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Are songs like this really trance?
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| BenassiBengt |
So I've always considered trance to be pretty cut and dry, in terms of sound and such, but I've always wondered why people consider songs like Kernkraft400 (Zombie Nation), Sandstorm (Darude), Loneliness (Tomcraft) to be trance, they sound more like dance or rave to me.
Normally it would seem pretty obvious that they aren't, but with trance labels like Ministry of Sound calling them trance and putting them on trance compilation/mix cd's (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Tra...s/dp/B000S868VE) makes me question if I just missed this wave, as you might call it, of trance, or if it's just a common canon that they are.
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| Titanium |
| I thought they called Darude - Sandstorm Techno at the least the people in my school did back in 1999/2000. People are divided on what those tracks are, some say it's euro dance and some say it's euro trance. My friends still call those tracks Techno. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I don't see how they're any less "trance" than most of the stuff that gets labelled trance these days. |
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| Sykonee |
It's just marketing, re-using the same licensed tracks on anything that can fit a vague, eye-catching theme. I've a compilation from '92 with Age Of Love on it called Radikal Techno. Yep, an all-time true trance classic gets called techno (not in the catch-all 'techno' way either).
Darude and Zombie Nation were utterly whored out for compilation duty at the turn of the century, no matter the theme or genre. Here's Sandstorm on a techno collection. And here for 'tekno'! Meanwhile, Feel The Beat (practically the same song) ends up here with a bunch of hard house. That's just scratching the surface too.
MoS are shameless in their compilations, recycling so many tunes for almost yearly "remember these hits?" duty.
Edit: Oh, and here they're just club anthems. Heh, way to jump on that bandwagon, MoS. Probably didn't count on Fedde Le Grand fading soon after.:gsmile: |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sykonee
It's just marketing |
That's generally the answer to most genre labelling debates. |
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| rubez |
| never a stickler for genre classification yourself, eh? |
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| Syntonic |
| I really wouldn't bother caring, since it's really gotten out of hand and everything blurred together is now a bastardization of the pure underground form. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubez
never a stickler for genre classification yourself, eh? |
Depends how generic the record is. |
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| BenassiBengt |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sykonee
Darude and Zombie Nation were utterly whored out for compilation duty at the turn of the century
MoS are shameless in their compilations, recycling so many tunes for almost yearly "remember these hits?" duty.
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