Ego : I bet you don't get this all the time!

I feel light up on my feet
From the way you look at me
You open up the universe
Yeah I bet you get this all the time

I crumble when you touch my wings
But that's okay 'cause I'm nothing
I'm tougher than you think
Yeah I bet you get this all the time

The no-hopers
The overwhelmers
The sweet talkers
I bet you get this all the time
I bet they just throw themselves at you
The daydreamers
The dope smokers
The loose talkers
Yeah I bet you get this all the time

Evil lovers
Go-getters
Fare workers
Yeah I bet you get this all the time
I bet they just throw themselves at you

Yeah I bet you get this all the time

I can't make this any clearer
I can't make this any simpler
Still passin' through my fingers
I bet you get this all the time

The day dreamers
The evil lover
The sweet talkers
Yeah I bet you get this all the time

I bet they just throw themselves at you.

One to see the year off

2012 was a bad year in blogging. The content on here plain sucked. More about it in my coming posts...if ever.

Here's a trance track to see the year off. I melt with you!

Illusions: Sunday made!

After Melo and the massive club hit Allein, another massive tune!

Tranceport back to the good times!

Back in 2005, I was still catching on to Trance. Elsewhere, the scene was marked by a steady decline in rave culture.

The awesome PD trance I was listening to was actually the final rattle in era of great trance.

Tranceport is one such album which I missed... dialup internet in a village isn't much help to scout for music.

 This Paul Oakenfold collection is considered a club classic and the track Purple is now on my forever playlist! Nirvana!

Morning Dust : Trance at it's dreamy best!

From An old ASOT episode...dont' really remember the numbrer, this is a scorcher. I want to listen to this on full blast from a car speeding to RGIA :-)

Deep dreamy bliss

Mat Zo's Near the End still holds a prominent place in my playlist for it's uplifting tone and extra heavy bassline.

I just stumbled across another gem... the underrated Subaquatic Dream

As a youtube comment rightly puts it, the breakdown at 2:30 is out of the world. If you have a taste for this kind of music that is.

Atir bhai, you should try this.

Cosmotherapy : Dreamy bliss

Long, dark road. Full moon. Cruising in a car alone and playing this awesome chillout tune....

Cosmotherapy by DreamLab

Guess who's back!

Paul Van Dyk is back. Nuff said!

You don't know me

You don't know me by Apparat is the closest thing to dope ever. Never has a track elevated me beyond realms.

There's another video of the same track with footage from weird movie Octane and it just makes the experience even more bizarre. Try it at your own risk.

It was never over!

Tiesto gave us some real great tunes before the fame and hoopla overtook him(just my opinion).

Here's one old tune that I can play a million times over and never get bored.

Innocente(falling in love) by Delerium. Tiesto Remix


Darling, when did you fall?
When was it over?
Darling, when...
When did you fall?
When was it over?


I suppose it is the price of falling in love
I suppose it is the price of falling in love


Darling, when did you call?
I couldn't hear you.
Darling, when...
When did you cry?
I couldn't hear you.


I suppose it is the price of falling in love
I suppose it is the price of falling in love

'Falling' in love all over again

Another scorcher after Dreamcatcher!
Falling by Andy Duguid is freaking awesome!


Haha if you clicked on the link expecting something else.

No Ibiza for me: My views on trance music

UPDATE: A friend just made a good point. Moolah! I can never afford those high end DJ parties. Sunburn at Goa costs about 10 grand for a pass!

I'm met with reactions ranging from quizzical wonder to outright disgust when I discuss trance. While some call it meaningless thumps and beats(read parents and uncles) and relate it to drugs and dancing, some write it off as vocals-void jargon(some friends).

About time I wrote about it and cleared the air on this misunderstanding.

What is Trance

Let's goto the ever trusty Wikipedia first:

"Trance is a genre of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track. It is a combination of many forms of sound such as techno, house, industrial, new age, pop, chill-out, ambient, electronic art music, classical music and film music"

That basically says it all, go here for more.

Trance music has taken center stage in a whole lot of places other than discos now, from movies to video games.

Perception

Dancing, drugs and other awful things- this is the one-liner that comes up most when it comes to trance.
European nations, Ibiza, Goa are infamous locations were trance has made an ugly mark and truly they are havens for drug mafia and other indecent activities.

Stereotyping every one on the sole basis of this is very unfair because...


Reality (for me strictly)
Trance is a form of relaxation and that's  it. A few colleagues of mine had a hearty laugh when I told them I've never been to a pub in my life. The closest thing I did was when I tried getting into a Richard Durand event in Hyderabad only to turn back from the door appalled by the sights I saw.

The synthesizer scores coupled with the beats makes for an eerie but soothing departure from the crap ware that our bollywood musicians churn out(AR Rehman excluded of course).

What I prefer
I like progressive, ambient, minimal and space trance though some vocal tracks are awesome too. Psychedelic and other genres do rarely give a hit or two like Infected Mushroom and Massive Attack's tweaked versions of tracks.

What I need for trance
A pair of good headphones or speakers. I have a set of Sony MDR XD100 budget headphones which I previously mentioned are good at treble but so much at Bass. But I did notice a slight improvement in quality which I think is due to the so-called burn-in in headphones. A 4.1 Creative inspire speaker system I bought off online for peanuts serves as my room speaker setup. Sadly, with my PC gone, I can only use two speakers with my company laptop offering only one stereo output.

A nice player for trance: VLC suffices for PC- it plays streams from DI radio which is awesome.
For my Office commute and travel I use my average player on my MOTO charm.

A dark room is essential when I have a headache. I switch off the display on my laptop for good measure.
And oh...the closest thing I ever did to dancing was swaying my head to good music or tapping my feet.

I'm also comforted by the fact that I'm not the only one who has an interest for this music sans the dance,
drugs and jazz. And so...

I share it on my blog
Atir and Praveen are two friends who have an active interest in trance. Our journey in music started with
Enigma, Linkin park and Chemical brothers but our tastes haven't changed much since. While Praveen has a slightly different feel for trance, Atir and I have enjoyed a consistent playlist for the last 4 years
save for a few rare differences. And it's for them that I put up my favorites here as a separate post.
I have also garnered a few twitter followers who I interact with occasionally.

And thus concludes my attempt to ehh... educate the paranoid crowd I'm not tripping on Acid. And here's a link to all my posts on the subject: TranceUpdate

The awakening...again

ASOT never fails to impress. There's always a favorite takeaway!

From ASOT 497, 'Awakening' by Sou Kanai(Sunn Jellie remix) is refreshing and the progressive style is just perfect.

Good speakers or headphones highly recommended.

I stepped in. Your turn.

Atir bhai, this one's for you! The synths just drove me crazy.
'Step into my world' by Moonbeam.

Moonbeam does it again

Cocoon by Moonbeam was awesome. This track from their new collection is a different if not as good attempt. Love the soft beats and voice over.

Throwing sparks, literally

Deep Forest will remain a favorite for it's marvelous take on world music, fusing it with new world themes- in the process making some awesome tunes.

Put on some on good earphones, sit back and travel back in time. And man, the beats on this one are awesome!

Yuki Song by Deep Forest(From Music Detected)







Throwing sparks at my frozen angel
Gathering the words to coax the fire to start
Throwing sparks at my frozen angel
Words to melt the ice around your pretty heart

Turn the ice to water, the water into flood
The flood becomes a river, a river of pure love
Love comes into delta, nourishing the sea
Sea goes out to ocean
Ocean endlessly

Throwing sparks at my frozen angel
Gathering the words to coax the fire to start
Turn the ice to water, the water into flood
The flood becomes a river, a river of pure love
Love comes into delta, nourishing the sea
Sea goes out to ocean
Ocean endlessly

The second before you walk into the room
I had no thoughts of love whatsoever
Love was not on my mind
Nothing but my life,
My life was all settled in,
It was just the way it needed to be
And I fell upon you
Like something out of the blue
It was out of the blue, I didn't know
I didn't see it coming
But it came upon me
And it held a hold on me
Took a hold on me
And I could not help but believe
I have faith in this thing
I have one chance in my life and I must take it
And I've got to give it to you and I will not let it go
I will not let it go
It's the only thing I can believe in.
Oh, I can believe in.

Back to the phuture

Old School trance was so good! Phuture 2000 by Carl Cox is one sick tune I first heard  in School. Strangely I don't remember the cassette it was on.... a random search on Youtube and walla, nostalgia!
Will get an mp3 version ASAP.

The track has just one line for lyrics:
"the future is our saviour...."

Close your eyes.... and listen

I was in Inter when Mom got me my first Chemical Brothers cassette(and my favorite walkman).

Besides the great hits Galvanize and Believe, I'd always felt this tune was the best of the lot... the section in the middle(if you have the patience) from 2:40 is absolutely wonderful.

Presenting Close your eyes

"In your eyes I can see, that you're cracking up,
In your eyes I can see, that you've had enough (and it pains my head)
In your eyes I can see, that you're cracking up,
In your eyes I can see, that you fell in love (and it pains my head)

What - if - all - that - was...
(In your eyes I can see, that you're cracking up [and it pains my head])
What - if - all - that - was...
(In your eyes I can see, that you fell in love [and it pains my head])
What - if - all - that - was coming to me? (and it pains my head)
(In your eyes I can see)
What - if - all - that - was coming to me? (and it pains my head)
(In your eyes I can see)

I'll end this love I'm in
I'll end this love I'm in - this love (x2)

Should I walk, should I wait, (turn the radio on, turn the radio on now)
will I found, Love is in the hands of tomorrow.
(turn the radio on, turn the radio on now)
Should I walk, should I wait, (turn the radio on, turn the radio on now)
will I found, Love is in the hands of tomorrow.
(turn the radio on, turn the radio on now)

What if it all were to change like I thought it would."

[Note: Video is a fan-uploaded video with unsynced landscapes]

Purge

The first comment on youtube says it all:

" It's like arriving on a new planet "

Presenting Deuxentun by Recue

Hot as Hades

It's been quite a while since my last trance update. Most recent releases have been damp squibs with done to death themes and heavy psychedelic influence. This release by Armada music from Josh Gabriel is worth a go. Though it starts with Gaga like beats, the lyrics are decent and the tempo is just right. Some might argue it sounds too House or Pop.

What's pleasing to the ears and mind is always Trance!

She’s a cold, dark night
In the dead of winter
The kind of cold that
Makes me bitter

She’s the one I love
And I can’t forget her

Reach out to us
With a healing hand
To the time she’s
Hot as hades

And she’s slowly fading under
Now turn to the furious side

She’s draws me in and I
Always let her
She’s a cold dark habit
And I can’t kick it

She’s the one I love
And I won’t forget her

Reach out to us
With a healing hand
To the time she’s
Hot as hades

Reach out to us
With a healing hand
To the time she’s
Hot as hades

And she’s slowly fading under
Now turn to the furious side

The summertime comes
And fireflies flicker
An the depths of her eyes
And I miss her, I miss her

Reach out to us
With a healing hand
To the time she’s
Hot as hades

P.S: Don't bother with the video.