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Is there any? Or is "good trance" a contradiction in terms? "Good" is defined here as 'won't make me puke.' In practical terms, I could play the hypothetical "good trance" between Music for Films and EVOL and not miss a beat. Help me out if it is that you can.

― The Groove Monger, Sunday, 2 January 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

not sure if it fits your description (not suer if anything does) but m.i.k.e. is good

― :| (....), Sunday, 2 January 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

Is Kaito trance? Cuz Special Life is like the best album ever.

― deej, Sunday, 2 January 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

Well you must check out early releases (1991-2 only - no further) on Harthouse.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 2 January 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

No there isn't any good Trance.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Sunday, 2 January 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

good trance = DFA comp #2

also, we just got Dance Dance Revolution for PS2 at the house for xmas and after listening to all these songs, i'm starting to enjoy it a bit. only to practice my moves and all, but yeah

― JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 2 January 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Jam & Spoon - "Stella" is classic proto-trance.

I like lots of Sasha and Digweed mixes and productions. Excursions mix is great.

There is some excellent discussion of trance on one of the Kompakt threads if I remember correctly.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 2 January 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

what about psychedelic stuff? I like going to the forest and getting mashed up and looking at all the little hippie girls. sometimes. It is pity this music has such a bad rep because objectively speaking the rhythm is a good rhythm to dance to, and it's also good at half-speed when it turns into dub. But the hippie thing is a turnoff.

― dayglo-abortion, Sunday, 2 January 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

if you want classic mid 90s trance then search for the Abduction compilation on Solid State - the best collection i ever encountered personally. i think trance went a bit awry after that and i was never really into either the light Perfecto-y stuff or the hallucinogenic/psychedelic stuff so don't really know more recent stuff.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Sunday, 2 January 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

robert miles - "children (dream version)"
sash! - "encore une fois"

― scg, Sunday, 2 January 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

The first "Tranceport" mix by Oakenfold, that track "Gamemaster" aside.

― lukas, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

how did six trance threads get bumped without new responses? weirdness.

― andrew m., Friday, 23 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

For me, good trance = very early Harthouse.

― moley, Friday, 23 March 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I've been digging through some classic trance singles trying to figure out if the synth line in Mickey Factz "Do My Do" is an actual sample or just coincidentally exactly like something my friend used to play in the early 00s.

Some of this stuff is almost listenable taken out of context. Enjoying Cygnus X's Superstring and Energy 52's Cafe del Mar. I hate the stiff unquantized percussion in most of it, but the synth lines can be pretty effective at what they are trying to achieve.

Any favorite cheesy trance songs I should listen to? I thought of starting a youtube thread, but there is a ton of muck to sort through.

― mr. me too (rockapads), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 02:59 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP_k7C3NBr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs5qxa5ogVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOcPvLkjD-k

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRZw91dRqic

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:17 (fifteen years ago)

i like cygnus x

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago)

So, What's Your Opinion of Trance?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago)

Trance

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qqE3zefbXs

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago)

Not necessarily trance, but I do like the proggy stuff done by Milton Jackson. His Crash album takes everything that was warm and subtle and moving from the minimal/soulful scene and crans it up. Also: Deadmau5.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago)

old school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kd4Jx9Z69s

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago)

yeah def deadmau5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEUfeiSKt0

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago)

same vein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXM-7CH45tA

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:29 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT4FncY-NNE

― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:31 (fifteen years ago)

Hi Siegbran, long time around these parts?

― dog latin, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAjHBtRHf88

― no-nonsense, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago)

I listened to that Mickey Factz song, and the synth reminded me of this tune, which was a big hit in 1993 or 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27AXunGRo5E

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago)

Here's one of my favourite trance tunes of the early 90s, I think it still sounds pretty awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMhsmVAuLY

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago)

I like how that one keeps on building all the way through, the best part only kicks in after 4 minutes or so.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago)

xp - Thanks Siegbran. I liked the first two you posted, as well as the Deadmau5 (I bought this single off of be4tp0rt a while back) and the last few on the thread.

The linked thread (So, what is your opinion of Trance?) was a good read as well. I had a good friend & roommate from, like, 1999 to 2003, who used to pump this stuff every time he threw parties (eventually he learned how to DJ and is a resident at some club here playing tech house stuff) and for a while I took part in a lot of the partying, so I got sooo sick of this shit after a while. Every once in a while I like to come back to it and try to dig up the classics. I definitely like the darker or more melancholy stuff the best.

Next up, I am going to dig up a prog house thread and spam a bunch of youtube clips. You've been warned, ILM!

― mr. me too (rockapads), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago)

Here's a few more popular trance tunes from the same era (early 90s) that I think are still great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOlYF7FF1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9YNWok3vNw

(The vocal version of the latter one is one of the first examples of pop trance I ever heard, but the non-vocal mix is the true classic.)

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

Here's one more classic cosmic trance track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX5PWvnwwEY

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGxMH99XnbY

― mr. me too (rockapads), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

Is this tribal trance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBklP4nDxHQ

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago)

Even Wolfgang Voigt was doing trance back then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcd0enVvdJs

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMswFVLap9c

― mr. me too (rockapads), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj3FTucf03s man i used to love this one

― mr. me too (rockapads), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago)

^ so guilty of the beat completely disappearing for waaaay too long before the extremely epic build-up.

― mr. me too (rockapads), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

anyone can recommend me the sort of trance/prog that's similar to disc 2 of sasha's gu 13?

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 19 November 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago)

this is a decent starting point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TneBj-rlVo

― Siegbran, Friday, 19 November 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago)

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYKtAMy1eGg

― Siegbran, Friday, 19 November 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago)

here's a mix dominique leone made. i dunno what's what, but i enjoyed it.

http://soundcloud.com/abstractexpression/2010-0826-trancemix

― jaxon, Friday, 19 November 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUM6hRxkPr8

― Siegbran, Saturday, 20 November 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Z259JYmTo

― Siegbran, Saturday, 20 November 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwtrNMSluwI

i've recently discovered this type-of trance music, i think they call it "high tech psytrance". no idea how the hell you'd dance to it, but it's fun to listen to, it's like downing a handful of adderall with a cup of coffee.

― larry appleton, Sunday, 25 September 2016 13:04 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rptZEjIO_Vc

― mmmm, Monday, 26 September 2016 22:15 (eight years ago)

Trancesetters = Tata Box Inhibitors = 51 Days.. good trance.

― mmmm, Monday, 26 September 2016 22:21 (eight years ago)

love to pound the trance

― brimstead, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 01:51 (eight years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YteqLhf3hM8

I was relistening to the 4Voice album for the first time in ages, and man, this tune in particular still kicks ass!

― Tuomas, Friday, 21 October 2016 15:46 (eight years ago)

The first 4Voice album that is.

― Tuomas, Friday, 21 October 2016 15:46 (eight years ago)

Love that track. First heard it on either the Logic Trance or Trancemaster series way back when but only found out it was Namlook a couple of years ago.

The Logic Trance 2 compilation still holds up pretty well today

― groovypanda, Monday, 24 October 2016 13:02 (eight years ago)

tata box inhibitors so amazing. effortless acid hardfloor-esque anthem after anthem

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 October 2016 13:07 (eight years ago)

tata box inhibitors, love that name! hope they named their remixes recombinations...

― willem, Monday, 24 October 2016 13:45 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Iq-ZXYl0s

― mmmm, Friday, 2 December 2016 00:20 (eight years ago)

Clearlight by Mystic Force

― mmmm, Friday, 2 December 2016 00:21 (eight years ago)

that is nice

― a but (brimstead), Friday, 2 December 2016 01:42 (eight years ago)

nine months pass...

http://youtu.be/_RvgirFHB3g?t=10m

This is some cool trance.

― carpet_kaiser, Sunday, 1 October 2017 00:43 (seven years ago)

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