I'm currently loving some trance remixes done for some of my favorite japanese singers like Ayumi Hamasaki!

i have always loved trance

Trance is shit. It's probably the worst 'music' genre in existence.
I loath it with passion.


Ok, that's all I wanted to say,

FuNkeNsteiN said:

what he said!

MikeMatronik said:

This is a good question.

damn repetative intergalactic noise. i so hate that kind of music , it makes hip hop sounds like music to my ears

I like it (though I don't get to hear any new stuff these days)!

This is a hard discussion because of what gets often described as trance music is this watered down paul oakenfeld C-R-A-P. I used to listen to Trance all the time, when it was popular for a few years here in San Francisco. I doubt the music really took off anywhere else...maybe New York. We still have shops dedicated to it. I miss the old days where it was all over the place.

We actually got to hear all kinds of sub-genres like Psy-trance, Cyber Trance, Goa, Happy Hardcore, and what was called Hard Trance but it was more Techno Trance (OD404 made a lot of this music) than anything...some really fun music.

There is TONS of good trance out there TONS. I am not sure if it's still being made or what but if you really want to hear GOOD TRANCE, you'll do yourself a favor and stop listening to all those Trance Comps and Ministry of Sound CRAP and look into some trance acts. Most are on the Psychedelic Side.

Cosmosis
Koxbox
Astral Projection
Infected Mushroom (We LOVE the Mushies!)
Sun Project
Space Tribe (the earlier stuff)
Anything from Tip WOrld
Hallucinogen

Also try looking into Shpongle....fucking incredible. Basically it's more on the slower side but deep rooted in the trance. Actually many trance acts are now delving into psy-chill and electronic Dub. Bands like OTT and Entheogenic and Shulman...Amazing.

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend www.psyshop.com. The place to get and explore Trance Music.

trance is sucky. its like futurepop. but anyways, the only good futurepop/trance act is that of the japanese, schwarz stein. cause they visual kei.

superspaceboy said:

I actually did a search on YouTube and tried listening to this....
damn... I couldn't make it past the 30 second mark.


B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T.

baroque said:

novabrkr said:

People who do 94539857839475873895734759738578347583485 different types of drugs.

Dance said:

Dance said:

nice.

superspaceboy said:

People with substance abuse issues

that better?

Dance said:

So if I like Trance Music that means I am a drug addict? Or would you say everyone that likes hip hop is a gangster and carries a gun? It's pretty small minded to to associate music to any group of people.

It's telling when most of the people responding to this thread have absolutely nothing to add to the discussion and most likely don't know a thing about the genre.

baroque said:

I can say this is not the type of trance I like at all and is exactly what I was referring to up above.

superspaceboy said:

becuase it is not trance at all. its called futurepop..electronic music with trance like influence/

baroque said:

I see. Well I didn't like it I like my dance music with a little grit. It reminds me of the Euphoric Trance...but a little more evolved.

superspaceboy said:

what's eurphoric trance?

superspaceboy said:

Relax.

@ "the genre"

spaceboy, ever heard of psychic tv? what are they classified, they kinda sound like proto-trance to me.
[Edited 3/15/08 16:01pm]

Psychic TV? Trance? Are you serious?

The members of Throbbing Gristle went to do some techno music in the 80s, but that's really pushing it.

And those clips are not really very indicative of futurepop either. This would be more like it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_7RlKe5LLPo

MikeMatronik said:

I love electronic music. BUT trance isn't one of my favorite genres at all. It's beautiful like classical. But not funky to my ears.

My favorite electronic genres:

House (Chicago, UK, & French)
Techno (old-school Detroit, the Atkins/May/Sanderson era)
Breakbeats (Florida & UK)
Electro
Downtempo
Synthpop
[Edited 3/16/08 5:18am]

Dance said:

Stop stereotyping. Not everyone take drugs at a rave.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

novabrkr said:

my mistake. im not quite the "expert" on electronic music, on how you claim to be.

and ive heard vnv nation before, they bore me to tears.