very hard to describe. I don't know, maybe its nostalgia but there is something "romantic" about some of these tunes (now this sounded quite Emoish lol).
Paul Oakenfold's GU: New York is another special one that hasn't dated for me.
Its true, maybe Oakie's mixing techniques weren't the best, but his 90s track selections were amazing. Seriously.
TaylorR
His mix compilation called 'Another World' is still my favorite cd.
Gauss
The best trance compilation ever, hands down.
THE_Chris
Its a good CD full of some nice classics, but its partly ruined by the idiotic mixing out of the break of PvDs mix of Binary Finary. WTF loss of energy.
SYSTEM-J
I don't really see why the hype is justified these days. If you heard the tracks first on Tranceport then I'm sure there's nostalgia appeal, but the mixing is very lazy and the programming downright terrible really. It's practically the archetype of the poorly constructed epic trance set. It doesn't touch the stuff he was doing a couple of years prior, such as Perfecto Fluoro.
PETRAN
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I don't really see why the hype is justified these days. If you heard the tracks first on Tranceport then I'm sure there's nostalgia appeal, but the mixing is very lazy and the programming downright terrible really. It's practically the archetype of the poorly constructed epic trance set. It doesn't touch the stuff he was doing a couple of years prior, such as Perfecto Fluoro.
Its all about the track selection, all these classics mashed together in that specific order.
I really never cared about the mixing. Trance had always litlle to do with mixing anyway.
nrjizer
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Originally posted by Dj Dizzy
Traceport remains to be my definitive answer to anyone who wants to here "real" (or "classic" nowadays) trance
Sorry, but Tranceport isn't anywhere close to "real" or "classic" trance. Try something more along these lines:
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by PETRAN
I really never cared about the mixing. Trance had always litlle to do with mixing anyway.
Maybe not if you just want to talk whimsically about the "special atmosphere" of the music.
nrjizer
Also, since we're on the subject of Tranceport, here's an anecdote:
When I was a youngin' (about 12-13 at the time) and I heard Tranceport for the first time, it was entirely by accident. A friend had loaned me a burned CD with some warez (haha oh man... haven't used THAT word in a while :wtf: ), and it also had Tranceport on it, which I grabbed out of curiosity. I had never heard music like that before, and the tracks blew me away.
All of the tracks were seperate files, however, and they were all somewhat mis-labeled and out of order. As a result, it took me several months of repeated listenings before I realized "hey wait.... they're supposed to string together!" after I noticed bits of another song creeping in on the outgoing beats. Even then, I thought it nothing more than a neat gimmick, and I felt no inclination to listen to them together in the appropriate order. It wasn't until later when I started listening to good DJ sets that I fell in love with the concept of mixing, and how it could flow seamlessly through multiple tracks.
Trance-MB
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Originally posted by nrjizer
Sorry, but Tranceport isn't anywhere close to "real" or "classic" trance. Try something more along these lines:
Sorry too, but I argee with Petran.
Examples above are great old trance tracks, but to me that still doesn't make them classics. They just don't give me that special feeling Petran is talking about.
Has there been a topic: "What make a track a classic?"?
nrjizer
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Originally posted by Trance-MB
Sorry too, but I argee with Petran.
Examples above are great old trance tracks, but to me that still doesn't make them classics. They just don't give me that special feeling Petran is talking about.
Has there been a topic: "What make a track a classic?"?
Your own subjective tastes and nostalgia may make Tranceport a "classic" for you, but the fact remains that the roots of the genre go much, much deeper than Tranceport. If you're trying to introduce someone to "real" or "classic" trance through Tranceport then you're neglecting a majorly significant period in the history of the genre--a period which produced music that I feel was lightyears better than what was being created in the Tranceport era.
You wouldn't try and teach someone US History by beginning at the Civil War, so why would you try and introduce someone to "classic" trance by starting with Tranceport?
PETRAN
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Maybe not if you just want to talk whimsically about the "special atmosphere" of the music.
Yep, "whimsical talking about special atmosphere" is what i do now. I'm over the "nerdy analysis of music" thing, especially good-time club-music, since sophistication and fun contradict each other. We can talk about science if you want though :gsmile:
