SD on 31/7/2006 at 15:04
Quote Posted by BR796164
Back "when"?
Back in the late 80s, when trance was invented? :erm:
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Shrooms and LSD belong to hippie era, ravers of the 90s were driving mostly E. Though tastes are diferent and experiments for a change are welcome.
Trance came via hippies though. European techno, house and electro filtered through the beach parties of Goa gave rise to the "original" trance sound.
Rogue Keeper on 31/7/2006 at 15:23
Trance has been officially invented in 1991 as a soft techno derivate. :sly:
And Hippies??
Oh I forgot... you UKers have different history of dance music than the rest of continental Europe. :p
Rogue Keeper on 31/7/2006 at 16:58
I believe everybody around has that site in his bookmarks.
But it's indeed GREAT!
SD on 31/7/2006 at 18:16
Quote Posted by BR796164
Oh I forgot... you UKers have different history of dance music than the rest of continental Europe. :p
No, it's more a convergent evolution. All of these different types of trance evolved at more or less the same time via different branches of the dance family tree. Certainly however, when I think back to the heyday of trance, it was the psychedelic/Goa variety as championed by the likes of Paul Oakenfold (who was the biggest DJ in the world at the time, let's not forget) that really stood out as dominant. Of course this is all from my perspective and IMO :sly:
Paz on 31/7/2006 at 19:27
I know dick all about dance and its evil tentacles, but doesn't The Hacienda fit into this story somewhere (if you're from the UK)?
"And tonight something equally epoch-making is taking place. See? They're applauding the DJ. Not the music, not the musician, not the creator, but the medium. This is it. The birth of rave culture. The beatification of the beat. The dance age. This is the moment when even the white man starts dancing."
SD on 31/7/2006 at 20:22
The Hacienda was one of the first clubs here that played American house music. Shaun Ryder also claims to have popularised Ecstasy use in Britain there too ;)
So it's in the story somewhere, but it's quite some distance removed from trance music and DJ Tiesto.
Lhet on 31/7/2006 at 21:12
Tiesto's pretty cool, I like adagio for strings and Just be.
Xenith on 31/7/2006 at 21:21
as a dj I can say that Tiesto has a lot more stuff to give. what can I say, the man knows how to get people up from their chairs and dance all night. even if he sometimes gets boring to listen to there's nothing like a good bass boost, a few synth strings and an oscilator to repair things:)
thumbs up for Tiesto:thumb:
(and Paul Van Dyk is just as good as him to getting the mood in, maybe even better if you ask me)
Ajare on 31/7/2006 at 21:25
Quote Posted by Paz
"And tonight something equally epoch-making is taking place. See? They're applauding the DJ. Not the music, not the musician, not the creator, but the medium. This is it. The birth of rave culture. The beatification of the beat. The dance age. This is the moment when even the white man starts dancing."
If you look carefully, you can see me dancing in that scene. We'd heard it was some warehouse party, and turned up (in overcoats, it was cold), to find out that it was a film production. Steve Coogan was slouching about and they'd recreated the Hacienda down to the last detail (so I was informed). So I danced about in a heavy jacket and drank very watered-down beer.
It's a good film actually, and explains how the culture evolved quite clearly. No mention of what was happening down in London at the time, though.
