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    The Trance Listeners Thread

    in Art and Entertainment

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    @awsomejoe23: The basic Definition of Trance Music is given as

    Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown. Sometimes vocals are also utilized. The style is arguably derived from a combination of largely electronic music such as ambient music, techno, and house. 'Trance' received its name from the repetitious morphing beats, and the throbbing melodies which would presumably put the listener into a trance-like state. As this music is almost always played in nightclubs at popular vacation spots and in inner cities, trance can be understood as a form of club music.

    @topgun23: I think you know very less about trance music. Trance music is just as versatile as any other music Genre eg Rock.

    I am not saying this because I am a die hard Trance fan but just because it actually is a fact.

    Immensely popular, trance found itself filling a niche as 'edgier' than house, more soothing than drum and bass, and more melodic than techno, something that made it accessible to a wider audience. Artists like Tiesto, Ferry Corsten - System F, Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Johan Gielen, Above & Beyond, and Paul Oakenfold came to the forefront as premier producers and remixers, bringing with them the emotional, "epic" feel of the style. Many of these producers also DJ'd in clubs playing their own productions as well as those by other trance DJs. By the end of the 1990s, trance remained commercially huge, but had fractured into an extremely diverse genre. Some of the artists that had helped create the trance sound in the early and mid-1990s had, by the end of the decade, abandoned trance completely in favour of more underground sounds - artists of particular note here include Pascal F.E.O.S. and Oliver Lieb.

     

    all the quotes have been taken from Wikipedia

     

    The above post is not meant to hurt anybody or be offensive in nature.

    Anybody know of some good techno?

    in Art and Entertainment

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    You want Techno or Trance???

    Barcode Brothers and Eiffel 65 are a few good DJ's of Techno.

    In Techno style Trance (Industrial Trance), ATB is the best.

    http://www.last.fm is also there which is a social radio network and you can listen to all tracks and download a few for free.

    By this way you can yourself decide what you like and what not.

    If you want to know about trance, I can tell you a lot

    Shrek the Third

    in Art and Entertainment

    Posted

    "Shrek the Third" begins with a death, and from there the movie itself steadily dies.

     

    The third instalment in this monster of an animated franchise still subverts the fairy tales we grew up knowing and loving, but it's smothered in a suffocating sense of been-there, done-that.

     

    Thankfully, as the films go along, they rely less on gratuitous pop-culture references. And visually this "Shrek" is more dazzling than ever, especially in the realistic background details.

     

    The water looks watery and the sand looks sandy and the trees look so lush and leafy you could practically jump out of your seat and climb into one of them. By now it's probably easy for all of us to take for granted how far CGI technology has come, and it's worth stopping to appreciate for a moment.

     

    But part three also lacks the zip of its predecessors; it feels draggy and, at the same time, rushed. (At 86 minutes, it's also the shortest film in the series.) Except for a few moments here and there, such as Prince Charming's gleefully corny stage productions and a Gingerbread Man flashback montage, much of the original sense of ingenious fun is gone.

    It doesn't help that so many tired "Shrek" wannabes, like "Hoodwinked" and "Happily N'Ever After," have been trotted out in recent years, making the real thing feel just as hackneyed. Chris Miller, previously a story artist, co-directed with animator Raman Hui. About a half-dozen people are credited as having contributed to the script, including Andrew Adamson, who directed the first two "Shrek" flicks. So there is a sense of consistency - it just doesn't feel all that fresh anymore.

     

    This time, the lovably cranky ogre Shrek (voiced reliably as always by Mike Myers) struggles with the prospect of becoming king of Far, Far Away after the death of King Harold, the father of his bride, Fiona (Cameron Diaz). He'd rather stay home in the swamp, lazing around all day. (Why Fiona can't take over in a fairy-tale land where the all the other rules have been upended is never addressed. She is the more even-tempered and levelheaded of the two, after all. Perhaps if Hillary were president ....)

     

    Anyway, Shrek sets out with his chatty sidekick Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and the suave Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas, still an adorable scene-stealer) to find the only other possible heir to the throne: the nerdy, insecure Artie, Fiona's teenage cousin, who is voiced by Justin Timberlake and looks like Corey Feldman.

     

    Artie is always on the receiving end of Lancelot's athletic jousts and is otherwise the butt of everyone's jokes at his medieval high school - the irony being, of course, that Timberlake has long been the coolest kid in the class. So when Shrek and his pals show up and offer him the kingdom, he's only to happy to take it. At first.

     

    Meanwhile, with hubby away, Fiona is left to defend the castle from Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), the vain former suitor she once jilted who has now come back to stage a bloody coup with a posse of vanquished villains (Captain Hook, the Evil Queen, etc.).

     

    Fiona - who's pregnant with the baby Shrek isn't sure he's ready for - gets some unexpected help on her end from longtime damsels in distress Snow White (Amy Poehler), Cinderella (Amy Sedaris), Rapunzel (Maya Rudolph) and Sleeping Beauty (Cheri Oteri), as well as her mother, Queen Lillian (Julie Andrews).

     

    It's a clever idea to have these characters transcend their stereotypes, but with the exception of Poehler's demanding diva, they all feel tossed in and underused. Like "Spider-Man 3," "Shrek the Third" throws more at us - including plenty of barf and flatulence jokes for the kids - but too little of it actually sticks.

     

     

    Just found this on news:

     

    "Shrek the Third" took in $122 million in its first weekend, breaking the franchise's own record for best debut ever for an animated film, according to studio estimates Sunday.

     

    The latest adventure of the ogre shot past 2004's "Shrek 2," the previous record-holder for animated openings with $108 million.

     

    Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount, "Shrek the Third" was the third-biggest debut ever, coming in behind the $151.1 million haul of this month's "Spider-Man 3" and the $135.6 million gross of last summer's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."

     

    Executives at DreamWorks Animation and Paramount had expected "Shrek the Third" to open more in range with the debut of "Shrek 2." Strong business from audiences across the board lifted "Shrek the Third" well above projections.

     

    This movie is yet to be released here in India. Most probably it would be released on this Friday

    Requesting a Invision 2.0.x Skinning manual

    in Website Management and Coding

    Posted

    Hi there, I know I have been back here after a long time, sorry for that.

    Anyways coming to the point now, I am building a website where I am using Invision 2.0 PF4.

    I don't like the bland skin neither want to download one from Invisionize.

    I would highly appreciate if someone can post a skinning manual for IPB 2.0.x

     

    I think djbob might take the resonsibility as he has developed a custom skin for helionet.

    just a small question

    in Contact HelioNet

    Posted

    OK!! By songs I only refer to the Original Audio Cd Collection I own. I am not refering to GB's of Pirated and downloaded songs ;) but just a handpicked songs that would hardly sum upto 20 :)

     

    And yeah I would certainly keep a tab on my bandwidth usage, BTW this is just a trial :)

     

    and yeah tell me about Posting Plus Hosting, You have to earn 1000 points each month????

     

    Anywayz thanks for the advice admin

     

    EDIT-----------------------------------------------------------

     

    I just installed a IPB forum (free one version 2.0.0 PF4) and when i visit my site ie http://flashtech.heliohost.org/ all I see is "‹" characters instead of my homepage ???

     

    I have tested this script on other host also and it works there watz d problem ???

    just a small question

    in Contact HelioNet

    Posted

    I actually am building a website wgich would have d ability to stream music when a user demands.

    I would put up few songs of my collection which I own. Read this plz " None of the songs would be offered as downloads but just for online hearing purpose".

     

    I thought it would be better to ask the admins 1st....... so i expect a prompt response

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