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Favorite trance tunes

Dietmar — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:03:03 +0000

Its’ that time of the year where I’d like to announce the – in my view of course – best trance tracks of the year. First of all I want to say that especially in most recent times there were a lot of good tracks and after I complained that my favorite label “Anjunabeats” was releasing a lot of mediocre tracks the year before, this time there were a lot of very decent tracks that came out. So, no wonder, that Anjunabeats is represented very well in the list of my favorite tracks.

Basically there were two tracks dominating my personal play list as they are

Maor Levi – Shapes (Oliver Smith Mix)

and

Temple One – Forever Searching (Original Mix)

The remix of Oliver Smith delivered a perfect, euphoric version of a track done by young Israeli Maor Levi. Everything fits, the beat, the scrambled singing as well as the beautiful additional melody kicking in after a while.

British DJ Temple One’s “Forever Searching” lets you float in different spheres. This very romantic trancer is highly addictive.

Besides these tracks I’d like to congratulate Sunny Lax for his remix of Soliquid’s “Music is for rich people” since it comes very close to the legendary “P.U.M.A.”.

Last but not least I want to mention at least some other tracks that were very good. From Scandinavia Finnish Syna “Do you feel” sounded fantastic in the remix of Matti Kotala and Danish DJ Daniel Kandi’s original Mix of “Child” needs to be mentioned too.

Finnish trance

Dietmar — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:13:40 +0000

As described before the Loveparade Berlin offered some Trance too so I decided to go there again. On my way to the parade I picked up a couple that just arrived downtown Berlin after a 6 hour ride from southern germany and I led them to the parade. My aim at the parade was defined clearly: I wanted to find float no. 1, the finnish club millenium – without question the best float for all people who are into trance music. And luckily at the time I arrived, the parade at that point was only a few floats away from no. 1.

I decided to follow ALt-4, Super8, Miika Kuisma, DJ Tab and the others DJs for a while but minutes turned into more than 2 hours walking behind that truck which had to do with a superb set that these guys delivered. A lot of Anjunabeats tunes and some older but decent tracks like Chicane’s “saltwater” kept the crowd around the float dancing.

young talented artists

Dietmar — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:53:49 +0000

I am very suprised about the excellent quality that many new tracks especially from very young trance artists have.
There is for instance Sunny Lax from Hungary or Ljungqvist from Sweden, both 18 and both released fantastic new tracks.

While Sunny Lax, signed by Anjunabeats, presents an euphoric trancer called “Puma” and a very good b-side with the spheric “Casseopeia” on it – a big part of the trance community was waiting already for the release of these tracks – Ljungqvist brought out “Nella”, an unconventional and fresh new trance track.

This gives me hope for many good quality tracks being released in the future since the offspring for this particular part of electronic music has a lot of talent. Something that is very important for a style that is for big parts not commercial and no charts music.

will trance ever be popular?

Dietmar — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:28:27 +0000

A short while ago I read an interesting question at the Anjunabeats Forum: Will Trance ever be “in” too, be the hip music style and will it have more commercial success? My answer is a definite “No”

While dance music always was big, it seems to me that we are in a retro wave again. Madonna’s current single for instance seems to be a successful try to turn back the wheels of time since it comes in a 70/80′s disco style and one can only imagine how many artists will now jump on that train and produce similar stuff too.

Beside that most of the trance tracks that are around are instrumental – no singing – and instrumental tracks always had it difficult to be sold to a wider audience. Of course there were some exceptions to the rule – for instance Chicane or Paul van Dyk – but the vast majority of trance tracks didn’t make it into the charts. Even very melodious vocal trance tracks had only small success before.

So, as much as I wish that Trance would become more popular the chances for that aren’t big. Which has its positive aspects too.

Anjunabeats

Dietmar — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:11:02 +0000

While last year many of the songs released on the Anjunabeats label were in my personal charts – for example tracks by P.O.S, Smith & Pledger, Above & Beyond – I have to admit that I think that many of the new releases are just average. They are nice but thats about it. The only exception is Smith & Pledger’s track “Northern Lights”, but those guys always released good stuff. Gladly other artists publish excellent tracks so there is enough music to listen to.