Techno Trance
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Arcade started this series early 1992 as a harder edged counterpart of the Turn Up The Bass series. |
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Edited one year agoBesides the cover that was slighty provocative.... the title "Techno Trance" is also misleading. There were other styles on these compilations . Like i already said on another review if Techno = electronic music on it's whole then why have an exclusive Techno style as minimal techno ?? Guess many country or a lack of language is lacking for some countries .
This series offered too many fillers and boring tracks . Other tracks were found on other compilations as the mixes are erroneous for some of them or not even existant guess only made for that serie Techno Trance .
Yes it is yet another compilation from the infamous Arcade label that has made thousands of compilations in Europa by tens if not more different titles with the same trick to fool the customers .
Techno Trance 1, 2, 4 and 8 are the most interested to buy the rest is an easy skip for sure. -
This series started as an answer to EVA's "Move The House" which represented the harder side of house. It was early 1992 and in that year, we saw house separating into several subgenres. Especially on the first four volumes, one will find some examples of early hardcore (Human Resource, RTS "Poing", Euromasters, Armageddon, Dyewitness, DJ Hooligan, Control DC) standing next to some tracks that were more into techno (Jam & Spoon, Capricorn with the full length "20 Hz", one of the highlights in the series) and of course, there are the inevitable remixes of 2 Unlimited's domestic hits.
It became clear that hardcore deserved an entity of its own and this became Thunderdome. Techno Trance 5 and on continued more or less the path of Turn Up The Bass (especially volume 5 and 6 are good companions to the revived TUTB named "Serious Clubhits") but from volume 7 on, it became less and less clear what Techno Trance was all about. There was Eurodance, a bit of hardcore, a bit of techno, and not even the best tracks in each genre. Formulae like Turn Up The Bass had their times, new styles of music arrived and the dance music market got more and more segregated. In 1995, the final volume was released, and fortunately, the very best was saved for the very last: Biosphere, "Novelty Waves".
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