We love Trance music

[Don1]

I’ve been lost a few times inside my skull to that. Great track.

[The_Doc]

In heaven, when I am DJ-ing, I will drop that track at about 3am when it's totally dark, and it will go off.

God will come up to me at the Pioneers and be like "Bruv, do you want residency?"
And I'll be like, you sell the tickets, and I'm in.

Edited by The_Doc on Friday 8th September 18:55

[Don1]

The club on Villiers street? Introduce me to your dealer

[Regbuser]

Ah, Heaven, in the days of Spectrum etc...


..shoom was at Southwark, YMCA tcr, then Busby's..

Edited by Regbuser on Friday 8th September 21:58

[Don1]

Was in there a few years back. Gutted that Soundshaft was now a bar…

[Regbuser]

Don1 said:

Was in there a few years back. Gutted that Soundshaft was now a bar…

Wut ?!?!

[Don1]

Top closed, centre of dance floor a bar, seats around.

Only the memories remain.

(I’m still mates with the Trance Generation promoter, so great memories).

[Regbuser]

Aye, megatripolis was good too

[The_Doc]

Don1 said:

The club on Villiers street? Introduce me to your dealer

Sorry. Some confusion.
I mean this place.
Door policy: smiley people only, trainers welcome, no football kits.

[Don1]

I know, just pulling your leg.

Great door policy though.

[CloudStuff]

Talking of Trance, love this combo of my two favourite types of memes - partying and Keano:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw7yTLNsssK/?igshid...

Edited by CloudStuff on Tuesday 28th November 08:53

[Mr Whippy]

Condi said:

Don1 said:

Are there particular memories associated with those tracks?

Ref the A&B comment, I was them a little while back at Print works (backstage dontchaknow) and they have changed their sound. Far tougher and techier, but still had the final 30 mins to sing along...

I think a lot of it is the memories associated with the tracks, it's why the first stuff you heard is always great, especially if it was when you turned 18, started going out, had some amazing nights etc. Ask an 18 year old now what music was good in 20 years and they'll say stuff from the early 2020's, probably.

As for A&B at Printworks, I was there too, but not backstage, and was very much "meh". I was there on the first night (Wednesday??), apparently the setlist was a lot better on the second night though. Compared to seeing them at Ally Pally in 2010, ish, there really is no comparison. Then again, A&B to me will always be Oceanlab and their first couple of albums. There are better producers/acts on Anjunabeats than A&B these days.

Dunno about that. I’ll agree some are like that, but plenty aren’t.

I was clubbing from 96 to 2000 ish but plenty of stuff I love listening to I never heard back then, and have only discovered via YouTube.
I’d say half of the stuff I like I didn’t hear till I was in my 30s when YouTube started taking off more and I’d get to see/hear them, or friends music collections.

Ie,
Neo Cortex were totally missed by me at the time, but I heard their stuff 4 or 5 years ago and enjoyed it.
And then RMB, totally missed until about 20 years later, now enjoying a lot.
Drax, Marco V etc.
And a whole load of Blank & Jones stuff that I never heard much at the time but really like now.

Obviously a lot of the 90s stuff is still memorable, but plenty is now filed under ‘over played, over-rated, not that great’

[Purosangue]

apologies if re post

back2basics paul oakenfold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unfIshMShlY&t=...



sasha and John Digweed northern exposure









disc 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaY3spCDdpY

disc 2


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrOo_twzkdE

[The_Doc]

Yes.

Before the the uk mainstream discovered "dance" music and a decade (or two) before the USA called it EDM, there was this, and there was Sasha.
And 58 mins in to disc 2 there was Dark and Long, which for Trance people was *far* better than Born Slippy.

And I had this 2 disc CD set stolen from my student digs in Nottingham in 1995 and I rebought it on CD.


And it's 03:04 now. And I'm playing Northern Exposure again for the umpteenth time in the last 25 yrs.

Northern Exposure. Maximum marks.

Edited by The_Doc on Thursday 21st September 10:46

[The_Doc]

Noteable mention for this in the small hours, although I've been out tonight and the Liverpool freshers are CRAZY, but anyhow it's a trance thread:

[youtube]Beautiful Burnout (Mark Knight Remix): https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwE11-FPpI&...

Crazy Bladerunner 0322am tune

Or, if that doesn't work



If Rutger danced, he'd dance to this

Edited by The_Doc on Thursday 21st September 03:27

[big dub]

What a collaboration, awesome trance track!

[fridaypassion]

p4cks said:

I think this is it. For me, trance started in late '97 and finished in mid '03

There are loads of good producers still producing absolutely top quality stuff. Factor B, Craig Connelly, Steve Allen etc I think the music is better all the time. The scene overall is a shadow of it's former self it seems to be all this really basic cheesy house stuff at the moment that everyone's into rather than trance. All sounds like stuff that's kicked up in fruity loops with zero production value.

Edited by fridaypassion on Sunday 24th September 16:00

[Condi]

Christina Novelli at MOS yesterday was fantastic. Aly and Fila, sadly, not so much. Whatever he was playing was not what I would describe as trance, but only in the same way A+B sets are (IMO) not really trance (see above!). It's the whole genre which is changing.

[The_Doc]

Condi said:

Christina Novelli at MOS yesterday was fantastic. Aly and Fila, sadly, not so much. Whatever he was playing was not what I would describe as trance, but only in the same way A+B sets are (IMO) not really trance (see above!). It's the whole genre which is changing.

A&B are totally different to what they used to be, they've dropped their bpm right down and taken on loads of vocal dance artists and vocal dance collabs. For the better in my opinion.
Then there's the yoga/chill out/meditation stuff which Paarvo championed when he was having some tough times a while back. I love Flow State, it's so calm.

There is lots of Trance out there still. It's a state of mind eh? at 140bpm or 128.

Example:


2021, from Anjunadeep 12

[Condi]

The_Doc said:

A&B are totally different to what they used to be, they've dropped their bpm right down and taken on loads of vocal dance artists and vocal dance collabs. For the better in my opinion.

Ummm.... Yes, there is a lot more vocal and lower BPM stuff on their label now, which I agree is a good thing, and a lot of the newer artists I like are signed to Anjunabeats, but last time I saw an A+B set (last year at Printworks), it was higher BPM and higher energy than maybe a cross section of Anjunabeats would suggest. Maybe their sets have changed in the last 6 months or so.