Well, the actual "grandfather" of the trance genre is no other than the late Beatle George Harrison. Harrison coined the term "Trance" in his 1969 second solo album with the same name, released on the Beatles' short-lived Zapple label, which consisted mainly of experimental electronic music with primitive synthsizers. ResDog ----- Original Message ----- From: "tom maclean iii" <tom@stereoboom.com> To: <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:11 PM Subject: [KLF] origins of trance
being into trance, and watching it morph from an ultra-repetitive niche of techno into the biggest pop dance movement since disco, i've often wondered where it all started. a lot of people point to sven vath's "accident in paradise" as the first point in which techno became trance, having been released around 1992 or so.
but what about the klf? the pure trance series, which first hit streets in 1988, could have easily been the first collection of tracks ever released that claimed to be trance... but the burning question remains - did they in turn inspire what eventually came to be widely defined as trance or was their style simply pingeon-holed as acid house and left at that? are the klf the true forgotten fathers of trance, or was their influence isolated to the pop world alone.
i was 11 when 3am eternal hit number 1, and i've been stuck stateside my whole life, so my perspective is limited. perhaps some of you ultra-oldskool brits can help me out here...
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