I heard that earlier funnily enough and no I don't think it is trance. It's classed as hard dance/hard house I think! Although it does have trance elements...
Wow what a discussion! Im 18 years old and have never liked trance...until last year when a mate of mine showed me some of his "phat music". After having gone out and bought countless trance music compilation albums which i personally think are amazing I'm hooked. I agree with the majority of things being said. Trance music is in a dire state at the moment and the releases lately have been near diabolical. Crazy Frog? Chico? Please... The club charts are in a state and every time I go clubbing in Eastbourne (south east coast of England) the amount of danceable music with little to no lyrics is limited to around 1-2 songs a night with rap and r&b dominating the dancefloor.
The diversity within the rap industry is so poor and in my opinion (and someone will argue this with me no doubt) almost every rap song I've heard lately is either to do with going to prison or smoking weed and getting high. This isn't exactly a great message sent out to teenagers. The beats are almost identical and almost all of the latest rappers have either sold out to become more pop-oriented (Eminem anyone?) or just produce less and less decent songs.
This is also true within the dance music industry. Trance music has somehow transformed into repeating a phrase or sentence over and over again for 3 minutes. The early ideas of this were catchy and somehow decent enough to rock a dancefloor (Eric Pryde-Call On Me) but I can't stand a lot of the new tunes brought out in the "dance music" charts. How on earth Adagio for Strings is still there after so long is beyond me. Yes it's a good song and everything but the industry should be focusing on new talent rather than DJs and producers who have been there since the beginning of trance. (Not sayin Tiesto has been there from the beginning)
I think THE best trance song I have ever heard is Universal Nation-PUSH. Simply because everytime I hear this song the breakdown, the build-up and the pay-off is simply outstanding. I get chills down my back hearing it each time! There are a lot of songs out there which have amazing build-ups...but do not have a decent pay-off at the end and this disappoints me. This song has it all in my opinion and rates as one of my favourite trance songs of all time. I never really got into Cafe del mar-Energy 52 until I heard countless crappy remixes and finally found the Three'N'One remix and loved it. There are several trance songs which came out last year I think or in recent years which I really have grown to love, amongst all the crap brought out in the past couple of years regarding trance. These are:
Armin Van Buuren-Hymme=Reminds me so much of Adagio For Strings but I prefer this song much more due to the addition of beautiful sound effects and a better structure in the song overall.
Sunny Lax-Puma=I have no idea why I liked this song, pretty standard trance song but a gorgeous bassline and a decent enough addition to Armin's State of Trance list.
Deep Dish-Say Hello=Okay this might be me but aren't Deep Dish a house band? This is a fantastic trance song and I really like the vocals. Powerful and melodic song.
Strange World VS Raindrops (Mash-up Mix 2006)=I really liked this remix and thought the vocals worked really well with the song...every other song on the album I hated with the exception of the operation blade remix with the rapping.
There are other songs but they don't quite fall under the heading of trance. It's a shame that Hi-Tak-Say Say Say got released in the charts, I really liked that song when I heard it last year and then it goes and gets number 1...which is good...but has been played so much everytime I hear it I can't help but groan. I guess in a way this is true with trance. In a way if everyone was into trance and it was played countless times on the radio people would be sick to death of it. Thankfully it isn't. Trance music is so diverse and so many great ideas have come out of it that we need another breakthrough artist that isn't up his/her own backside and produces decent trance like there used to be. Dance music is going through a major transformation at the moment in my opinion and I'm not sure what the outcome will be like. A lot of artists have just taken old trance songs and added lyrics over the top. A lot of these ideas have faield miserably with the exception of 1 song i actually loved (listed above) I'm into a lot of different types of music. I mean I love dance music more than anything...simply because it IS so diverse and you can lose yourself in it and I'm tied between hard house and trance at the moment. there have been crossovers (Hard trance=Tidy Euphoria Disk 1...amazing) but that doesn't limit me to just liking that. Drum and Bass is good, certain happy hardcore tracks I do like and garage I like as well. House music is ok, I can stomach it but I don't like it THAT much. lol I think I will always be a trance addict despite what happens to the trance scene.
Someone said earlier on in this discussion (a year ago I think :| ) that there was something called Neo-trance? Kaito? I downloaded a few tracks of this Kaito guy...I really don't like it lol I hope trance doesn't turn into that! Then again I may have got the wrong artist lol
I heard that earlier funnily enough and no I don't think it is trance. It's classed as hard dance/hard house I think! Although it does have trance elements...
Wow what a discussion! Im 18 years old and have never liked trance...until last year when a mate of mine showed me some of his "phat music". After having gone out and bought countless trance music compilation albums which i personally think are amazing I'm hooked. I agree with the majority of things being said. Trance music is in a dire state at the moment and the releases lately have been near diabolical. Crazy Frog? Chico? Please... The club charts are in a state and every time I go clubbing in Eastbourne (south east coast of England) the amount of danceable music with little to no lyrics is limited to around 1-2 songs a night with rap and r&b dominating the dancefloor.
The diversity within the rap industry is so poor and in my opinion (and someone will argue this with me no doubt) almost every rap song I've heard lately is either to do with going to prison or smoking weed and getting high. This isn't exactly a great message sent out to teenagers. The beats are almost identical and almost all of the latest rappers have either sold out to become more pop-oriented (Eminem anyone?) or just produce less and less decent songs.
This is also true within the dance music industry. Trance music has somehow transformed into repeating a phrase or sentence over and over again for 3 minutes. The early ideas of this were catchy and somehow decent enough to rock a dancefloor (Eric Pryde-Call On Me) but I can't stand a lot of the new tunes brought out in the "dance music" charts. How on earth Adagio for Strings is still there after so long is beyond me. Yes it's a good song and everything but the industry should be focusing on new talent rather than DJs and producers who have been there since the beginning of trance. (Not sayin Tiesto has been there from the beginning)
I think THE best trance song I have ever heard is Universal Nation-PUSH. Simply because everytime I hear this song the breakdown, the build-up and the pay-off is simply outstanding. I get chills down my back hearing it each time! There are a lot of songs out there which have amazing build-ups...but do not have a decent pay-off at the end and this disappoints me. This song has it all in my opinion and rates as one of my favourite trance songs of all time. I never really got into Cafe del mar-Energy 52 until I heard countless crappy remixes and finally found the Three'N'One remix and loved it. There are several trance songs which came out last year I think or in recent years which I really have grown to love, amongst all the crap brought out in the past couple of years regarding trance. These are:
Armin Van Buuren-Hymme=Reminds me so much of Adagio For Strings but I prefer this song much more due to the addition of beautiful sound effects and a better structure in the song overall.
Sunny Lax-Puma=I have no idea why I liked this song, pretty standard trance song but a gorgeous bassline and a decent enough addition to Armin's State of Trance list.
Deep Dish-Say Hello=Okay this might be me but aren't Deep Dish a house band? This is a fantastic trance song and I really like the vocals. Powerful and melodic song.
Strange World VS Raindrops (Mash-up Mix 2006)=I really liked this remix and thought the vocals worked really well with the song...every other song on the album I hated with the exception of the operation blade remix with the rapping.
There are other songs but they don't quite fall under the heading of trance. It's a shame that Hi-Tak-Say Say Say got released in the charts, I really liked that song when I heard it last year and then it goes and gets number 1...which is good...but has been played so much everytime I hear it I can't help but groan. I guess in a way this is true with trance. In a way if everyone was into trance and it was played countless times on the radio people would be sick to death of it. Thankfully it isn't. Trance music is so diverse and so many great ideas have come out of it that we need another breakthrough artist that isn't up his/her own backside and produces decent trance like there used to be. Dance music is going through a major transformation at the moment in my opinion and I'm not sure what the outcome will be like. A lot of artists have just taken old trance songs and added lyrics over the top. A lot of these ideas have faield miserably with the exception of 1 song i actually loved (listed above) I'm into a lot of different types of music. I mean I love dance music more than anything...simply because it IS so diverse and you can lose yourself in it and I'm tied between hard house and trance at the moment. there have been crossovers (Hard trance=Tidy Euphoria Disk 1...amazing) but that doesn't limit me to just liking that. Drum and Bass is good, certain happy hardcore tracks I do like and garage I like as well. House music is ok, I can stomach it but I don't like it THAT much. lol I think I will always be a trance addict despite what happens to the trance scene.
Someone said earlier on in this discussion (a year ago I think :| ) that there was something called Neo-trance? Kaito? I downloaded a few tracks of this Kaito guy...I really don't like it lol I hope trance doesn't turn into that! Then again I may have got the wrong artist lol