amazing thread, and amazing insight... viva la musica!
music has, is, and will always be my life; i sleep, wake, travel, work, eat, bathe, fuck, smoke and live to music. if i could record my life as one constant soundtrack i'd be happiness personified.
there is no joy in my world like creating music. be it a violin sonata which draws a tear, just one tear from one person in the audience, or an excellent mix that makes one hundred people's night... i don't think there are words which can capture the feeling; that's why we have notes
to express what you wish musically, and to do it simply, is our greatest struggle - ludwig van beethoven
no matter what day i've had, what friends i've made or lost, what money i've spent or earnt, what i've eaten or why i've starved, there is only one thing which draws me back and lifts me up above; music.
trance for me represents an ideal; a triumph of beauty over passive imitation, a celebration of life's delights and heartaches, a chance to truly feel what makes us human... trance lifts me, melds me, shapes me as a person. it always will.
how many times have you dropped the needle on a record in the shop, and felt those shivers up your spine... it's incredible how such an assortment of electronically produced frequencies can mean so much, but i swear sometimes my very heartstrings have been wrenched forth, and used to play me as a puppet...
when there is no escape, when society threatens to constrict and conform, i turn to hard, driving trance. when the sun is low, and a spliff is lit, i turn to soft, uplifting trance. when times are dark, and there seems no respite, i turn to aching, beautiful trance. when i'm getting changed and going out, i turn to boshing slamming trance. in short, i turn to trance... until it turns me round.
thank you, to everyone involved with the music.
beauty is abundant - here's some below:
yahel - devotion, sound & melody
domestix & asterix - pure energy
v-one - dead cities
antarctica - adrift, illusion, lazarev
altitude - excession
dj kim - jetlag
MORPH - maximum overdrive
push - the legacy, strangeworld