I think what is confusing is that our understanding of what constitutes 'trance' is actually quite fluid and has changed over time.
Sven Vath, Jam & Spoon, Sash!, Sasha and Digweed, BT, Paul Van Dyk, Christopher Lawrence, Oliver Lieb, Hallucinogen, Carl Cox and the Liberator DJs are all labelled trance. All very different acts. Christopher Lawrence gets quite worked up about being put in the same bracket as the commercial UK variety. Remember there was even a time when Mills (circa Waveform Transmission Vol 1) was considered 'trance'. Then there is the trance/progressive house distinction, the latter being considered 'deeper', 'funkier' and more' intelligent' - eg Hybrid. The Liberators' stuff is referred to interchangeably as trance, hard house and acid techno (they flip those terms themselves). They are actually nice lads - not at all pretentious and all about ''avin' it.' Certainly what they do is better than the big name UK cats. They have a cheeky outlook on Detroit though! What was that album called? It's Not From Detroit, It's Not Intelligent But It's 'Avin' It or something like that. Dave gripes a bit about the purism in the scene and he has (unwisely!) criticised the status of various Detroit icons but it's more the UK press he has a problem with. They are all part of the squat party thing in London. C >>ok, i was just wondering what everbody thinks. I have >>been listening to some of the brittish acid techno >>like dave the drummer, chris liberator, roland the >>bastard (what a name, gotta love that guy), julian >>liberator, etc, etc.
