Dance Music Flashbacks - Goldtrix - It's Love (Trippin')

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Yesterday, I went back in time to 2001 and shared an absolute beauty from Watkins called Black A.M. and I thought I'd stay in the early 2000s as I remembered some more tunes I was loving at the time. Today, I want to share an atmospheric trance track that I first heard on MTV of all places and, as a young teenager and being full of energy, I fell in love with the mesmerising intro from those rhythmic synths of It's Love (Trippin') by Goldtrix, released on Altra Moda Music. The official music video is below but you know me, a sucker for the full original length tune which can be found here.


Once again, it was another Ministry of Sound compilation that opened my ears to a plethora of amazing tracks from that era with the Annual Spring 2002. Perhaps I was drawn in by the charming lady in the bikini on the front cover of that compilation but either way, it worked as there were some incredible tunes on this one and I featured a couple in my first and only dance & trance music mix I've done so far. If you'd like to listen in to that you can listen to the full 90 minutes here but I wanted to speed things up a little bit and I think you know what's coming!


This lady enticed me in to a world of dance music!

Of course, there's a Drum & Bass remix of this track and it stays true to the original hypnotic sounds courtesy of the Matrix extended mix. My goodness, I had this one on loop as I was training for half marathons and marathons in my prime - I didn't realise that the drum & bass version was released in the same year as part of the same release as the original. I hadn't dived down the drum & bass rabbit hole until a few years later when I heard this track on one of the many liquid dnb mixes I heard around 2006-2007.

As we were doing one of our final Platform Project shows at the end of 2020, I whipped out this track in the mix and I forgot how hypnotic it was as I normally give a quick shoutout during the breakdowns and say what the tune is but I was just lost in the music myself! Some of the listeners were melting at this one on the livestream and that's what it's all about! Just goes to show, tunes that are 20 years old transcend and can take us places. If you aren't wrapped in the vibes of this track, then the lyrics are below:

They say I'm crazy, the way you got me open baby
They say I'm buggin', the way I'm tight twistin' your lovin'
They all sit and wonder why, these feelings I cannot hide
It ain't a question of pride

They say I'm trippin', the way you got my whole life livin'
They say I'm losin' it, just can't seem to get my grip baby
We all cry when we feel pain, love is gone we're not the same
It ain't a question of brains

Hopefully you enjoyed this week's look back at some of my favourites from the years. Tomorrow is a new trance music release from me and the final single release of the Clouds of Memories EP so I look forward to sharing that with you!

Do you remember this one? What are your memories of it? Let me know in the comments below!

Nicky



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I'm still trying to figure out what electronic music I like, the genres blend together so much sometimes. The psy-trance my friends in HK listen to sounds like industrial to me, there is almost no melody, just bangs and booms. And a lot of the techno i like is pretty psychedelic. I like the old UK dubstep that doesn't have much wub-wub-wub wub-wub-wub but if I say I think dubstep, people think I like that other stuff...I know I'm into footwork and ambient. As far as house, drum and bass, bass, techno, trance, and jungle, still trying to figure out what's what.

Hearing this, I realize just how much drum and bass I've heard in video games though

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Yeah definitely there's a lot of overlap between some sub genres and the differences are often too subtle to distinguish so I just go for the blanket genre coverage unless I hear otherwise!

Psytrance seems to be a lot faster tempo compared to Techno and House, think it floats around 140-150 BPM, at least it feels that way and you're right about the industrial sounds, think that goes in to the subtlety side again!

I've not really ventured too much in to dubstep myself, I do have 1 unreleased track that possibly can be considered dubstep but probably "chillstep" (or something-step, there's a lot of "steps" these days!)

Yeah man, think there's a lot of dnb in car racing games these days, I know Hospital Records (one of the biggest dnb labels going) created a track list for Forza Horizon...

P.S. Love your new username!

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Even Final Fantasy seems to use some DNB, and indie games.


I like this guy Mala a lot and it's definitely what I am talking about when I refer to dubstep. James Blake also started out as this style. I just say "UK dubstep" and hope people understand? I haven't spent enough time in this scene except in HK where it's all mixed together. I think this style was the precursor to that wacky wub wub sound, which is also kind of cool but much more tiring and ridiculous to me.

I've got to figure out what kind of techno I like. I can tell you when I hear it but I have no idea what the subgenre's are called.

And thanks! Trolling is the future 😉

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Damn, that's some heavy vibes but I do like the combo of big basslines with the atmospheric background. I agree though, the more modern stuff from what I remember seems to be more screechy? Much prefer the deeper vibes, can definitely skank to tunes like the one you shared.

Lol, trolling is the future and you can provide the self-help group needed if they fall on hard times 😃

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Thanks for continuing to make Hive awesome.

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