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Due to my interest in music (particularly Trance), I've decided to share will you guys the sources of music; in MP3 and streaming form. This section will mainly be of interest to people who are into dance, house, techno and trance music.
ETN.FM
ETN.FM (formerly known as
TranceSphere) is one of the top
trance internet radio stations. they play all kinds of trance,
non-stop. It's highly recommended that you're on broadband to
enjoy the high quality mp3 streams. Click on the links below to
listen to the streams:
Trance Stream -
32kbps
128kbps
192kbps
Progressive Stream -
32kbps
128kbps
192kbps
My
favorite section is the torrent section, where you can download
the latest live sets. It's updated progressively, as soon as the
DJ sets are played!
HKDJS
Radio
HKDJS Radio and
it's the first on-line dance radio
program from Hong Kong that broadcasts
live DJ sets from Asia's finest dance
music DJs, with a new mix every
fortnight on Tuesday of the latest dance
tunes around.
There are also DJ sets from in-house DJs
which can be downloaded or streamed
directly from the site:
HKDJs is also a DJ
school/production house which provides
courses on basically everything for a
DJ. Check it out!
LAUNCHcast
LaunchCast seems to a be heavily sponsored site, that provides free streaming music through Yahoo Messenger. It's convenient music at your fingertips, if you have YIM installed. What's more? It provides a wide genre of music. The "music that listens to you" concept is true here, as you can choose to skip tracks you don't like!
Quality is compromised here, but tolerable. A higher quality paid service is also available. Click on the icon
above to view the LaunchCast radio station guide.
1Club FM
This is
another internet's free radio station, that streams WMP/MP3 format music.
It also provides social networking
services whereby you can ass your
profiles, blogs, photos, videos and also
your own music! Click on the icon below to visit the site:
Here you will find
many genres of music like classic rock,
oldies, blues, latin and more. You may also click on the following link to connect you directly to the
Trance channel page:
1Club FM Trance channel
I've listed all
the types of music that interests me
here,
and you may consider listening to them:
Trance:
I used to love
Paul Van Dyk,
but his tunes seem to divert off from
the Trance genre at times. I've been a
fan of
Armin Van Buuren
since, listening to his weekly radio
show "A State of Trance" and also
attended one of his gigs at Zouk
Singapore. It was totally awesome.
Overall, I would say majority of music I
listen to falls under Trance genre. I'm
not a good lyric listener, so trance
fits pretty well. I'm also attracted to
trance tunes that is in some newer
Madonna
tracks and Hindi remixes. I started from
techno, but seriously, some tunes were
nice, but mostly contained senseless
beats. Besides, it doesn't have the
beautiful ambience that Trance provides.
You may download A State of Trance
episode torrents from
here.
New Age:
As for New Age music, I only listen to
Enya
and
Enigma.
I started listening to this genre ever
since one of my friends introduced me to
Enya's The Memory of Trees. Main
component about New Age that I like
would be the ambience. Also, I love the
perfect voice of Enya, no matter what
language she sings in!
I also enjoy listening to scores/songs
composed by
AR Rahman.
He uses western instruments to invoke
Indian music to his tracks. Some of my
fave soundtracks would be from the
movies Taal, Dil Se, Swades, Yuva,
Takshak and Pukar.
Movie scores:
I've been pretty interested in movie
scores ever since I watched the movie
The Rock. I'll be looking out for the
composer for the movies I watch. I'm
particularly interested in the following
composers:
Trevor Rabin
(The
6th Day, Gone in 60secs, National
Treasure, Con Air)
Hans Zimmer
(Black Hawk
Down, The Rock, Gladiator, MI:2)
James Newton
Howard
(Vertical Limit,
Blood Diamond, I Am Legend, Dark Knight)
Danny Elfman
(Batman,
Spiderman, Mission Impossible)
Miscellaneous:
I used to be a fan of
Michael Jackson
for a very long time. In fact, my first
CD was MJ's Bad album. I backtracked his
song till the Thriller album and enjoyed
all his songs till the HIStory album. I
haven't been keeping in touch with his
newer works as I've been busy with
Trance and Hindi remixes :)
Another large part of this
section belongs to Hindi pop music. I'm
more inclined to remixes, as opposed to
the original versions, as they mix more
electronic music into traditional. I'm
particularly on the lookout for the
singers
Sukhwinder Singh
and
Alisha Chinai
for their unique voices.
My Playlist:
I've selectively added some tracks that I've been pretty fond of into this playlist. Of course, there's a whole lot more. I'll refine and expand this list slowly as time goes by.
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