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How is this song trance?
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| kyl33 |
Alright, so I'm just now starting the understand the dance music genres and the differences between them (at least a little, haha). I spent a couple hours on this site yesterday just to understand the differences between house and trance music:
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
From my understanding, house music is influenced by disco and dub music and is a variation/mix of the two. It has a defined 4/4 time signature and a lot of it is melodic.
Trance music is influenced by industrial (experimental) rock and disco and is a variation/mix of the two. The music is a lot more abstract and it seems to be a lot less defined than house. There isn't much of a melody either. It's meant to "get lost" in.
If I'm correct, then why did someone label this song as trance when it has a defined 4/4 time signature and is melodic? It sounds like 90s eurodance house to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlgOZllmyLk |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Listen to lots and lots of tracks labelled as house music, then lots and lots of tracks labelled as trance music. You'll get the hang of it. |
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| Sykonee |
| A lot of early '90s eurodance was influenced by trance at the time, especially since (mostly German) trance producers would make eurodance tunes on the side for extra coin. |
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| kyl33 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sykonee
A lot of early '90s eurodance was influenced by trance at the time, especially since (mostly German) trance producers would make eurodance tunes on the side for extra coin. |
Thanks for the informative answer. So the lines between the two genres in the 90s were blurred? |
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| kosmotika |
| I might put this a little closer to a niche genre called "hands up" which is basically ultra cheesy hard trance with some eurodance elements tossed in. Usually features a pitched bass, sharp supersaw lead, a much punchier kick drum, etc but contains a more "cheerful" melody than most hard trance productions... |
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| Sykonee |
| I always figured 'hands up' was the popification of hardstyle. Then again, hard trance and hardstyle really started blurring in the mid-'00s. It's all just one big mush of vvwommpa-vvwommpa-vvwommpa anyway. |
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| Sykonee |
| quote: | Originally posted by kyl33
Thanks for the informative answer. So the lines between the two genres in the 90s were blurred? |
I wouldn't say they were blurred - more like eurodance nicked elements of trance for its own use. Put another way, no way in Hell would you see a eurodance track appear on Harthouse, MFS, or Suck Me Plasma, but you'd definitely find a Trance Remix on a number of eurodance singles. |
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| kosmotika |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sykonee
I always figured 'hands up' was the popification of hardstyle. Then again, hard trance and hardstyle really started blurring in the mid-'00s. It's all just one big mush of vvwommpa-vvwommpa-vvwommpa anyway. |
You're pretty much right. Modern hardstyle is fairly popular in my area and it's pretty weak these days; it's basically watered down hard trance except the kick is an over distorted DOING DOING DOING DOING sound. |
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| Sykonee |
| See, I thought the doing-doing-doingiddity-doing stuff was jumpstyle. 'Cause sure do feel like jumping around like Tigger while it plays. |
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| soulstar606 |
| trance is getting more poppy......it's a real skill to be able to make well made melodic trance. |
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| caddyshack |
| quote: | Originally posted by kyl33
Alright, so I'm just now starting the understand the dance music genres and the differences between them (at least a little, haha). I spent a couple hours on this site yesterday just to understand the differences between house and trance music:
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
From my understanding, house music is influenced by disco and dub music and is a variation/mix of the two. It has a defined 4/4 time signature and a lot of it is melodic.
Trance music is influenced by industrial (experimental) rock and disco and is a variation/mix of the two. The music is a lot more abstract and it seems to be a lot less defined than house. There isn't much of a melody either. It's meant to "get lost" in.
If I'm correct, then why did someone label this song as trance when it has a defined 4/4 time signature and is melodic? It sounds like 90s eurodance house to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlgOZllmyLk |
trance is also 4/4
the bpm, cheesy synth's etc give it away as "trance" I guess |
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| Icesotope |
| It would be best to listen what you like best and try to find similar patterns. Experience plays a bigger role then just relying on others classification |
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