this is from my favorite comedy website (cracked.com), ill post a sample from the Trance section: (remember that its a comedy article)
http://www.cracked.com/funny-312-electronic-dance-music/(IMG:
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Trance
Trance is the melodic anthemy crap that faggy Europeans listen to. It's the stuff that people lift their hands in the air to for five hours, screaming and glorifying the DJ every time he makes a slight change to the music even though he's basically nothing more than a glorified jukebox operator.
All modern trance comes from the Netherlands. Rumor has it that there are still some British people making trance, but those are yet to be confirmed.
Originally, trance was an offshoot of house that reduced the drums, emphasized the melodies, and replayed the same thirty second loop for six hours. But then some Dutch guys in the mid '90s started making epic, angelic, flighty music with Dutch songstresses singing about love in heavily accented English, and modern Anthem Trance was born. Classic Trance fans call Anthem Trance "McTrance." Unfortunately, everyone outside their little hardcore fanclub calls Classic Trance "crap."
Most Americans hate trance, because it's so gay. But in Europe, it's impossible to escape it. Some speculate that trance is the next hip-hop, the next sudden mainstream explosion cultural phenomenon. Maybe, but the DJs are going to have to figure out how to stop making every song sixteen minutes long if they ever want huge mainstream success.
Trance has no stars. Every trance producer ever makes one (maybe two) hugely succesful tracks and then produces crap for years, until they create a new pseudonym and release another single hugely succesful track. The only exception is Tiësto. Every trance fan must idolize Tiësto. It's a requirement.
http://www.cracked.com/funny-312-electronic-dance-music/
Mar 5 2010, 11:11 PM
