crucial

Format: CD compilation, cassette

Sold 16,000 copies-- one of the best-selling US techno compilations of the era. Trance was actually still an adjective then, not yet a proper genre. Or maybe I was just clueless back in Minneapolis. We were listening to hardcore. Trance quickly became a genre title. It still denoted some kind of primitive tribal mentality, or at least to me. It was different than disco-- you were in a trance. Somehow spiritual, like voodoo. Then they sent me this CD and I thought "what's with all the f*&ing synth pads?" Thus was trance born.

    

        
5:28
        
Planet E
        
[Violet Force] 
   
    

        
5:29
        
Waiting For The Lights
        
[High Lonesome Sound System] 
   
    

        
5:05
        
Mean Go Getter
        
[Happy as Hell]
   
    

        
5:12
        
Tone Exploitation
        
[The Nighttripper]
   
    

        
5:57
        
We Are Experienced!
        
[The Odd Company]
   
    

        
7:56
        
Space Is The Place
        
[Irresistible Force] 
   
    

        
6:32
        
Fantasizing
        
[Trancesetters]
   
    

        
4:50
        
Utopia
        
[Reality Studio]
   
    

        
11:54
        
The Naked And The Dub
        
[Orbital]
   
    

        
6:01
        
Always
        
[Niko]
   
    

        
6:12
        
Let Yourself Go
        
[Westbam]
   
    

        
4:41
        
Normizon 5 AM
        
[Paradise 3000]
   

A 12" was also pressed with 4 of these tracks including mine:

A1 Violet Force Planet E
A2 Irresistible Force, The Space Is The Place
B1 Odd Company, The We Are Experienced
B2 Happy As Hell Mean Go Getter

The original version of Mean Go Getter was a balls out ballistic breakcore epic. The vocal sample is from Syd Barrett.