----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Sicko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "M. Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [313] technology
> > Vath's 'Harlequin' 'Robot' & 'Ballet Dancer' << > > now, there's a record I never thought I'd see mentioned on the list. :) > > I think the last "trance" cut that did anything for me was Balil's > "Nort Route." All the Balil stuff on trance compilations was a trip, b/c I was getting into the AI stuff at the same time. >From most people I've talked to that weren't into the house or techno scenes before '92ish, trance wasn't generally considered a bad word (until around 96 or 97), once it became codified in its current form(s). Until then, I think the German "trance" producers did the most to keep it fresh, and really just a variant on techno with an ethereal edge. People like Ralph Hildenbeutel (sp?) and Oliver Lieb always pushed things a little more than Sven Vath and Paul Van Dyk. For instance, there's an album called The Ambush by Oliver Lieb that's really aggresive and focused on percussion. All of that is just to speak to the trance end of the trance spectrum, b/c you also had techno appearing with trance on trance compilations and mixes back then. Trance in its roots was a marketing tool to identify techno with melody, and it wound up encompasing everything from The Orb to Mills (note his releases on Pow Wow Trance). It seems like people employed it with the same all-encompasing confusion that people often use techno in the broad sense. It seems to me that The UK trance of the early-mid 90s had more to do with its eventual form than anything else. It seemed to develop out of acid, substituting pretty synth melodies for abrasive 303s. Mixmaster Morris used to make this type of stuff, pre-global chillage, and the whole Rising High trance really set the blueprint for what was to stay in trance IMO. Back then it wasn't so objectionable. It was just a unique strain of techno. For all the trance bashing that goes on today, we can't forget how many people use(d) it as a stepping stone to techno. With all the crap we're indoctrinated with at young ages, we *almost* need trance or progressive music to ease people in. Almost... I guess I just have a hard time going off the deep-end about trance anymore, when I've seen so many people (myself included) embrace some form of it along the way to wherever their tastes wind up in the present. I also think it's imperative to draw a line between early trance and codified trance b/c they came from such different places. Tristan ---------- http://ampcast.com/phonopsia <- Music http://phonopsia.tripod.com <- Mixes, pics, thought, travelogue & info http://www.metatrackstudios.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- email <FrogboyMCI> <- AOL Instant Messenger --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
