In Electronica We Trust (no.2)
January 10, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I call it electronic music and it’s usually danceable. My productions as well as my DJ sets consist of things that people call techno as much as of things that people call house, breakbeat, or even trance. I think a good DJ combines the elements of electronic music and creates something unique, and this is what I’m trying to do. So it’s difficult for me to answer the question in terms of why trance music is so popular, because I don’t call my music trance. - Paul Van Dyk.
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” Short Trance like List ”
01. Bowery Electric - Fear Of Flying
Beat (Kranky, 1996)
02. Robert Miles - One and one
Dreamland (1996)
03. Infected Mushroom - Infected Mushroom
Classical Mushroom (Yoyo, 2000)
04. Leftfield - Storm 3000
Leftism (1995)
05. Underworld - Surfboy
Dubnobasswithmyheadman (Tvt, 1994)
06. The KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal (Live At The S.S.L.)
The White Room (1991)
note: Now that electro rock and electronica is dominating Hypem list. I am very much in the mood tracing big electronica sound. At the very least we won’t fall into rehashing boring electro pop group like New Order. I want new electronica on top of the classics. No repeat please.
One of the most successful sound coming out of the 90’s is trance. It supplants basic deep house/soul/techno as basic dance music in club. It was created out of techno and acid house background combined with availability of more powerful electronic gear, giving DJ wider sound texture and fuller sound. Trance becomes more melodical than techno, is not as depended on turn table sound as hip-hop when creating loop, and has more varied drum sound. All that while maintaining classic 4/4 dance beat and pop hook. This basic formula was put together in KLF’s 3 A.M. Eternal Life (1991) For the first time electronica has huge global appeal instead of strictly underground experimental or big city club scene. A well known DJ can fill bigger stadium than a pop star. It is a legit pop music with mass appeal. The beat and techniques influences other genre even rock, Bowery Electric is my favorite example, another one is Garbage. By late 90’s trance sounds is set and most innovative DJ’s move on to different projects. (jungle, DnB, etc.)
See also: Trance (wiki)
image: sleepycat
Lieber Grossmeister Paule,
danke für Deine playlist. Bitte gib, wie angekündigt Deiner mood nach und trace big electronica sound und zwar vom neuen zeugs.
Grüsse aus Zürich
Urs
Hello Urs,
It’s not Paul’s playlist, but it is his interview. I don’t think my playlist is up to floor DJ quality. :D
cheers to everybody in Zurich.
sq
Several youtube clips,
7 minute Psytrance Documentary
Japanese Artcar Project (Burning Man 2007) , part 1
Rotunda Omusubi Engine TOSHI SEINO b2b
KLF - What Time Is Love (Pure Trance)
KLF - interview Pure Trance
Thanks for the memories, I blogged this;
This one is for the memories, the KLF, Infected Mushroom, Leftfield, and Underworld. The sort of music you don’t have the energy to listen to once you have kids but when you are dressed in rags and wondering around India its just the think for the morning chai and smoko. Lots of videos of the beautiful people have been added to the comments section of the page on the other side of the link too……
And really enjoy the motel de moka…Love from Sweden
What a great image invoked in the comment previous to this one. I completely hail the Kranky label and this song of the Bowery, how strong a release and got things looking beautifully for such a small staff. Look at them today, still around, giving the greatest of gifts.
And I wonder if anyone remembers how the KLF had put up all that money on that board in the woods, waiting to be claimed, only to have an explosion take place, an art piece in the end?
sq hi from Zürich
nevertheless your list include 3 absolute hitters bowery e., leftfield, underworld. And by the way this is the music you have to listen to when you have kids. at least you have to teach them something.
Please post more of this good stuff. it’s hard to find more, at least for a close to 50.
Urs
Speaking of Children and electronica..
These clips always make me laugh.
The kids are just wiggling all over.
to squashed
jeder hat mal klein angefangen - aber zwei riesige talente. Gruss aus ZH Urs
So yeah, i don’t like new music, but new infected mushroom, and dance toons can be hit or miss, i live psy trance, cannot get enough of how badass of a music that it is. I wish i would have knew about it when the raves were still in full force. :((
Really nice playlist! “Good ol’ times”-mood comes up. ;-) KLF is still great stuff and “Open Up” from Leftfield (not in your list, but “Storm 3000″ is great, too) is still one of my favourites.