A History of Trance Music in Ten Tracks
Go back another 10 years & techno was probably way below 130. When I occasionally have mix of my early techno I’m surprised at how slow it is in bpm’s
80’s techno for sure was below 130 bpm.
+8 and it still sounds slow
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That’s literally bullshit.
The problem is most of you on here listen to what the likes of Digweed, Tale of Us, Adam Beyer etc. are peddling while calling it “techno” while really it’s middling tech-house.
Meanwhile there are loooads of big DJs and producers out there still pushing 140bpm+; in fact high bpm techno from 140 even up to 155bpm has had something of a mini-renaissance in the last few years.
I can imagine the likes of DJ Rush are still belting it out….140+
NasserAlazzawi it’s definitely subjective, but I don’t remember listening to or buying much trance after ’99. I found Digweed’s show on Kiss 100 around 2000, and that was that. Only gone back to buy a few post 2000 trance tracks out of nostalgia in recent years.
Thank god there’s now a speed control on YouTube 
ScottBailey Wish I’d heard more kiss100 to be honest. Melodicast 016 was in part based around what I heard from that show but I only heard a few.
NasserAlazzawi reckon we should start our own pirate radio 
ScottBailey
I used to play on one for a few years in the late 90’s called Flava 106 Fm. It was great fun moving to different venues around town. It eventually went online but changed it’s name to Virtual hi-fi.com. I think it ended in about 2002.
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I’ll be totally blunt and honest, if this was ten to fifteen years ago I’d have considered doing a radio station potentially with you guys. I even have access to free software to do one.
I’ve been part of an internet radio station until I decided to leave lately, and I know lots of bedroom/intermediate level DJs who are on various ones now - the reality is that there are _so many radio stations in the underground scene and hundreds of internet radio channels that it means they all get such thin listening ratings making it feel like it actually isn’t worth the good efforts everyone puts in. Seeing good DJs put their heart and soul into 10 or 50 listens is disheartening to me.
These days we stand a better chance with Video (you leave a legacy on youtube and the views keep going up) or making something niche that I’ve seen done actually quite well on Soundcloud (and defo not mixcloud) like this channel example that has taken a few years to build and gets thousands of listens per guest mix:
Melody Lab
https://soundcloud.com/labofgrooves
I was wondering how Frisky Radio was doing these days - that wasn’t the one I left.
Hearing you there mate. Love your Sunday mix sessions and to have the kids immortalised on one of them still cracks me up.
I still put it on over the speakers to wind them up lol