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For the sake of clarity: I never meant to suggest that Papua New Guinea had no influence on trance, because it most certainly did. It became a widely known track, and as such, it naturally reached a broad audience of producers and likely inspired many of them. What I was trying to emphasize...

Due to linguistic barriers and the state of music distribution, trance was mostly limited to Germany pre-1996 (with a few tracks from random places like Sweden, UK, Australia, etc. here and there, and the wave of Italian tracks starting in 1995). Most tracks from that era never saw the light of...

If I understand correctly, the question is about what defines Uplifting Trance, right? Coincidentally, I’m currently writing a fairly extensive segment about this very topic for my book and for one of the documentary-style videos I’m working on. In it, I’m trying to outline both the key pillars...

It isn’t included because it isn’t a proto-trance track. There’s a fairly significant conceptual difference between proto-trance and trance-adjacent tracks, and it’s not helpful to conflate the two. The term proto-trance quite clearly implies works that take active, deliberate steps toward a...

Probably, but in that context, it's especially interesting that he was still able to produce Li Kwan - Point Zero in 1994, which is obviously a fantastic track.

I won't create a new thread for it, but I think it's all about the Red Jerry Mix, especially about the section between 1:25-2:37 and 5:30-6:50. That being said, I think the Matt Darey remix is cool, I never heard it before. I just think it tries too much trying to be a different track, and it...

Love your insights. It seems like you always have some cool historical knowledge that I can't find in any corner of the internet.

Released in 1992, Stellar Supreme by Cosmic Baby blended a wide spectrum of contemporary electronic genres into something genuinely innovative. One of the album’s standout tracks, Heaven's Tears, was reportedly a club hit in its time. The following year, it received a remixed version by Cosmic...

Thanks everyone. I hope you’ll find some new favourites. Personally, I regularly revisit about a third of the tracks mentioned in my article. Melt - Radioactivity The Martian - Star Dancer A Split Second - Flesh (Remix) Techno Bert - Neue Dimensionen Age Of Chance - Time's Up (Timeless)...

I believe you, though I would even go two steps further. First of all, the overwhelming majority of trance tracks produced before 1996 are completely unknown not just to the general trance audience, but even to the hardcore fanbase. I checked around 27 thousand tracks so far (that have a trance...

To complete the pairing of Touch Me and Blue Planet, this dream/italo trance track also deserves mention. Considerably more melancholic than its companions, it likewise features a vocal sample similar to Touch Me, though here it is far more elusive — subtly woven into the melodic texture and...

Touch Me is by far the most widely known entry in this small trio of closely related tracks I just posted about, which also includes Blue Planet and Planetarium. For me, an additional point of interest lies in the fact that a fellow countryman — Hungarian producer Lajos Mészáros — was involved...

This track flows within the same musical current as Robert Miles’ Children, and notably originates from the very same year. The gentle, warm, swirling synthetizers, create a meditative and hypnotic atmosphere. Naturally, 1995 saw the release of many similar works — such as Blue Ocean’s Touch Me...

The German duo Dance 2 Trance played a significant role in shaping trance during the early 1990s, and in my view, their experimental trajectory arguably reached its finest expression in their remix of Do You See The Light. Beyond being one of the earliest trance tracks to prominently feature...

German producer Pete Kuhlmann was present in the trance world from its very beginnings. Many know him under the aliases Pete Namlook or 4 Voice — the latter being the name under which he released Eternal Spirit in 1992, widely regarded as one of the most important trance tracks of the early...

Some additional context from Simon Ellis: The sound at the beginning is coming from a Roland MC202 (the cut-off filters are being altered up and down as the tune develops) A Roland D50 was used for the pads All other sounds were made using a Roland S550 sampler

The track's uncut version (14:15) has only ever released in lossless format on a CD in Spain. All the other releases are around 11 or 8 minutes and destroy the track's pacing. I've spent a lot of time trying to track it down, but luckily I have the track now in proper quality. :D

Kenny Sharp first made a name for himself in the early 1990s as a DJ within the Northern English rave scene. He later transitioned into producing his own tracks, with his first notable attempt being Missing You (1996), which received an outstanding remix the following year. The emotional core of...

Can you share your top 10? I'm curious.

As famously stated in Star Trek, space is the final frontier, the realm where no human has gone before. One of the defining works of Detroit techno’s second wave, The Final Frontier was released by the Underground Resistance collective, with this particular track produced by Mike Banks. True to...