So there's this meme that's been going around facebook lately that involves people posting 7 of their favourite tracks over 7 days and then nominating someone else on facebook to do so which is pretty cool. So I figure it'd be cool if we did it on here. I'd suggest editing the later tracks into the one post though so there isn't too many posts. Also feel free to post even if you haven't been nominated yet.
Clarifications
-You post 7 tracks on 7 separate days, i.e. max 1 per day
-It doesn't really matter if you miss a day or two, just post the next track at the next opportunity
-Anyone can post without being invited, the invite thing was more of a facebook thing, it's still pretty cool if someone get's nominated before they post though, so it doesn't hurt to pick someone/some people who you'd like to see post theirs
It also gives you guys the idea if you haven't seen it already to post it on facebook.
Peter[not from TA] has nominated me to post 7 of my favourite tracks over 7 days, so here it is.
Day 1 of 7
Electric Universe - Journey Into The Subconscious
This track's a great tune that I think's really stood the test of time. It's got a really fun and uplifting mood with plenty of depth given by it's melodies. It's from an album that was generally quite creative and quality, and I think this really shows throughout the track as well. It's also got a nice variety of sounds which is always nice to hear in a track.
I originally heard this track in a really great psy set that someone posted on TA, and it's among the few that really got me into psytrance. The album it was on amazed with it's sound design and variety of tracks, and it made me want to explore the genre further.
I nominate System J and Magdansky.
Day 2 of 7
Etnica - Party Droid
The next track I've picked is a banging tune from the mid 90s. It's from one of the most key psy artists from that time and I think it showcases the highly melodic style that was the trend of that era, and something missing from modern psy. It's highly atmospheric and it has a nice progression of moods.
Day 3 of 7
Dragon - All That Remains
Next up is some darkpsy, it's got a menacing darker mood, no doubt influenced in a lot of ways by Industrial Metal. The artist Dragon's style compared to most darkpsy is deeper and more melodic and this show's the more melodic side of darkpsy pretty well. The quotes are from a great movie called sunshine, so that really adds to the track.
It's also from an excellent album with a lot of solid tracks of great variety so that makes it even better.
This track and the album it was off really impressed me, the artist's sound was just so solid while still being quite different and unique to any other's, I hope to see much more darkpsy that's as good as this in the future.
This also took 2 hours of screwing around to upload to youtube properly :whip:
Day 4 of 7
Solar Fields - Black Arrow
The next track is the melodic bliss of Solar Fields. This is perhaps one of the most powerfully emotional tracks of all time, especially within the context of Earthshine. The track is a powerful journey through a beautiful soundscape and variety of moods.
I originally found Solar Fields somewhat randomly when looking up psy ambient stuff, but ever since that point he's stood out as among the best. I've had many beautiful moments listening to his stuff and in particular this track.
Day 5 of 7
Emperor - Cosmic Keys To My Creations And Times
Next up I've chosen a great black metal track by Emperor. The quality of their stuff is pretty timeless and I find that black metal evokes some unique emotions that aren't really found within other music. I wish they made more stuff like this nowdays.
Day 6 of 7
Global Communication - 9 39
Next up is a sublime ambient track from the early 90s. Ambient has a special place in any music collection, and this track helps to show why. The subtle, relaxing soundscapes of the track transport you to a special place whenever you listen to it.
I'd also like to nominate Mr Mystery and Lentej.
Day 7 of 7
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mikrophonie II
For the last track, I felt like I had to include some karlheinz stockhausen. His music is pretty crazy, it's so experimental and unpredictable. It shows how you can have really weird, complex and experimental music from any time and have the result be really timeless.
SYSTEM-J
Very well, I shall play along. Picking seven tracks out of the hundreds I'd call favourites is always going to be slightly arbitrary, so I decided to go with seven I've never had chance to showcase in any of my mixes, and probably never will.
Day One: Altair - Collateral
I can remember very clearly when and where I first heard this - James Zabiela's Essential Mix in April 2010 during a surreal life interlude when I was renting an awfully decorated little room in Liverpool while temping as a videogame tester. I'd dabbled in drum 'n bass before then but this track opened my mind to how creative and downright beautiful the genre could be, and it was from here I dived into Covert Operations and ASC and a whole world of new music. As you get older as a music fan it becomes harder to experience those moments of joyous discovery where everything is new and exciting to your ears. This track was the moment I fell in love with drum 'n bass, and it sounds just as gorgeous now as the first time.
Day Two: DJ Tiesto - Suburban Train (Way Out West Remix)
I imagine quite a few people on TA will know this track already, but it's always been overshadowed by the original version. I heard this on the remix CD of In My Memory and it had quite a profound effect on how I heard music. Until then I'd enjoyed trance mainly for the bit in the middle where the big catchy melody came in - I was listening to dance music like it was still pop music. I can still remember hearing the breakdown of this for the first time and being totally puzzled. You get just a snatch of the euphoric melody from the original, and I couldn't understand why it came and went with just a wink to the camera on the way. Instead the track brought out little sounds from the original mix and worked them into a deliciously warm summery groove. It was like a lightbulb going on above my head, this notion that sounds and rhythms layered on top of each other could be more intoxicating than a big catchy lead line you could hum along to. Quite apart from the influence it had on me, this track is still absolutely brilliant in my opinion, and I regularly bust it out when the sun is shining.
Day Three: Vince Watson - Ethereal
I post this one every now and again on TA but I really do love it. I discovered it quite by accident after searching Beatport for some evocative words, in this case "ethereal". Vince Watson has made some great melodic Detroit techno down the years, but nothing nearly as deep or transcendental as this. Apparently it was based on a re-discovered demo from the early '90s but re-recorded with modern gear in 2008. This is one I always put on after getting home from a club - it sounds pretty chilled at low volume but the more you turn it up the more the tectonic rumble of the sub-bass takes over and you realise what a serious piece of tackle it really is. One of those tracks that could happily keep going for a whole hour.
Day Four: The Field - Leave It
Funnily enough I never really liked The Field when his first album was getting so much hype, although I've since re-evaluated his music - it's nice morning music for when you need something softly propulsive to shuttle you through the cold to work. This track from his second album stood out to me immediately as a cut above the rest. I don't know what separated it from the others, but the roving bass has more bollocks than some of his more twee pop-sampling stuff, and those chimes are truly celestial. You may remember Michael Mayer's half-joking "neo-trance" tag for this kind of stuff, and while the methodology is very different the effect it has on me is remarkably similar to good trance. This is another one of those seemingly infinite tracks I tend to play to soothe my tired mind to sleep at 11am after clubbing.
Day Five: Redcell - Interim
Now this is genius. The B12 boys were always loud-mouthed and dismissive in interviews but their music didn't always live up to the hype - Simon Reynolds wasn't far wrong when he amusingly dismissed their debut album as "like being forcibly anesthesized with Glade air freshener". This track wasn't on that album though, released instead under one of their myriad aliases. It has some of the finest, most mesmerising drum programming you'll ever hear in a techno record, and the stuff over the top is future-retro Detroit day-dreaming of the highest calibre. I've always preferred techno records that combine the formal abstraction of the genre with evocative emotional directness, and few tracks epitomise that blend better than this one. Should really be played only after a jazz cigarette for full hypnotic effect.
Day Six: Orbital - Monday
My day six is a Monday, after all. Like most of you, I’m intimately familiar with this album and love every track barring the irritating intro/outro. I actually bought Green and Brown together as an Orbital starter pack and listened to them in order, so I’m probably one of the few people post-1993 who got the joke when the second album started with the exact same sample as the first album. Any fears that the band were trapped in a time loop were dispelled by the second album being radically better than the first, although you already knew that. I picked this track because it shows how tastes can change over the space of 10-15 years – this track used to overshadowed by the obvious highlights of Lush, Remind and Halcyon but these days it’s grown to be arguably my favourite of the lot. It showcases Orbital’s ability not only to build complex tapestries from simple elements but also to effortlessly combine their influences. This is Strings Of Life as remixed by Steve Reich (or perhaps a Derrick May re-rub of Music For 18 Musicians?). I would love, love, love to hear someone drop this in a club at about 4am. Maybe it’ll happen one day.
Day Seven: Underworld - River Of Bass
To finish on a mellow note, this is another track many of you will know, from an album I've played many, many times. I actually had the pleasure of seeing Underworld perform the whole of Dubnobasswithmyheadman live for its 20th anniversary, and the bassline of this track reverberating under my feet put the bliss in me more than anything else. The beauty of this track is in the fine details - there's nothing obvious to point to that makes it so intoxicating, but the little samples - that guitar lick, the distant aching pads, those voices on the edge of hearing - add up to far more than the sum of their parts. I always think the real artistry in music lies in those little touches that don't need to be there, that don't come out of the songwriting handbook and that can surprise and delight even the most over-exposed music obsessive. You can spend a lifetime watching Youtube production tutorials but none will give you the musical instincts to write something as sublimely soporific as this.
I'll keep editing my post to keep things tidy. And I will nominate Syntonic.
Tom Yelland
I thought a meme was a picture with writing added to make it amusing?
Anyway - I never did the whole 7 days of trance thing either!
Probably would have looked something like::
Astral Projection - Time Began With The Universe
Chicane - Offshore (Disco Citizens Remix)
Union Jack - Yeti
Gaia - Tuvan (Andy Blueman Remix)
Terra Ferma - Floating
Dimension 5 - Iron Sun (Remix)
Wizzy Noise - This Is The End
Singularity55
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Originally posted by Tom Yelland
I thought a meme was a picture with writing added to make it amusing?
Anyway - I never did the whole 7 days of trance thing either!
You're supposed to post one track a day on seven separate days. Also, it doesn't have to be trance, it's any genre.
Syntonic
Compiling seven of the best tracks of my life is pretty tough, really gonna have to look through my collection as the days go on.
Day One: Paul Van Dyk - Today (Trance Ambient Mix)
This track is still very special to me and probably the deepest memory I have of being truly in awe discovering a track. I would have to say it's responsible for my liking of ambient/atmospheric trance, house, techno, jungle/drum 'n bass, etc. Simplicity is definitely its biggest charm giving truth to the old adage, less is more.
Day Two: Dove Beat - La Paloma (Ocean Mix)
First heard this track off Magik Three: Far from Earth from DJ Tiësto, also made famous Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure Tour 1997 Triple J Mixup show. Artist name is an alias of Van Bellen, who is a B-side maestro but has made a good numbers of hits under other names. He's always had a subtle, mild feel I admired and a style that has really died out as the trance sound evolved. This track shows off how beautiful trance can be without big, in your face sounds. The breakdown is just stunning and those strings are a slice of heaven.
Day Three: Speedy J - The Oil Zone (Edge Of Motion Mix)
Due yourself a favor and listen to Speedy J's G-Spot album if you haven't. It's probably his best stuff ever and in that time he made some really deep lush melodic techno and IDM. This mix has little to do with the original except for the break-beat, and just slowly builds until that arpeggio keeps rolling followed later by chanting and just puts me in a trance. It's one of those tracks that feel longer than it actually is.
Day Four: PFM - One And Only
There are very few artists in this genre I can think of that had a perfect track record like PFM. The guy couldn't make a bad track even if he tried. So many great tracks that have all left an impression, his style was so dynamic. It had many of those special sections/moments that occurred once but it's what makes his tracks feel like stories. I chose this out of many gems because it had a really intimate feel and you can really hear the soul and emotion put in.
Day Five: Skanna - Heaven
Some of John Graham's earliest material was Hardcore & Jungle/DnB, this track continues to have a mesmerizing effect on me with it's haunting melody. Since he found some DATs in his parents house, remasters have been coming out and sound better than ever after 20+ years. A nice piece of dark atmospheric Jungle among other classics.
Day Six: Zymotic - Solar Winds
Stumbled on this track a few years ago just typing in certain words on Beatport. Highly recommend following this guy, as he switches up his genres and fuses a lot of sounds. This track shows it off best with the accordion and it somehow just works and gets better as the track plunges into darker territory. He's really underrated and has enough videos on youtube to keep your head busy for a while.
Day Seven: Little Big Bee - Scuba
A while ago I started an aquatic music thread and fellow TA Mark Anthony posted this track which was practically a thread killer. I've always had an affinity for nature, especially marine life and just love music that reflects that.. The artist captured the vibe perfectly on every level and unlike a lot tracks I find which just contain some cheap, overused whale samples or splashing water to give it the aquatic feel...top drawer stuff for me.
Would like to give a shout to Adam420 but haven't seem him lately, so I'll nominate blackplasma and SPANIARD.
SPANIARD
Really not going to be easy but I'm going to try and find some of the least recognizable stuff to post.
Day 1. This one is off the 2nd CD of Digweed's GU in Sydney and one of Pablo Gargano's most overlooked tracks.
Day 2. A total masterpiece from Vladislav Delay. Probably the best 20 min+ dance track you can find and pushing the borders of minimal and ambient.
Day 3. No doubt that Steve Roach and Robert Rich played a major role in getting Ambient out to the world. Their release from 1992 entitled Soma is a great example of how deep the ambient/tribal combo can go.
Day 4. This track was one of the first to really open my eyes to the darker side of Psy Trance with its organic approach. I still rate Atriohm as one of the most beautiful trance projects I've ever heard.
Day 5. My go to track for the car on extremely hot, humid Toronto summer days. Don't think any track ever screamed out hammock and sexy exotic drink like this one.
Day 6. I'm guessing this will be my most well known pick of the bunch. This track popped up a lot on my mp3 player when I was really moving away from uplifting trance and moving into more psychedelic and 'serious' trance. Quick story is that my friend and I had just gone to see J00F circa 2007 in Montreal and we were both still buzzing from the night. We put on his essential mix from 2001 which my friend had on his mp3 player. Great mix and this song really stood out for it's spiritual approach (yet not psychedelic). Going to Montreal around Autumn also meant that my memories of that trip include different colored leaves around the highway making this even more of an epic experience.
I nominate hardcore trancer.
SYSTEM-J
The OP is letting the side down somewhat by not playing his own game. Anyway, my post is up to date now.
Godking5
Oh no , im late on this :nervous:
Let me catch up, and since the rules are ANY genre, here are some. Cant say for sure these are my 7 FAV tracks forever, since i listen to so much music, some things get lost and then rediscovered. And i want to choose songs that not every person and their mother on TA has as their favorites (so no sasha or digweed or BT or Tiesto or Oakie for me)
Day 1:
I first heard this song when i was going through a period of depression and loneliness. The melancholic vibes and lyrics just attached themselves to me. And from then on , this song has always been special to me.
Day 2:
I was a hip hop head and Jazz music head before i became a dance music head. If anything dance music was an accident, something I stumbled upon while browsing limewire. But i grew up on hip hop music and jazz, as well as "acid jazz" / neo jazz whatever you want to label it as. Day 2 is a tie between these two:
Day 3: Back to the club, McProg or not, this track has always been one of my favotires and one that i revisit frequent,
Day 4: The emotional attachment to this one is strong
Godking5
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Very well, I shall play along. Picking seven tracks out of the hundreds I'd call favourites is always going to be slightly arbitrary, so I decided to go with seven I've never had chance to showcase in any of my mixes, and probably never will.
Day One: Altair - Collateral
I can remember very clearly when and where I first heard this - James Zabiela's Essential Mix in April 2010 during a surreal life interlude when I was renting an awfully decorated little room in Liverpool while temping as a videogame tester. I'd dabbled in drum 'n bass before then but this track opened my mind to how creative and downright beautiful the genre could be, and it was from here I dived into Covert Operations and ASC and a whole world of new music. As you get older as a music fan it becomes harder to experience those moments of joyous discovery where everything is new and exciting to your ears. This track was the moment I fell in love with drum 'n bass, and it sounds just as gorgeous now as the first time.
this notion that sounds and rhythms layered on top of each other could be more intoxicating than a big catchy lead line you could hum along to. Quite apart from the influence it had on me, this track is still absolutely brilliant in my opinion, and I regularly bust it out when the sun is shining.
The track Altair - Silent Dream is my favorite of their collection. My discovery of them was an accident as well. I was looking for videos for the character Altair from Assasins creed 1 and stumbled upon silent dream which has those beautiful bjork samples!
Which leads me into day 5 .
Day 5: Holden played this in one of his older mixes. Remeber when i first heard it, I was mesmerized, I was already a huge Bjork fan and was also a Bran & Aisher fan due to that one track ----> James Holden - One For You (Brancaccio & Aisher Mix) . ing Slammer !!!
So naturally when i heard this song below, it was love at first listen.
Kilixpree
I'm confused. Am I supposed to post only if invited or not?
Trance-M
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Originally posted by Kilixpree
I'm confused. Am I supposed to post only if invited or not?
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Also feel free to post even if you haven't been nominated yet.
And one track each day starting from the first day you post and not the day of the OP.
Looking at the thread it appears to be surprisingly difficult.
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by Kilixpree
I'm confused. Am I supposed to post only if invited or not?
Anyone can take part if they want, but only post one track per day. I think Godking5 got a bit confused and thought he had to catch up with everyone.
