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I [heart] Trance

StoreTags: trance, techno, rave, confession

Author: nagrom on November 13 2006

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--> For my entire career as an IDM/Noise enthusiast on the internets, I've partaken, often, in the genocidal, universal, 0 tolerance, hatred towards trance.
Maybe I'm exaggerating.
But it seems like trance is by far the most hated genre in "intelligent" electronic music circles.

6 months ago I started throwing small raves. Since then, I've begun to love trance, more and more. I'm now at a point where I listen to trance as much as I listen to any other type of music.

I don't know whether I would have liked it all along if I'd heard what I listen to now, or if I just needed an immersive experience for me to give the stuff a chance, but... I just fucking love it.

And what's worse is that I like a lot of typically bad trance. Like, vocal melodic trance. Anthem trance. UPLIFTING trance. But, I have some taste. I still avoid Tiesto and Van Buren like the plague...

It's just... I fell weird falling in love with something I've actively despised for so long. Is anybody with me on this?

Does anybody else secretly indulge in the sinful pleasure of trance?

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11/14/06 + datathinner

p said: "I'll tell you a secret. I own some ATB records and Sasha's expander.

with as much as there is of it out there, some of it has to be decent."

dude, expander was like a whole nother level.

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11/14/06 + skab

i'm with papergoose

actually - the real problem with trance is people liking it. i mean..come on...it's t-r-a-n-c-e.....

before trance came along "uplifting" was a word used to describe the wonderbra. show me a trance CD cover that doesn't feature
a) a fractal
b) a god/goddess
c) a mushroom
d) some type of spacecraft

i don't dislike trance - that would be pointless. what irks me is that people are such suckers.

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11/14/06 + phundamental

if you wake up in the morning and can't see anymore know that you have to pull your head out of your ass

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11/14/06 + phundamental

furthermore you're lying when you say that you don't dislike trance, it's obvious from your post

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11/14/06 + implexgrace

trance = bubblegum = pop music

it's sugar-coated and sweet, has some type of flavor at first, but that goes away very quickly and you spit it out.

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11/14/06 + airliner

trance moves me about as much as elevator music, and i find that it fills a similar role: technically proficient but inoffensive music to be used as background when you're doing something else.

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edited: Nov 14 2006 + implexgrace

it's good for ecstasy though.. that is why ravers and E-tards love it. the reason is that a lot of times, on MDMA, your physical body is extrasensitive to small vibrations. the harmonics of supersaws and other typical trance waves are such that they are physically pleasing on a very basic and shallow level. it's basically like wading in the kiddie pool because it is warm. and we all know that the kiddie pool has pee in it.

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11/14/06 + quip

one of my best friends is a trance dj. we started djing years ago together. he went one way. i went somewhere else. we are still friends. he thinks the music i make is weird i think the music he likes is ok - he genuinely tries to find new and interesting stuff and there is alot of cross over between trance and other genres i like. especially electro. we play swap the stolen production techniques often with electro and trance cds next to each other. sometimes the only difference is the beats.

he supports the likes of eat static and the orb - i play at squats and free raves often for nothing. work it out. in the uk there has been alot of money in trance. with large parties down south attracting what i like to call the trustafarians (you can tell these parties cos daddy bought them a mackie rig with 24 satellite speakers). i think i dislike these people more than the music. after all its only music. and pretty in offensive bland music at that. i can't really hate that.

i used to go to megadog raves and the like and you would get trancey stuff but it was broken up with other music. i think the blanding out of music in general and making a sub genre a marketable commodity is what sucks. the music suffers greatly from this as everyone starts copying each others sound to make money.

for me i prefer making music with my own sets of rules (i.e. very few) and also avoiding 4:4 like the plague, but thats just me.
when i think of good trance its normally electro! and i can't make good trance so there - it can't be that easy!

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11/14/06 + lunatinker

implexgrace said: " the harmonics of supersaws and other typical trance waves are such that they are physically pleasing on a very basic and shallow level. it's basically like wading in the kiddie pool because it is warm. and we all know that the kiddie pool has pee in it."

that's brilliant....lol and funny

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11/14/06 + bla

trance just 'needs' some percussion to make it 'better'
the one thing that stands out in every trance track ive heard is the 909 open hat- id dance to it even if all they changed was adding some dokka dokka dok rimshots

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11/14/06 + Leonid

Personally I stand by the standard answer: I like some trance from the early 'til the mid nineties. Then it all went downhill. Hope it's not just me getting old though...

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11/14/06 + nagrom

Yup, this is what I'm talking about.

Does this mean I'm a shallow person?

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11/14/06 + nagrom

skab said: "
before trance came along "uplifting" was a word used to describe the wonderbra. show me a trance CD cover that doesn't feature
a) a fractal
b) a god/goddess
c) a mushroom
d) some type of spacecraft
"

hahahaha, so true.
or in the case of modern trance: some stupid symbol or a half-naked slut on the beach wearing glasses.

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11/14/06 + j_chot

I've heard some stuff that reminded me of italo-electro/disco and I liked it but...

goa trance can go suck a nut.
blekch.

if you're gonna rave, switch to happy hardcore, or gabber house or something.

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11/14/06 + nagrom

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