Top 100 TechTrance tracks from outer space

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we will never get to the end, but such is the spirit of the cosmos

1. Vapourspace: Gravitational Arch Of 10
2. M.I.K.E.: Turn Out The Lights
3. Der Dritte Raum: Hale Bopp
4. Mathew Jonson: Marionette
5. Mathew Jonson: Folding Space

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 19 June 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

(i would have included autechre but they seem to go at great lengths to avoid straight trance 4/4)

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 19 June 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

(also the vapourspace track has the best video ever)

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 19 June 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Like "Turn Out The Lights" but darker and better:

Liquid Overdose - Ancient Space (Fred Baker Remix)

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 19 June 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

6. Rejuvenation: "Requiem Pt. 1"
7. Lazonby: "Sacred Cycles"
8. Cosmic Baby: "Fantasia"
9. Underworld: "Dirty (DMD Remix)"
10. Biosphere: "Seti Project"
11. Air Liquide: "Stratus Static"
12. Air Liquide: "Negative Saucer"
13. Air Liquide: "Breaking the Surface Barrier"
14. Dr. Atmo & Pascal FEOS: "Make Me Cry"
15. Exit EEE: "Straight Up From Heaven"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 19 June 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

16. Air Liquide: "Chromoplastic"
17. A Positive Life: "Pleidean Communication"
18. Phasis: "Moonwalk"
19. Lazonby: "Wavespeech"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 19 June 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

Most of these songs were never labeled techtrance though.

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 19 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Back in the day (all my track recommendations are from '95-'95) "trance" was a catch-all label for all sorts of stuff that wouldn't even be called trance nowadays. There weren't any subcategories yet, but I tried to pick tracks that have a techno feel to them. Seriously, if you aren't familiar with "Requiem Pt. 1", "Wavespeech" or early Air Liquide (especially the Nephology LP and the tracks the Black compilation), check that shit out. It still sounds awesome!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 19 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

"the tracks from the Black compilation"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 19 June 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

20. The Martian: Lost Transmission from Outerspace (never labled tech-trance either)

― tylero (tylero), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

err make that 'Lost Transmission from Earth'

I'm stupid.

― tylero (tylero), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

i always thought the martian's "stardancer" was considered a trance classic??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

OMG tyler is that where you got the dj name??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

21. Purple Pleiadje - "Blanche"
22. Luke Slater's 7th Plane - "The Needs of the Many"

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

More trance-not-trance from outer spaaaaaaace

23: Samuel L Sessions: Merengue

― tylero (tylero), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas, I know all those tracks, and yes, they do fall between early 90s techno and trance, but the term "Techtrance" itself is recognized as a distinct sound/subgenre (full-on dark, driving trance with busy/syncopated techno percussion without any of the familiar trance melodramaticism, Marco V/Katana/etc).

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 19 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

One of the record stores here (staffed by morons) puts all the bangin dancefloor techno (primate, tronic, etc etc stuff) in the 'tech-trance' bin. I have to look around the shop and make sure nobody I know is there watching me before I paw through them. ;)I don't know how I'd take it if somebody saw me looking in the 'trance' section.

― tylero (tylero), Sunday, 19 June 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

Ah, it's been so long since I actively followed what's going on with electronic music, that I've lost it with all the subcategories.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 June 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

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