In 1995, trance softened and started to really get epic and beautiful. Platipus, Harthouse, Rising High and other labels were making a melodic symphony out of what had initially been a relatively staid and simple genre.
Tag: techno
Sublight: “Don’t do Hits of House” Classic DJ set
Classic laid back and beautiful house & techno sounds.
Sublight: “Don’t do Tokes of Trance” Classic DJ set
The deep end of the pool.
Sublight: “Thee Beauty ov Destruction” Classic DJ set
Thee light at thee end ov thee tunnel? For the moment.
Sublight: “Trance & Tribal Mind Teardown” Classic DJ set
A dark mindtrip for dark times.
Sublight: “Thee Architecture ov Doom” Classic DJ set
At the end of 1994, all that intensity took it’s emotional toll.
Sublight: “Falling” Classic DJ set
A classic party set filled with happiness. This is, to some extent, where it began. Learning how to bring all of these ecstatic sounds together into something that told a story, brought beauty forward, and raised emotions. And once I started, I could never stop.
Sublight: “Deep Currents” Classic DJ set
The sets of this era are split between dark and light, happy and sad. This was a time of extreme consciousness opening for me, musically and in general, and the schism between opposites is a reflection of the imbalance that exploration was taking.
Sublight: “Dark Waters” Classic DJ set
In choice of music, as well as actual content, a lot of the vestiges of my early 90’s addiction to industrial remained evident. Apart from the usual suspects of the scene at the time, like artists on Chicago’s fabled Wax Trax! records and the many amazing bands and labels closer to home in Canada, there was also darker ambient and experimental content, all of which melded into a stew of dark and hard beats, resulting in an immediate affiliation with hard techno and dark, heavy trance. At the time, Toronto, and all of southern Ontario, were pushing out an amazing amount of home-made content in that range (Plus8, DOVe), and it was this time when I started getting beyond my growing CD collection, and started to buy vinyl. Expensive and hard to play at the time with an old belt-drive turntable with no tempo adjustment on it, it was still hard to pass up what I was finding. Equally, having collected so much Wax Trax, I was becoming immersed in their Warp reissues. You can hear the results.
Sublight: “Placid Placebo” Classic DJ set
A mixed bag of tracks that reflected a voracious appetite for, and growing awareness of electronic music. I think it’s good right up front that I didn’t stick to one style, in the early 90’s I was playing 4-5 genres of music, sometimes even in one set. In our apartment in Ottawa, the parties would run non-stop, sometimes for days, and I would get to experiment with my limited music selection, seeing what fit and what didn’t, and what I really felt passionate about.