Trance Treasury
- liedflechter
- May 20, 2023
- 2 min read
The ear-noise curing playlist.
Getting aware of the endless possibilities of the early internet, what might be the first craving a young human would entrust a search engine with which could get them (almost) everything they can think of?
Games?
Porn?
Cat videos?
Animes?
No.
Struggling to find the letters on the keyboard, me, age 14, typed:
Trance music.
The style / scene I was into from my teens to early twenties was referred to as UK Trance or Uplifting Trance, and as usually, with being a bit too much much involved in a topic, it's a carefully treated selection of gems less popular which become most precious. To my younger self, underground trance music was the greatest thing ever, and the sounds and song structure had lasting impact on what I appreciate in music. My music paragons came from the UK (Solar Stone, Darren Tate), the Benelux states (Lolo/Airwave), from Denmark (Selu Vibra) and Finland (Mikka Leinonen). You could think that Germany would be a good place to search for Trance music, but, for me, I was very isolated. My class mates were listening to metal and had little understanding for my strange obsession with synth sounds and basslines. Trance music was played in Frankfurt am Main (Talla XL2C), Stuttgart (Shah and Pedro del Mar) and Berlin (Paul van Dyk), but none of that was really "my" sound. I made long travels to spend tiring nights in clubs with too loud music ringing in the ears, fighting against elbows to make space to dance to music which felt more and more superficial, no place to sit down, people smoking, smelling like beer or eyes wide from whatever substance they had consumed. At last I concluded that this was not the connection and understanding I wished for, so I let the floor to the clubbers and dedicated my passion to trading cards and Dungeons & Dragons instead. Which was not too bad either. Proved that some of these former metal-heads were lovely people, after all.
Nevertheless, I still have a collection of tunes from that time which I really enjoy listening to on occasions. One of these occasions is stopping an ear noise which troubles me from time to time. If you want, have a listen to what was moving me back in the days :)
Also, here's one symphonic trance song which was especially meaningful for my musical journey:
Don't be scared by the German yellow site. Seems that it has never been published at any other place.
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