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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.

<table border="0">
    <tr>
        <td>5:28</td>
        <td>Planet E</td>
        <td>[Violet Force] </td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>5:29</td>
        <td>Waiting For The Lights</td>
        <td>[High Lonesome Sound System] </td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>5:05</td>
        <td>Mean Go Getter</td>
        <td>[Happy as Hell]</td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>5:12</td>
        <td>Tone Exploitation</td>
        <td>[The Nighttripper]</td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>5:57</td>
        <td>We Are Experienced!</td>
        <td>[The Odd Company]</td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>7:56</td>
        <td>Space Is The Place</td>
        <td>[Irresistible Force] </td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>6:32</td>
        <td>Fantasizing</td>
        <td>[Trancesetters]</td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>4:50</td>
        <td>Utopia</td>
        <td>[Reality Studio]</td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>11:54</td>
        <td>The Naked And The Dub</td>
        <td>[Orbital]</td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>6:01</td>
        <td>Always</td>
        <td>[Niko]</td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>6:12</td>
        <td>Let Yourself Go</td>
        <td>[Westbam]</td>
   </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>4:41</td>
        <td>Normizon 5 AM</td>
        <td>[Paradise 3000]</td>
   </tr>
</table>

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.