1993 - An incredible year in trance history

[TheTranceHistorian]

The year where everything truly began. 1993 is one of my favorite years in the history of trance. Here, I present to you my top 10 from this incredible year. As for why no Café del Mar, and Superstring? Well, I think those tunes reached their peak with their later remixes, but their early versions simply lack that oomph to be truly outstanding or memorable in my eyes. And yeah, The First Rebirth, How Much You Can Take?, and all the other big ones are good too, I'm just much more into the following bangers. Oh, and how about all the cool stuff that happened this year? The founding of Platipus Records, the filming of MFS Berliner, the release of Trance Europe Express (both the festival and the albums with their 192-page booklets), or the release of such influential albums such as Sven Väth’s Accident In Paradise and Orbital’s Orbital 2. 1993 was awesome. What are your favorite tracks and memories from this year?

Top 10 (in alphabetical order):

1. 4Voice - Eternal Spirit (Northern Mix)
2. Andromeda - Trip To Space
3. Dance 2 Trance - Take A Free Fall (Beyond The Stars Mix)
4. Datura - Eternity (Nidana)
5. Final Fantasy - Control Your Fantasy
6. State Of Grace - Not Over Yet (Perfecto Mix)
7. One Dove - Breakdown (Secret Knowledge Light Mix)
8. Quench - Dreams
9. Scooter - Cosmos
10. The Source Experience - The Source Experience

 

[Magdelayna]

Its quite weird now thinking about it,that i was just 11 years old in 1993,and i had no idea what Trance was and no idea these tracks were getting released. I suppose Trance was never played in the UK charts until around the mid 90's with Robert Miles - Children.

 

[Magdelayna]

Btw,the glaring omission youve seemed to have made here is this incredible record - surely one of the most important Trance tracks ever - way ahead of its time.

 

[Hot Tuna]

Humate - Love Stimulation
Bedrock feat. KYO - For What You Dream Of
Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall
Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
L.S.G. - Fragile/Hearts
Paragliders - Paraglide
Blue Amazon - Hyper Sleep

It was the first year that Sasha & Digweed started DJing as a duo. Paul Oakenfold was hired as the warm-up act for U2's global "Zoo TV" tour. Way Out West formed and released their first track Shoot. Jam & Spoon released their Tripomatic Fairytales album. Spooky released Gargantuan and the single Little Bullet, which would later lend itself in part to Xpander. System 7 - 777 and Rabbit In The Moon - Phases Of An Out Of Body Experience were big on the more tribal/psychedelic side of things.

 

[Dmoore]

I was only 8 years old at the time. Clueless sprout, awhile before I would discover Trance. I have to admit I am woefully out of touch with Trance before 1995, although this forum has helped a lot. Nice that Sasha and Digeeed started this year, was it progressive music? I always thought that started a little later.

 

[TRANCEBLASTER]

first of the 3 greatest years of Trance music (the others are 94 and 95,)) ...the major labels don't see the potential of the genre so the start is very healthy and diverse.. here some personal picks:

K2 - The Journey [Vibraphone Records]

Virtual Symmetry - See You [Eye Q Records]

Dave Angel - Original Man [Aura Surround Sounds]

 

[TheTranceHistorian]

first of the 3 greatest years of Trance music (the others are 94 and 95,)) ...the major labels don't see the potential of the genre so the start is very healthy and diverse..

Indeed. This three-year period was incredible due to a high dose of musical experimentation that resulted in a wide variety of sounds. I love how many trance tunes from this era also incorporate elements from other, at the time more developed electronic music genres, including acid, techno, happy hardcore, ambient, and more, while still keeping that trance sound in the forefront. The years between 1993 and 1995 represent one of the historic peaks of trance music, but I'd argue that 1999 was just as excellent, as this was the year where the quality of the tracks was the highest when being compared to their massive quantity and to the genre's overall popularity.

 

[aSeb]

Easily one of the best tunes I have heard.

 

[TheTranceHistorian]

Here are some other incredible tracks from 1993. Yes, previously I didn't mention Café Del Mar 'cause I wasn't aware of this specific remix (I was mainly thinking about Kid Paul's original version). It's brilliant. BTW, The Sky Is In Your Hands, Sometimes, and Control Your Fantasy all came out on the same vinyl (Sometimes I See Your Mind E.P.), making it one of the first trance-only releases (and also hard trance), and making it one of the coolest records of the early 90s.

 

[TRANCEBLASTER]

ok, here is another bunch of my favourite '93 tunes, maybe not the typical ones for the 'Trance' genre now, but in the days this was TRANCE.)

Nail - Cassiopeia [Warp Records]

Ramin - Moonchild [Save The Vinyl]

Bio-Dreams - Dream Sequence 1 [EXperimental]

Third Eye - New Life [Save The Vinyl]

Lazer Worshippers - Lazer Worshippers Theme [EXperimental]


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