well i would have heard of him if it werent for it. i choose to be isolated from the tiesto community really, so i dont know anything about him. but samuel barber is the man and theres no denying that(yes i liked tiesto's adagio for strings, but the good parts are the string section playing pure barber).LouisVee wrote:Tiesto was very popular even before Adagio For Strings. I use to be a big fan, and yes i'm ashamed today!boomstick wrote:if it weren't for samuel barber, i bet we wouldnt have ever heard of tiesto.
So minimal is the new trance? It was good before 2004, and now (almost) everything sounds the same?
Everyone is always talking about the Tiesto version, but the best trance version of Barber's Adagio For String is actually the one by Ferry Corsten. Hear that one on a massive Innercity dancefloor and it'll stick to you forever. Or hearing Cafe Del mar by Energy 52 in Kid Paul Mix on Mayday while they turn out all the lights and some dude runs through the arena with a torch like he's an olympic runner... Or hearing Microbots on a dancefloor in 1991 (!) while a radio-controlled silver balloon hoovers over the crowd... Or hearing Rank 1 live on the shore of a mountain lake while the sun goes down over the mountains and you're dancing in the snow...LouisVee wrote:Tiesto was very popular even before Adagio For Strings. I use to be a big fan, and yes i'm ashamed today!boomstick wrote:if it weren't for samuel barber, i bet we wouldnt have ever heard of tiesto.
So minimal is the new trance? It was good before 2004, and now (almost) everything sounds the same?
+1PsyTox wrote:... It just used to be the perfect music for that impressive moment stuff. Especially with the truckloads of lasers and massive arenas that music was designed for
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well, for me it was also always a crowd thing. When I was in school, the ones listening to trance and stuff were mostly the '2 cool 4 school' boys. When I heard trance, I always imagined those guys searching for the cheap thrills, and that image fitted right in with the epic but still cheesy sound of trance. I searched for good alternatives and found it in the electronica and downtempo genres, and afterwards techno. I never went through a trance phase, although I clearly see that lots of people on this board did.PsyTox wrote:Everyone is always talking about the Tiesto version, but the best trance version of Barber's Adagio For String is actually the one by Ferry Corsten. Hear that one on a massive Innercity dancefloor and it'll stick to you forever. Or hearing Cafe Del mar by Energy 52 in Kid Paul Mix on Mayday while they turn out all the lights and some dude runs through the arena with a torch like he's an olympic runner... Or hearing Microbots on a dancefloor in 1991 (!) while a radio-controlled silver balloon hoovers over the crowd... Or hearing Rank 1 live on the shore of a mountain lake while the sun goes down over the mountains and you're dancing in the snow...LouisVee wrote:Tiesto was very popular even before Adagio For Strings. I use to be a big fan, and yes i'm ashamed today!boomstick wrote:if it weren't for samuel barber, i bet we wouldnt have ever heard of tiesto.
So minimal is the new trance? It was good before 2004, and now (almost) everything sounds the same?
Although I love techno and minimal, most of my truely once-in-a-lifetime memories on parties come from trance events. It just used to be the perfect music for that impressive moment stuff. Especially with the truckloads of lasers and massive arenas that music was designed for
I remember going to the first Innercity in 1999 (just on a spur of the moment thing, because SVen Vath played there...) and Tiesto was all small printed on the posters. He made such a huge impression on me that night that I threw all my records aside and played nothing but progressive and trance for years. I can certainly understand how he became so famous, hard work and a nose for business. But he also used to really be a fantastic dj. But as it always goes, at some point the cheques are so huge you just keep on doing the same thing because that brings in the bacon... Still, his first few In Search For Sunrise CD's are top notch.
As for minimal: I'm totally bored with most of it these days, especially the mannheim sound of Cecile and 8bit and Nick Curly etc ... or even great labels like Mobilee or Cadenza that have gone that path. if there ever was a better example of music sounding all the same, that sound would really be it right now. A bit like trance has been in the last ten years
