Trance
Was introduced to trance music this weekend. I had never liked trance, house, electronica and such music. Was always more of a cheesy music fan (anything with words really). Okay with R&B, although that gets boring after a while. My introduction to D&B at The Mass, Brixton, went okay. It took a few songs, but I eventually warmed up it.
It was the same with trance. DJ Tiesto, apparently the Number 1 DJ (and Dutch, as Dutch boy hastened to add), had a "concert" (that's what the rest called it, although I hardly would have thought a DJ doing his thing would be called a concert) at Brixton Academy on Saturday, and I went along to try it out. (Try [almost] everything once)
I never used to understand trance music. All that wordless, senseless repetitive sound, which was more like noise than music. Which could not be broken down, deconstructed into something you could work with. You (I) couldn't Dance to trance. It was all pointless bopping around, or spastic spasms. Which is probably why people like it I guess. Brainless bopping. No skill involved. Just alcohol.
But having said that, after Saturday night, I'm beginning to understand why people appreciate it. There is after all something very hypnotic about the lights, the repetition, the hyper, erratic beat. And, as I said, it's brainless, no skill required, you just have to be uninhibited, inebriated, to let the music take over your body and limbs. I could do it again. But I would need (quite a bit more) alcohol. And also it's very relaxing... it's definitely the kind of thing you can go for to destress and unwind. Give yourself up to the music, the crowd, the almost cultish atmosphere. Let it all go.
It was the same with trance. DJ Tiesto, apparently the Number 1 DJ (and Dutch, as Dutch boy hastened to add), had a "concert" (that's what the rest called it, although I hardly would have thought a DJ doing his thing would be called a concert) at Brixton Academy on Saturday, and I went along to try it out. (Try [almost] everything once)
I never used to understand trance music. All that wordless, senseless repetitive sound, which was more like noise than music. Which could not be broken down, deconstructed into something you could work with. You (I) couldn't Dance to trance. It was all pointless bopping around, or spastic spasms. Which is probably why people like it I guess. Brainless bopping. No skill involved. Just alcohol.
But having said that, after Saturday night, I'm beginning to understand why people appreciate it. There is after all something very hypnotic about the lights, the repetition, the hyper, erratic beat. And, as I said, it's brainless, no skill required, you just have to be uninhibited, inebriated, to let the music take over your body and limbs. I could do it again. But I would need (quite a bit more) alcohol. And also it's very relaxing... it's definitely the kind of thing you can go for to destress and unwind. Give yourself up to the music, the crowd, the almost cultish atmosphere. Let it all go.
