Did any of you like trance at some point?

[jedbanger]

i got into electronic music because of trance... then hernan's resident at metrodance and his sets at clubland@pacha rescued me .

but i have to admit i still like some (ol') trance like oakie's EM Tour, and that period of trance.

[bedrizzock]

Fuck yeah I used to like trance. I used to love trance. I think a lot of people did, it's just now things have progressed...and it's hard for trance producers to make good trance when they know it's not the genre to listen to anymore....I would be like me writing big band music...I just couldn't get into it. But I used to love DuMonde, Lost Tribe, Cygnus X, Oakie (Goa Mix ), MWNN, PvD, Dreamtraveller (favorite back in the age of trance). But, I am kinda out of it now. But I still listent o psy and goa...fucking Infected Mushroom and Dark Soho rock ass.

[FM]

http://www.astral-projection.com/

classic

[viceroy]

I was really into the epic sound for 2-3 years, before I calmed down and found what is really good...the prog!

Peace,
Steve

[demonAfro]

Trance is a lot more accessible to the general public, I grew up on a diet of Dave Pearce and Galaxy probably because i didn't know any better. Does that make me a bad person? I still sometimes listen to the gems from back in '99 and '95. If it wasn't for the trance I wouldn't have taken an interest in electronic music, and wouldn't be here today

[mylexicon]

I did, but I started to get turned off by the sound when the Dutch trance invasion kicked in. The stadium type pads and strings didn't do it for me. Trance used to be so moody and well thought out. It became more and more about the cheap thrills and the hands in the air vibe.

Well put I guess that really is the difference....i never really thought
about it that way. Back in the day 97-99 and even early '00 trance used to
be as dark as it was happy. Think GU:013. You have tracks like xpander and
sacred contrasted with perception and the bassline track......back then it
used to run the gamut, now its one demensional.

[nbpgt]

i used to listen to it. not really any more. it just isnt my fancy..

[simonr]

A few years ago I went to several Paul Van Dyk 6-hours Gatecrasher sets with Matt Hardwick/Ashley Casselle opening which were awesome. Tiesto's first Cream Main Room set was also excellant.

But lately PVD plays hardhouse-europop shite and Tiesto is just as bad .... there's no depth or thought there, whish real shame, as they both have talent and a good musical ear (FYI Sasha & Diggers both hammered PVD's seven-ways stuff at the time).

[FASSTEDDIE]

I still listen to a lot of trance i guess it's what state of mind i'm in

[armandzadza]

There are still a few trance DJ's that I listen to - PvD and John 00 Fleming to be precise. And of course, there's always psy-trance. But I just can't stand the formulaic singles and sets brought forward by the likes of Armin van Buuren & Co.

[deeprogressions]

I spent the first two years of my entrance into EDM listening to trance I thought it was the best thing on the face of the Earth. Still listen to a little deep trance when something new comes out and every so often an old cd from late 90's finds it's way back into my cd player.

[TheOutsider]

i still listen to trance, for me its soothing and a change from prog house and hardstyle

[cwsiggy]

John Kelly's Funkydesertbreaks was one of the first mix siscs I listened to and it got me into the whole genre. Still like that disc!!!!

[djkix]

i loved trance back in its golden days. 98... 99... remember 1998, cafe del mar, madagascar, lesperenza, etc? that was amazing back then.

i still *like* trance. tiesto and avb are pretty good, despite the cheez associated with trance. an avb show is actually pretty fun to go to. he's not all cheez and spins some hard prog trance as well.

the ultimate cheez trance are spun by those like suzy solar. tunes that talk about the spirit of mother earth or the splashing waves of ibiza. bleh!

[krelm]

My initial love in electronic music was psy/goa trance. I've moved more into other styles in recent years, but I am still to a certain extent still into the style (I spin it regularly, so I have to be ).

Never was into the uplifing cheese-trance, though. Never had the stomach for it.