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Trance In America
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| Dj Pluviose |
Alright, so I guess Trance is a Europe only thing. In America? Nah, not so much. People here either don't know it, hate it, lack the knowledge of differences between any EDM, or very few like it.
I'm like 1% out of the rest of the 99% that appreciate and enjoy Trance. Everybody else enjoys Top 40 cheese. They even say "Omgawd! Lil Wayne's latest songs sounds like Tranceeee!" when really, it's just a few lame cheesy synths thrown in
people claim they are Trance listeners. This is kind of an thing of me to do, but when my friends claim they are Trance listeners, I ask them "if you listen to Trance, what kind of Trance do you listen to?"
"Oh, I love AFROJACK and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA!!!"
I'm just like... No, that's not Trance... then they respond with "omg whatever it's the same thing. Show me what Trance is then!"
I play Resistance D - Cosmic Love or if I wanna go more mainstream I play Sparkles. They hated it because it was "not catchy, not exciting, sounds boring" They have no clue, so I pull out another "Better off Alone" and they start swagging their excitement saying "Oh I love this! Classiccccc!"
so yeah that's my story. do people in your area listen to Trance or do you find yourself a minority as well?
edit: sometimes it literally annoys me when they say they like Trance because of Benny Benassi, Rusko, Dubstep, or something. |
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| DreambreaX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Pluviose
I ask them "if you listen to Trance, what kind of Trance do you listen to?"
"Oh, I love AFROJACK and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA!!!"
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| Redd |
| It's exactly the same just about everywhere in Europe. |
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| pointPi |
One thing I've noticed is that while trance is pretty known in countries like Germany and Netherlands, the music is completely unheard of in e.g. USA and Sweden. Here's my hypothesis to why:
Netherlands and Germany: Liberal drug policies
USA and Sweden: Strict zero tolerance
It seems that the more open a nation is to drugs, the more popular trance is amongst its people. Correct me if I'm wrong. |
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| Trance-MB |
| quote: | Originally posted by pointPi
One thing I've noticed is that while trance is pretty known in countries like Germany and Netherlands, the music is completely unheard of in e.g. USA and Sweden. Here's my hypothesis to why:
Netherlands and Germany: Liberal drug policies
USA and Sweden: Strict zero tolerance
It seems that the more open a nation is to drugs, the more popular trance is amongst its people. Correct me if I'm wrong. |
Sorry, but IMO that's totally bull, if it would be the main one. I never related trance with drugs in the early 90s when it all started.
A relation to Hardcore regarding drugs seems to be more obvious, although I even doubt that with strict drug policies that would have developed in a different way.
The same could be said about the minimum legal drinking ages of alcohol by the way.
Examples: Just walk into a jeans shop over here and listened to the music. They play edm (including trance). I have even seen DJ's playing in shops in Germany more than 10 years ago.
Many television programs about common things like cars, gardening, house building, traveling play trance on the background, so people get used to it.
See what happens with Queensday in Holland and Love Parade in Germany, both huge social events which get a lot of publicity.
But I'm not surprised this hypothesis gets mentioned and it will have some truth in it, but I would say it has something like a 10% contribution. Maybe others see it differently.
I think also Belgium contributed a lot to the scene in the 90s and with that the fact that edm is known in general over here. |
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| Ted Promo |
| If there is one thing that would lift this great country of America out of the slump that it is that they are in in this very moment in moment place it would be trance and all of it's trancey behavior. |
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| Sykonee |
Here in Vancouver, one of the longest running club nights (if not the longest) has only ever played trance.
Well, psy trance... |
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| Ishkur |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Pluviose
Alright, so I guess Trance is a Europe only thing. In America? Nah, not so much. People here either don't know it, hate it, lack the knowledge of differences between any EDM, or very few like it.
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Why does this matter to you? |
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| future_newbie |
This way better.
Real trance should stay under g. |
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| justin |
| congrats you made it in to the 1% of elitle americans that listen to the most annoying music evaaaaaaaa111111 |
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| Cedric K. |
Well i lived in singapore for the last five years and what I think it is a matter of age and maturity. Ppl get introduced to the edm scene by guetta, afrojack tracks n stuff. Probably also because that’s what you hear in every club..
but after a while (I experienced the development over 3 years), ppl go further and those who said that trance is boring, not interesting and not enough power (prob. age of 15-17), will like it more more and more. Im only talking about what I experienced, it can be different anywhere else. Get-ting the “classic” touch of uplifting trance to classical music is not always easy to appreciate when you listen to 3 min versions of rnb, hip hop music.
So I guess it’s also a matter of age and maturity but of course also what you grew up with, my dad used to play paul oakenfold n faithless at home :) |
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| djsaekone |
| anything that sounds electronic is considered trance around here .... |
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