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Back in the late 90s when I was doing gigs at the defunct underground club called Nox (Mohammad Sultan Road), I was interviewed by an online portal. I was asked what I think of classical music. I replied that Trance is today's closest ancestor to classical music and that real Trance lovers will appreciate the identical elements in both genres. The climatic build-ups, the progression of various elements being introduced, the breakdown, the crescendo and etc. No other form of modern electronic music comes close to that. Not House music, not Tehno, not Tech House, not Minimal, and most certainly not the flashy Nu Rave / Indie Disco either.

Classical music has been around for the longest time since and Trance (in it's many forms) since it's arrival in the mid-90s has become perhaps one of the most sustaining and lucrative music genres in the electronica world. Not surprising. Of course there's good Trance and bad Trance. Nonetheless, it's around for well over more than a decade and is still gaining momentum with each year, whilst so many other forms of electronic music have come and gone.

Recently, one of my greatest inspiration merge the two forms into an impressive concert. Truly stunning if you understood the complexity and discipline of classical music and how everything is done "LIVE" as compared to the so-called concerts of Armin and Tiesto where everything is mimed with a full-playback.