For me, it was a 13 hour drive to the ass-end of Texas from the other side of Texas, for a school function I wasn't really wanting to participate in. In order for me to pass the time, I had brought along my trusty cd player, yet...I left my CD binder on my bed. I asked my friend for a few CDs, and they were trance...and I'd never heard this stuff before! I was hooked from then on.

What did it for you?

To be honest i don't really remember what first got me started into liking trance since it was years ago.

Must of been about 90-92 when i first heard the trance style of back then but don't remember what tune.

What ever happened, i'm sure glad it did.

the track warp 9 with eternal war magic wave remix

Thanks to some of my UK friends who were exchange students in college back in 1997...well, they had me listening to Fatboy Slim...of course, this wasn't trance but pretty much this is how my passion for electronic music got started. After experiencing with different styles I definetely felt identified with Trance Music, and here I am....a TRANCEADDICT just like you guys! Cheers.

when i got the cd: Slinky, The Album from my brother...i didnt even know what it was then

1997 New Jersey,USA. I was sick as hell and i had to stay home + I had missed my chance to go watch a movie with my friends.Went to sleep late in the afternoon
woke up around around midnite.Nothing good on tv (CABLE SUCKED BACK THEN).
Turned on the radio put it on KTU 103.5 a (new york Dance station) and herd an almost ending mix by Jhonny Vicious.Been Deeply in love with trance.Since then.
When Kimball Collins came out with his ICU production CDs. I heard Armins Comunication.
Here I am now in love and an Addict.

My brother got me into trance.

I started out listening to house and breaks only.

I still like them, but trance is my number one by now.


I got an essential selection double disc mix by Fatboy Slim and Paul Oakenfold

I liked the Slim disc and my brother like the Oakenfold disc.

I eventually just crossed over to trance.

Gald to see some people like Breakbeats around here!

I used to call trance or techno or club music so pretty bad things before I liked it, meaning before I listened to it.

Also, I hooked my first gig in my hometown since becoming a DJ (that isn't just a name decoration )

I've been holding out, because I've had my set for a few months, but I've just now been able to buy vinyl. And before I go off to the party, i'm gonna pick up those things where you can mix with CDs.

I had love for dance and oldschool music for as long as i remember, going back to the early 90s. I remember sometime in 99 or 00, I was dloading music when I came upon a dream dance composition album on some ftp. It had some familiar artists on it such as Fragma and Darude, as well as some unfamiliar ones that would soon become my gods such as a guy by the name of Paul Van Dyk. After listening to the album I was hooked instantly. 'For an Angel' quickly became my favorite, and the chain reaction began. My brother always says to me that once I get older (late 20s and 30s) I will ditch trance and switch to something more adult. You know what I say to him? I started listening when I was 15, Im 19 now and still listening, and Im positive I still will be when Ill be 23, 27, 31, 35... As for when Im in my 50s, well lets just hope so.

I have always been into "electronic" music (from DM to OMD or even the PSB). When I was about 12 or 13, New Beat started. As I am Belgian (u know this small country in Europe, close to France, where u american dudes buy chocolates and beers...), there was a lot of bands as Belgium was the place to be... It was for me a revolution. I remember my very first CD (New Beat Take 1) with dudes groups Snowy Red, A Split Second, etc. Nobody believed in this music at that time but as it was growing, new groups appeared and the music started to change: acid, techno, and then Trance (mainly with Sven Väth in Germany, who was far from being a reel techno dude at that time but more a trancehead...). I remember my first trance CD (R&S In Order To Dance 2) with the excellent Spectrum, Space Opera and the (still) magnificent Revelation - First Power . That was for me the biginning of Trance and how I got into it...

I got interested in Trance in '98. A friend of mine gave me the cd Tiesto live at Innercity. I listen to it and got caught by the melodies and fell in love with the Orange Theme Track. Then I decided to buy one of the cd's of the Magik Serie.

And so i got interested in Trance.

I always had a liking for electronic music, my Dads fault. He used to listen to Jean Michel Jarre when i was young, sort of liked it. Ended up in the early 90's when i was 11 getting into Techno and Hardcore, got kind of fed up with it in the mid 90's all very cheesy. Wanted something a little more claim and grown up as opposed to the constant banging bass drum. Really memorable songs that got me into my long love affair with Trance would be Accession - Someone (Spaces Bros Dub) and Legend B - Lost in Love.
Makes me feel old now, been a good many years of pure entrancement

Loqst In Love !!!!!!!! Wow, I remember it, one of the best track I ever heard

the first song that made me a trance lover was in 1997 (may be you knew it)

it is FIOCCO with AFFLITTO

later i loved PUSH and his remixes

and all the good stuff from BONZAI TRANCE

Cass & Slide - perception, G & D remixes, The Tiesto remixes .........


now i'am crazy about TRANCE MUSIC !!!!!!

I moved to edinburgh from a small town in the north of scotland in the late 80's and discovered clubbing and house music and the legendary club "Pure" which is kinda known for being a techno institution but back in the day house was less ghetto-ised....house was house and Pure was very indicative of an attitude that played little notice to sticking to generic styles and had a diverse selection of DJ's and live performances including my first encounter with Orbital. I also encountered the Shamen's Synergy nights which were amazing and the The Shamen vs Bam Bam track "Transcendental" is the first trance track I am consciously aware of. Fini Tribe who were a band fron Edinburgh who'd started off as an experimental/industrial style sound discovered electronic dance music around that time too and played some wonderful live sets of acid house/trance style sounds. Hardfloor's "Hardtrance Acperience" and Felix's "Don't You want Me" are other notable trax that ensured I acquired an affection for trance. I still like and listen to house/techno but more 3/4 of my listening these days is what I'd call trance.

As for Eugfest's brother what is adult listening ?! Does he mean music for old people....MOP as opposed to MOR!....I've been into trance for about 13 years now and although I don't go clubbing as often as I did I still love the tunes and will always listen to trance....keep da faith!

it all began with Haredcore, yess harcore:). Bought some cd's. After a while i bought a double cd with one side hardcore other side it was kinda club. That was the start of buying more and more softer dance music. And now 6 years later i'm all into trance

I used to listen to Eurodance, when it still was any good in the early nineties. And I consider the current trance to be a spinoff of that style + the old (slightly boring) trance. So when I got older, my musical taste developed away from the cheese and into the better trance.
I never listened to hardcore btw.

interesting stories

i'm from canada and the scene is generally "a little behind" compared to UK, Netherlands

although i enjoy many different genres of music, i definitely like trance the best and I am thoroughly addicted

i started in the mid-90's with eurodance (cheese nowadays i guess...) and it was really in the late 90's when mp3 format became more widely popular that i "accidentally" downloaded some trance on the computer. wow the synths and melodies were euphoric and amazing. I have never looked back since. starting to like a bit of the progressive sounding trance now that i'm exposed to - maybe its a natural progression

the problem is the limited selection in getting albums/singles from the "conservative" stores in canada, but thats another story...

I liked dance music from the beginning off, it al started in early 90's with hardcore en eurodance. Then i heared the single of robert miles - children. I think that track envoked the trance feeling in me though it 's not real trance, but still, i had found my style. Then later on came Paul van Dyk - For an angel and so it all began for me.

Thank god for the internet, cause without it i'd consider people like dj sammy and lasgo as the best trance producers. with tunes like heaven, sunlight etc.

It al started for me as a child in my early teen years (I'm 19 now ) with Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo when I first heard a song from the dance scene
Now everyone knows them for there Happy Hardcore singles and there hardcore style of spinning
But when I first heard Pedro & Benno - Speechles I was 'Speechless'
And when Ferry & Tiesto came with Gouryella I knew that this was my taste of music for my life
And now I see some of my friends still enjoy Milk Inc. and Boozywoozy or Jan Wayne
Then I know that I love the greatest music genre in the world called:

TRANCE

For me its was and still is the melody, I love beautiful melodies in any type of music the best part with trance is you get layered or simple emotional melodies with a beat to dance to!! there's nothing else quite like it!

I was in 2nd or 3rd year of high school, i was grounded, so had to stay in, listened to R1 on a friday night, and heard cygnus x - orange theme, it was completely different to anything i had heard b4! It started from there, became properly engrossed in the genre around 98 though, when trance took off!

back in '97 was 'bout 12 then
I got this Cd Absoulut Music 22 a popish cd from norway, realy A-lst.
but anyhow. On that cd we had the one and one Energy 52 - Cafe del mar (cool coincident, that song just started playing on my winamp,, creepy)

Started out listening to the trance easiest to grab. euros**t.
It kinda took of after buying the Fatboy slim - you've come a long way baby (my all time favourit album)
It has all been trance from there an forth.
Well after i got to know my sisters boy friend it been a litte house and stuff lika that too. he's a producer, has worked whit Dj Nils noa, so something in that style.
check im out at www.prepost.net (its COOL music)
starting to prefer it before trance, butt than i understond the secret of progg trance and i found gabriel & dresden

Let me think... My adventure with electronic music began in early 90's. But trance fascination began when I played something called Wip3Out. In the soundtrack there was this guy... Paul Van Dyk? [; (just kiddin', I'm "Van Dyk Addicted" [. I was listening to this cd for few hours and I loved this soundtrack. Then I heard Van Dyk's "For An Angel" and that is where it all begun. Then was all this gigs (even now I can remeber my first gig - Mayday Polska 2000:), parties, cd's and all this stuff. And why I love trance? 'Cuz it's more melodic than techno. That's all folks [;

The orange theme is kinda legendary in our household from when it appeared on the amazing FACT mix by carl Cox....second track on Cd2 preceeded by Amphetamine...what a great mix.....it always used to get played (and still does sometimes!) to get us pumped up for a night out.

I can think of no better track to introduce you to the joys of trance....sweet choice.

daft punk's homework album

and crystal methods vegas albums are what turned me to electronic music in general


yeh without the net dj sammy and eifeel 65 woul dbe it

Before 1999 I was listening Faithless,Prodigy Dj quicksilver and sash and I didn't know trance till 1999.

In 1999 while I was watching Tv I saw Alice Deejay - Better off alone clip and I'm hooked I liked this tune so much and looked for what kind of genre is it.

When I see trance I searched for trance songs on the net and I've found Darude,D-devils,Ferry Corsten,Tiesto songs and I become a great trance fan.Milk inc was also great to especially La Vache

For me it started from late 80's early 90's from new wave music, then to techno, then to trance. I think its all about the melody. Techno was cool but too repetetive. Then trance came and thats where I was hooked. You can here some of the influences in new wave music in some of the trance songs.

I began with RAVE music (trance melody with hardcore speed ) and Happy Hardcore. When HH died i went into hard trance, then trance and now progressive with trance/house elements (the speed is slowing down as I become older ).

My brother used to listen to d'n'b for along time and he takes many cd's from his friends. One time he takes one of earlier Dream Dance compilations. I've heard ATB remix on Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad, and i like it so much that I just can't listen to another music from this moment. Then I've heard Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar! It was very good! But some years ago, when we purchased modem, I've found a prog called WinMx, u may know it, a little brother of slsk. My brother was seeking for some tunes and I've seen adress www.tranceaddict.com in one of file names, I've entered the site and get my first Ferry's live! I've heard Accadia - Into The Dawn (James Holden Remix) and Orinoko - Island (Thrilseekers Remix) and was totally destroyed by this awesome tunes. And then I was "killed" by Armin's Communication. So since 2001 I'm in trance, not too long, but...

I started listening Kraftwerk a couple of years ago (lol). Yello, ELO, etc.. U get the point. Funny thing is i'm a thrash metal fan also! Love the first 4 albums of Metallica, the bay area scene, Holy terror, Whiplash etc...

So, Why do i love trance? Dunno but got hooked with the beats, the repetitive sounds with smooth growing melodies, the drama...everything.

basically, never liked electronic music of any kind untill 1998....
then, i heard van Dyk live at the gallery turnmills on
the essential mix and WOW!!!!! that's when my whole perspective on music changed. went from likng rap to abandoning it altogether.
trance, techno,and prog and NOTHING but nowadays - and U2.

The God (Tiesto) got me hooked on trance, its a good addiction though. Isn't it?

I guess I might be one of your older members but also one of the newest recruits to the forum (45yrs and 2 days respectively). But people have often asked me why I like trance and i've figured that i can trace it right back to the late 70s when i was into bands like Tangerine Dream - saw them play at (as it was) the Hammersmith Odeon - and one of my favourite albums Timewind by Klaus Schulze - anybody else heard that?. The use of sequencers and electronics just blew me away and it's followed me ever since. Through the 80s with bands like Depeche Mode and tracks like I feel love by Donna Summer, records that at the time 'broke the mould' (sic). The 90s were a little bereft until the latter years but although I can't remember exactly what or when got me into the current Trance Binary Finary's 1998 mix probably helped. The recent discovery (helped by Broadband) of all this online music and your forum is an absolute dream come true! Thank you to all of you who mix and upload, I've been in heaven for the past couple of days (without the use of any performance enhancing substances either).

Keep 'em coming!

Neil

Back when the Spawn movie soundtrack I heard a remix of Crystal Method's - Trip Like I Do and i was hooked on dance music etc Ace of Base LoL. Then in 99' I heard the Members of X cd from George Acosta and was like word. And the rest is history LoL.

One day my boy started playing it in the car when we were driving and i borrowed the CD and ever since i been into it.. it increased ten fold when i started clubbing.

Listening to one of my mates tapes which his mate mixed for him. Then i asked to borrow it and was hooked on it ever since. Dj Kim - Jetlag (Alphazone Remix) was the first tune i heard on the tape and ever since then its been one of my favourite tunes.

A friend introduced me to BT - ESCM. Moved from there to Paul Oakenfold and then Sasha............ the rest is history really.
I always have trance music in my mini disc player!

For me it all started with the Star Wars Theme mix and Prodigy back in 96' 97' . Then i heard Nostrum and it was all over for me. Now i cant get enough of Tiesto, Svenson and gabriel and dresden. Ever since 97' i havent listened to anything else but Trance.

I went to my first party in 93, bought my first records a year later. One that did it to me was THE SECRET LIFE OF TRANCE Voi. 6 on RISING HIGH Rec. (exp. Friends,Lover&Family-High Tea) BTW: Has anybody stuff released there... the lable went down pretty soon after...I think.

my brother was a dj in the early 90's so i listened to wat ever he did, it went from harcore to drum and bass to house and then i found trance and have been hooked on it ever since apart from my bro who took the opposite direction and loves garage music
but if you are into it check out [B]2sg.co.uk!!!! thats his web site

It started for me in '95 / '96 with great tunes like Robert Miles' Children and Bedrock's For What You Dream Of. Then along came great tracks like Faithless - Insomnia and BBE - Seven Days and One Week, and my hunger started to grow even further.

Then in '97, everything blew up, with memorable trance such as Sundance, Lost Tribe's Gamemaster and Lucid's I Can't Help Myself being the highlights.

I've never looked back....

it was sometime in the early 90's when everyone was into hardcore that i first discovered trance and i loved it! then in 1994 i heard an essential mix by paul oakenfold that totally blew me away! later that year i bought a video called x-mix 1 mixed by someone called paul van dyk and became instantly addicted!!!

Trance is just amazing well some

As somebody said b4, i got the FACT cd off slsk a year or so back and the mix of orange theme is amazin!

forgot about robert miles - children, wat an amazin tune, made the platipus label as well

Not what but who.............Paul Oakenfold and then PvD

KEVIN AND PERRY GO LARGE ha. I saw Amnesia heard and loved the films soundtrack. Then I listened to some old trance stuff like planet perfecto, tiesto, oakenfold, off limewire. then PVD really got me into modern trance. Started going to raves two years ago and now im addicted. its werid though, I dont know anyone (even at uni) who listens to modern upfront trance at my age (20)!

^^ that movie is great. i love Sunburst - Eyeball

Matt Darey FTW!!