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  • A History of Trance Music in Ten Tracks

Unbroken1 yup, although the bpm’s today are head noddingly slow. so it’s always refreshing to listen to something north of 126 from time to time!

      Swing yer pants

      Dubman Good point. It goes in the same box as happy hardcore.

      Dougal and Sharky.

      Be surprised if they’re still alive.

          SM001 I’m afraid Merciless World of Trance gags are for the exclusive use of myself and Millsy - me on the basis of actually owning it and Millsy for the gags around it.

              Still love this- bit of guilty pleasure.

              alistair …the early Euro stuff was the only ‘trance’ I appreciated (and bought) tbf, Jam & Spoon, Cosmic Baby, Eye , Dag, Harthouse, Dance 2 Trance etc. Doesn’t alter the fact that much of it it isn’t particularly inspirational listening back now.

              ‘Stella’ was a high point… and there wasn’t much really innovative stuff after ’93/4 (Hardfloor and some of the Zoom stuff was classified as ‘trance’ after that time, but isn’t really what we’d categorise it as today).

              In the same way a lot of the early prog still sounds decent, but the faster, trance-ified stuff that came later sounds really fucking dull now.

                  ScottBailey …it’s not just about BPM’s either IMO. A more moderate BPM just makes house/trance/techno more accessible and means you can mix and match different styles more readily.

                  I can appreciate a fast house/techno track when it works at that BPM, just felt like a lot of that stuff HAD to be fast to really work (and for the drugs).

                    Unbroken1 I was referring to the Dutch stuff which sounds dated. There has been somewhat of a resurgence in trance like sounds and dynamics though in recent music/dj sets. The melodic techno (Watergate, Afterlife etc) as Beatport calls it is essentially slowed down trance. Much of cocoon’s recent stuff harks back to those old trance sounds. The Bonzai stuff seems to be regularly wheeled out too.

                      Holden is Prog, not Trance, his stuff isn’t saccharine enough to be Trance.

                      Acid Eiffel shouldn’t be in there, Greece 2000 and a few other bits missing, but I’d happily play Humate - Love Stimulation to just about any crowd on the planet, it just makes me grin from ear to ear.