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personal fav trance tracks of tiesto and armin (pg. 3)
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| Drancge |
| quote: | Originally posted by kosmotika
I can't select one...even though I rag on these guys constantly...but here's a top 10 in alphabetical order. Only counting solo work.
AvB
Armin - Blue Fear
Armin - Check Out Your Mind
Armin van Buuren - Last Stop Before Heaven
CJ Stone - Shining Star (Rising Star Mix)
Cygnus X - Positron 2002 (Armin van Buuren Mix)
Gouryella - Walhalla (Rising Star Mix)
Groove Solution - Magic Melody (Armin Mix)
Rising Star - Touch Me
Vincent De Moor - Between 2 Fires (Rising Star Mix)
Vincent De Moor - Shamu (Armin van Buuren Mix)
Tiesto
Allure - When She Left
Goldenscan - Sunrise (Tiesto Mix)
Pirates Of The Caribbean - He's A Pirate (Tiesto Mix)
Tiesto - Athena
Tiesto - Euphoria
Tiesto - Long Way Home
Tiesto - Olympic Flame
Tiesto - Urban Train
Tiesto - Traffic
Yahel - Going Up (Magikal Mix) |
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| DJ Mission |
DJ Tiësto & Junkie XL - Obsession
I heard this track in a vinyl DJ set at a rented Grange Hall in rural Washington State when I was in high school. The context where I heard the track might skew my perception of it (I was compensated in free admission and a box of glow sticks to be the official promoter--handing out fliers in my high school cafeteria and really put my reputation on the line--so naturally I wanted to like the music), but in my assessment it is one of Tiësto's best efforts. The DJ at the Grange was a friend of mine and I had to go up and ask him the name of the track because it stood out as such a gem.
I don't know how much Junkie XL had a hand in the production, but this is probably my favorite track with Tiësto's name on it. It still gives me a huge shot of nostalgia every time I hear it. I can remember it coming on my iPod at random during a long bike ride in the wheat fields in college, and I remember dropping it in my own DJ set instead of some cheesy Bob Sinclar track that all the over-served sorority girls wanted me to play.
It had become very fashionable to bash Tiësto when I first joined this forum, but Tijs's productions consistently gave me goosebumps through 2006 when he really started drifting away from his trademark trance sound. His Nyana album sounded great on my friend's car stereo, and even his more comercial sound was captivating: I remember dancing alongside his float in the Love Parade in Berlin as he dropped Fonzerelli - Moonlight Party and feeling the euphoria of the moment, even as I recognized that it was not a masterpiece musically.
As a side note, we--the music consumers--are really to blame for trance's decline. There used to be a sizable financial reward for putting the long hours into a high quality production, but file sharing has made it virtually impossible for a small time producer to support themselves by putting out releases for a narrow audience. Think about it, didn't you notice a big drop off in the quality of trance and progressive house just as Soulseek and broadband internet became widespread?
But I digress. Here's Obsession.
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| Trance-M |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mission
DJ Tiësto & Junkie XL - Obsession
I don't know how much Junkie XL had a hand in the production |
A big one I think, maybe even two. |
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| Godking5 |
Ok Im Up, ill go with this. Its a tie
And for Armin
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| Drancge |
ce is still| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mission
DJ Tiësto & Junkie XL - Obsession
I heard this track in a vinyl DJ set at a rented Grange Hall in rural Washington State when I was in high school. The context where I heard the track might skew my perception of it (I was compensated in free admission and a box of glow sticks to be the official promoter--handing out fliers in my high school cafeteria and really put my reputation on the line--so naturally I wanted to like the music), but in my assessment it is one of Tiësto's best efforts. The DJ at the Grange was a friend of mine and I had to go up and ask him the name of the track because it stood out as such a gem.
I don't know how much Junkie XL had a hand in the production, but this is probably my favorite track with Tiësto's name on it. It still gives me a huge shot of nostalgia every time I hear it. I can remember it coming on my iPod at random during a long bike ride in the wheat fields in college, and I remember dropping it in my own DJ set instead of some cheesy Bob Sinclar track that all the over-served sorority girls wanted me to play.
It had become very fashionable to bash Tiësto when I first joined this forum, but Tijs's productions consistently gave me goosebumps through 2006 when he really started drifting away from his trademark trance sound. His Nyana album sounded great on my friend's car stereo, and even his more comercial sound was captivating: I remember dancing alongside his float in the Love Parade in Berlin as he dropped Fonzerelli - Moonlight Party and feeling the euphoria of the moment, even as I recognized that it was not a masterpiece musically.
As a side note, we--the music consumers--are really to blame for trance's decline. There used to be a sizable financial reward for putting the long hours into a high quality production, but file sharing has made it virtually impossible for a small time producer to support themselves by putting out releases for a narrow audience. Think about it, didn't you notice a big drop off in the quality of trance and progressive house just as Soulseek and broadband internet became widespread?
But I digress. Here's Obsession.
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| Bierheld |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mission
I don't know how much Junkie XL had a hand in the production, but this is probably my favorite track with Tiësto's name on it. It still gives me a huge shot of nostalgia every time I hear it. I can remember it coming on my iPod at random during a long bike ride in the wheat fields in college, and I remember dropping it in my own DJ set instead of some cheesy Bob Sinclar track that all the over-served sorority girls wanted me to play.
It had become very fashionable to bash Tiësto when I first joined this forum, but Tijs's productions consistently gave me goosebumps through 2006 when he really started drifting away from his trademark trance sound. His Nyana album sounded great on my friend's car stereo, and even his more comercial sound was captivating: I remember dancing alongside his float in the Love Parade in Berlin as he dropped Fonzerelli - Moonlight Party and feeling the euphoria of the moment, even as I recognized that it was not a masterpiece musically.
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I think one of his major strengths was just that, he was always a collaborative producer coming from the DJ circuit, and his biggest highs were when he was able to bring together a competent studio team which made sure all the releases were of a very high standard in production and audio quality. It's the same dynamic that works in bands and can do good things for the music. I think this track is an interesting example of how such a thing can come to fruition. Junkie XL is a producer who clearly has hordes of talent but seems to have trouble with really applying himself, admitting in interviews that he can never work on a track for more then two days and is very dependant on being able to turn that single whiff of an idea into a full length track in no time at all before losing interest in it. Which I think is why we've never heard anything truly exceptional from his solo career.
Teaming up in such a way may well have given him the environment to overcome his deficiencies, as have many others presumably.
Really what Tiesto does these days is no different, except now instead of working with young and promising producers he's working with talentless hacks and celebrity wannabes, and by extension has become one himself.
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As a side note, we--the music consumers--are really to blame for trance's decline. There used to be a sizable financial reward for putting the long hours into a high quality production, but file sharing has made it virtually impossible for a small time producer to support themselves by putting out releases for a narrow audience. Think about it, didn't you notice a big drop off in the quality of trance and progressive house just as Soulseek and broadband internet became widespread?
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Not really, Financial success in music production is directly tied with popularity and as such there can only ever be a small percentage of artists that are making actual money. This was never any different except nowadays we actually see how many people are fishing behind the net.
The quality of whatever genre of dance music is never completely consistent, there are always ebbs and flows as well as complete crashes depending on whatever people happen to be interested in at any given moment in time. The causes of this will be numerous and it's a bit far fetched to blame it all on one thing, especially since other genres seemed to cope with the advent of file sharing just fine. |
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| rubez |
was thinking there isn't really much that stands up today, but actually here is a VERY good track.
atmospheric dark progressive uplifter(TM)
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| Bierheld |
About the thread topic, I was just thinking that it's funny that both are put in the same position as the front-men of the post-millennial trance scene when really they were very different as producers and artists.
Thinking back to my trance days, my preference between the two could not have been more lopsided. I was just never a fan of Armin, not of his productions and certainly not of his DJ'ing.
Probably because I used to (perhaps falsely) associate him with what I thought of as the 'progressive' approach to making music. I.E. deliberately toning things down into endlessly plodding progressions, as well as the very tiring and misguided trance music purism that was carried out by his fans more so then himself. Blue fear comes close to being something I can genuinely enjoy, but there really isn't enough there to make it something truly great. And as has been mentioned before he never really followed up on that direction.
My attitude is still the same, which is probably why I lost interest in trance music pretty quickly. Looking back I was probably never really a trance fan to start with. All the works I enjoy were riddled with cross-genre content and I still prefer an honest and unrestrained work of fun and passion over a religious interpretation of a genre any day of the week. |
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| zps |
| Dallas 4PM, Slipstream. |
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| 2techs |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mission
DJ Tiësto & Junkie XL - Obsession
I heard this track in a vinyl DJ set at a rented Grange Hall in rural Washington State when I was in high school. The context where I heard the track might skew my perception of it (I was compensated in free admission and a box of glow sticks to be the official promoter--handing out fliers in my high school cafeteria and really put my reputation on the line--so naturally I wanted to like the music), but in my assessment it is one of Tiësto's best efforts. The DJ at the Grange was a friend of mine and I had to go up and ask him the name of the track because it stood out as such a gem.
I don't know how much Junkie XL had a hand in the production, but this is probably my favorite track with Tiësto's name on it. It still gives me a huge shot of nostalgia every time I hear it. I can remember it coming on my iPod at random during a long bike ride in the wheat fields in college, and I remember dropping it in my own DJ set instead of some cheesy Bob Sinclar track that all the over-served sorority girls wanted me to play.
It had become very fashionable to bash Tiësto when I first joined this forum, but Tijs's productions consistently gave me goosebumps through 2006 when he really started drifting away from his trademark trance sound. His Nyana album sounded great on my friend's car stereo, and even his more comercial sound was captivating: I remember dancing alongside his float in the Love Parade in Berlin as he dropped Fonzerelli - Moonlight Party and feeling the euphoria of the moment, even as I recognized that it was not a masterpiece musically.
As a side note, we--the music consumers--are really to blame for trance's decline. There used to be a sizable financial reward for putting the long hours into a high quality production, but file sharing has made it virtually impossible for a small time producer to support themselves by putting out releases for a narrow audience. Think about it, didn't you notice a big drop off in the quality of trance and progressive house just as Soulseek and broadband internet became widespread?
But I digress. Here's Obsession.
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let's just say In My Memory was the Thriller of trance albums. 9 classic tracks on one LP. it doesn't better than that. |
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| xCTx |
Tiesto:
Aria - Willow (DJ Tiesto's Magikal Remake)
DJ Tiesto - Magikal Journey
Armin:
Armin Van Buuren - Sail (Original Mix)
Armin Van Buuren - Burned With Desire (Rising Star Remix)
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| klm21 |
Hard to pick one Tiesto track, Flesh remix, Obsession, Flight 643 or Suburban Train I guess
Was always a much bigger Tijs fan than Armin so picking one song is much easier here, Astronauts. |
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