From: ogd@selway.umt.edu (ozymandias G desiderata)
Subject: Any good Trance comp. recommendations? (don't shoot! don't shoot!)
Summary: Newbie (to trance) seeks tha good stuff...
Organization: ::AOAIOXXYSZ:::
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:54:42 GMT

	Having religiously read all the other XDZebras (and just as
religiously throwing them out to conserve disk space in my partition),
I have noticed a few things:

	1) Nobody seems to be quite sure what trance is.

	2) Trance and tribal are often mentioned in the same breath.

	3) I really don't like tribal. (without getting myself in too
deep, I will say that (IMHO, of course) being raised on the "real
thing" as far as world beats and ethnic rhythms has sort of jaded my
view of what is called "tribal." I'd say that Peter Gabriel's
_Passion_ and the infinitely better _Passion Sources_ come much closer
to being "real" tribal techno. I put real in quotes 'cause I don't
really believe in classifying music anyway, but it makes it a lot
easier to get recommendations from folks. Anyway, enough irrelevant
wanking from me)

	I bought Don't Techno For An Answer Vol. 2: Save The Last
Trance For Yourself today. Whoops! Newsflash! I just went to track
down pashdown's reference to it, and discovered (Brian at soda, are
you listening?) that the two most recent XDZebras have their
permissions set wrong. Plus, the review that I thought reviewd DTFAA
v2 was actually reviewing DTFAA v1. Well, anyway, I think it's a mixed
bag, but a couple of songs seem to have the right idea. The tracks
that I really like are the Code MD, Euphoria (the mix on this is much
better than the one on KT4, IMHO), Supereal, and Arousal w/J Dee
tracks. They seem to fit what I call trance.
	Finally, my question. Does anybody know of any other
compilations that are PURE trance? Secondarily, do the tracks above
give an indication that I have any clue what trance is, or am I
totally talking out my ass? No house, ambient, or tribal please. I've
got all I want of those ('cept house, but the house on trance/tribal
comps sounds sorta half-assed more often than not. Once again, IMHO. No
attempts at flamewars here, please note.). Please forgive this
backwards-gazing geezer ("whay, Ah remember back in the old days, when
the tunes were under 140 BPM-" "Ah, shaddup Grandpa, and drink your
prune juice" :-)).
	Anyway, any help would be appreciated. I'm sick, wounded,
taking finals, and have a monumental headache, so I'm looking for some
smooth, bass-laden music (which actually feels damn good for some odd
reason) to give me solace until this nightmare called finals reaches
its grim end. BTW, sorry I'm so damn chatty. Just remember, kids:
There's no minute like the last minute!

yours,
ozymandias G desiderata

PS - Anybody interested in getting mix tapes of old Tomita / Kraftwerk
/ Mike Oldfield / Tangerine Dream / Philip Glass lemme know. Or
African / Chinese / Native American percussive stuff. My mom's got
loads of that. The benifits of being raised boheme. Does listening to
all of this proto-ambient stuff make me "hip"? ;-) ;-) ;-)

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