Hello,
I had the idea to make a little thread where all producers can present their music project and the idea behind it. I think this is very interesting. Well, I will go first:
First of all my name is Jonas, im 23 and im producing music since im (dunno) 12 or so. I made my first steps playing random bs on some yamaha keyboard and then got into DAWs later on. I acctually come from the techno scene and used to produce a lot of techno. I once thought this was the pinnacle of "electronic music" but as I got older I realised that its acctually not at all. The wohle techno stuff just became totally frustrating. Everyone produces the same stuff ... I mean: head to your next club of choice and listen to some DJ set. Can you spot a single track and name the producer/artist? I bet you dont. The creative space in techno is filled. Creativity is gone, music isnt fun anymore. Its just the same dark, bass heavy stuff over and over and over again. I was always interesed in the 90s, especially when it comes to music. 90s techno was different, there was so much awesome stuff. Everyone did their thing. You had more melodic and happy sounding stuff but on the other hand the more dark and 303 type techno. Just pure power. Once listening to enough sets from (for example) Marusha, WestBam and some other "Techno" DJs back from the day I realised: Wait, thats not techno, thats trance. So I startted digging more in the internet, listened to more sets, track etc. and realised: holy cow this stuff is way more fun. Acctually, I listened to trance back when I was a kind but never active. I just did beacause there were those cheap ass samplers filled with dream trance esque stuff and it was the best I could get (no internet back then for me to be honest).
Now to the music project itself:
Arround 2019 I started producing my first trance track (it was really bad) and basically gave up. I also produced hardstyle a lot so I kept doing this. Now some years later I gave trance another chance and revived "United Trance Division". The idea behind it was first to have other producers join this project, but here I am still alone. I kept the name because its so lovely cheesy altough one might think there are more people involved. I honestly never really liked new trance but the 90s stuff: damn, this takes me to another level. One day I was just playing arround in Ableton trying to do some stuff and after some hours I eneded up with my production "Ultimate Fantasy". I think I wanted to produce yet another techno track but things took another turn so I ended up with hamburg styled trance / hard trance. Pretty minimalistic. I got attention from "TranceClassics" on YouTube and very good feedback from a friend whos a huge hard trance fan. I realised: this was the beginning of my trance trip! I wanted to revived the old 90s sound from back in the days and love it because its music from an age where I wasnt even born. I think that its very important to keep the knowleded on how to produce this stuff alive, otherwise no one will be able to reproduce the stuff from the 90s in the future. The whole Idea behind "United Trance Division" is to reproduce stuff from back then. Thats also why some productions might not be overly creative or "something new", but rather stuff you listen to and think "oh yeah dunno I think I heard this before". Im not trying to reinvent the wheel, im trying to deliver pure, basic 90s sound. Well, at least I am trying because technology is definetly in our way. Making stuff sound oldschool isnt easy and mostly expensive (cough Roland Cloud cough), but its well worth the money. Trance is culture, culture is important so its worth every penny and even if there is only one person in this world who loves it, its already worth it.
Now its your turn! I am happy to read about your project and the story behind it.
Greetings,
Jonas
I had the idea to make a little thread where all producers can present their music project and the idea behind it. I think this is very interesting. Well, I will go first:
First of all my name is Jonas, im 23 and im producing music since im (dunno) 12 or so. I made my first steps playing random bs on some yamaha keyboard and then got into DAWs later on. I acctually come from the techno scene and used to produce a lot of techno. I once thought this was the pinnacle of "electronic music" but as I got older I realised that its acctually not at all. The wohle techno stuff just became totally frustrating. Everyone produces the same stuff ... I mean: head to your next club of choice and listen to some DJ set. Can you spot a single track and name the producer/artist? I bet you dont. The creative space in techno is filled. Creativity is gone, music isnt fun anymore. Its just the same dark, bass heavy stuff over and over and over again. I was always interesed in the 90s, especially when it comes to music. 90s techno was different, there was so much awesome stuff. Everyone did their thing. You had more melodic and happy sounding stuff but on the other hand the more dark and 303 type techno. Just pure power. Once listening to enough sets from (for example) Marusha, WestBam and some other "Techno" DJs back from the day I realised: Wait, thats not techno, thats trance. So I startted digging more in the internet, listened to more sets, track etc. and realised: holy cow this stuff is way more fun. Acctually, I listened to trance back when I was a kind but never active. I just did beacause there were those cheap ass samplers filled with dream trance esque stuff and it was the best I could get (no internet back then for me to be honest).
Now to the music project itself:
Arround 2019 I started producing my first trance track (it was really bad) and basically gave up. I also produced hardstyle a lot so I kept doing this. Now some years later I gave trance another chance and revived "United Trance Division". The idea behind it was first to have other producers join this project, but here I am still alone. I kept the name because its so lovely cheesy altough one might think there are more people involved. I honestly never really liked new trance but the 90s stuff: damn, this takes me to another level. One day I was just playing arround in Ableton trying to do some stuff and after some hours I eneded up with my production "Ultimate Fantasy". I think I wanted to produce yet another techno track but things took another turn so I ended up with hamburg styled trance / hard trance. Pretty minimalistic. I got attention from "TranceClassics" on YouTube and very good feedback from a friend whos a huge hard trance fan. I realised: this was the beginning of my trance trip! I wanted to revived the old 90s sound from back in the days and love it because its music from an age where I wasnt even born. I think that its very important to keep the knowleded on how to produce this stuff alive, otherwise no one will be able to reproduce the stuff from the 90s in the future. The whole Idea behind "United Trance Division" is to reproduce stuff from back then. Thats also why some productions might not be overly creative or "something new", but rather stuff you listen to and think "oh yeah dunno I think I heard this before". Im not trying to reinvent the wheel, im trying to deliver pure, basic 90s sound. Well, at least I am trying because technology is definetly in our way. Making stuff sound oldschool isnt easy and mostly expensive (cough Roland Cloud cough), but its well worth the money. Trance is culture, culture is important so its worth every penny and even if there is only one person in this world who loves it, its already worth it.
Now its your turn! I am happy to read about your project and the story behind it.
Greetings,
Jonas