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CanwllCorfe · 03-18-2012, 11:54 AM

I shouldn't even post videos. That would just be a bad idea. I'll upload some .RARs and grace all of you with them.

Here's what I had to say about it forever ago:

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Trance all started in the early 90s when artists such as Paul van Dyk, Cosmic Baby, and Dance 2 Trance all began making hypnotic synth driven music. By today's standards most of it would be considered "Goa" but at the time there weren't any types.. there was just Trance. As it became more and more popular the sound got more refined and the songs became more energetic and more accessible. The original hypnotic, or "trance-inducing" sound was more or less out the window. In this commercial era pretty much all trance was either Epic, Progressive, or Hard. This dominated the trance sound from pretty much 1998 to 2004. In 2004 many artists stopped sticking to being "Trance artists" and started creating their own sound. Armin van Buuren started producing much more Progressive stuff, Ferry Corsten practically made a new genre called Electro trance, Tiesto combined a lot of House influence to his songs and made a tune called Traffic.. one of the first tech trance songs ever, and Paul Oakenfold was doing his own damn thing. Nowadays Epic Trance is much less common because it is no longer the commercial electronic genre of choice, although it is still being produced and still relatively popular.

Here's what I had to say about Tech Trance:

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When the commercial era of trance began to fade, artists started trying new things trying to change with the times and keep from being stale. It was at this time when Tech Trance came about. In fact it came in at 2 different angles: from Hard Trance producers who didn't migrate to Hardstyle or further on to Hardcore, and Trance producers like Cosmic Gate. Tech Trance gets its name from "techno" and as such, is an influence. Some are more Trancey and some have more of a Techno tinge, it all depends on the artist and how saucy they are feeling. It was at this time when Trance artists like Mike Koglin would play alongside Hard Trance legends such as Scot Project. There were hardly any artists who would produce ALL Tech Trance but if one did, it was usually a former Hard Trance producer. Of course this wasn't always the case. Nowadays it is still being made but is also influenced by Electro and House, which is pretty much the same story with all of Trance. I'm looking at you Tiesto and Armin van Buuren. Former Hard Trance producers are also, strangely, going from Tech Trance to Progressive Tech House and Tech Dance. Don't ask why. Huge names like Kamui, A.S.Y.S. (Frank Ellrich), Yoji Biomehanika, and Joe-E are good examples.