Always loved this one - โMan Likeโ on the remix:
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Different strokes for different folks though isnโt it?
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Special one that
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Of course. But a lot of it was very very cheesy and not more or less sophisticated than chipmunk hardcore and ragga jungle. even in the glory days of 91-94
Especially that Union Jack one.
It even evolved into a kind of teutonic analog to British happy hardcore with Hamburg hard trance by the middle of '94. Got picked up by the rave djs in the north of the UK who were generally less receptive to breakbeats of course.
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Just revisited some 90s trance I liked and jam & spoon aside, not much had aged well. paraglider, oliver lieb, redeyeโฆ (bolland camarge?) stuff like that. Itโs funny how your ears can approach the same music so differently over time. Do we become prejudiced? Or just get oldโฆ? 
i still think the early 90s German releases hold up better than the late 90s Dutch, but I didnโt hang around to find out. With all of it, โEuroโ was a dangerous gameโฆ you were never more than one key away from cheesy rave stab ignominy
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The thing with these trance records too as well is they were made on hardware in studios and mixed down on desks and hence thereโs not so much going on so the hooks needed to be betterโฆ
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Yeah, I hear you. I mean this is coming in at 150 bpm, and something Iโd never play now, but for a brief moment in 1994, when you were two Doves in, it felt like the greatest trance record ever madeโฆ
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bpm phobia is why I swapped new dance music for old free jazz and soul records tbh.
One of my mates made the contention that techno is good either when it is really fast (140+) or really slow (sub 120). Iโm not sure I fully agree, but nothing more boring than 128 (or 135) greyscale berlin sets these days.
Wouldnโt mind a mix of this really fast 92-93 trance, but sven vath canโt really mix. Not in the way I think of mixing, anyway.
This one got played by UK rave djs such as Easygroove, terry lee brown jr/timerider fame in 93. Deliciously dark hoover trance.
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Was trying to remember if I drifted out of it or whether there was one night/revelation where I suddenly thought it was shit. Probably Oakenfoldโs fault (most things usually were).
Hereโs an Italian one I still have fond memories of (more than a whiff of Westbam hold me backโฆ)
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Not sure where you got that idea, breakbeat hardcore was massive in the north, Ibiza records/ Moving Shadow etc etc- all over the pirates
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I stand corrected then! But to answer your q โฆ people from Leeds, Newcastle and Glasgow on forums and cogs groups. and the Yorkshire tracklists website for hard trance/bouncy techno /makina (?) Not my scene though so I dunno the nitty gritty.
Uncle Dugs interviewed a Scottish dj on rinse which I lost the recording to, dj kid (?) and he was talking about how he got bottled for playing breakbeats in '93 when things started to get junglistic. Not sure if tall talesโฆ
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This still does it
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Rinsed this. Love the Sexual Deviant mix and I actually really like Power of American Natives, donโt @ me 
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this is one of the last trance records Dave Angel played. late 94. guy definitely had trendsetting taste as a dj in the 90. I guess sven vath still stuck with it for another year but not so much amongst UK techno jocks.
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Just been listening to the Planet Love vol 1 comp (maybe thatโs what started the original convo as the first 2 tracks in this thread feature)
Quite enjoyed this
And then thereโs this proto trance classic
And whilst weโre doing Holy Ghost inc
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This has got some trance elements to it. Nice touch of acid too.
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I think that was made after a rave in the Middle of nowhere in Scotland - you had to get a boat to it. Pals of ours also played at/ went to one up a mountain near fort William. Dedicated perty people!
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Proper trance trousers business. I remember loosing it to this more than once
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