THE YEAR of Trance?

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If you had to choose a favorite year of Trance musical productions out of the following, which would it be?

Please choose from the years mentioned! Older Trance lovers, we'll get to that later on.

Back up your claims with appropriate musical evidence and...

DISCUSS!!!

[Trancelvania]

2005, beginning of 2006

[Housezone]

Summer Of 2005 / Winter Of 2006
(FERRY COSTEN - TIESTO - ARMIN VAN BUUREN - PAUL VAN DYK - DEEP DISH - JHON DIGWEED - STEVE LAWLER - CARL COX)

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PRODUCTION.

Not gigs....

[Nicktalopia]

06 and 07 were both great years for trance music in general.
07 witnessed a massive amount of prductions and new talents in the scene so it has to be my favorite trance year so far.

[TranceFusion]

Too bad 1998 can't be included in this list... so i have to choose between 1999 and 2000 i'll come back later

[michoz.d]

2006 \o/

[Shy--Ism]

[Fawzi]

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[TranceFusion]

^ Thx!
Come on all Classics lovers vote for the end 90s! the period that defined Trance \o/

[M&R]

loooool 1998
i ddnt know what music was that time hehe
i vote for 2007

[TranceFusion]

^ I don't see what's funny. Old Trancers like Johnny and Dionysos understand what i mean by saying that the 90s are the golden years too bad you missed those years, you would have understood me too

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^ Kamil. He was 6 YEARS OLD back then
give the guy a break...

[Genesis]

The 1998-2000 period was phenomenal particularly 1998.
Trance was still untapped into. There were all this raw power and talent from
plenty of artists upcoming as well as older ones.

Producers reached their peak at that time in my opinion. Although software
production was less popular and the options were less variable, the quality
of what we acquired off the shelves was much better than what you might
today.
I used to get into the shops and find a few albums. I didn't need to listen
to them and I was rarely disappointed. Together with me being a new comer
to the scene, I found myself less fussy and more satisfied and the truth was
that it actually IS quality. I still listen to tunes I got from the late 90's as
much as I listen to modern music nowadays. My ''all-time favorite'' playlist
would have more music from the pre-2000 era than later on.

- Online downloads were scarce. Most productions were on vinyl and what
goes on disk was mainly compilations. Therefore, manufacturing and
marketing vinyl is more costly and label bosses were extremely selective as
to what artists to sign up and whose tunes to press on vinyl and sell. This
encouraged and motivated artists to push the limit and produce what will sell
and what will go to the shelves and (as EDM culture wasn't as big) what will
make money for them.

- The productions that reached larger audience made its way through
compilations. Compilations were absolute class! Names like GU, Slinky,
Cream, Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, and even Ministry of Sound's Annual Club
Guide series were a clubber's household name. They were easy to find as
they were popular and well-marketed and they had music from the scene
that was sheer excellence! Buying those meant that you have listened to
what the whole year had to offer.

- ''Men of the hour'' at that time were also a rare breed. And looking at them
now, they were pioneers of the sounds they made because they paved the
way for the boom that EDM had later. Those names made the most of the
scene and shaped it to what it is today what it came to because of what they
made.
Regardless to what they are now, or how their sound have evolved, or
the fact that they may have faded now: they made it what it is. They owned
the late 90's. Those would be the calibre of Sasha, Digweed, Nick Warren,
Dave Seaman, Carl Cox, Blank & Jones, ATB, Chicane, Solar Stone, Judge
Jules, John Terry, Guy Ornadel, Seb Fontaine, and of course Paul Oakenfold.
Tiesto, Ferry, and Burren were also around but I don't know how much
impact those had. I know they were good, but I only got more into them
in the early 00's.