Rare Interviews

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Guy J interview

 

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From 2004 Interview Flutlicht & S.H.O.K.K. In Qontrol 2004

 

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Just looked into my digital archive and found a 50 minut uncut audio interview with Ferry Corsten about his Twice In A Blue Moon album. Great fun to hear it back. Used it to work out the written interview for Trance.nu.

 

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Airwave Interview with Eric Mouquet aka Deep Forest the one who made Sweet Lullaby

It's in french though

Deep forest et Airwave

Côté clubbing met en avant le meilleur de la scène électronique de France et de ses environs avec Deep Forest etAirwave qui signe un mix exclusif.

www.radiofrance.fr

 

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Trance​

Trance is basically house music (it's sometimes referred to as "epic" or "progressive house"), but with an emphasis on hypnotic rhythms and pretty melodies. Early trance tracks evolved from the early '90's house and rave scenes, but the evocative melodies point to a different source, that of the mid-'80s synth-pop of groups such as New Order. Listen to the New Order song "Blue Monday," and you'll hear the same use of ethereal electronic melody. Top trance DJ and producer Paul van Dyk, for one, credits New Order as an influence.

Sasha, a trance DJ who has a residency with partner John Digweed at Twilo in Manhattan, plays an eight-hour set on the last Friday night of each month. "It's very melodic, very euphoric, uplifiting music," explains Sasha. "But it's very intense as well. It has very intense moments, going from dark to light, from hard to soft."

When he spins, Sasha builds and deconstructs the tempo -- raising and lowering the energy level of a party -- dozens of times throughout a night. "When John and I started playing that sound a few years ago, it was labeled epic house in Britain. It has a very cinematic soundscape sort of quality to it. A lot of trance records seem to be a whole DJ set in one record. You have an intro, you have a build-up, you have a breakdown then another section."

That cinematic quality works to great effect on the booming sound system of a large club. Sasha says the length of his marathon DJ set is key as well. "It's a five, six hour or even longer mix that draws you in. You can mix together a load of house records, and create a trance-like quality. That's what John and I look for in our records -- those hypnotic sounds that suck you in."

NY times interview with Sasha I think it's from 2000.

Talking Music

 

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The Legend Ian van Dahl


@Julian Del Agranda

 

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It's not in English can anyone translate?

 

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Paul van Dyk's interview with Residential Advsior

 

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Even Armin used a cracked version of Cubase and even he pirated stuff
@Julian Del Agranda

He is wrong about streaming though. They had access DI FM back then it started way back in 1999 as well. Also Pete Tong had his radioshow as well. He is wrong about Adagio for Strings it was released in 1999/2000 not 2002/2003.

 

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RIP Robert Miles interview from 1996 and was on the front cover too.

 

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@Julian Del Agranda

 

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@trancedanne How things change and such hypocrisy LOL!

1999 interview



2025 interview

 

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How things change and such hypocrisy LOL!

@trancedanne How things change and such hypocrisy LOL!

1999 interview



2025 interview

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Do tell. I don't want to wade through 70 minutes of talking drudgery

 

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How things change and such hypocrisy LOL!


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Do tell. I don't want to wade through 70 minutes of talking drudgery

Well, aren't you lazy one? Ever heard of 2.5x as well that way you won't have to sit through 70 minutes of it and you can also use the timestamps as well and the first interview he mentions he likes Euro Trance and likes that the faster stuff is being recognised again. In the 2nd interview he mentions that he likes the slower and deeper stuff. nothing wrong with deeper stuff but the tech house influenced progressive sounds extremely boring and they have no theme at all compared to the stuff he used to play in the past.

 

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