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Thoughts from the mind of Hector, 06-07-2002:

>  > I think of DJ's as arrangers - and they are brilliant at it. The problem
>is
>>  that most of techno/hard trance/ blah blah blah... is that its ALL
>>  ARRANGEMENT and NO SONG. And whats with all these genre names? house, trip
>>  hop, blah blah -.... its all just instrumental dance music with minor
>>  variation in bpm.
>
>You are clearly missing the point of trance music.

I'd already expected Tazmanian's post to cause some response :-)))

>It has a very specific
>audience -   crowds people who dance in front of  massive sound systems
>under the influence of MDMA or occassionaly LSD.  Producers and dj's will
>not admit that on the record, as they influence young people and would not
>want to be accused of condoning drug taking.  But it *is* what trance is all
>about and millions of people dance to it every weekend, worldwide, as a
>choice of lifestyle.

Glad someone is wise enough to admit this.

>  >OK, I'm showing my age. But
>>  clearly there have never been any "hit singles" from any of these artists,
>>  becasue they don't produce songs.
>
>I don't know about age, but you are definitely showing your ignorance. What
>you say is simply not true, there have been plenty of trance hit singles
>including several no.1's in the UK at least.

I think what he maybe meant is that there have never been and 
probably never will be hit singles that will over time become more 
than one-day flies -- like Bowie's Space Oddity (to pull the msg back 
on the original topic :), or Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven, or a 
zillion other hits that have lost very little of their original 
impact or quality or "brilliance".

>I hope this has increased your understanding of why trance _is_ the way it
>is.

Good posting imo.  Thanks.

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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