On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:34:29AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd like to know - what was the first "Trance" record that put the massive
> build-ups and breakdowns on their way to the history books of dance
> music?
I've always blamed Union Jack's "Two Full Moons and a Trout" on Rising
High for this one (before the Union Jack crew started Platypus). I
remember getting the "Two Full Moons" doublepack and being totally
cheesed out by the faux epicness of the music. A lot of the early
Harthouse stuff came pretty close to crossing the line, too, even
though most of their stuff was more "acid trance" and would sound
incredibly weird to people raised on a diet of Global Underground
mixes (seriously, listen to that first Harthouse comp today and it
just stumbles all over the dance music map--in a good way).
> I know Richie Hawtin and Speedy J were lumped in the trance music very
> early on - I'd say that they are two of the only producers that most techno
> and trance fans can agree on.
> They sure knew how to abuse the 808/909 drum rolls as well.
Yeah, but maaaan... that second Public Energy single on Probe is still
one of the best hard trance records ever made. A lot of the B-sides
around the time of _Public Energy No. 1_ were also very trancy, in the
best possible way.
> Everyone goes on about Oakenfold but i put more blame on Paul Van
> Dyk and Sven Väth and what was going on in Germany and Goa, India
> for the way that trance became "progressive house/trance".
Yeah, but everything Ralf Hildenbutel (Sven Vath's ghostwriter) did
had a certain amount of class to it, even when it edged towards
melodic cheese. Paul van Dyk, Chocci's Chewns, Platypus, and the Goa
crowd are definitely what pushed the split, but they all had good
tunes. The problem, I think, was DJs who started focusing so narrowly
on trance to the exclusion of anything else.
yrz F
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