Best Trance/House/Rave/Techno from 1990-1996
Submitted by lyceaum on Sat, 06/02/2007 - 10:38
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- **I'm including 30 second clips on some of the tracks.**
- Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (Break Trance) (1992)
- For me, it doesn't get any better than this. When the bass kicks in, I melt.
- Papua New Guinea
- Hardfloor - Acperience 1 (Acid) (1993)
- This was one of the first techno albums I ever heard, and it's still probably my favourite. Crazy Germans and their 303's
- Acperience
- Orbital - Halcyon + on + on (Trance) (1992)
- Orbital is a pair of brothers. I think their mother took the drug Halcyon or something, hence the name of the song. It's beautiful and hypnotic.
- Halcyon
- Age of Love - Age of Love (Watch of for Stella Mix) (Trance) (1992)
- Sexy track. Brilliant for the time. Well, still blows me away.
- Age of Love
- Quench - Dreams (Trance) (1994)
- The extended version is also much more effective than the one everyone knows. It does everything a trance song should do.
- Dreams
- Li Kwan - Point Zero (1994)
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Point Zero
- Nexus 6 - Ab Chic (Acrid Abeyance Mix) (Hard Acid) (1994)
- Pretty hard grinding track, with an awesome buildup. These guys know what to do with a 303.
- Nexus 6
- Pump Panel - Ego Acid (Hard Acid) (1995)
- I love Pump Panel. It's Tim Taylor and another guy. This is such a fun and bouncy track. It makes me happy.
- Ego Acid
- Union Jack - Red Herring (Trance) (1995)
- Beautiful pulsating track making great use out of the phaser. The 303 plays a big part too.
- Red Herring
- Dj Misjah & Dj Tim - Access (Hard Acid) (1996)
- Hard grinding acid trance just the way I like it. One of the best rushes ever. Sounds kind of train-like.
- Access
- Poltergeist - Vicious Circles (Union Jack Rmx)(Hard Trance) (1993)
- Definitely one the hits from back in the day. This track apparently made someone "lose it." Psychedelic drugs may or may not have been invloved. This is taken from Discogs, "One of those tunes that still never fails to raise a smile. This is an immense track from beginning to end. The dark, stabbing, minimal beginning builds to a first breakdown and then make sure you've got reinforced party pants on because it's bouncy gurning idiocy all the way." I thought it was a good summary.
- Vicious Circles
- Marco Polo - A Prayer to the Music (Bedrock Mix) (House/Trance) (1995)
- This song is quite hard to find. Not acid at all, but probably this longest rush of any track I know, but well worth it if you make it to the end.
- A Prayer to the Music
- Underworld - Rez (Trance/House) (1994)
- One of the lesser known Underworld tracks, but it's my favourite. It was a single release. Nothing is better than listening to this at a sweaty rave with the sun coming up.
- Rez
- Public Energy - Three O' Three (Hard Acid) (1992)
- This is Jochem Paap, aka Speedy J. I would consider this the minimal, bare bones of acid. It's great and funky and hard as hell.
- Three O Three
- Sourmash - Pilgrimage to Paradise (Hardfloor Mix) (Trance) (1993)
- This Hardfloor mix is better than the original, only because the original sounds incredibly dated. Original vocal sounds make this track stand out.
- Pilgrimage to Paradise
- Jones & Stephenson - the First Rebirth (Hard Trance) (1994)
- NOT the crap Trance Allstars ripoff. This song made me cry once. It starts so simple, and builds to a masterpiece.
- First Rebirth
- Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall (Ravey Trance) (1993)
- Fun old track with a memorable hook. This will make anyone happy.
- Waterfall
- Rabbit in the Moon - Out of Body Experience (Trance) (1994)
- Sends chills down my spine.
- Out of Body Experience
- Underworld - Cowgirl (Trance/House) (1994)
- Everything, Everything, Everything. So original, and so great.
- Cowgirl
- Jonny L - Ooh I like It (Rave) (1993)
- I love this fun track. Too bad Jonny L started making Drum and Bass.
- Ooh I Like it
- Robert Armani - Circus Bells (Hardfloor Mix)(Hard Acid) (1996)
- The hook will stick in your head for awhile, but that's the point. Hardfloor is so bouncy and fun.
- Circus Bells
- Drax II (Trope) - Amphetamine (Trance) (1994)
- I first heard this track on a compilation called 5000 Ohms. It's exciting, emotional trance.
- Amphetamine
- Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Mix)(Acid) (1994)
- Another classic Hardfloor mix. This song will make you happy, I guarantee it.
- Yeke Yeke
- Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats (Acid Breaks) (1995)
- So funky. I like this better than Higher State of Consciousness
- Chemical Beats
- Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (1995)
- Makes me want to dance. I love this song.
- Professional Widow
- Eat Static - Gulf Breeze (1994)
- AWESOME old trance. Not very well known.
- Gulf Breeze
- Orbital - Chime (Trance) (1990)
- Holy crap this is old. How do you define Orbital? Nothing else is like them.
- Chime
- The Ethics - To the Beat of the Drum (La Luna) (House) (1995)
- To the Beat of the Drum
- Nikolai - Ready to Flow (Trance) (1994)
- Ready to Flow
- Paragliders - Paraglide (Trance) (1994)
- Most of the Paragliders tracks sound similar, with flowing, carefree melodies.
- Paraglide
- Bucketheads - The Bomb (House) (1995)
- The Bomb
- Aphex Twin - Pulsewidth (Ambient) (1993)
- Kind of a creepy song, but isn't all Aphex Twin kind of creepy? Good to chill out to.
- Pulsewidth
- Drum Club - Sound System (Underworld Mix)(Trance) (1993)
- I usually am not a fan of vocals, but this one is great. Relaxing track.
- Soundsystem
- Vapourspace-Gravitational Arch of 10 (Ambient) (1993)
- VERY long intro, but well worth it. Vapourspace is Canadian, on Plus 8 records (Richie Hawtins Label)
- Gravitational
- Moby - Move (Rave) (1993)
- This is Moby when he wasn't ashamed of making techno.
- Move
- Leftfield - Space Shanty (Trancey House) (1995)
- Off of the "Leftism" album. This track makes you feel like you're a jet fighter or something, hehe.
- Space Shanty
- Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Ambient) (1990)
- I love the Orb. This track has a spoken word sample. I love the way the Orb adds little sounds here in there just to freak you out.
- Little Fluffy Clouds
- The Visions of Shiva - Perfect Day (Trance) (1992)
- A collaboration between Paul Van Dyk and Cosmic Baby.
- Perfect Day
- Altern 8 - Everybody (2 Bad Mice Remix) (Rave) (1993)
- My favourite Altern8 track. The vocals are so cute. Makes me think of gas masks and glowsticks, and ravers with A's on their shirts.
- Everybody
- C.J. Bolland - Sugar is Sweeter (House) (1996)
- I always connect this song with Professional Widow, probably becasue they came out around the same time.
- Sugar is Sweeter
- Cosmic Baby - Fantasia (Celestial Harmonies)(Trance) (1994)
- One of the first records I bought. The beautiful piano part doesn't come in until 5:30. Whoever said Robert Miles was the first to use pianos in trance, obviously never heard this.
- Fantasia (Celestial Harmonies)
- Dj Misjah & Groovehead - X-Pact (Hard Acid) (1995)
- This track has a great vocal sample that goes, "deeper inside myself." Like most Misjah stuff it's very hard acid. Really good, my 2nd favourite after Access.
- Moby - Go (Rave) (1992)
- see above
- Go
- Juno Reactor - Conga Fury (Goa) (1996)
- I'm not a huge fan of goa, but this one I love. It's very tribal sounding.
- Conga Fury
- Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness (Acid Breaks) (1995)
- Different funkier use of the 303 than many other tracks. If you don't know this song, you don't know much, do you.
- Higher State of Consciousness
- Hardfloor - Kangaroos and Bubbles (Acid) (1995)
- A great track from their "Respect" album. That album has fun track titles like "Mustard Pancakes." This is the last Hardfloor album I like, after that they went seriously downhill. I guess you can only be the masters of acid for so long.
- Kangaroos and Bubbles
- Dj Misjah & Dj Tim - Purple Road (Hard Acid) (1995)
- A less aggressive acid track, with a hypnotic sort of melody.
- Purple Road
- Green Velvet - Flash (Techno, House) (1995)
- This track has a vocal of some guy talking about kids doing drugs. You either love or hate this track.
- Flash
- Orb - Perpetual Dawn (Ambient) (1992)
- Groovy Orb track
- Perpetual Dawn
- Dave Clarke - Red 1 (Techno) (1994)
- Dave Clarke is one of the techno innovators. This album is a must have for anyone into techno of any sort. No melody in these tracks, just superb techno, which is also danceable.
- Red 1
- Bump - House Stompin' (Big Bump Mix)(House) (1994)
- Review from Discogs (better than what I could write)-"As the title tells us this one's a massive House stomper with a lot of saxophone, female vocals which received massive support by the NY Sound Factory DJs back in 1994. Especially Junior Vasquez pushed this tune." Can also be found on the Sasha/Digweed Renaissance Mix.
- House Stompin
- Beyond - Silver (Trance) (1993)
- A female vocal samples dominates this track. A minimal trance song.
- Silver
- Luxor - the Big Bang (Hard Trance) (1993)
- This song does it for me. Hands down, a perfect trance song.
- Big Bang
- Pete Lazonby - Sacred Cycles (Trance) (1994)
- Starts off with an Indian sounding man discussing life. Takes a long time to get going, but builds up to great trance.
- Sacred Cycles
- Lil Mo' Yin Yang - Reach (House) (1996)
- Another old housey track with a female vocal sample I like. Not sure what she's saying, which is the way I like it. Distorted vocal samples are what I prefer.
- Reach
- Marmion - Schoneberg (Trance) (1996)
- Schoneberg
- Dave Clarke - Wisdom to the Wise (Techno) (1994)
- A funky track. One of the more underrated on the album
- Snitzer & McCoy vs. Humate - Oh My Darling, I Love You (Hard Acid) (1997! oops)
- Great acid line, with an even better melody layered over top. The bass line is taken from BTO.
- Oh My Darling I Love You
- Pizzaman - Trippin on Sunshine (House) (1994)
- This is Norman Cook, aka Fat Boy Slim.
- Trippin' On Sunshine
- CLS - Can You Feel It (Rave) (1992)
- Definitely a rave classic.
- Can You Feel It
- Baby Doc & the Dentist - Catalan Rising/Catalan Dawn (Trance) 1994)
- Catalan Rising
- Elevator - Shinny (House/Trance) (1994)
- Shinny
- Clanger - Sea Dog (Trance) (1994)
- I really like the vocal sample in this track, which occurs over half way through.
- Seadog
- CJ Bolland -(Ravesignal III) - Horsepower (Techno) (1992)
- Horsepower
- Acen - Window in the Sky (Rave) (1993)
- Window in the Sky
- Messiah - Thunderdome (Rave) (1993)
- Thunderdome
- Wippenberg - Neurodancer (Hard Trance) (1995)
- Neurodancer
- Baby Doc & the Dentist - Tales of the Seraphim (Hard Trance) (1995)
- A seraph (Hebrew ????, plural ?????? Seraphim) is one of a class of celestial beings mentioned once in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament), in Isaiah. Later Jewish imagery perceived them as having human form, and in that way they passed into the ranks of Christian angels. In the Christian angelic hierarchy, seraphim represent the highest known rank of angels.
- Tales of the Seraphim
- Adamski - Killer (Rave) (1990)
- Vocals by Seal.
- Killer
- Tempest - Salamander (Union Jack Rmx)(Trance) (1995)
- Tempest
- Capricorn - 20HZ (Rave) (1993)
- It sounds like a drum corps is coming at you.
- 20Hz
- Aphotheosis - O-Fortuna (Rave) (1991)
- From Discogs, (I should probably stop doing that), "the famous "O fortuna" track by Apotheosis..maybe one of my favorites of all times and lot of people love it also..it's so popular all over the world..we all know it was banned ...deleted out of the market because of the illegal use sample of the classical gospel music carmina burana originally writen and produced by carl off..this o fortuna track is just a piece of art . back in 1991 when i first heard it i was so impress of how smart techno house music can be ..this track is just amazing and is also a collectors item since is totally out of print and hard to find this days!!" Interesting!
- O Fortuna
- Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby (Old Trance) (1992)
- Sweet Lullaby
- Union Jack - Cactus (Trance) (1994)
- Cactus
- Plastikman - Spastik (Techno) (1993)
- This cd cover is a sheet of LSD (not real of course). The album is called "Sheet One."
- Spastik
- Paul Van Dyk - My World (Trance) (1995)
- My World
- Faithless - Insomnia (House?) (1996)
- Insomnia
- Acen - Close Your Eyes (Rave) (1992)
- Close Your Eyes
- Faithless - Salva Mea (Housey Trance) (1997)
- Salva Mea
- Dj Misjah & Groovehead - Acid Energy (Hard Acid) (1995)
- More hard acid from these guys. I own a lot of Misjah stuff. My favourite genre is hard acid. (Really? I never would have guessed from all the hard acid tracks on this list.)
- Acid Energy
- Blue Alphabet-Cybertrance (Trance) (1994)
- Cybertrance
- Utah Saints-Something Good (Rave) (1993)
- This is kind of a rave cross-over type of song. It was on the popular top ten charts.
- Messiah - Temple of Dreams (Hardcore) (1992)
- Contains a sample from the movie, "the Running Man."
- Temple of Dreams
- Utah Saints - What Can You Do For Me (Rave) (1991)
- What can you do for me
- This Chemical Life - Wired (Acid Trance) (1996)
- This song is not very well known. I can't find it on mp3, I only have it on vinyl. It's really good, I don't know why it's not more popular.
- Orbital - Lush 3-1 (Trance) (1993)
- Orbital are really in a class all their own.
- Lush 3-1
- Moby - Thousand (Trance) (1993)
- This song held the record for the fastest BPM's. I don't know if it still holds that title.
- Thousand
- The Prodigy - Everybody in the Place (Rave) (1991)
- Everybody in the Place
- Underworld - Mmm Skyscraper I Love You (Trance) 1993)
- Mmm Skycraper I Love You
- Humate - Love Stimulation (Paul Van Dyk mix) (Trance) (1993)
- Love Stimulation
- Banco De Gaia - Heliopolis (Trance) (1994)
- Heliopolis
- Balil - Parasight (Trance) (1993)
- Parasight
- Blunted Dummies - House for All (House) (1993)
- A classic release from the Plus 8 offshoot Definitive label.
- House for All
- JX - Son of a Gun (House) (1994)
- Son of a Gun
- The Prodigy - Charly (Rave) (1991)
- Charly
- Emmanuel Top - Turkish Bazaar (Trance) (1994)
- "The music was new black polished chrome And came over the summer like liquid night."-Jim Morrison
- Turkish Bazaar
- Armand Van Helden - Funk Phenomena (House) (1996)
- Funk Phenomena
- Gusto - Disco's Revenge (House) (1996)
- Gusto
- Union Jack - Two Full Moons and a Trout (Trance) (1993)
- Preceded Red Herring. It was one of my favourite trance songs, until I heard Red Herring.
- Underworld - Dark and Long (Dark Train) (Trance) (1994)
- Hypnotic and dark. I first heard it on a tape I bought in New York, lying in bed in a seedy hotel. Good times! It is used very effectively in the movie "Trainspotting" when Renton is coming off of Heroin.
- Dark Train
- Art of Trance - Orange (Trance) (1995)
- Octopus
- It's a Fine Day - Opus III (Trancey?) (1992)
- The vocal sample in FSOL's - Papua New Guinea is taken from this song.
- It's a Fine Day
- Art of Trance - Octopus (Trance) (1995)
- Paragliders - Bagdad (Humate Remix) (Trance) (1993)
- Mostly an Oliver Lieb solo project.
- Bagdad
- Bedrock - For What You Dream Of (House) (1993)
- Also in the movie "Trainspotting."
- For What You Dream Of
- Salt Tank - Eugina (Trance) (1996)
- Salt Tank
- Barbarella - My Name is Barbarella (Trance) (1992)
- Barbarella is a collaboration between Sven Vath and Ralph Hildenbeutel. Barbarella is a crazy old film starring Jane Fonda. Also where Duran Duran got their name.
- My name is Barbarella
- Odyssee Of Noises - Troya (Trance) (1994)
- See above. (plus some other guys)
- Troya
- Hallucinogen - LSD (Goa) (1996)
- LSD + Goa = Time well spent
- LSD
- Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Hardcore/Jungle (1993)
- This doesn't really fit on the list, but it's the only jungle song I like, so I thought I would add it.
- Renegade Snares
- Katana - Erotmania (Trance) (1994)
- Hypnotizing track with an odd vocal sample, and bells, that you'll either love or find really annoying.
- Erotmania
- Me and Jack - Viva House (House) (1993)
- How can you not know and love this track? It is pure rave love.
- Viva House
- Caucassus - Our Dream (1994) (Trance)
- Our Dream
- Cygnus X - Superstring (1996) (Trance)
- Superstring
- X-Tracks - Plan '94 (The Voyage) (1994) (Trance)
- Plan '94
- Chicane - Offshore (1996) (Ibiza Trance)
- Jon the Dentist - Global Phases (1996) (Acid Trance)
- Global Phases
- Love Inc. - Trans Atlantis XS (1992) (Trance)
- Mike Ink is Love Inc.
- The Goodmen - Give it Up (1994?) (Tribal House)
- Speedy J - Pullover (1991) (Techno)
- Brainchild - Synfonica (1994) (Trance)
- Completely forgot about this one, my VERY bad.
- Astral Projection - Mahadeva (1995)
- Goa, goa, gone.
- Way Out West - The Gift (1995)
- DJ Rap - Divine Rhythm (1992)
Author Comments:
This list is a work in progress.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
I like this list. I don't have about a third of the songs on it. I'll have to download them, considering the quality of the ones that are on there already. I'm especially happy that it's a 1992-1997 list. Epic trance lists tend to all have the same songs on them, and classic trance is much less represented. I mean, my own list has quite a bundle of classic trance, but there's still plenty unexplored. Congrats, this is a good list. Fill it up to 100.
Yeke Yeke and Higher State of Consciousness are on there twice, BTW.
I'm glad you like the list. Like I said, it's a work in progress (hence the doubles), and it's also not all trance. But it's all good!
I do have a few more to add, and I think I'll make it to 100.
I think I made it to about 150 of your list. It's totally gotten me back into trance. Thanks again.
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Sorry but I don't know those tracks, but I'm willing to help you find others if you want.
Great list!
I can see some less well known classics such as Seadog being reprensented here which is extremely pleasing, and others which i'll need to Dload.
Is it in any particular order because certain artist songs are all grouped together?
thanks.
I grouped some of the bands together (like Orbital and Underworld) because I like those tracks equally.
fair enuff, i'm listening to your Big MIx of DT's list and it's excellant when the diversity of the mix is considered, though Outhouse is too fast imo.
great! :)
here are a few more
one sounds like early 90's housee
sounds like
" work that *ucker to death"
and the other sound like a chester cat from a disney movie says
" yeah yeah i can dig it"
two more
" i know its around here some where "
and
" yes yes you all"
and two low priority, something like
" every one wears their shades in here"
and some thing like some one walking thru a new naighborhood and a group of males are telling the stranger.
" yeah we heard about and you we know what you have done"
there are some others have no lyricks just sounds like i am going thruu a gigantic skateboarders warp tube and I hear some triads fading and repeating.... i am shure some maybe mind streaching, yet i am shure we can come to a agreement on the price for your efforts ....
I also wanto mention for your list "Church Of Extacy - 'Church Of Extacy'
and if you know of ron d core acid test 2 and of a dj n2o mixed tapes. thanks
pascal :)
Nice list here. There's a ton of great songs that I love on here and also plenty I'm not familiar with. By the way, yeah, I would say that Daft Punk is more house than anything. Perhaps progressive house. I would say Green Velvet is house too. Cheers!
Thanks!
I never know how to classify groups like Underworld, Orbital, and Daft Punk. Their sounds are so original.
I know what you mean. These "electronica" groups seem to dabble in many different styles of dance music.
I've got a lot of these. Just a few comments:
Halycon is indeed named after the drug. This song made the soundtrack of a number of films and is generally considered to be one of the most influential house tracks of all time.
The Rez/Cowgirl track on Everything, Everything is one of the best house tracks when put together. I don't know if you've first it, but that album is fantastic.
Daft Punk - Homework...it was a cool sound, but I don't think it was revolutionary or anything. It's a 70+ minute album that could have been 40-50 easily. "Da Funk" is great, yeah, and the groove of "Around the World" is irresistable but how many want to hear it for 8 minutes without any changes?
The ambient Orb tracks you listed are good. Don't know if you've heard Toxygene, I think that one is from 1997, but it's a great house track. Don't miss it.
Oh, and don't forget Scooter - Fire! It's campy as hell, but who wouldn't like it...ONE TWO THREE FIIIIIIIIRE!!!
yes, I love Halcyon, that's why it's so high on the list.
I have the Everything, Everything video, which has the Cowgirl/Rez mix at the end, it's great. I've also seen Orbital live 3 times. They're amazing.
Well, I love Daft Punk...the whole album.
Toxygene is great too. I have all the Orb albums.
I really don't like Scooter, but thanks for the comments!
Did you see them at Glastonbury? Maaaaaan, one of my life goals was to see Orbital, but I never had the chance to :( They have a live set out now on CD and DVD that chronicles their Glastonbury performances. Good stuff, if the sound quality was better it would be amazing.
For Scooter - okay, I *like* them, I consider myself to be a fan, but I'll admit the thing I like most is their goofy lyrics and their over-the-top videos. If you told me they were shit it's hard to disagree. But "Fire" is the sweet stuff.
No I didn't see them in Glastonbury, (I wish). I saw them in Toronto 3 times, between 94-97.
Best concerts I've ever been to, (well 2 were raves, but you know what I mean).
I really like this list, no others like it. Plus, you have samples! How do you get them on there?
We have a web server on our computer. That's how I can have samples.
Hey again lycaeum! :) will you accept rave/hardcore/oldskool suggestions as well as techno/house/trance?
If so, here are some (IMO) classics for the list...
1.Acen (God) - Close Your Eyes (You already have it but I feel perhaps a higher placement?
2.Acen - Obsessed II (Pictures of Silence)
3.Acen - Trip To The Moon (Pts. 1, 2 & The Kaleidoscopiklimax)
4. Altern8 - Activ-8
5.Awesome 3 - Don't Go
6.Gordon Edge - Compnded(Edge*1)
7. Human Resource - Dominator (Beltram Mix)
8. The Hypnotist - The House is Mine (Original Mix)
9. Second Phase - Mentasm
10. Second Phase - Energy Flash
11. Jonny L - Hurt you So
12. Manix - Feel Real Good
13. Mystery Man - DJ Business
14.Sonz of A Loop Da Loop Era - Far Out (Original Scratchadelic Mix)
hey!
looks like you're into the old stuff huh?
I know the Acen and Altern8 tracks, and the Jonny L song. I'd have to listen to the rest though. I've probably heard most of them, just forgot about them.
You should make a rave/hardcore/oldskool list of your own!
Hehe yeah it's a totally amazing genre, though I want to wait until I have at least 100 songs in it until I really feel confident to make one. (:
This list is probably the best one on listology - I have very few disagreements with it.
+++
Li Kwan - Point Zero is just, mind my language, fucking amazing.
Quench - Dreams is so much better than Gamemaster (which isnt really that bad, the buildup is great)
Faithless - Insomnia trancier than most of todays trance, and i hear plenty tiesto fanboys saying that this is cheese...the lead melody is wicked
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Underworld - Rez when I first heard it I thought it was really good but it just wore off, now I dont like it at all - theres just not enough darkness in it, and its extremely repetitive
Jones & Stephenson - the First Rebirth I dont see anything in this track at all
Underworld - Cowgirl the vocals are nice, but i hate the electro synths, i prefer the Bedrock mix of this
Plastikman - Spastik i never could figure this track out, nothing really happens besides some weird synth moving around
which mix of Marmion - Schoneberg do you like best? original? I like the original and Man With No Name remix, the Marmion remix was popular but its just noisy with no flow to me
Since you have LSD in there, how about some Astral Projection?
hey thanks for the compliment!
So you don't like the First Rebirth? I personally love it. I think it's really emotional trance, although quite fast and a bitch to dj with, hehe.
I like the original Marmion. I'm not sure if I've heard remixes of it.
I should include some Astral Projection. Do any tracks stand out that you would recommend? I can't think of any off hand (it's been awhile).
Kabalah and Mahadeva are my favorites
First Rebirth doesnt sound very natural b/c of the kick and random noises, imo the best music sounds organic and natural
Ya I know Mahadeva. I think I'll add it, thanx.
Yup everyone agrees on Mahadeva but I put Solid Electronics above it, this track is simply amazing, especially in the mornings. Also try out Liquid Sun, Utopia, Nilaya, Still Dreaming,and Another World...they're about as good as Mahadeva =]
This may be asking too much of you, but I just made a hard acid track and your opinion on it would be much appreciated.
I think the track has some good ideas going on, but I think it's enough ideas to make 2 or 3 tracks. I especially like what was happening at about 6:10. I think you should concentrate on a few ideas and build on those, instead of putting all your ideas in one track. But some original sounds in there for sure.
Thanks for the response. Well I never thought of it that way, because I don't like repitition so I try to put in a couple of interesting patterns in each track. I'll try and concentrate on just one idea though...and maybe get a really good track.
I'll be quite honest with you - I hated everything up to 2 minutes. Then it got interesting - it started getting darker, the stuff before it was really...not happy, not dark, just gay...but still nothing that interesting for the rest of the track
I liked your other work better...but keep at it
From your page:
"I'd rather put more effort in making the beats and rhythyms varied, than in polishing the tracks."
IMO if you want to make something really good you're going to have to ditch that mindset - variation is good but a polished product is what will make the song memorable.
I play around with making music now and then, I'm a lot worse than you, but when I make a song I think to myself "if I downloaded this track, would I delete it?"...if the answer is yes, I either scrap the whole thing and come up with a new idea, or keep on working at it until the thing is something I might want to listen to.
What software you use?
Well honest reviews are the ones that help. Maybe you didn't like this one that much because it isn't as experimental as the others. You're right, I should polish the tracks more, it just takes a lot of effort to polish a track, make beat transitions smooth and stuff, but I'll try and work on it.
When I make a track I keep working on it till I really like and then delete anything thats bad. And I use FL Studio 4.5
After listening to both Rez and Spastik for a while, i'm starting to like em...
Btw, you listen to any techno? I'm getting into this genre, and it sounds pretty awesome...spastik, orbital's chime, beltram's energy flash...they all rock. plus, it's so easy to dance to
I really like the ambient and idm side of it too, aphex twin, venetian snares, etc. etc., good listening music in addition to dance music
I like some pure techno, but I prefer trance.
Dave Clarke is really good, don't know if you've heard his stuff. I'm not into minimal techno though, I find it really boring.
The Orb are amazing too, if you're getting into ambient, but mainly the old albums, imo.
I'll check him out. Yeah, I love the orb's stuff...especially Huge Ever Growing Pulsating etc. etc. and Fluffy Clouds.
And THANK YOU for saying minimal sucks. So many once great progressive house artists have gone down that road and its the most boring crap I have ever heard, barring a few releases.
Yes minimal sucks.
I know a lot of DJ's that started playing it just because it's easy to mix. I think many people just listen to it because they think it's "intelligent," not because they think it good.
I don't actually listen to it because it's intelligent, if I had to catergorise intelligent music in electronic it would be something like IDM or Ambient. Minimal is just another form of EDM, I know what you mean about a lot of people probably listening to it because it makes them 'leet' or intelligent or whatever, but I just like it for what it is. I used to hate minimal, but stuff like Booka Shade, Minilogue, Ricardo Villalobos, Akufen & nearly all of Kompakt are really good now IMO. You never know it may grow on you.
Tbh I don't think anyone listens it to make them intelligent. Why would anyone want to seem intelligent? Most people want to seem tough - that's why some of them listen to gangster rap, or drum 'n' bass.
There are many elitists, but they're just dumbasses, and a minority too. IDM/ambient/techno are really great genres.
Still, I can't really "get" most minimal. Not enough happening - the subtleties are a bit too subtle for me to pick up.
I think the best way to define my taste is anything that sounds like several weeks or months work went into it. Like Sasha's Xpander E.P. (one of my favorite CDs of all time) - every track sounds like he spent a year on it.
Many people criticise others as "Pseudo-intellectuals", Kubrick gets this attack from stupid idiots all across the net when he clearly was a man of great intellect and vision. IDM/Ambient/Techno are indeed great. Try getting Kompakt Total 6 & 7 for a real mix of all of what minimal can be, if you still aint liking it, then at least you've given it a try.
Kubrick deserves a lot of credit, ie. the Shining, but Eyes Wide Shut was craptastic.
I personally know many people who claim to like minimal because it makes them sound intelligent.
Still, I can't really "get" most minimal. Not enough happening - the subtleties are a bit too subtle for me to pick up.
Yeah its exactly the same with me, I don't really like minimal, for example Choice - Acid Eiffel, because nothing seems to be happening. The other main reason I don't like minimal is that, having made music myself, I know how easy it is to just let the loops repeat, and not put in the effort to come up with another loop, so I feel that its more like "minimal" is an excuse for not putting in the effort to innovate.
Choice - Acid Eiffel is techno. It's not lazyness, something being looped can be very hypnotic and constantly changing it can dretract from the track. Repetitiveness can be great in a song - Age of Love- Age of Love...
And are you really saying that microhouse isn't innovative?! It's all part of minimal.
I'm not a huge fan of Acid Eiffel either. It's too long and repetitive.
Age of Love is not repetitive like that. It changes after every 8 bars, as most trance does. That's what I like about trance, as opposed to minimal, which generally does the same thing over and over.
Eurgh I guess it's all based on opinion, I absolutely love Acid Eiffel!
I just thought I'd elaborate on why I don't like it.
Well whats happening in Acid Eiffel? Its just a kick in the background, some random hats and a clap, and the acid sounds are very subdued, and at points barely there. And the acid isn't anything to write home about, there wasn't any rhythm I could make out, there seemed to be randomly placed notes, with the acid slowly rising and falling, and a symphonic layer. Not a whole lot of innovation if you ask me.
there wasn't any rhythm I could make out,
Yes there is!
the acid sounds are very subdued, and at points barely there.
It's meant to be a kindof submerged sound, I can understand why you wouldn't like it though.
Not a whole lot of innovation if you ask me.
Please find me some similar sounding songs.
Listen to the entire 13 minutes all through and you'll have much more of an experience of the subtleties and changes as the song progresses with a fluency akin to no other.
Well, fta I don't like most minimal, but I like Acid Eiffel. The acid synth sounds like its constantly changing, and the pads in the background make it seem like it has a direction.
It sounds kind of like Digeridoo, and that's a track I *really* like right there.
Acid Eiffel isn't minimal at all, not even close. It's acid trance (although it IS amazing).
Minimal is stuff like Booka Shade, Superpitcher, Ricardo Villalobos, Isolee, Akufen, Luomo, Wighnomy Brothers, Dominik Eulberg, Efdemin, Michael Mayer, most of Kompakt and Perlon, etc..
Quite a bit of minimal has much more going on in it than the so called "maximal" genres like house and trance. "Minimal" is probably the biggest misnomer on the planet, because some of it is just so complex, varied, and powerful. IE: Listen to Efdemin - Lohn & Brot, or Akufen - Deck the House, or Isolee - Beau Mot Plage, or Ame - Rej, and then tell me minimal has nothing going on in it. You couldn't possibly after hearing tracks like those.
"Acid Eiffel isn't minimal at all, not even close. It's acid trance (although it IS amazing)."
Exactly, it may be akin to minimalism but it aint minimal.
"Quite a bit of minimal has much more going on in it than the so called "maximal" genres like house and trance. "Minimal" is probably the biggest misnomer on the planet, because some of it is just so complex, varied, and powerful. IE: Listen to Efdemin - Lohn & Brot, or Akufen - Deck the House, or Isolee - Beau Mot Plage, or Ame - Rej, and then tell me minimal has nothing going on in it. You couldn't possibly after hearing tracks like those."
Adding on from that:
Ada - The Red Shoes
Aril Brikha - Winter
Kaito - A Hundred Million Lightyears
Royksopp - What Else Is There? (Trentemoller Remix)
Mylo - Rikki
Um, well, yeah, I've heard Ame - Rej, and all I hear is a soft melody. Stuff is going on, but its not really captivating to me. It doesn't pull me into the music. Its not something I would really want to actively listen or dance to, as opposed to sleep or relax to.
Well, give Deck the House a try then (or hear Rej live, because you'll really want to dance to it). Minimal is really varied - some of it is sort of relaxing and soft, but others are confusing, and others are really energetic and wild. I'll post a good example of that (energetic and wild) soon, I can't remember the track name for the life of me for the best example of that.
hi darktremor. am new here. like your lists and also of some of the others who engage in such lively and intelligent discussions. fighting it our for one's best and worst song or sample. people start with a music and then discover something new along the way. sometimes its difficult to leave what one began with. you are used to the language and the memories of that language. a song communicates. what in the song does in fact communicate? the words, the melody . what if there are no vocals? what if there is only repetition? what if there are long silences? along this journey the stumbling upon on 'all things electronic' (and i don't mean all things electronically composed) has been a great discovery.
i had followed avidly the 'trance is dead' discussion. all i can say is 'everything changes' and we must hope for 'something better'. and i seem to be convinced that many here might regret 'those days' but are also eagerly waiting for the future of great music.
acid thanks to all.
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I have one major disagreement with this post.
the First Rebirth is an amazing song. Also Faithless - Insomnia has potential to be remixed into something great, but the original is lacking.
I have a couple songs I believe deserve on the list.
Lunatic Asylum - The Meltdown (original)
Jens - Loops & Tings (Fruit Loops Remix)
Also two more comments.
1. Aphex Twin - Digeridoo is a better song than Pulsewidth
2. Age of Love should be #1 ;)
i'm not sure if anyone still watches over this, but i used to go to the raves before they became "events" and way before 90210 ruined the scene, and i've found this list to be very helpful with trying to find those old early 90s tracks, 'cuz there's sooooo many different DJs or "groups" that it's been hard to find specific tunes that i knew and loved.
if you know of a song that has a repeating sample of the latino chic from the movie "Aliens", specifically, "Let's Rock"........please let me know....i've been looking for that song for over a decade now and don't even know the title......loved dancing to that one.....i know it's around '92-'93...........thx
It must be this http://www.discogs.com/Tango-The-Impact-EP/release/28510, "Tango - the Impact E.P. I found it on discogs. I don't know the song offhand, maybe if I heard it. I'm going to try to find it.
Sorry it took so long to reply, I didn't get any notification of this. Let me know if you find it, I'd like to hear it.
thx Lyceaum...you rock! i found it on Soulseek...where i've actually found most on this list....if you have ANY more from 1992-1994 that are not on this list...please send it to piouspenguin@hotmail.com......in return, i could make you a data disc of everything i've found and send it to ya......i've been on a mission to find everything i can and Soulseek has been a great help! (haven't had much luck finding the "Here comes the sun" song and i'm having trouble finding a song that has: "xtacy xtacy--beg or steal, beg or steal, xtacy x-x-xtacy--something something something..." ----i know that's vague, but it's all i can come up with! hope you got more!!!!!!!!
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ok...one more i just remembered.......
does anyone know the name of the song that has this in it?
"hand's up! hand's up!.......hand's up, who wants to die!"