Trance, Techno, Dance ext.

I've been looking for a couple years now but can't seem to find any Christian trance, techno, dance music.

Any one know of any?

Andy Hunter

CJ

I love this style of music have you heard of special D and Scooter?

what about the kovenant... they are anti-RELIGIOUS.... the word "relisious" is used its good!

Good question DJeX.

Essay, be warned:

There seems to be an aura of "evil" around trance I precieve among Christians, similar to strip clubs and *gasp* heaven forbid, tatoo parlors!!! (Seriously, I understand tatoo parlors tend to attract the ungodly but tatoos themselves aren't evil, and Jesus himself hung out in strip joints. Love the sinner, hate the sin.)

Trance, I think, connotates or suggests New Age spiritualism, an "opening of the mind" to higher enlightenment or somesuch. Indeed, a few songs I've run across do use this. For example, "Gamemaster" track of Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport CD has a bit of spoken monolog by a woman that says "Embracing the godess energy within yourselves, will bring all of you to a new understanding and valuing of life..." and so forth. Awesome track, but now as a Christian, that small section of lyrics is a tad offensive.

Another aspect of trance that may seem anti-Christian is the drug use that often happens when trance is played at clubs and raves. I've been to many clubs and one rave. Although I did notice drug usage, it was fairly inconspicuous and none were offered to (or pushed on) me. I have great, drug-free times there. I go for the music.

But to answer your question, DJeX:

What I've discovered is that "Christian" music is not a genre of music, for Christian music trancends genre (softrock, heavy metal, jazz, and in Andy Hunter's case, Techno). Christian music is not a musical genre, but a topical genre.

Additionally, topics are predominantly expressed via lyrics, not style. If a song is about a guy losing his girlfriend, losing his job, and his dog dying, you might call it folk or bluegrass. If a song doesn't have lyrics, how can you tell what the topic is? Can you name some Christian instrumentals? Unless the song is a remake of a known Christian song with the lyrics removed, or is an original instrumental song packaged with other Christian-lyricked songs, you can't tell!

Now take Techno. Techno is primarilly lyric-free. What then would make it inherently Christian?

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Hope you enjoyed. Despite the above, I also would like to know of more Christian techno. Checkin' out Andy Hunter now.

Wow good stuff Buho. I used to listen to trance music but have moved on to house and tehno music. Like you said some trance songs are bad I just wouldent listen to to ones that offended me and that had to do with onother God or satin.

I make techno and house with out words.

Thanks, DJeX.

Perhaps if you make techno and house without words, but let God inspire you throughout the creative process, I suppose that could be considered Christian techno

thats exacly what I do. I've asked the Lord to come into my music and help me. And he has.

Greetings DJeX,
By the way, do you know of anyone who is interested in starting a Christian dance club around the NJ, NY USA area?
I have a list of several Christian pop, dance, techno, synthpop, electronica artists. I'm not sure if some of these artists play genre 'trance'. I'm not good in telling what style of music things are called.
I'm basically into what is dancable: Disctronica, Ultrabeat, Dance House Children, Joy Electric, Liquid Fiction, Cloud2Ground, Dance In Motion, Revurb, Glory Grooves, Avalon 02 Remix, LP-T (Michael Farrington), Rubicon7, Children Of The Inquisition, Leiahdorus, Jump5 Remixes, Stacie Orrico Remixes, Circle Of Dust, Hypersonic, Andy Hunter, NitroPraise, Deitiphobia, Moby (only one of his old albums), Raving Loonatics, Plumb Remixes on the song 'Cut', & World Wide Message Tribe. Checkout the Club Worship website in PA, USA. It'll give you resources to download Christian electronica.

some of the psalms would suit a trance like musical under scoring, im mean theres pure emotion going on