Global Gathering: The Proof that Trance Music is alive and well!

Global Gathering: The Proof that Trance Music is alive and well!

29 July, 2008 | 10.41AM

• Written by: Ellie
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At the UK’s Global Gathering event last weekend, the Godskitchen Arena (Europe’s largest festival tent) was as it usually is; packed out throughout the whole of the weekend.

Most of the people we asked said they had gone to the festival to see the trance headliners and all of the music we heard being played on iPod docking stations around the campsite was trance (mainly Sander van Doorn), with the exception of some Deadmau5 (even his records often contain some trance-like qualities).

We asked trance acts Above & Beyond and Sean Tyas why they think there’s always so much debate about whether or not trance music is dead. Here’s what they had to say:

“I think people get angry about something that’s popular sometimes. People slag off R&B and slag off hip-hop and it’s the same with trance, but it’s certainly not dead is it?”
- Above & Beyond’s Jono Grant

“It’s stupid, I mean look at the top ten DJs. Our perspective is obviously international. I think the UK has had so much club music in the last ten years that maybe they’re just a little bit tired of it, but the world is a little bit bigger than the UK, thankfully.”
- Above & Beyond’s Tony McGuinness

“It’s so clear that trance is alive and there’s so many new people discovering it every day and that’s what makes it really exciting.”
- Above & Beyond’s Paavo Siljamäki

“It’s not really dead. Trance music is growing in places like South America, like Argentina and Brazil and also heavily in Australia and then you look in Poland which is basically the new Holland. It’s certainly dying in some other places but it’s growing in other places. As long as we have regions to still play in, then we’ll always be OK. The sound is just evolving; with new production techniques it just gets better and better and better. In my opinion I think the sound is way better than it was (in the ‘90s).”
- Sean Tyas

So can we please put an end to the tiresome debate about trance music being dead once and for all?!

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