R.I.P. Trance music

The melodic, baleric and lasttly, generic, genre of trance music passed away in the year of 2010 at a uknown age after several years of illness. Trance music will always hold a special place in our hearts, but will not be missed thanks to uncreative artists.

At a young age, trance music was a fresh breath of air in a rock and pop world. It was breaking the “rules” of music and was raised by persons such as Astral Projection, Dance 2 Trance, Orbital, Oliver Lieb and Sven Väth. Trance music was breaking grounds at a age when it still was wearing diapers – just like the people who listened to it eventually needed after subcombing to the chemical usage.

Trance music quickly grew up, but experienced a troublesome time. It was struggling to find its place in this world and trailed a lot of paths trying to find itself. Hard trance, progressive trance, baleric trance, club trance (?) was some of the ways trance tried to find it´s path. Trance even joined dance music, and after this trance never was the same again.

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Tiesto: The first game music video

To promote the DJ Hero 2 game, Tiesto has teamed up with Activision to create what is suppose to be the first music video ever created with nothing but video game footage.

Tiesto has made two exclusive tracks for Dj Hero 2, and according to Mixmag ‘Speed Trail’ has been a regular on his lates tour as well, together with his own game character flashing on the big screen. So why not make a music video out of it?

We have written about trance in video games before, but this has to be the exact opposite.

Podcast 008 – With guest Darude

Episode eight has got energetic trance, crazy breaks and funky house. Our special guest mixer is Darude.

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Our very own Ville Lope has remixed trance legend Tiesto, so be sure to check out “The Tube” in this episode.

We’ve also got tunes from the fresh albums of both Mr. Sam and Moguai.

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Tiesto wants your Remix

Previously dubbed as the world’s number one DJ Tiesto is now having a remix competition with Beatport.

Known and criticised of asking for money to download the remix parts Beatport does it again. To get all the remix parts bundled you have to invest 4,35 euros to the remix kit (available until October 5th).

That is actually a small price for the privilegde to legally remix one of the biggest names in the game, and a chance to win Tiësto merchandise, Ultra records music package and $250 gift certificate to Beatport.

I’m too busy, broke and uninterested to these vocals to take part to the competition, but are you taking part in it?

Read the whole story in Beatportal.

Dj Mag Top 100, 2008: Backstage

So the spam-wave from all the djs has decreased on Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, and the votes are in for the 2009 Dj Mag Top 100 djs. As we’ll have to wait until the 28th of October to get the results, here’s a video from backstage at the Dj Mag awards 2008 we found on YouTube… Or is it…?

Ps: We’re not taking any sides in the Tiesto vs Armin thing. To be honest, we don’t really care that much either. We think both Tiesto and Armin are good sports and have a laugh at this one. We sure laughed.