We love Trance music

[Don1]

A&B in the last few months have got a lot tougher and techier. They needed to evolve their sound. I love them dearly but they disappeared up their own rears after acoustic and started chasing the EDM dollar that claimed Tiësto so tragically.

[Funk]

I've never completely understood where one genre becomes another - can anyone explain it clearly to me?

[The_Doc]

Funk said:

I've never completely understood where one genre becomes another - can anyone explain it clearly to me?

Their is no answer or clear delineation. It's like styles of clothing.
Just listen and enjoy, you find your own likes whether ambient, chill, trance, pop, drum and bass, eurodance, ect etc. Leftfield!

Oh, apart from Gabba, those guys are on their own, with their 160 bpm Dutch crazosity

[Regbuser]

300 if you don't mind > https://youtu.be/48BZKuiJ59E

[The_Doc]

Like I say, on you own with >150 bpm noize

[rodericb]

Man this one is ace:

[big dub]

Slight hijack of the thread for this one.

If anyone is interested, I've done a dance mix (not EDM Don )

https://soundcloud.com/rob-joyce/dep-01

Happy listening.

1. Piece Of Art (Extended Mix) - Kryder
2. True North feat. Diandra Faye (Extended Mix) - York, Diandra Faye
3. I Need A Miracle (Extended Mix) - CoCo Star, KREAM
4. Easy feat. XIRA (Extended Mix) - 3LAU, XIRA
5. Blue Monday (feat. JD Davis) (Extended Mix) - DJs From Mars, Oliver Heldens
6. Blur (Extended Mix) - KREAM, Marlo Rex
7. Titanium (feat. Sia) (David Guetta & MORTEN Future Rave Extended Mix) - David Guetta
8. Light On (Extended Mix) - Markus Schulz, Sarah De Warren
9. King of My Castle (Extended Mix) - Sean Finn
10. Call Your Name (Extended Mix) - Alesso, John Newman
11. Another Chance (Extended) - Roger Sanchez, Oliver Heldens
12. Maria Maria (Diplo Extended Remix) - TECH IT DEEP
13. Edge of Seventeen (Extended Mix) - Wuki
14. To Be Real (Extended Mix) - Lee Foss, Cheryl Lynn, Wuki
15. Better Off (Alone, Pt. III) (Extended Version) - Dash Berlin, Alan Walker, Vikkstar
16. Fade Out feat. MKLA (Extended Mix) - John Summit, MKLA

[Purosangue]

big dub said:

Slight hijack of the thread for this one.

If anyone is interested, I've done a dance mix (not EDM Don )

https://soundcloud.com/rob-joyce/dep-01

Happy listening.

1. Piece Of Art (Extended Mix) - Kryder
2. True North feat. Diandra Faye (Extended Mix) - York, Diandra Faye
3. I Need A Miracle (Extended Mix) - CoCo Star, KREAM
4. Easy feat. XIRA (Extended Mix) - 3LAU, XIRA
5. Blue Monday (feat. JD Davis) (Extended Mix) - DJs From Mars, Oliver Heldens
6. Blur (Extended Mix) - KREAM, Marlo Rex
7. Titanium (feat. Sia) (David Guetta & MORTEN Future Rave Extended Mix) - David Guetta
8. Light On (Extended Mix) - Markus Schulz, Sarah De Warren
9. King of My Castle (Extended Mix) - Sean Finn
10. Call Your Name (Extended Mix) - Alesso, John Newman
11. Another Chance (Extended) - Roger Sanchez, Oliver Heldens
12. Maria Maria (Diplo Extended Remix) - TECH IT DEEP
13. Edge of Seventeen (Extended Mix) - Wuki
14. To Be Real (Extended Mix) - Lee Foss, Cheryl Lynn, Wuki
15. Better Off (Alone, Pt. III) (Extended Version) - Dash Berlin, Alan Walker, Vikkstar
16. Fade Out feat. MKLA (Extended Mix) - John Summit, MKLA

great mixes thanks

some great tracks on there

https://soundcloud.com/user-637780620/classic-tran...

1. Chicane - Saltwater [00:00:01]
2. York - The Awakening (Quake Remix) [00:06:43]
3. Veracocha - Carte Blanche [00:13:07]
4. Planet Perfecto Knights - Resurection (Paul Oakenfold Full on Fluoro Mix) [00:18:24]
5. Push - Universal Nation (Orjan Nilsen Remix) [00:26:02]
6. Niels van Gogh - Pulverturm (Tomcraft Remix) [00:31:14]
7. Binary Finary - 1998 (Paul van Dyk Remix) [00:38:36]
8. Signum - What Ya Got 4 Me [00:40:43]
9. Gouryella - Gouryella [00:51:38]
10. Planet Perfecto - Not Over Yet (feat. Grace) [Max Graham vs. Protoculture Remix] [00:58:31]
11. Bedrock - Heaven Scent (Greg Downey Remix) [01:05:09]
12. Mario Più & DJ Arabesque - The Vision (Vision 1 on Air Mix) [01:11:12]
13. Planet Perfecto - Bullet In A Gun [01:17:14]
14. Marc et Claude - La [01:24:37]
15. Agnelli & Nelson - El nino [01:29:15]
16. Agnelli & Nelson - Everyday [01:34:35]
17. Agnelli & Nelson - El nino [01:36:38]
18. Alena - Turn It Around [01:40:02]
19. Agnelli & Nelson - Everyday [01:41:49]
20. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Power Of Love [01:46:41]
21. deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember [01:53:19]
22. Reflekt - Need to Feel Loved [02:00:33]
23. Ruff Driverz & Arrola - Dreaming (Percussion Mix) [02:06:14]
24. Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Three 'n' One Remix) [02:11:34]
25. The Quest - C-Sharp [02:17:59]

[rodericb]

Speaking of Energy 52, this video found its way into my Youtube suggestions:

[OldGermanHeaps]

I dont listen to the radio at all myself , but I sometimes catch it in places I am working and i have been hearing this tune that i really like , it reminds me of 90s/00s vocal trance, but i never caught who it was by until today.
Well fk me if it wasnt sam smith. Kind of spoils it a bit now with all the fetish stuff at kids concerts but the tune is a belter, really captures the old school feel.

Edited by OldGermanHeaps on Monday 27th November 21:41

[Condi]

There is a lot of 90s/2000s trance sounds at the moment. Last year it was millions of samples, this year there has been more originality, but there are very few trance artists. Its more "pop musicians" making trance sounding songs, rather than any authentic trance or even dance music artists making their way onto mainstream radio.

[CloudStuff]

The genres became really messed up once the US got involved and plugged everything into their acronym machne to give us EDM.

Trance as a genre name has no real meaning anymore. It can refer to really cheesy, vocal driven drivel of the type spewed out by Anjuna and the like. Obviously music is personal, but when vocals become involved, it's pop music.

Part of the reason that JOOF has hekped generated a new sub-genre which is squarely where my tastes lie - driving, hypnotic, deep and rolling:

https://soundcloud.com/john00fleming/john-00-flemi...

https://soundcloud.com/john00fleming/john-00-flemi...

And for me the sprit of the early Northern Expsoure Sasha / Digweed music lives on with DJs such as Quivver (S&D playing a diferent but excellent style now). Just listen to the first half an hour of this mix here, espeiclaly the transitions, the depth, melancholy and wamrth:

https://soundcloud.com/perfectorecordings/perfecto...

This music is my passion, I simply love it. Vinyl is down from the loft now, Beatport spend is a little concerning :-)

Edited by CloudStuff on Tuesday 28th November 11:15

[Chris Stott]

Interesting comment on vocals.

As I remember it, vocals were used to try and commercialise trance in the late 90’s and early 00’s, and for the most part added nothing to the genre… a lot of the time tracks that were never conceived with vocals had them overlayed on ‘remixes’… 3 minutes daytime radio friendly clips that were stuck on 100’s of ‘summer in Ibiza’ albums… then there was that hideous Euro house/trance. All of this was utter st.

But there are a few tracks from the 90’s where vocals were part of the artists original lay down and where the vocals add massively to the emotional power of the track.

When I was clubbing in the 90’s the clubs I went to might play some vocal stuff early on (primarily vocal house) but you’d rarely hear any after 1-2am when the gear had fully kicked in.

[CloudStuff]

Chris Stott said:

Interesting comment on vocals.

As I remember it, vocals were used to try and commercialise trance in the late 90’s and early 00’s, and for the most part added nothing to the genre… a lot of the time tracks that were never conceived with vocals had them overlayed on ‘remixes’… 3 minutes daytime radio friendly clips that were stuck on 100’s of ‘summer in Ibiza’ albums… then there was that hideous Euro house/trance. All of this was utter st.

But there are a few tracks from the 90’s where vocals were part of the artists original lay down and where the vocals add massively to the emotional power of the track.

When I was clubbing in the 90’s the clubs I went to might play some vocal stuff early on (primarily vocal house) but you’d rarely hear any after 1-2am when the gear had fully kicked in.

I was being a little bit cheeky re. vocals. They have their place, and of course there should be no rules as such.

On top of that, there's this, which at the time had me stuck to the ceiling at a club with my mates in one of the best nights of my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObRr8c_N8jc

Oh, and just had to post this - not relevant to the vocals chat - just a slice of genius from the peak era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9HWq75oVI

Edited by CloudStuff on Wednesday 29th November 21:53

[OldGermanHeaps]

CloudStuff said:

Chris Stott said:

Interesting comment on vocals.

As I remember it, vocals were used to try and commercialise trance in the late 90’s and early 00’s, and for the most part added nothing to the genre… a lot of the time tracks that were never conceived with vocals had them overlayed on ‘remixes’… 3 minutes daytime radio friendly clips that were stuck on 100’s of ‘summer in Ibiza’ albums… then there was that hideous Euro house/trance. All of this was utter st.

But there are a few tracks from the 90’s where vocals were part of the artists original lay down and where the vocals add massively to the emotional power of the track.

When I was clubbing in the 90’s the clubs I went to might play some vocal stuff early on (primarily vocal house) but you’d rarely hear any after 1-2am when the gear had fully kicked in.

I was being a little bit cheeky re. vocals. They have their place, and of course there should be no rules as such.

On top of that, there's this, which at the time had me stuck to the ceiling at a club with my mates in one of the best nights of my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObRr8c_N8jc

Oh, and just had to post this - not relevant to the vocals chat - just a slice of genius from the peak era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9HWq75oVI

Edited by CloudStuff on Wednesday 29th November 21:53

Some tracks arent the same without the vocals, even now after decades of not raving and misbehaving hearing tiestos in search of silence mix of delerium silence contorts my jaw into a gurn and the hairs on my arms stand up.

[Chris Stott]

Yeah, that’s a truly epic track.

[TGCOTF-dewey]

I've been playing Cyberpunk. 2077

It has a great techno / trance club in it.

https://youtu.be/kJtr_SqGerM?si=0sQxB_7KTBrNmvik

[CloudStuff]

OldGermanHeaps said:

CloudStuff said:

Chris Stott said:

Interesting comment on vocals.

As I remember it, vocals were used to try and commercialise trance in the late 90’s and early 00’s, and for the most part added nothing to the genre… a lot of the time tracks that were never conceived with vocals had them overlayed on ‘remixes’… 3 minutes daytime radio friendly clips that were stuck on 100’s of ‘summer in Ibiza’ albums… then there was that hideous Euro house/trance. All of this was utter st.

But there are a few tracks from the 90’s where vocals were part of the artists original lay down and where the vocals add massively to the emotional power of the track.

When I was clubbing in the 90’s the clubs I went to might play some vocal stuff early on (primarily vocal house) but you’d rarely hear any after 1-2am when the gear had fully kicked in.

I was being a little bit cheeky re. vocals. They have their place, and of course there should be no rules as such.

On top of that, there's this, which at the time had me stuck to the ceiling at a club with my mates in one of the best nights of my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObRr8c_N8jc

Oh, and just had to post this - not relevant to the vocals chat - just a slice of genius from the peak era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9HWq75oVI

Edited by CloudStuff on Wednesday 29th November 21:53

Some tracks arent the same without the vocals, even now after decades of not raving and misbehaving hearing tiestos in search of silence mix of delerium silence contorts my jaw into a gurn and the hairs on my arms stand up.

This isn't trance as such, but without the lyrics it would not work (yes, it's a remix of a song of course) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZfnmNf5MwA

[Condi]

Depends what you enjoy really, I've always been into the more vocal side of trance, with a huge soft spot for some of the female vocalists of the early 2000s, but then I was also too young to be in the club at 1am off my face on acid at that time. Your experience may vary!

[p4cks]

Acid? I was all about the pills.