Paz on 31/7/2006 at 22:39
Haha, nice one :D
Yeah, I think the film is pretty decent. I'm sure it could be picked apart for accuracy quite easily (after all it's a film, not a documentary), but as a general guide/overview to the period it seems to tally with other things I've seen and read.
More importantly, it's very very funny. And has a bloody good soundtrack.
Rogue Keeper on 1/8/2006 at 07:34
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
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:
Like I said, our perspectives are different. Trends of the continental e-dance music scene have been heavily influenced by German, Dutch and Belgium techno production. You Brits had an influential boom of Acid House, what is the virtual origin of all e-dance music on your territory, but the scene has been very small in comparison in Eastern Germany (and the rest of Europe behind Iron Curtain) back in late 80s. Germans from former Eastern Germany (Cmon, Berlin was the centre of European Rave Universe!) track their techno scene back to stuff like Kraftwerk and Nena and their specific 80s synth pop...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music)
The trance sound beyond this acid-era genesis is said to have begun as an off-shoot of techno in German clubs during the very early 1990s. Frankfurt is often cited as a birthplace of Trance. Some of the earliest pioneers of the genre included DJ Dag (Dag Lerner), Oliver Lieb, Sven Väth and Torsten Stenzel, who all produced numerous tracks under multiple aliases. Trance labels like Eye Q, Harthouse, Superstition, Rising High, FAX +49-69/450464 and MFS Records were Frankfurt based. Arguably a fusion of techno and house, early trance shared much with techno in terms of the tempo and rhythmic structures but also added more melodic overtones which were appropriated from the style of house popular in Europe's club scene at that time.
Um, and what you have with this Oakenfold all the time?
Far as I know Carl Cox used to be recognized as THE DJ of the mid-90s.
Van Dyk. Uhm. Unhappy mister Van Dyk. They say he popularized trance and then he killed it. Completely right. I stopped listening to him after Seven Ways.
Vernon on 7/8/2006 at 09:32
Fuck just listen to you clowns talking about 'dance music'
Fuegan on 7/8/2006 at 10:38
I did a bit of research on Discogs; Tiesto has never released a track called Lord of Trance. After downloading a track titled Dj Tiesto - Lord of Trance.mp3 (4.29 long), I was unsurprised to find it was a mislabelled track from (
http://www.discogs.com/release/47744) this release (one of the ones towards the end).
Besides, Tiesto the DJ and Tiesto the producer are two different things.
