Hi guys! I’m having a hard time categorizing my trance collection. I have many tracks which I can kind of group but I don’t know how to call them, genre-wise. Is there a text about that somewhere? How do you categorize your trance tunes, or is it all trance to you?
The hardest thing for me is to differentiate between Uplifting, Euphoric and Classic Trance. And: Is everything with vocals in it really called “vocal trance”?
Hey mate, well i’ve been listening to trance for over 16 years, and no matter what bullshit sub-genres people start calling it, its still just trance to me. Check out this site tho, only a generalisation of genres but cool nonetheless. http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/music.swf
At the most i’ll categorise it as: Euro Trance, Progressive Trance, And Psychedelic Trance. Just my opinion tho mate.
why not group them based on warm-up, peak and end of night? maybe a couple of groups in between. tried that once with breaks and found they mostly did drop into the sub-genres at the same time.
or group based on preference?
Yeah imo there should be a standardized phatness scale for categorizing music. . At the end of jazz concert reviews in the newspaper there ought to be a phatness number, so everybody–jazz fans or not–can understand. haha.
But really? Why put so much thought and effort into over-analyzing tracks and sorting them into unnecessary subgenres? That’s something that annoys me about EDM in general. Seems like artists/producers are always trying to invent their own catagory.
I know it’s not just EDM though. All genres of music try to have their crazy over-classification. It seems like being familiar with the most obscure artists in the most obscure genres is “proof” that you know the genre inside and out.
Thanks, that’s the link I was looking for And apparently, I was looking for the differentiation of Ibizia Trance, Uplifting (“Epic” or “Euro”) trance and Progressive Trance.
So… Ibiza Trance is the softer one, but what’s the difference between uplifting and progressive?
Categorizing with warm-up etc. makes a lot of sense. But as I also have all kind of other stuff in my list (mainly house) that kind of categorization wouldn’t work for me. I don’t want to over-do it either.
I could try to make playlists for warm up and so on, too.
Another good way to group them is by Key. I have them categorized as Melodic, Vocal and Progressive. I also have smart lists that sort them by key and another one for the newer tracks.
i think there is a clear distinction between trance and psy trance but thats it.
Trance you can be like, well it’s good but the bassline is lacking, psytrance always has a sharp kicking bassline, ALWAYS.
if something was a bit progressive trance i’d just call it progressive, to the point that it’s a bit housey then instead of calling it progressive house i’d just call it house.
this eurotrance some of you speak of, i solely classify as cheese
Sorry for reviving the ancient thread (dusting off cobwebs & stuffs from the old box) i’m bored at work, and the search tool is working efficiently!
A good advise, i’ve been doing this for the last 5 years since collecting EDM mp3s. created folders like singles (for stuffs i won’t play after the 1st listen), top proggy (stuff range from 120 - 135bpm, groovy basslines…mostly progressive), uplifting (range 135 up to 140bpm with distinctive basliness & melody), hard stuff for anything above 140bpm, other genres for ‘normal’ music.
. At the end of jazz concert reviews in the newspaper there ought to be a phatness number, so everybody–jazz fans or not–can understand. haha.
