GOOD Trance

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

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.

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.

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

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

i like cygnus x

So, What's Your Opinion of Trance?

Trance

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hi Siegbran, long time around these parts?

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

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

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

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

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!

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.)

Here's one more classic cosmic trance track:

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

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

Is this tribal trance?

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

Even Wolfgang Voigt was doing trance back then:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

love to pound the trance

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!

The first 4Voice album that is.

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

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

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

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

Clearlight by Mystic Force

that is nice

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

This is some cool trance.