Which Country spawned the best Trance Producers?

[Magdelayna]

Vote on the poll and give your reason!

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

(Holland is a region in The Netherlands, but I guess we did this ourselves with ‘hup Holland hup’ etc. )

Anyway, these four countries have been responsible for the biggest in the scene. A great achievement if you think of it.

If I look at my own taste I’d say NL, with Tiësto, Rank 1, Ferry. And lots of second generation artists like Steur, ReLocate, Bolier, Marcel Woods, Marco v, Ernesto v Bastian, phynn, Richard durand.

But you can make great lists from all these countries.

 

[Gijs]

Nobody ever shuts up about Armin, Ferry and Tiësto.

And rightfully so, given they're some of the biggest, if not the biggest names in trance history. Aside from them, we still have Rank 1, Vincent de Moor, Three Drives, Ralphie B and the list goes on. Belgium, Germany and the UK have obviously very strong DJs as well (notably ATB, PvD, M.I.K.E., Airwave, Solarstone, The Thrillseekers and Pulser), but I don't think they're enough to beat NL.

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

^ I think it depends on your taste. The Germans have for example Cosmic Gate, Dumonde, Kai Tracid, Oliver Lieb, Cygnus X, ATB, Sven Vath… Paul van Dyk of course.

Quite a list and forgetting lots!

 

[Recharge]

Holland is the home of the best producers without an doubt, but for me UK and Germany are home of most of my favourite ones.

 

[No Return]

Not even a debate it is the UK. Just look at this

Underground/Progressive Scene
Art of Trance
John 00 Fleming
Banco De Gaia
Red Jerry
Underworld
Future Sound of London
James Holden
Medway
Sasha
John Digweed
Union Jack
Max Graham
P.O.B.
Digital Blonde
Dave Seaman
Breeder
NIck Warren
Digger
Way Out West
Orbital
Pete Lazonby
Man With No Name
Simon Posford

The Classics
Above & Beyond
Solarstone
Thrillseekers
Matt Darey
Michael Woods
Scott Bond
Oakenfold
Chicane
Faithless
Pulser/Olmec Heads
Salt Tank
Lange
Darren Tate
Andy Moor
John O'Callghan
Agnelli & Nelson
Tilt
Lost Witness
Space Brothers

 

[Archon]

Banco De Gaia

I wanted to say Belgium because of Airwave, but you got me there... Banco is one of my favs. But not really a trance producer though - maybe one or two songs, but that's it.

 

[Quethas]

I think overall UK beats Netherlands. NL was maybe a bit too euphoric in comparison... Nitpicking though since all of those countries listed produced huge amount of great producers and tracks.

Honorable mentions from me to Sweden (and Finland).

 

[facade1984]

UK used to be good but then I emigrated

 

[TRANCEBLASTER]

ofc Germany: Eye-Q artists, Humate, Oliver Lieb, MFS artists, Resistance D., Cosmic Baby, Superstition artists, Ramin, Van Bellen..

also guys from Italy, Sweden, France and UK did a great job

is there any 'Trance' from the Netherlands 91-96?

 

[Progrez]

ofc Germany: Eye-Q artists, Humate, Oliver Lieb, MFS artists, Resistance D., Cosmic Baby, Superstition artists, Ramin, Van Bellen..

also guys from Italy, Sweden, France and UK did a great job

is there any 'Trance' from the Netherlands 91-96?

You forgot DJ Shah, DJ wag, DJ Dag, Rolf Ellmer (Jam El Mar), Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), Mijk van Dijk,

I'll have to get back to you about Netherlands.

 

[TRANCEBLASTER]

You forgot DJ Shah, DJ wag, DJ Dag, Rolf Ellmer (Jam El Mar), Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), Mijk van Dijk,

I'll have to get back to you about Netherlands.

I have never heard a good track from 'Shah'

'Wag' was in his peak produced by 'Martin Roth' aka 'Y.O.M.C', he is not a producer

'Dag' is a legendary dj, not a producer

same goes for 'Marc Spoon'

'Jam el Mar' and 'Mijk van Dijk' yes

 

[Progrez]

I have never heard a good track from 'Shah'

'Wag' was in his peak produced by 'Martin Roth' aka 'Y.O.M.C', he is not a producer

'Dag' is a legendary dj, not a producer

same goes for 'Marc Spoon'

'Jam el Mar' and 'Mijk van Dijk' yes

His magic island mixes were really nice. You didn't like beautiful (Instrumental Mix) by him or Global Experience?
Dj Dag was co-producing with Jam El Mar under the alias of Dance 2 Trance. Spoon co produced with Jam El Mar and DJ Wag co-produced Yakooza alias with hits like Cocaine, Stronger, Situation etc.

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

I don't think the topic should become a list of literally all producers from the country... It should be names that are imporant for you personally.

As for trance from the Netherlands before 97... not a lot probably. In The Netherlands eurodance (think 2 Unlimited etc) and happy hardcore (Party Animals, Mental Theo & Charly Lownoise, etc) was very big. I imagine this lured many Dutch producers to that sound. But I'm no expert of this period.

Is France surprisingly low in 'trance heroes' ? Was it ever popular there?

 

[Jetflag]

completely subjective , but I prefer the UK sound as opposed to the dutch one. 60 out of 40.

 

[TRANCEBLASTER]

Is France surprisingly low in 'trance heroes' ? Was it ever popular there?

'Aurora Borealis - Milky Way' or 'Lunatic Asylum - The Meltdown' were big 'Trance' records from France, also maybe everybody knows 'Blue Planet Corporation' or 'Emmanuel Top' who produced 'B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week'

I have some secret alltimefav records from the french 'F Communications' label so thats the reason I put the country into my list

but yes 'Trance' was not BIG enough in France, alot bigger scene was in Switzerland, Spain or in Australia

 

[TRANCEBLASTER]

taken from discogs, the list of countries who produced most 'Trance' records

90s

00s

 

[Katadunkass]

Denmark for sure. We had DJ Aligator - The Whistle Song

 

[SleepyBuddah]

As a Dutch guy I'm almost obligated to say the Netherlands/Holland. So that will be my answer. But the I think all of the countries listed in the poll (especially the Other) brought us some great producers. So actually Trance music has the best producers in general.

(Holland is a region in The Netherlands, but I guess we did this ourselves with ‘hup Holland hup’ etc. )

Anyway, these four countries have been responsible for the biggest in the scene. A great achievement if you think of it.

If I look at my own taste I’d say NL, with Tiësto, Rank 1, Ferry. And lots of second generation artists like Steur, ReLocate, Bolier, Marcel Woods, Marco v, Ernesto v Bastian, phynn, Richard durand.

But you can make great lists from all these countries.

BTW....I always thought that Jonas Steur came from Belgium

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

Belgium

Oh according to wikipedia you are right. A great name for the Belgian list then.

(He doesn't really sound Flemish, so did a bad assumption).