Recent content by JohnnyBarefoot1992

To give you as much context as possible in a not too long text: I was sixteen when I fell in love with Trance. I had already heard many Trance tracks before and I really loved the sound, but I didn't actually know it was Trance. Before that I was into a lot of different music genres and...

It was not called Upliting Trance back then, it was called Epic Trance or Anthem Trance, and its origins trace to 1998, at the very least, although there were some tracks that could be considered Epic Trance already released before 1998, of course. The reality is much more complex actually. The...

Interesting that you say that because I can guarantee you I never went to a club not even once in my entire life. I just don't like the idea of it. I did go to some open air festivals though, but I very rarely if ever heard Trance in any form there. I did hear some Euro and Dream Trance...

Honestly, this does not surprise me. I mean, he's very close to 60 years old right now, at that point you probably are thinking about maybe living a more peaceful life out of the touring and all that, so this does not come out as a big surprise to me. About some of the stuff some people are...

This is a tremendous list! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

The whole Grammy nomination is a bit generic and even inconsistent in that department. I mean, "Who Let The Dogs Out" actually won a Grammy for best Electronic/Dance track against "Porcelain" by Moby, so, can we really take it that much seriously? I'm not disregarding the Cosmic Gate Remix of...

Ok, regarding this list: It's not that this list is necessarily a bad list. To be honest, most of the tracks are actually really good and a considerable amount of them I would say they are or have become classics on their own merits, but I have to admit that there is a specific problem with...

OMG! I love this one so much! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Anyway, here is my list. And, of course, Larry Mountains 54 is on there! By the way, there is no specific order here. All I can say is that I started to choose chronologically, but then I realised I had to change some tracks and some went out. The...

1. While it's not exactly wrong, the truth is that a considerable amount of Trance tracks promoted on big shows such as A.S.O.T. actually have vocals, in fact, most TOTY's of that show, if not the vast majority of them, are vocal tracks with pure instrumentals being a rather low minority. I can...

Oh yeah! I love that remix! And the Commander Tom Remix? Oh boy, now, that's massive! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 And yes! Definitely! I find far more Trance in DJ Sammy, Ian van Dahl and the vast majority of those Euro-Trance acts of the late 90's and early 2000's than I find in most Dash Berlin, Gareth Emery and...

Armin is very weird and incohesive in that department. He was always a big fan of dub versions and sometimes he does complain about some vocal tracks considering them much better as instrumentals, but at the same time he ends up promoting the cheesiest of the cheesiest vocal tracks there are out...

I agree with Mark Reeder that probably Euphoria would have been a more appropriate name for the genre, and this would have probably made a more proper distinction from Goa-Psy Trance which appears to be a big problem in some countries like Portugal and Brazil in which people literally think...

I have to admit, when I read this post the first time I was like: ATCR? Who's that? Then I saw it was a label and I thought to myself: Which label was this one? Then I checked out on Discogs and there I realised: "Oh, that one!" Let's see what they can bring! Their catalogue is quite...

I did listen to some of his stuff as Anderholm. It's nice! Some really good Melodic House vibes there! So young! Only 30 years old! :cry: R.I.P.

People actually go to that website?