FRED MCMURRY wrote:
I think it's actually a racial thing. Trance is so BIG right now because
it's non-threatening, white music...
Oh boy! It's a straight continuum to the EURO-sound that was up in the 80's.
"Euro-beat", "Euro-disco" whatever you call it. I think it's simply THE
SOUND that affects these people. A little melancholic melodies, straight
march-beat and "desperate" feelings... I honestly don't see much difference
between Bad Boys Blue and some current anonymous trance, except the latter
is faster of course.
Europeans (and most underaged whites) don't wanna sweat (don't wanna FUNK
that is), and they always lack of serotonin, so they tend to listen music
that reflects their moods.
I realised this when trance was forming itself from Techno in the early
90's, mainly coming from Germany and other classic Euro-beat countries; The
sound was gettin sadder and sadder, so at one point you thought you were in
a middle of a funeral when listening to these tunes. Also there was a lot of
babble about techno's "classical music" and "orchestral"-aspects, pullin'
all kinds of Nietzschean-philosophies and "DJ is GOD who plays the
crowd"-bullshit into it. Trance was seen as the modern dionysian music.
Of course major part of the "groove-elements" washed away when "despair" was
becoming the main element fuelling trance music. It became a little too
one-sided I think... A little too "Sturm und drang" if you know what I mean?
You can always listen to a Vivaldi-tune, but if you listen to it all the
time, you gonna end up slashing your wrists:) Music, like life, isn't based
on one mood.
I think FUNK has got all the feelings in it AT THE SAME TIME, that's why it
makes you sweat. Cause when it hits you, you try to cope with it, but you
can't go or come anywhere because YOU DON'T WANT TO. It's a musical analogy
to life, where different feelings battle each other at the same time. Of
course when I say FUNK I mean the funkiness of music not just Funk music...
Phew! Where's that Mothership, I wanna get onboard!
Proffit
PS. Gladly the music with "FUNK"-elements always comes back in fashion from
time to time, last time it was in '94-96 when Detroit techno and
Chicago-house were on the map in Europe. Before that, ACID HOUSE kicked
Europe's discoing ass and slapped her in the face sayin': "You gotta JACK
and JERK to get out of that misery!" Wise words....
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