corroded - I agree, the Oakenfold Goa Mix from December 1994 is still amazing sounding now. Picked it up on double CD in the early 2000s and it still gets played regularly 🙂
The OP could also check out Sander Kleinenberg - perhaps not pure trance again and more on a progressive tip, but good nonetheless....
I'm beginning to realise quite how much I love turn of the century house/progressive house.....
I used to like a bit of trance, the album version of the Orange Theme is quite nice and some of the other Eye Q records weren't bad.
Trouble is that ultimately its empty music, no funk you see, dance music for people of can't dance. If you like dancing (and I loved it) then it gets very boring very quickly imo etc.
Inspired to look up a few classics on You Tube...
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Trouble is that ultimately its empty music, no funk you see, dance music for people of can't dance. If you like dancing (and I loved it) then it gets very boring very quickly imo etc.
True, but only when it went all wishy washy in the mid-90s.
See the Hardfloor tune I posted above for evidence of trance with funk.
yup, it went with the drugs, the earlier trance is far funkier but it got all commercial when the beer boys cottoned on to it. That said, i have VERY fond memories of the commercial (Jules et al) euphoric trance days at crasher. I recall Jules playing Delerium 'silence' 6 times at the end of one of the winter balls, everyone sung along and looked all doey eyed* at each other 🙂
*well as doey eyed as your pupils would allow
The hardfloor track is techno, not trance, not funky in the slightest either sorry!
Oakenfolds GOA mix is the only mix from that era I still play regularly, I've even made back up copies 
Try "Man with no name" for Psy/Goa/pumping trance
Ibiza vet 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002
Tags done 8)
This is REAL Trance!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqIHVJX8HRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsR0hZGkMg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E4sOPqslSw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZmYgvss2bU&feature=PlayList&p=C1B88C3562ACFFF9&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzTU01Eawo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfiEJd14asQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUcquxn68uY&feature=related
The hardfloor track is techno, not trance, not funky in the slightest either sorry!
Techno not funky?
i think you may have had your funk bone removed
yeah that exactly what I mean Ian, every track is formulaic, same strings or stuttering 303 over uninteresing basslines, no groove or swing, nothing to dance to
"every track is formulaic, same strings or stuttering 303 over uninteresing basslines, no groove or swing"
But at the time,in the right environment, under the "right conditions" it was awesome.
i'd say Ian's selection is Cy-Trance, only really popular in Rotterdam and with the crustier ravers
either way, i'm back from shopping and have moved on to EyeQ - Behind the Eye Volume 2 🙂
I meant the track suggested had no funk, not that techno doesn't by default, plenty of techno with funk, try labels like Playhouse or Perlon
"i'd say Ian's selection is Cy-Trance, only really popular in Rotterdam and with the crustier ravers
either way, i'm back from shopping and have moved on to EyeQ - Behind the Eye Volume 2 "
Eh? apart from the Bonzei tracks, pretty much everything came out of Germany and at least 3 were on Eye Q.
They are a pretty definative selection of early 90's trance
Putting all this aside...
If you want to give yourelf an MI while training, look for stuff from a Dutch label called "Mokum" (Terrordrome mix CD's). I had a track on vinyl called Projekt 250. It was, as you might guess, 250bpm. At the time we called it "nosebleed techno". hahaha.
Training = Ultra-Sonic, Annihilating Rhythm or DJ Scooter Move Your Ass. Just cannae redline it to "trance"!!
aphex if you're going that fast you might as well be playing Gabba
Anyone else remember Oakenfolds club in Leceister Square?...same place that the Police targetted for drugs raids but they wouldnt go near 'Heaven' due to the connotations/risk of homophobia? Of course, unsubstantiated and never proven..
That's your excuse for going to Heaven every weekend?
The hardfloor track is techno
Actually, it's acid house rather than techno 😉
Trance is balls, Detroit Techno and its many incarnations are by far a greater, deeper and indeed more musical experience
I can safely say that good techno is way way way way way ahead of anything labeled 'trance'.
Look for anything (early) by
Jeff Mills
Robert Hood
Carl Craig
Juan Atkins
Derrick May
Blake Baxter
Underground Resistance
Kevin Saunderson
Alan Oldham
Kenny Larkin
Eddie Fowlkes
Drexciya
Stacey Pullen
for a start...
the list could go on for a long time but.......
I was going to say the same. Trance was pish when it was popular and it's about as relevant nowadays as the steam engine.
Lucky enough to have seen everyone on that list with the notable exception of Drexciya!
Have'nt seen them either, and now never will, but yea, the rest of them are something else!!
I still think early trance was pretty good. At clubs like the orbit or the omen, a dj like sven, smoke, lazers and big break downs. At the time it was great.
Techno is deffo a deeper type of music and its pretty much all I listen to now but I think a lot of the names on the list are pretty overrated (particurlarly as dj's)
There are some good americans: mills, bone, dex, rolando but Japan is where its at now!
Warning, contains swear words in comic form.
try a bit of resurrection eve, not trance as such, but hey it's quick and dancey. Run is a good track to zoom to.
🙂
http://www.myspace.com/resurrectioneve
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So true.
Although not necessarily a bad thing as trance killed the superclub and more or less killed off commercial dance music 🙂
Techno is deffo a deeper type of music and its pretty much all I listen to now but I think a lot of the names on the list are pretty overrated (particurlarly as dj's)
True... Mills at Lost when it was at the arches on southwark st se1 circa 96/97 along with Rob Hood were some of the best sets/live pieces i've seen, but mills lost his touch along time ago...Derrick May always plays a fantastic set but then he would (say so himself).
The others all have their merits....saw Carl Craig last year playing a 2 hour set at Bestival, was excellent.
For the record, seen all of the listed apart from drexciya, some time ago, but still some of the best sets i've heard...
Chicane Offshore
BlingBling - Memberaphex if you're going that fast you might as well be playing Gabba
Hmm.. Full blast with gabba track on for three minutes.... GO! That would be a mean spin class!
I'm reminiscing about the mad, mad nights at Atomic Jam at the Que Club in Brum. My mate used to VJ there so I could get on stage. Spent many nights watching DJ Rush, Carl Cox, Dave Clarke, Liberators. 🙄
Futureboy - Member
Having seen and heard Sasha many, many times from around 92/93 to 2005, there is no way that he could be considered as Trance.
all this recent talk of high calibre dance music got me to dig out my old sasha ibiza cd, an all time favourite. i expect you'd be interested to read the liner notes, including this gem, including a quote from the man (like) himself:
You'll find the finest moments from those two sets on these two CDs.
Sasha's triumphant Space carnival is a multi-coloured mix painted with
brush strokes of spacey deep house, sleek trance, whirring breakbeat
and chic, nasty numbers that bang their way into a five star trance
mania. "It's got an up flavour, a Summer flavour," Sasha explains
later, back in the UK. "It really is a set. The first CD is deep,
melodic house and builds up into a trance fest. The second side is
darker. It pretty much sums up what I do as a DJ."
sums it up nicely, i'd say. 🙂
I'm saying nothing 😀
Hey, if the guy wants to listen to trance on his headphones while working out, let him. At least we won't have to hear it!
Who was that Spanish DJ a few years ago who did trance cover versions - got in the charts - christ that was the pits!
Someone mentioned them earlier - the EyeQ: 'Behind the Eye' compilations, they're always on ebay for a couple of quid, used to have quite a few of the 12"s around 1993/94 when 'proper' trance was at its peak, though that cygnus x orange theme track is a bit poor!! Harthouse, MFS, Fax+ labels also put out some v.good compilations.
What's labeled as trance these days is unbelievably dire.
So what is Sashas recent stuff labeled as ? Airdrawndagger and Involver are both awesome, but I've no idea what pigeon hole I've got my ear to. I'm a newb to these (electronica) parts but absolutely loving the journey.
Above and beyond (anjuna beats) are pretty damn good.
2 hour podcast every week from them,
plus tiesto, armin van buuren, oakenfold and your away 😀
though that cygnus x orange theme track is a bit poor!!
try and find the album version, has a nice chuggy groove, which for trance is quite refreshing, it's not on Youtube though
this is though, great track on Harthouse/EyeQ
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Think trance must be marmite music, really leaves me cold. Had a huge lads night in a few years ago, one of the guys was massively into trance, we let him have his way for an hour or two but it really killed things. Someone put their foot down, slung on the great Global Underground 25 Deep Dish Toronto Disc 2......became the greatest bloody party I've ever been to. That record is burned on my brain forevermore. Prog house I guess you'd call it, just loads of lovely dirty funkness. Played it about 1000 times since.
<raises an eybrow at STW> I think some of you boys have been at it in the dim and distant past.....good times.
if you like that deep dish, and you haven't already, you have to get hold of yoshiesque 1 & 2, awesome deep dishage at its finest.
I will do so, thanks.
I was in the army for most of the 90s so I missed all of this first time around. Maybe thats why I'm going out tonight.....
Futureboy - Member
Having seen and heard Sasha many, many times from around 92/93 to 2005, there is no way that he could be considered as Trance.all this recent talk of high calibre dance music got me to dig out my old sasha ibiza cd, an all time favourite. i expect you'd be interested to read the liner notes, including this gem, including a quote from the man (like) himself:
You'll find the finest moments from those two sets on these two CDs.
Sasha's triumphant Space carnival is a multi-coloured mix painted with
brush strokes of spacey deep house, sleek trance, whirring breakbeat
and chic, nasty numbers that bang their way into a five star trance
mania. "It's got an up flavour, a Summer flavour," Sasha explains
later, back in the UK. "It really is a set. The first CD is deep,
melodic house and builds up into a trance fest. The second side is
darker. It pretty much sums up what I do as a DJ."sums it up nicely, i'd say.
Still not buying it! 😯 Nothing like house/dance music to be nichetastic eh!
I'm with you though...this thread has made me dig out a few crackin mixes lately (including some of my own!). 😀