Comments on: Trance Falls on Hard Times, DJ Mars Sells his Technics 1200s (Not Really)

By: khof

khof — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:05:42 +0000

wait, what the hell is trance? hahaha.

By: Sizzurp Sippa

Sizzurp Sippa — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:25:07 +0000

In the US it’s NEVER been electronic… with the exception of the most intellectually bankrupt House, Techno, Trance, D&B, and Breakbeat.

Are you talking pop music? Hip Hop music is electronic, and is the most popular pop genre of music in the United States. Americans love electronic music.

And Techno and House music, while not very popular in its birthplace in the U.S., has enough people outside the U.S. who dig the sounds of Detroit or Chicago or whatever that it doesn’t matter if poeple in the U.S. like it or not. Jeff Mills or Derrick May may not be well known in the U.S., but they are like superstars elsewhere in the world.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:36:44 +0000

As of Tuesday at 9.36PST the ad had been flagged for removal, so I suspect that this is a fake.

By: ian

ian — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:58:33 +0000

trance has always had a bad rap - even in production communities, i mean sectionz was one of the most useful resources for me as a new producer years ago, but then it just seemed to get overrun by all these trance kiddies that had no useful critiques (where the whole POINT of the site was to give criticism on mixes, techniques, etc.)
but to some extent this should be titled “trance (in america) falls on hard times”, i’m american myself but frequent blogs like psypaty.nnm.ru daily, and the trance scene is still chugging away, if not evolving… i must say some of the dark psy coming out of the eastern block is just insanely amazing!
it’s a shame though, because i understand SF to be one of the best scenes for electronic music in general in the country. pretty much anywhere in europe you’ll hear trance on the radio the way we hear nickelback or the white stripes on every other radio station.

By: Richard Lainhart

Richard Lainhart — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:54:38 +0000

(stands up)

I am DJ Mars!

By: robotanalysis

robotanalysis — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:25:32 +0000

Angstrom from TimeShard? I e-mailed you years ago about maybe getting some old tapes of yours. I’m a huge fan. Cheers!

By: Angstrom

Angstrom — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:42:44 +0000

would anyone really say “people used to love me” ?

I mean, OK - perhaps an egotist might think ‘people currently love me’, but when times are less good an egotist then surely resorts to ‘people don’t understand my genius’.

I know a few old music biz names who sell their signed equipment, and they never ever mention that it is because they are less popular!
It’s hardly a selling point is it?

I think that no-one would ever say “people used to love me”, unless it was in a egotist’s suicide note.

By: Michail

Michail — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:20:55 +0000

To be honest, i do not really know if the decline of trance isn’t a bad thing at all…

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:13:27 +0000

@Adrian: I was, uh, joking. ;)

DJ Mars, if it’s all NOT true, if you’re hanging onto your 1200s, do feel free to jump in and say the word. We’re logging IPs. We’ll know it’s really you.

By: Toranaga

Toranaga — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:38:06 +0000

Maybe it’s the fact that he still plays on turn tables with overpriced vinyl, and not keep his sound fresh (at a much lower cost), that made people loose interest?

Maybe he just kept on playing some cheesy hard trance, with those trumpet riffs?

That’s definitely one advantage after trance faded from its commercial throne; at least I don’t have to be embarrassed when I turn on the radio & hear those cheesy trance remixes… don’t get me wrong I love my trance, but that cheap Sammy rubbish …