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So, first of all, I must say that this is a protest review... CD2 - In The Club
I protest because my Beautiful Review of Iron Maiden was not even considered and not even for Literary Cases, and this saddened me quite a bit, forcing me into my Little Room to cry for days (and the whole world outside?)...
Therefore, if you don't want the Maiden, get this Trance review (not Trans, I wrote Trance...).
Briefly, Trance is an electronic music style that emerged during the '90s, spread mainly by artists from Northern Europe (Germany, Great Britain, and naturally the Netherlands) and partly in the U.S.A., West Coast (ever heard of Gabriel & Dresden?) and is characterized by the typical Club Hammers (4/4 loop and approximately 150 bpm pedaling...), it usually develops on remixed bases, has fairly simple developments, and everything revolves around a melody that reappears at fairly regular intervals. You could say that if classical Pop develops in the Verse, Chorus, Verse sequence, etc., etc., Trance has canonical moments like an intro, usually quite lysergic, followed by a moment where the DJ gradually turns on all the gadgets (on Wikipedia this stage is called Groove, I prefer the image of the guy filling the base with Sounds), then comes the true Melodic Phase with the aforementioned rhythmic characteristics and an Outro that generally mirrors the Intro. In essence, it's Music made to get People dancing to the beat of the Unz Unz that we like so much, and if there's a sultry female voice underneath, even better...the name derives from the "emotional" intentions of the genre's pioneers (which undoubtedly is a second offspring of the Techno of the early '90s, which had a clandestine affair with House of the same period)
I know I'll say something that may sound heretical to the purists of Musical Art, but Trance primarily lives in the "Live" moment of performance. Therefore, there are no (or very few) albums of unreleased tracks, but you can find Collections similar to Best of with the caveat that, theoretically, by definition each track is born and dies in the Club following the DJ's Moment Spirit, which depends on various environmental and not logical factors that seem so logical to me that I won't go into them...
However, I will talk about a Collection, and specifically one by what can be considered the best exponent (along with the compatriot Tiesto) of the genre, meaning the Tulip, Armin Van Buuren.
"A State of Trance" is the name of a radio show that Van Buuren (here a Biography.) has been hosting since 2001, and this Album contains the best Performances of 2006.
The Double CD contains some original tracks by the Orange Trance fanatic (Trance... got it... not Trans...) but mostly remixes of Broadcasted and emotionally and electrically modified tracks (some immaculate, to tell the truth) by our artist, here's the list just to give you an idea:
CD1 - On The Beach
The "Technical" Characteristics of the Work are those typical of the genre, which I have already outlined, and I think the Titles of the individual CDs convey the feelings that good Armin wants to evoke (apart from making people dance, obviously), so I won't spend more words in this regard.. but I'd like to say something else...
Yes, I mean, like every good Protest, I have to bring something purely personal, right?
Nothing special for Heaven's sake, but just what this CD of "Arte Povera" conveys to me...
Yes, I mean, do you know when you have to take a long car trip at Night and at the same time dream of the Sea and maybe it's raining cats and dogs outside, or when you remember your first crush at the Club (come on, you all went there...) and those blue eyes that make you tear up every time you hear a 4/4 at 150 bpm, and those home evenings where you're bored of everything, and at 2 A.M. your favorite F.M. only plays syncopated rhythms, and at least those keep you company?
Or do you know the motto "More and more Commercial until the Final Victory!"?
No... you say I'm the one who's sick?
Maybe... but now excuse me, I have an imaginary Sea waiting for me...
Mo.
P.S.: To avoid more Reviews of the (and of) Genre, invite the Editors en masse (those of DeBaser, not the British Group, nice but they don't get a thing about the Maiden) to publish the Review I mentioned at the beginning...
P.S.2: I tried my best for the Links this time... if they don't open, it'll mean I'm beyond recovery...
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