Now I realise your involvement in EMA even better: Super!
You travelling diaries, quite a bit of trance. Like 'Travelling Man' and 'Night Sky'. The later D&B obviously :) You seem to have some 'trancy' influences in your D&B (like the set recording you shared in your 'Spread the Vibes' post). Oww well, maybe not trancy, but more melodic to what I know from the D&B genre. For sure something I seem to like! :)
I do hope clubs (or at least outdoor events) can happen this spring, so you are able to DJ again. In NL, events are being scheduled. A friend gets more and more requests for her DJs again, not only for NL, but for all over the world. But most of those events may not happen. We are waiting to learn if the festival we sooo much love, somewhere in the rural areas of northeast Germany, will happen this year. Planning started, but the permit doesn't seem to be in yet. But when it happens, it's gonna be two weeks of music, art, and great people!
You're right man, trance is a big influence on my music too - it was my first love before finding DnB and I still like listening to the anthems I heard from 1999-2004 on Ministry of Sound. I have a new trance release out on Friday which may interest you - it's a little faster than the usual BPM, not sure why I did it but maybe it's the dnb side of me not being happy with life at 130 BPM haha!
I'm more of a hobbyist than a professional and have got more out of sharing my music on crypto sites (pretty much HIVE) than anywhere else which is more than I could have hoped for! It's great to hear that events are starting to be scheduled again in NL. We're a long way off that in UK, I have doubts for the end of the year but hopefully things will come back to life again but possibly 2022... I keep my fingers crossed that the festival happens and your friend can get back to DJing again!
Hahaha 13- bpm is something else than D&B indeed. You may try hardstyle or happy hardcore? BPM wise you are in the area 🙂 I really don't like this Dutch-born genre, but I respect it and understand why others like it so much.
Festivals, who knows what will happen. This weekend I received the information that one of the festivals I go to every year is planning for this year still, ie not abandoned 2021 completely. I do hope so, it'll be 2x 6 days of music. I think I need a whole month, but I settle for two weeks 🤣
Hahahaha Ok Ok, you've tried that side of things: Nice 🙂 I have no clue what is real hardstyle, hardcore or whatever. Not too familar with all the sub-genres in that side of thing. Listening to your track, I would think it has some GOA trance (psytrance) elements in it, next to the elements of hardstyle/hardcore. Also Trance elements. Must be some sub-genre around, dedicated to that sound.
From a two week week music festivals with none stop music at more than 15 stages? I guess I need as well, until the next great festival or club night. When that is a week after, I'll revive myself no matter what.
Yeah the tutorials I found for beginners to producing hardstyle said that it's got elements of hard trance, psytrance and some messed up distorted kick with loud noises so that's what I went for! Also in the mix that was shared to get inspiration from, a lot of these tracks had that feel about them so I tried that - have no idea genre mine is but what the hell, it was good fun!
Haha! Oh yeah, I'm sure you'll find the energy and "2nd wind" as we call it here where you think you're down and out but you find something that just propels you even more... I've yet to find the 3rd wind and beyond though 😃
Finding the 3rd wind is maybe a little bit more difficult at my age, but done the 4th, 5th, 6th, nth winds many times a decade, two decades and almost 3 decades ago 🤪
Hahaha! Proper raver, love it! These days, it's an "achievement" if I have made it past 23:00 😃