padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
also, as far as I can tell Lunatic Asylum - Meltdown isn't anywhere on YT but that is another hard af trance classic
that was much better/more interesting than I thought it'd beooh look, somebody at Pitchfork wrote a defense of trance a few weeks ago
I'd argue it's the main flavor, sonically and especially aestheticallyi suppose it is also a flavour within the mush that is EDM's stadium rave fodder
Fluchtpunkt is the glass-half-full redescription of the glass-half-empty concept freizeit knast or "leisure prison" (which I learned from Achim Szepanski of Mille Plateaux, although i suspect he got it from one of the Frankfurt School)
I'd argue it's the main flavor, sonically and especially aesthetically
this is the other thing talking about trance - as someone here (crowley maybe?) said, it's long since won massively. it doesn't need the validation of critics or musos.
commercial trance is the Thomas Kinkade of dance music