Digging into the classic trance for number two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYXwkRyfg3k
Title: La (Moonman’s Flashover Mix)
Artist: Marc Et Claude
Labels: Go For It / Orbit / Positiva
Genre(s): Trance
Year Released: 1997
I’ll never forget when I first heard this tune. It was at Crobar Nightclub in Chicago, where DJs Psychobitch and Teri Bristol were pumping Saturday nights as a mesh of techno, dark house, and the rising sounds of trance. Amid all the more beat-driven darkness, this sudden oasis of light just hit me, and I was taken to the point I ran to Gramaphone Records the next day to buy a copy.
I’d pump it at home in my room alone, just because the sound, the bassline, and those synths were incredible at the time. Most trance at that time tried to copy the sound Faithless ignited with their hit Insomnia. La more or less showed us all what was to come, and it’s still a coveted tune in my collection.
The technical talent behind this tune was the duo of Marc Romboy and Klaus Derichs, which I never knew until a year ago, as I thought Marc Et Claude was one person. What’s interesting is I remember the British magazines calling this sound “Hardbag” or “Handbag”, as opposed to trance.
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