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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1522 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 9, 2025

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Music subthread.

Are there any (very) old school trance / EDM fans here?

I've never much liked EDM as I find most of the music dreadfully repetitive and boring. I do however have a soft spot for some early 90s trance due to being introduced to a handful of tracks via friends in the mid to late 90s that I later found to my surprise are now considered some of the OG classics (Paragliders, Cygnus X, some other Eye Q Records singles). I've recently been looking for some more music in that style and realized that something happened to the genre around 96-98 and the music before that is much more varied, interesting and has more "air" and space in the music. After that it's all supersaw cliches, sounds overstuffed and is really quite cookie cutter. So the question goes: Did something specific happen around 1997 to the scene, other than Roland publishing JP-8000 (which introduced supersaw)?

One of the classic tracks conveniently has the original 1993 version and a 1996 remix that demonstrates quite well what I mean.

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