Black Rain

Black Rain (Original Mix)

Gregor Tresher [Great Stuff]

11 February, 2008 | 5.35PM

• Written by: Ben Raven
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Some call it posh trance.

Others call it trouse (trance plus house: geddit?).

Whatever your choice of slang, the more melodic strains of minimal techno and house emanating form the studios of producers like Guy Gerber or Gregor Tresher are showing the DJs who proclaim to make real trance how it should be really done.

Gregor’s album is awash with melodic gems that have lit up dancefloors over the past two years with killer hooks and melodies and ‘Black Rain’ is the most minimal melodic cut on the record.

It’s almost a mark of the full circle that trance has come, which was first brought to prominence by producers like Mark Spoon and Sven Vath’s influential Harthouse label of the early 1990s.

In a time when the artists more commonly known for playing trance continue to peddle the Gatecrasher/fluffy bra/glowstick friendly brand of the genre that hasn’t been updated since 1997, it’s funny to think that the best trance isn’t actually made by trance artists.

More likely, it’s made by the artists who would loathe to be called trance artists in the first place.

Confused?

Never mind — all you need to know is that the melodic side of dance music is being well catered by forward thinking, boundary pushing producers like Gregor Tresher.

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