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Yeah, I lost interest in most trance when it moved towards the big strings and vocals. Matt Darey used to play a bunch of tunes that I liked but it was hit and miss. Just too much vocal and too 'soft'.
I've been blasting Astrix stuff recently (psytrance) and quite enjoying that, which is nice as I've found psytrance pretty boring for the last ~20 years. I bought 3 albums of Dimension 5 the other day (ie. Dimension 5 - Transdimensional). I don't know how I missed it back in the day but I got into that recently thanks to someone uploading the whole album to youtube.
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Yeah I love Astrix. I’d love to get to one of those big psytrance nights.
Some great mixes recorded at Tribe of Frog’s NYE night in Bristol: https://on.soundcloud.com/UEEDCmL8MDgqgcQX9
Oberon, Beamish, Blu Peter, Escape from Samsara was peak trance for me.
This should be in the trance thread but it’s last days of Rome for Lufguss now so IDGAF.
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I know everyone says this about music they like but it baffles me he was never bigger. I think he emerged, unhelpfully, at a time when people into trance were going mad for more mainstream stuff like Tiesto and Van Dyk.