Why For Fans Of Trance Music Vinyl Is Still Topping The Charts
Although heavily influenced by electronics, when it comes to trance music vinyl is still seen by many as the most preferable format for distributing and playing trance and dance music. This might seem strange to some people, since much of today’s dance and trance music is digitally generated, computer manipulated and formatted in binary code. But for many fans of trance, dance and house music there is a huge benefit to be gained through having music distributed and played on vinyl. Trance music is a relatively new form of music, originating in Germany through the 1990s. There are mixed references as far as exactly how it was influenced, and even how it managed to acquire its name, but it would seem that a combination or fusion between space music and dance music were ultimately responsible for such formats. As for the name, several of the early tracks seemed to use [...]
2 TONE – For The Vinyl Junkie
2 Tone (or Two Tone) is a music genre created in England in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae and pop music. The 2 Tone sound was developed by English musicians (mostly based in the West Midlands area) who grew up hearing 1960s Jamaican music and decided to play a similar style of music.[1] They combined that style with influences from contemporary punk and pop music. The new music genre (and associated subculture) became known as 2 Tone because most of the bands were signed to the record label 2 Tone Records at some point. Other record labels associated with the 2 Tone sound were Stiff Records and Go Feet Records. Bands considered part of the 2 Tone genre include The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, Madness, Bad Manners and The Bodysnatchers. The music term 2 Tone was coined by Jerry Dammers of The [...]