I am 34 right now, I was born in Brazil, raised in the USA. I started my love affair with trance around 1996 in Houston, TX.
Back in the mid-90's, raves were becoming very popular here in the USA, I have a lot of good memories from those times. When I think back, I realize how spoiled we were, at some raves, they would have trance rooms, with 6-7 different DJ's playing all night.
For those of you in your early 20's, you have no idea how fun those times were :) I will never forget the first time I heard the song- Greece 2000- Three Drives on a vinyl, at a rave, it was a moment of
pure ecstasy, I would say, still one of my favorite trance songs of all times.
I also started DJ'ing around that time and I remember going to the record store every week and always looking forward to new releases on Hooj Choons. Hooj Choons was a trance label from the UK owned by Red Jerry that put out some of the best trance classics in my opinion.
Eventually the rave movement faded away and I grew out of the trance scene or maybe It was because I did not know where to go anymore for trance.
Last year, for whatever reason, I started listening to trance again and I am absolutely obsessed :) At age 34, I have been enjoying this music even more than I did when I was 19, this music will stay with me forever, I have no doubt in my mind :)
I went to an Armin Van Buuren concert last week in Chicago and I can't even describe how I felt, this music touches my soul, and I can't have enough.
I am seriously considering going back to DJing at age 34, today, I listened to 2 songs in particular, that almost bring tears to my eyes, Anhken- Always look back and Arty & Mat Zo - Rebound, probably 2 of my favorite tracks of 2011. I could write a book on what trance means to me but I am too tired, It is 3:12 am here and I have been up all night listening to trance :)
My name is Luke Ache, I can be contacted at [email protected], I am currently living in Des Moines, Iowa but because we are a smaller city with a limited trance scene, I usually travel to Chicago or Minneapolis for trance events.
LoveHate
cool story.
knowname
2002- I had been kind of getting into trance after being a house junkie for years and years.
I scored some pills from a buddy, and decided to roll for the first time with some friends. Louie Vittons triple stack they were. I took half.
When the pill hit me, I had just started listening to Tiesto- live at energy 2000- needless to say I was beyond floored.
Everything got wiggly, and I remember going to Heaven, in my mind.
When I came back from heaven, I just heard to most soul pumping mind bending beating TRACE MUSIC, the best I had ever heard.
The comedown was not pretty, but I was hooked on trance for life. ALways been that way since, 9 years now.
dj christian
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Originally posted by Euforix
LOL, I was 6 years old when I first time saw "Darude - Sandstorm" in TV... the year was 1999 and the rest is history.
F*cked up? Yeah I know...
Damn you'r only a kid. Still!;)
lukeache
Well, I try not to judge people based on what they choose to do but I have been involved with trance since 1996 and I never did any drugs or felt the need to do drugs, for me, the music itself was just enough.
Honestly, seeing so many people ed up and wasting their lives away at parties was one of the reasons why I stopped going to raves. I will never forget one rave in New York City in the late 90's where I saw more than 20 people being transported to the hospital in ambulances, because they got too ed up.
In my opinion, drugs totally killed the rave scene in the USA, all the people who abused E at raves, today are ed up for life and most did not even care about the music.
Sorry if I sound harsh but I could write a book on all the bull I have witnessed in these last 15 years related to people abusing drugs at raves/parties, some really ed up .
Mattinsanity
being 34 is a luxury. you were able to experience the 90's as an adult.
lukeache
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Originally posted by Mattinsanity
being 34 is a luxury. you were able to experience the 90's as an adult.
You are absolutely right! :) I feel fortunate to have experienced the entire evolution of trance music since the very beginning. I have to say that trance music is very different than it was in the early 90's but I love it as much now as I did back then.
I think it is very important for younger people to refer to the classics, so that you can better understand how the music has developed over time.
There are songs that I have listened to for over 15 years and they still give me goosebumps, I could name hundreds of amazing classics but there is one song in particular that blows my mind everytime:
LSG- Netherworld (Oliver Prime Remix)
LSG was a project by Oliver Lieb, a German DJ/producer, remixed by Oliver Prime, another DJ from Austria, please, if you don't know this song, listen to it and tell me what you think :)
Luke
Sykonee
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Originally posted by lukeache
LSG- Netherworld (Oliver Prime Remix)
LSG was a project by Oliver Lieb, a German DJ/producer, remixed by Oliver Prime, another DJ from Austria, please, if you don't know this song, listen to it and tell me what you think :)
Original's better. I don't even need to listen to the Prime version to know it.:p
DJ Mission
I grew up listening to alternative rock on 107.7 "The End" in Seattle. I liked how the bands like Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam, and Weezer had a different sound than most of the other stuff that was on the radio. The station had a show called "Ultra Sound" that aired at midnight on Saturdays that played unmixed electronic songs that piqued my interest like Royksopp's "So Easy."
Even with casual interest, I really didn't know much about the electronic music scene until I lived in Spain for a semester in 9th grade. The Spanish kids I hung out with gave me a mysterious burnt CD cryptically labeled "Barriento II"--I still have no idea who was the DJ, but the whole mixed compilation CD had a vibe to it that slowly started to grow on me. It featured DJ Jean's "The Launch" that originally got me fired up about the prospects of EDM (Come on, give me a break, I was 15), but it was the melodic sounds of Paul Van Dyk's "Tell me Why (Dub Mix)" on the CD that really stuck with me after multiple plays.
I came back to the U.S. and started downloading lots of stuff off Napster with names like "THE BEST TECHNO RAVE SONG EVER!" After LOTS of bad tracks, I eventually found some better stuff like Aphex Twin's "4" and Gouryella's "Gouryella." The Gouryella track was really a turning point for me, it blew my mind when I listened to those break-beat synths reaching their euphoric peak.
After that I was hooked. I went USC 6 in Seattle (The United States of Consciousness Massive) the summer after my Sophomore year of high school and remember dancing to a DJ Micro Tech-Trance set that gave me shivers and got me jumping up and down all within the same set. It also was the first time I heard drum-and-bass/jungle by the likes of DJ Dieselboy, and I remember feeling like I could swim in the bass of the massive speaker stacks. I danced until 6am and remember coming out of the building with my ears ringing and a smile from ear to ear. It was unreal.
I continued to develop my taste throughout high school and when I went off to college got a radio show on the college station and started DJing house and trance at parties and campus events like frisbee tournaments. There was so much good music coming out around the mid 2000s: Markus Schulz Cold Harbor tracks, James Holden and Border Community progressive stuff (before minimal took such a strong hold), Sasha's first Involver album, etc.
Although I loved the sounds of prog and trance, I knew I needed to ease the dance floor into it. I remember dropping some massive house numbers at parties like Deep Dish – Say Hello (Angello & Ingrosso Remix) that made the crowd go so nuts that I could barely cross fade into the next track, and then finishing up the set with full on trance tracks that got hands in the air like Paul Van Dyk's remix of Kuffdam & Plant – Summer Dream, Purple Haze - Adrenaline, and Sonorous - Protonic (Ronski Speed Mix).
I still listen to trance now again, stuff like Above and Beyond's Podcast, but I no longer DJ. I came to the conclusion that I was killing the music scene by illegally downloading tracks, (It's no secret that as illegal downloading became more prevalent the economic market for labor intensive, well produced tracks dried up) and I really can't afford to buy enough tracks to stay current as a DJ.
It's been a great ride. I'm really interested to see where the scene will be in 5 or 10 years, especially with more mainstream dance music taking on more distinctly electronic elements (like Black Eyed Peas, David Guetta's, more recent tracks, and Ditty).
dj christian
quote:
Originally posted by lukeache
I am 34 right now, I was born in Brazil, raised in the USA. I started my love affair with trance around 1996 in Houston, TX.
Back in the mid-90's, raves were becoming very popular here in the USA, I have a lot of good memories from those times. When I think back, I realize how spoiled we were, at some raves, they would have trance rooms, with 6-7 different DJ's playing all night.
For those of you in your early 20's, you have no idea how fun those times were :) I will never forget the first time I heard the song- Greece 2000- Three Drives on a vinyl, at a rave, it was a moment of
pure ecstasy, I would say, still one of my favorite trance songs of all times.
I also started DJ'ing around that time and I remember going to the record store every week and always looking forward to new releases on Hooj Choons. Hooj Choons was a trance label from the UK owned by Red Jerry that put out some of the best trance classics in my opinion.
Eventually the rave movement faded away and I grew out of the trance scene or maybe It was because I did not know where to go anymore for trance.
Last year, for whatever reason, I started listening to trance again and I am absolutely obsessed :) At age 34, I have been enjoying this music even more than I did when I was 19, this music will stay with me forever, I have no doubt in my mind :)
I went to an Armin Van Buuren concert last week in Chicago and I can't even describe how I felt, this music touches my soul, and I can't have enough.
I am seriously considering going back to DJing at age 34, today, I listened to 2 songs in particular, that almost bring tears to my eyes, Anhken- Always look back and Arty & Mat Zo - Rebound, probably 2 of my favorite tracks of 2011. I could write a book on what trance means to me but I am too tired, It is 3:12 am here and I have been up all night listening to trance :)
My name is Luke Ache, I can be contacted at [email protected], I am currently living in Des Moines, Iowa but because we are a smaller city with a limited trance scene, I usually travel to Chicago or Minneapolis for trance events.
Good story bro but you just went from moderate good trance to bin trance. I would never ever find todays trance being any close as good as it were in the 90's regardless. Instead i think it would be healthy to you to add some diversity to your taste instead. There's so much more genres than the rotten state of todays stenched trance.
Sorry for all the s! ;)
lukeache
Very cool story :) I had not heard the original version of LSG- Netherworld in a long time. I guess, people have different
taste but I like both the original version and the Olive Prime remix.
It is hard to compare old school trance to the new stuff, because it would not be a fair comparison, it is like comparing oranges and tangerines, similar but not exactly the same.
Right now, I really like W&W, first time, I heard the song D.N.A, I was blown away, very good stuff :)
Luke
Teezdalien
I actually prefer the Oliver Prime remix of Netherworld over the original and Jules Vern mixes, although I like them a lot too, I just absolutely love where he took the bassline and percussion.
