Famous tracks mislabeled as 'trance'

[dmgtz96]

Share your famous tracks (on the mainstream or in the Internet) that are clearly not trance but were labeled as such!

For me, the biggest one is 009 Sound System - Dreamscape, which appeared everywhere on Youtube in the late 2000s. Dreamscape was one of the default options for no copyright music, which is why everyone tacked it on their videos. The uploads from 12 and 14 years ago, which have 20 million and 37 million views respectively, labeled Dreamscape as "trance."

 

[Magdelayna]

Well if you type 'Trance' into Youtube then Martin Garixx Animals is the top hit...

 

[Archon]

Darude - Sandstorm

 

[Magdelayna]

Darude - Sandstorm

You dont think thats Trance? What is it then lol..

 

[dmgtz96]

Darude - Sandstorm

Oh, boy
I was wondering how long it would take us to mention Sandstorm. It was either going to be that or some '90s eurodance song like Better Off Alone

 

[Archon]

You dont think thats Trance? What is it then lol..

I really don't know what it is but it's not trance to me. Must be Euro something or other. I don't know how it ended up being called trance in the first place.

 

[Hot Tuna]

I believe it was when all those trance DJs and trance compilations had it in their playlists.

 

[dmgtz96]

Sandstorm is the perfect example of what trance fans don't want to be trance because it got too famous, but it's still trance.

We could go on for multiple pages. Eurodance is more like Sash!, Vengaboys, DJ Mangoo, Aqua, this entire playlist.
Let's go back to my favorite, most reliable sources of info for this kind of stuff. According to Wiki, eurodance:

• Combines elements of hip-hop, techno, Hi-NRG, house, and Euro disco
• Features rich vocals, including the occasional rapped verses

Wiki also mentions that the following are the "core foundation" of Euro dance:

cutting-edge synthesizers, strong bass rhythm and melodic hooks,

Sandstorm has that same foundation, as does all of commercial trance. That's where the similarities stop.

Now, for my next favorite source of reliable, trusty information:
Urban Dictionary defines Eurodance as

A very upbeat music. Usually has a female vocalist and a male rapper. Euro, or eurodance/Hi-NGRY(or high energy) is played on radio stations such as Z103.5. Euro is known as Gino Beats aswell. Euro always has a very catchy beat and is fast.
Great euro artists are:
Fun Factory
First Base
Cascada
2Brothers on the 4th Floor
Alexia
Culture Beat
Clubs like Club Menage, always play great euro classic, located at 333 King St. West in Downtown Toronto. And every Wednesday Night, they have Wayback Wednesdays playing all the hot wayback playback euro tracks live to air on Z103.5

Sandstorm is upbeat, catchy, and fast, but it does not feature a female vocalist or male rapper. If you check out any of those artists, you will quickly notice that Sandstorm does not really fit with them.
Now, what if we took a random Eurodance song and took out the vocals? Would that automatically make it trance? No.
You can tell if a track is eurodance or trance depending on its style. There's an Eurodance "style" that is present in eurodance instrumentals but that is just not there in regular trance, including Sandstorm.

tl;dr Sandstorm is trance

 

[Archon]

I summon @jetflag !!

Do argue back.

 

[dmgtz96]

I summon @jetflag !!

Do argue back.

We're going to have fun
Honestly I feel like @jetflag will agree in that it's trance

 

[Magdelayna]

Youre not calling it Trance cos you dont want it to be...but it is. Do you think the rest of the Darude stuff isnt Trance aswell?

 

[Nerio]

One time, i was thinking all this was one style What are the most famous track from this? Kate Ryan, Novaspace, Groove Coverage, Fragma, Noemi, Alice Deejay, Cascada, Lasgo it was sorted into trance genre.
Euro House 2000
Aquagen - Partyalarm (Radio Mix)
Re-Flex - Lui (MPT Radio Mix)
Floorfilla Anthem #4
Safri Duo - Played-a-Live
Bad Habit Boys - Rock Ya
Tanks - I Hear Those Drums (Pulsedriver Remix)
Mabel - Disco Disco
Scooter-Where do we go?
ATC - All Around The World (la la la la la la la la)

Euro House 2001
Wrap Brothers vs. Aquagen - Phatt Bass
Fragma - Everitime you need me
ATC - Why oh Why

Euro House 2002
Groove Coverage - Moonlight Shadow
Rocco - Drop The Bass (Radio Version)
Novaspace - To France
Aquagen – Summer Is Calling
Groove Coverage - God Is A Girl
4 Clubers - Someday
Kate Ryan - Mon Coeur Resiste Encore
DJ Sammy feat. Yanou & Do - Heaven (Official Video)
Alex C - Amigos Forever
Special D. ‎– Come With Me (Maybe? On Discog it says Hard Trance :-D)


Eurodance 2002
Neo Cortex - Elements
Novaspace - Time After Time
Pulsedriver - Time
Future Breeze - Ocean Of Eternity
Master Blaster - Hypnotic Tango
Verona - Náhodou
Verona - Realita
Verona - Muj Svet

Eurodance 2003
Verona - Nejsi sám
Verona Málokdy
Verona - Klid
Verona - do nebe chcem

Euro House 2003
Baracude - Damn! (Remember The Time)
Jan Wayne - More Than A Feeling
Klubbheads - Bounce 2 Da Beat
Klubheads - Somebody Scream
Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
Kate Ryan - Lybertine
Groove Coverage - Poison
Benassi Bros feat Sandy - Illusion (french sfaction radio edit)

Euro House 2004
Special B - Home Alone
Benassi_bros.feat._sandy-illusion(french_satisfaction_radio_edit)
Scooter - The Chaser (the instrumental part sounds more trancier than todays production)

Eurodance 2008
Brooklyn Bounce - Get Ready To Bounce (Recall 08)
Brooklyn Bounce - Get Ready Tou Bounce Recall (Dream Dance Alliance Remix edit)

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

Edit: Note that my reply is purely about Darude - Sandstorm and the Kate Ryan-ish dance music. Not about the track in the first post....

Well... I think it would be good to just call it all "commercial dance".

Just like Martin Garrix or Axwell /\ Ingrosso aren't factual house music... Those commercial acts aren't fully trance as well. It's just commercial dance music. Using popular elements from whichever subgenre is trending at the time, and then adding pop with it.

Back in ~2000 trance was the most popular "dance" subgenre. So any commercial act would mix trance, with pop. And the result is Kate Ryan, Milk Inc, Sylver, Lasgo, Ian van Dahl, DJ Sammy, Jan Wayne etc. But also think about tracks like Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight, or Madonna - Ray Of Lights.

 

[Jetflag]

for me the things that makes it standout as more electronic pop/rock then trance is its structure and tempo as well as the guitar sound.

Rhythm wise, technically, its on par with 99% of most trance tracks.
its dreamy synths defo are.
its vocals are a bit of a mixed bag.

so its on the fringes i would say. but i'm also a bit hesitant to dub it "commercial dance" as i've never heard it on the radio for starters, and i'm not even sure it charted.

it does feel quite trancey in places, above criteria aside. and if you take this track, widely considered to be trance,


slow it down to the same tempo and compare it with the above, they yeah, I would say its not an absolute fallacy to dub it such.

I however, would classify this as dreamy pop/house. not really trance, a bit like the stuff from Futureshock.

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

i'm also a bit hesitant to dub it "commercial dance"

Hold on.

I went completely offtopic and only wrote my reply with Darude - Sandstorm in mind.


As for that track in the opening post... not sure what to say about that.... I think I'm gonna call it progressive trance. I don't really understand why this track is posted as "strange wrong labeled". What genre could it be if it's not trance?

 

[Jetflag]

Hold on.

I went completely offtopic and only wrote my reply with Darude - Sandstorm in mind.


As for that track in the opening post... not sure what to say about that.... I think I'm gonna call it progressive trance. I don't really understand why this track is posted as "strange wrong labeled". What genre could it be if it's not trance?

dreamy pop/house. not really trance, a bit like the stuff from Futureshock.

 

[dmgtz96]

As for that track in the opening post... not sure what to say about that.... I think I'm gonna call it progressive trance. I don't really understand why this track is posted as "strange wrong labeled". What genre could it be if it's not trance?

I would put it on the blanket genre electronica. To me, it's closer to (say) Paul Oakenfold - Ready Steady Go. It's not breakbeats like Ready Steady Go, but it's certainly not trance

for me the things that makes it standout as more electronic pop/rock then trance is its structure and tempo as well as the guitar sound.

Rhythm wise, technically, its on par with 99% of most trance tracks.
its dreamy synths defo are.
its vocals are a bit of a mixed bag.

so its on the fringes i would say. but i'm also a bit hesitant to dub it "commercial dance" as i've never heard it on the radio for starters, and i'm not even sure it charted.

it does feel quite trancey in places, above criteria aside. and if you take this track, widely considered to be trance,

slow it down to the same tempo and compare it with the above, they yeah, I would say its not an absolute fallacy to dub it such.

I think this same argument can be applied to Andain - Beautiful Things and Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes

 

[TRANCEBLASTER]

I think at the end of the 90's, mainly the Dutch and the German producers really deconstructed the Trance genre, so somewhere from 2000 was 65% of the released stuff not really Trance for me, it was just some kind of sophisticated dance music, without the idiotic 'keep on rockin'' or 'bass is kickin'' samples.

Now or then, these popular tracks were not Trance for me at all:
Brainbug - Nightmare
Liquid Child - Diving Faces
Southside Spinners - Luvstruck
Lange - Follow Me
System F - Out Of The Blue
Barthezz - On The Move
Marcel Woods - Advanced
John O'Callaghan - Big Sky

 

[Hot Tuna]

That's OK.

They are trance, though.

 

[Magdelayna]

Most of the tracks here mentioned are Trance. I wouldve classed Sash! tracks as Euro Dance - but then again, something like Mysterious Times has very Trancy melodies and riffs.

Its a broad spectrum of 'Trance'.....i just dont think a lot of people here want to admit certain tracks are haha. But at the end of the day,its down to personal opinion.