Re: Trance sucks ( - not!)
1) Trance is the best thing to hit germany and later the rest of the world in the 90's.
2) I actually used to be a strictly rock fan, but this music changed my life. No other style than the real european trance has such a tremendous atmosphere and way of making your mind go while still keping you moving in the blitzlights.
It is the ultmate genre in my oppinion, and if you want to place by origin, you must agree that house should be placed right under the ugly 70's disco tunes. "Carwash!" - "Carwash!" Oh my god.
Beside: Even though house was first, the real trance started in germany as a subgenre of hardcore in the beginning of the 90's/late 80's. It was musicians who wanted to do more with their turntables than that clean techno sound and they added their Korg synthsounds to the beat and soon after came the first characteristics of trance. Artists: Cosmo, Nexxus, Space Cube.
2 years later came Belgium Techno wich is maybe what you are thinking of: a mix of house-beats with powerfull synthstabs, often confused as "the start of trance". This genre started in the UK by house and
acid Dj's inspired by the new european style - Trance. The artist includes:
Such as: the three first sixteens of the beat played in ine tune and the third of them lasting for 2 sixteens.
Artists: T.99, Praga Khan, The B-Sides.
Sincerely Dj Chriss
http://www.mp3.com/ChrissT