Anyone else listen to Trance to cheer up or take your mind off of stuff?

[General of Darkness]

I pretty much listen to everything other than rap or hip hop.

Lately I find myself listening to Trance rather than the lying hacks on talk radio etc.

Here's a sample of what I'm listening too now. FYI - The State of Trance audios are great. I use to blast trance when I'd did canyon carving on my R1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVhTcPYQUDI

[gunDriller]

i like old '80's and 90's rock, like Blondie "Call Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH3Q_CZy968

and ZZTop "Planet of Women", Rolling Stones "Start Me Up", all those semi-corny old classic make-you-want-to-dance songs.

actually listening to those songs inspired me to start ice skating again. i thought "maybe i could get some air" ... without dislocating major knee ligaments ;D i haven't gotten any air yet, but it's still fun.

i got some trance music just by doing a search for "trance mp3". i got 2 big mixes, maybe 1 hour each.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=trance+mp3

[Skirnir]

This kind of stuff usually drowns out the thoughts of current events, though it helps to have become flippant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fbMQRKFD8

Lyrics: http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/hypocrisy/atasteofextremedivinity.html#9

[Down1]

Trance is very good.
AVB is pretty good.
I listen to www.trance.fm all the time.
It appears to be far more popular with Euros than Americans.

[nunaem]

Never liked trance, it all sounds alike to me. I love listening to techno/electronica while doing cardio though, I especially like Orbital while running, it's like audible energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhGZCIKHDA0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ2UqzGlliY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7y7_xghLWM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkSZotJCSLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xc2eNFFvzs&feature=related < This is Orbital's best track and one of my favorite songs ever, it starts off slow but its very long

[Saul Mine]

It all started with a guy named George Vancouver. They named a city after him, you know. George sent a gift of cattle to the king of Hawaii. And that was Kamehameha the first. George told the king to put a taboo on the herd; let it grow. Well, that was ok with the Hawaiians, they didn't know what cattle were. They thought they were like big dogs or something.

So this went on until Kamehameha the third took over. By that time the islanders had about all the cattle they could stand and they were starting to grumble about caws tearing up the gardens and endangering the children. So the king called his court together and asked them "What are we going to do? Nobody around here knows how to handle cows." Well, it happened that one of his courtiers had just returned from San Diego and he told the king that there were lots of people there who knew everything about handling cows. So the king went to San Diego to look for some of these people.

Now doncha know, if you go looking for cowboys, you're going to get taken to a rodeo. And if you've never seen a rodeo before, well, it's quite a show. The king was very impressed. He hired everybody. He took about 150 guys back to Hawaii with him.

Now doncha know, if you go to San Diego, in 1830, and hire cowboys, you're going to get a bunch of Mexicans. And some of them are going to play guitars. Now here is the surprise: Hawaiians had never heard music before. In Hawaii music meant a singer. Drums and flutes were only used as accompaniment, never played by themselves. So here were these "paniolo" (the nearest the islanders could come to saying "Espanol") sitting around their camp fires and playing these instruments with no singer. Maybe one fellow would play the melody and another the accompaniment, or maybe one fellow would play both parts. This just blew the islanders away. Some of them started learning to play these instruments, and some wood workers started trying to build copies. By the time the cowboys had finished their contract, Hawaii was on its way to a new music tradition.

There was one little problem: the islanders thought the strings sounded tense. They kept wanting to relax them. So they did. They eventually developed 52 different ways to tune the guitar, all of them below standard tuning. And that is why they called their music "slack key". For a long time these special tunings were considered family secrets. Many artists would not play at all for anyone outside their families. About 1975 they began to realize that it was time to present their art to the world. And that is how a tradition 150 years old was dropped on a world that had never heard any such thing.

Ledward Ka'apana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87S3cUdiX-g

Fred Punahoa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUN_n0xka8

More slack key at youtube (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=slack+key&aq=f)

[jaybone]

Got a set of these and I have been in a trance ever since:
http://www.windchime.com/wind-chimes/aluminum-wind-chimes/woodstockwindsinger54inchorpheuswindchime.cfm
http://www.bontana-zimmerbrunnen.de/images/images_big/orpheussilver_g.jpg

I hear them in me head now, very soothing

[LufT76]

I pretty much listen to everything other than rap or hip hop.

Lately I find myself listening to Trance rather than the lying hacks on talk radio etc.

Here's a sample of what I'm listening too now. FYI - The State of Trance audios are great. I use to blast trance when I'd did canyon carving on my R1.



You know I remember Hal Turner used to be pretty fond of Trance / Electronica... ;D

Seriously tho.. I listen to trance more often than not.. I also enjoy older country, rock / metal..

But if I'm really feeling down, there is nothing like hearing a good military march on a nice sound system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZJdRRN3dOQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGN3TSdievc&feature=related

[Grand Master Melon]

Not me, holy crap, it's like I'm playing a bad video game. But hey, to each their own.

[Large Sarge]

Hey Thanks to saul mine, that slack key is great!!! (Fred Punahoa)

[Ash_Williams]

Sometimes I envy people who can be cheered up by music.
It does nothing for me normally. I enjoy it occasionally with recreational drugs, that's the only time I can fully hear it.
Other than that the only significant emotional response I have to most music is anger or annoyance, usually because someone is blasting rap or country or I'm hearing a ringtone.

Also unlike the headphone addicts I don't need noise thrown at me 24/7 in order to distract myself from the world. I prefer to be aware and alert.

[gunDriller]

Sometimes I envy people who can be cheered up by music.
It does nothing for me normally. I enjoy it occasionally with recreational drugs, that's the only time I can fully hear it.
Other than that the only significant emotional response I have to most music is anger or annoyance, usually because someone is blasting rap or country or I'm hearing a ringtone.

Also unlike the headphone addicts I don't need noise thrown at me 24/7 in order to distract myself from the world. I prefer to be aware and alert.

Sometimes I have a similar response.

I see a lot of people with those little ear-phone things. I have to be in the mood for music.

I like music when I am ice-skating.

[Saul Mine]

Sometimes I envy people who can be cheered up by music.
It does nothing for me normally. I enjoy it occasionally with recreational drugs, that's the only time I can fully hear it.
Other than that the only significant emotional response I have to most music is anger or annoyance, usually because someone is blasting rap or country or I'm hearing a ringtone.

Also unlike the headphone addicts I don't need noise thrown at me 24/7 in order to distract myself from the world. I prefer to be aware and alert.



People who have learned to play an instrument tend to appreciate music more because they understand what they are listening to. Same as you can appreciate a speech more if you understand the language.

[1970 silver art]

I like listening to certain trance and dance music. I like that video on the OP. I do not know if this is considered trance or not but I like certain select songs from Deadmau5, Kaskade, Tiesto, and some Armand Van Helden songs. This type of music helps me to relax and I listen to it at work to help me get through my work day.

[General of Darkness]

Good track.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TQHGcEjMM8

[gunny highway]

Here's a really old trance song, probably 20 years old or so. Turn it up and put the headphones on. It's a slow build so give it some time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_P7sHBngac&list=QL&playnext=1

damn, how do i get this thing to embed?

[gunny highway]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS5JMYL3ens&list=QL

Brother Grimm "Survive" from the mid 90s

[kiffertom]

I googled European radio stations. found a good one in Ukraine and a few in Holland that play a lot of trance, house and lounge. its great because ive never heard it and it doesn't bring back bad memories!