When Trance Was Good

[steagle]

I generally do not promote myself but I thought this would be something Merv, Joey and others in the UK trance world would appreciate. For the last 7 years I have been creating mixes focused on the "good old days" of trance music, say from 91-95 (with some deviation of course!) that heavily feature artists like Eat Static and their contemporaries from Planet Dog, Harthouse, Eye Q, MFS, Superstition and so forth. I figured I would share these mixes with you all because I know there are likeminded folks here! And Merv, your tracks start making an appearance in Part 5 and stay on for the rest of the series - what I love about your music is it's so much fun to take chill, introspective tracks and mix them with yours to lighten up the mood and at the same time, make things intense and psychedelic. I don't know what I'd do without your music!

At any rate, here is the link: www.whentrancewasgood.com

Hope you all enjoy

[gnonsense]

hi!
though like the basic spirit of what you are trying to say here, i feel that maybe you havnt thought about the wording much in the mix website? for eg "recycled ideas, with very little deviation from basic formulas." well, to do classic trance, wowuldnt you NEED those very things to recycle and those self same formulas? or it may not be the style known as trance anymore.
anyway! i dont wanna linger on that. i like what i think you are trying to convey.
another problem is, and it may well just be my PC setup, in which case maybe u cud hel anyhow.
when i click any of the download links on the www.whentrancewasgood.com pages for the mixes, i get a new page thast white with a big quicktime player symbol and no mp3. can u advise? i'd really like to hear the mixes. lots of stuff both that i havnt heard for AGES, and too that i had wanted to hear at the time. hell megadog/planetdog/club dog! miss those times so much. very formative! something weirdly magical was happening there, and too with mutoid wste company and spiral tribe, late 80s and up to mid 90s had some free form magic going on.

[steagle]

The basic formulas from the early 90s are totally acceptable because they were, at the time, new and fresh, and the idea of "formulaic" doesn't really apply yet. But if you look at music by Darude, ATB, Tiesto etc, it's pretty clear to see how they are using the same ideas introduced years earlier, but with far less emotion and creativity (at least in my humble opinion). I'm not saying all trance after such-and-such a year is bad, only that I think the genre as a whole became far less interesting after those first handful of wonderful years.

At any rate, perhaps I did choose my words poorly - I could have just summarized by saying - I love the old stuff, and not a big fan of the new

As for the links I've been getting that feedback a lot lately from Windows users... not sure what's causing it, but the files are there, so you can just right-click and Save As to put the files on your hard drive before playing back. That or copy the link location and put it into a program like VLC?