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Hector
I appreciate your explanations and I do like the music (which I can't always 
say about rap or country).

>Listening to good trance at home on a pc is not a misuse, but maybe an
>impotent use of it.  The other required factors (listed above) are not
>there, so the desired effect is not reached. 
...
>Trance needs to be full of sonic energy and rising spiralling synth riffs
>that lifts a crowd and sends them hurtling throught fractal galaxies in
>their minds.  It's not called 'trance' for nothing. Without wanting to
>sound like a hippie,  

Few can remember the heady days of the real hippies in th San Francisco scene 
in 1969 ... Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Iron Butterfly, Moby Grape, the 
Grateful Dead, Country Joe & Fish,  ... playing loud music with colored 
water/oil projected onto a screen ...people were on LSD probably - of course 
there is no way to capture that feeling on a computer or record, ... Nor is 
there a way to capture the feel of Woodstock. etc Or there was th spiralling 
guitar duel in Freebird, the hypnotic beat of Led Zps opener - Immigrant Song 
(I heard it at th LA forum with 18,000 and it was mesmerizing). I was also 
moved by Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde - it can really sweep you up.


> > BT'sHip Hop Phenomenon....where it builds and then has a break.
> A strange choice for me. 

Its not my favorite BT by far, but the things of his i like are songs. I was 
using that as an example of a non-song piece that had ... as Rachmaninoff 
said "its moment".