Trance/Prog House, anyone?

As D Jam said above
My spiritual home was Wigan Pier BITD, progressive house from doors open till way past kicking out time every saturday night/ sunday morning..
i’m sure thats where my taste for Prog house was formed all them years ago!

Did Tag (Alan Taggart ) do a few of the deck duties there, i aint seen him to ask since 3 Novembers ago at the Wired gig with Steve Vertigo and Tony Ross?
My memories proper hazy

And on the same note of hazy memory, i never realised another mate i’ve known for years DJ’d the revenge and the Hoddlesden raves until i reminisced about a police raid on the Egerton Road… “Err, i was playing that night” :lol

Back in the late 90s and into the early 00s, Crobar was the spot for trance and techno. When they decided to get out of the “dirty warehouse” look and get all “Miami”, the sound got all cheesey douchebag house.

Vision Nightclub in Chicago gets some great trance headliners, but not always the high-energy melodic stuff. Kyau and Albert came to play one night and I was disappointed in that they played all prog, rather than the energetic trance I’ve known them for.

mpusch88, post: 1758 wrote: Seems to me that high energy trance is somewhat a thing of the past, there aren’t many producers nowadays that still do the whole uplifting trance thing. Aly & Fila come to mind as a few of the only remaining DJ’s of that style… I’m sure there are many more around, but not with any sort of commercial success.

As long as the melodic sounds stay in music, im not too picky about what genre its in. At this point its starting to look like prog house is gonna be the most melodic, while trance is seeming to get a more tech/hard dance feel to it.

At least thats how I feel.

There’s loads of energetic trance being made even now…but unfortunately it has become formulaic. So you’ll hear 10 well-put-together tunes that sound solid, but aren’t much different from one another.

I will agree more “housey” styles of trance are popular, as we see even big events like Sensation turn their back on their trance roots and the top producers have gone more “house”. Yet you look at Vandit Music and it’s a lot of great energetic trance.

It’s just more underground now. The downer though is that the crowds/fans only seem to like it if it’s coming from a major headliner. It’s still hard for newer guys to really break in.

I love trance and progressive house man. They’re crazy! It makes me dance and jump around more than electro actually. I been listening to Signalrunners work and “corrupted” is a favorite. I also love Above and Beyond’s works. They combine beautiful melodies with hard vocals and it’s crazy man! Ferry Tayle, Nitrous Oxide, those are the kinds of songs I like

mpusch88, post: 1845 wrote: Think my favorite Signalrunner track at the moment has to be Meet Me In Montauk… its definitely less trancey than corrupted… but still has an awesome vibe. Its quite similar to “The Girl From Copacabana” by Mike Mikhjian & John Caza, which is definitely another one to check out.

Yeah.. Pretty good song! Anyone knows of some good trance producers?

Wow.. Orla Feeney’s track is really good! Is he related to D Jam?