Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Hard trance was always ty. It was merely at its apex of popularity on 2003, meaning there were a lot of Tidy Trax and Nukleuz compilations easily available in provincial HMV stores.
True dat! But i was guilty to listening to it back then. :)
Ofc there has been some few hardtrance gems but they weren't many.
Vector A
Hmm, 2003. My soundtrack was:
GU comps, particularly Seaman's 22 and Deep Dish's 25 and its supplement CDs that came out at the start of summer
Tiesto's Nyana
BT's ESCM (got his albums in reverse order starting with MISL, heh) and Rare and Remixed
Junkie XL's Radio JXL album
Way Out West - Intensify
Haven't listened to any of those CDs all the way through in ages. I would say the BT stuff and Intensify definitely hold up the best out of the bunch, though except for the cheesier bits of Nyana I wouldn't really mind listening to any of them now: it's just that I have other things that hold my attention more.
Vector A
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Originally posted by LoveHate
even if you think its ..there are some tracks that are just nostalgic..that just relate to that time period in your life and bring back memories, no matter how cheesy or whatever that maybe...or how "far" your taste has grown you just cant deny..and even though my ears are different now, I often go back to those tunes, and they always bring a smile, it was a time when I didn't care that , that lead sound was over used or that break down had become cliché..it was just in the moment..
Totally.
ing "As The Rush Comes," lulz. Also PVD - "Nothing But You." Can still remember playing the latter as I pulled up to my college dorms to start moving in.
Ian
It was the last year PVD was listenable with good sets like Energy 2003 & Einheitsrave and Marco V's techtrance sets were still really good. Since then, meh. Looking back at how promising things could've been and how they actually have is disappointing but life moves on & there's good music which is just a hell of a lot harder to find.
SYSTEM-J
Yeah, I had Nothing But You on single.
Generally though, this was actually probably an all-time low for dance music, part of the 2002-2004 era where all the stalwarts of '90s club culture began to seriously struggle (magazines shut, clubs closed, record labels went out of business, acts like Leftfield and Orbital called it a day) but none of the new '00s hotness (microhouse, Kompakt, minimal, dubstep) had really risen up to replace those stalwarts.
Those of us who started listening to EDM in this period are probably the most dislocated in history, because all the styles and sounds we were hooked in on were very rapidly discarded and derided before our tastes had chance to properly form. When we were ready for the standard '90s kid second tier of musical development (namely, prog) it was nowhere to be found, replaced instead by this weird bleepy bloop techno . While the '90s veterans could either move on ("yeah man, I always loved Spastik") or safely retreat into smug semi-retirement, with years of MDMA-blurred halcyon memories to sustain them, we were left with nothing but a feeling of confusion and loss. It seems no coincidence that many of those inducted between 2002-2004 seem inordinately interested in '90s dance music, with an ineffable sense of nostalgia for some golden era they never actually danced through.
Vector A
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Those of us who started listening to EDM in this period are probably the most dislocated in history, because all the styles and sounds we were hooked in on were very rapidly discarded and derided before our tastes had chance to properly form.
I suppose my experience was probably different because dance music was still a pretty niche thing in the U.S. and decidedly unpopular in the part of the country where I grew up (the south). So I was used to being far out of sync with the musical tastes and fashions around me. And I wasn't hooked in to the net's hive mind with respect to EDM yet, so until the mid 2000s I never had a sense of whether what I liked was popular or in style. But I guess when I did finally catch up with dance music trends, I was pretty disappointed in them.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
2003 was actually the year where I decided uplifting trance was too cheesy to me and so moved onto the infinitely deeper and more credible alternative... hard trance.
Hard trance was better then trance in 2003? The only 2 good acts were Flutlicht/SHOKK and Alphazone and the later one was kinda cheese...
Redd
:wtf:
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by trancedanne
Hard trance was better then trance in 2003? The only 2 good acts were Flutlicht/SHOKK and Alphazone and the later one was kinda cheese...
No, it was all . I'm merely pointing out the folly of youth.
Redd
the "hard trance" by flutlicht and shokk was really really bad
I consider this good hard trance:
but I guess that was way before 2003, and for all I know I'm colored by nostalgia.
