A History of Trance Music in Ten Tracks
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.
The Merciless World of Grant.
Lol
Still love this- bit of guilty pleasure.
Along_the_Wire Blow it out your bollix, Grant.
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.
It’s a shit list.
There’s no Veracocha - Carte Blanche for starters.
can we debate trance vs Trance now? 
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As ever, lots of revisionism. Let’s be honest, which person partial to a bit of trance at the time didn’t cream themselves the first few times they heard the PVD mix of Binary Finary. Remember Jackmaster playing it a few years back to a so called cool crowd and it blew the roof off.
Jackmaster did some GHB and shit in a kettle and harassed a bunch of women at a festival. He was cancelled for awhile after that.
Looks like a De’Longhi kettle that.
Sacrilege.
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Smallman1 Shatmaster…..dear me.
Jack Revill, better known as Shatmaster, is a Scottish DJ from Glasgow. He is a co-founder of the record label and club night Numbers as well as Wireblock, Dress 2 Sweat and Point.One Recordings. He is renowned for his in-depth and diverse music taste and ability to mix a multitude of different genres….and shitting in Kettles.
Next Gig: 28th August DeLonghi World Tour
DJ’s eh? There all cunts.
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alistair …maybe so. I recall a Tribal Gathering (or Creamfields, fuck knows tbh) where Binary Finary was the tune of the day/night, played on he day by PvD, Sasha and I’m sure a few others, I’d actually bought it that week and remember the buzz of sticking it straight on the Technics when I got home.
What’s revisionist about suggesting that in retrospect, it ain’t all that great?
I own much older dance music, that stands-up far, far better today.
I can remember my technohead mate raving about it and at house parties getting off his tits and dropping it in next to Ben Sims tracks. I just didn’t get it….that whole sound. I dropped my guard with the PVD remix of Love Stimulation.
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My favourite song I used to move my trance pants to everyweek at Crasher when I was a student. Arguably prog but this is what they where playing at the time.
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Wasn’t all pixie trance at Gatecrasher, there was always stuff with a slighty harder edge to it late on, picotto stuff etc.
This was always a croud pleaser when things where at full throttle.
jonattonyeah or the “a rich white dude that one record so it is therefore unimportant” route.
They still tried though with that introduction:
“Trance music may seem like a primarily modern, white and European phenomenon, but its roots run deep in human behaviour practiced all around the world. States of trance, helped along by music, are an authentic spiritual experience shared by many different cultures and religions, from worship rituals of the African Apostles to the practice of Sufi mysticism.”
I mean ffs - I very much doubt Energy 52 were conjuring up images of" African Apostles" while writing ‘Cafe Del Mar’ for instance.