Any good trance parties comming up?

I have lived here for close to 3 years and I haven't seen any decent trance gigs here!

Has trance died in Wellies ??

Died in the ass years ago...nu NRG/hard house/trance/dance killed it

lol trance.

haha i am allowed to have a "fluffy" moment!

I do like NRG/Hard Trance

But every now and then i like trance!

Looks like i will have to go up to auckland for it

Stupid wellies

yeah, unfortunately the trance scene in welly is non-existent - we did some parties a coupla years ago with trance main rooms and harder side rooms -> no prizes for guessing what was packed and what was vacant...
good breakdowns just aint appreciated here, which is a shame, and the reason why great DJ's like Quamay, Tactics etc don't get to play out much or at all.
You will get to hear a bit of trancier stuff at the start of Fevah and Twisted, so get there early and SuperJ will look after you

may have to do something about that next yr then eh

What type of trance are you after?

Oh thanks heaps!! Shame its at the start of the night :/

I like uplifting vocal trance, and some times psy trance..

huh??

I hope that means Eamonn is planning on getting some trance internationals in...we'll see...I hope so!!!!!!
Not too much vocals tho imho - gets a little cheeseball if that is there, but good uplifting stuff is awesome - simon patterson and greg downey ftw

oh yes.. i like some vocals but mm decent uplifing trance.. oh i wish i had the $$ to put a party on..

Paul Maddox's set at the last Fevah ftw!

A few of my friends put on psytrance nights quite often.

There is a free outdoor party planed next Saturday.

PM me for details if interested

PM Sent

ftw but hardly trance.

i know this.
i meant more for the vocal tracks he played, but didnt state that.
was waiting for you to comment on that one bro haha.

Get along to Fevah Xmas ball! I'm on after Andy Farley and it's going to be trancey but tough with a healthy dose of psychedelia

Sweet i am going

I'd hate to disappoint you

As you know bigbird I like my vocal Trance, just think of classic tunes like Such is life - Rank 1, Holding on - Agneli & Nelson & Home - Lost Witness could go on & on.

I think DJ's Like Markus Schulz, Marcel Woods, Daniel Kandi & Ian Betts would be wicked to see in Wellington.

Yep trance is awesome. Wish we were more like Europe in terms of trance popularity but it seems we're more like America with NZ's love of hip hop and rock.

im suprised this stuff is still getting made

a trance gig is coming our way!!!!!

Good to hear.. keep it up.

I agree, also Wellyington is to focused on Hard House & NRG. Can not wait to see Quamay play X-Plicit on 7th Feb

That's because the best promoted gigs in the 'reach for the lasers' scene are HH/NRG gigs. If you want to grow the trance scene, start putting on quality trance parties with quality promotion. From that you will get punters who will grow to love the music. Look at how the D&B scene has exploded over the last couple of years thanks to so many well-promoted D&B gigs being pushed.

Eh? Wellingtons DnB scene has ALWAYS been strong, and well promoted...it's nothing new...it's been the most consistently supported scene throughout Wellingtons entire dance music history!

Wellington had a strong trance scene back in 1998-2001, but Nu NRG/Hard Dance came along and squashed it...helped in part by the massive increase in people using P....no one wanted fluff and melody anymore, than wanted angry faced stomping.

Never said it wasn't, but I've been keeping an eye on the scene for years and never known it to have so many packed gigs with international headliners than it has over the past couple of years - almost every weekend at certain points.



I disagree that P was the cause of that. In the UK and UK-influenced scenes like NZ there was somewhat of a backlash against big room trance in 1998-2001, and clubbers instead embraced the 'Trade house' sound which became known as hard house. As a result, hard house exploded - everyone was playing it. Even trance and techno labels were including hard house remixes on the flips of their releases, because the sound was so popular at the time. This also led to labels like Nukleuz and Tidy Trax becoming the biggest selling UK dance labels at the time.

That bubble burst years ago, however, and now most hard house is back 'underground', but still has a strong following in the UK and NZ - P didn't make it popular. The dance music industry made it popular.

Didn't say it was the sole cause, but it sure as hell helped things along the way...I know, I was there...

It was because the BPMs were going through the roof and the "loved up" vibe was completely fucking gone, replaced by angry stomping that I left that scene and fell into house music.

me luffs teh trance.

since trance died I have put on SOOO much weight!!

Do you think you'd still be primarily a trance fan if hard music hadn't taken hold in Welly?

I remember that time, as well. My situation was somewhat opposite to yours - I used to be much more of a house fan when trance was big in Wellington, didn't have much time for trance at all. But then when hard house came along I went to a couple of gigs and found myself liking it, so I switched over. And no, I wasn't on P at the time. I think it's because I've always been more interested in groove and bassline than melody.

You'd have stayed skinny if you'd embraced P... oh sorry I mean hard house

Hard to say, even then I was evenly split between trance and techno...both scenes curled up and died about the same time...got dragged to a house when I thought all "house" was like La Bouche, Real McCoy, 2Unlimted, M People etc but my eyes were opened and I loved it...but when I head tech-house and progressive and fell head over heels in love as they seemed to blend all the elements I liked from house, trance and techno into one. Hooked ever since.

Still appreciate trance, just find that it lacks the depth which the others have which keep me hooked.

Hard house has groove?

Just never got anything over around 135BPM (unless it's DnB or dubstep/things based off broken beats) as I just find a 4X4 at that speed too fast to dance to.

I'm all about easy groove, rolling basslines, tweaky melody/highs...music which makes you close your eyes and scrunch you face up!

I was, as some say, a 'trance bunny'.

I was pretty naive to the town scene.
When i started going to dance parties i realised straight away that Hard House seemed to be what was big atm.
I had come to appreciate what i loved about HH,
The energy, the acidlines and hoovers and just how straight up it was compared to trance, but was lacking the melody that i had come to love in trance.
Even though trance has breakdown after build up and has always really followed the same format, it was obviously the melody that had kept me interested.

So i had dived more into what i was looking for.
Energy, melody and, of course, the acid. (303 baby!)
I found Psy Trance (in all it's forms)
It was just right, even though it's even more scarce than the trance scene.
Prog/ Morning Psy is what's for me.

/Rant

We may see some trance return to the R18 parties this year i think.

We are also about to do the trance thing with ENERGIZE our underage party coming up very soon.