A trance producer has reportedly hit a brick wall creatively after struggling to find a suitable piece of classical music to use in the mid song breakdown of his forthcoming track.
Alex Chambers who produces under the name TranceFats has claimed that he has been struggling to find a piece of “classical piano or even strings” that are suitably “epic” for a track that he’s working on.
“Using classical music in trance tracks goes way back to William Orbit,” explained Alex. “The Ferry Corsten remix of Adagio for Strings is the first time I heard music and thought ‘yeah, that sounds vaguely uplifting, how do they make that?'”
Alex has since been producing trance for the better part of a day and has already made 15 broadly similar tracks which he says will definitely “get onto the Beatport trance charts” thanks to the use of a “stirring melody and vocals by a singer who is passably pretty and able to cavort dramatically on stage and music videos”, a requirement for all trance vocalists he says.
“Basically I have this latest track mostly built,” claimed Alex. “All I’m missing is a heart rending melody from classical music to provide the emotional punch during the middle eight. I’ve already used all the famous classical pieces so maybe I’ll have to go obscure, although trance fans thrive on tradition and simple structure so they probably won’t like that.”
Following the search for the perfect sound Alex has come to the suspicion that every classical piece of music ever made has, at one time or another, been used in a trance track meaning he “may just have to use Adagio for Strings again” or “some music from a film that everyone will recognise”.
“No, I don’t think it’ll be cheesy and derivative at all,” he said, rejecting the accusation that using a classical melody purely for its recognisability from films is cheap and formulaic. “That’s exactly how trance music is made, it has to have soft uplifting melody and an enchanting female vocalist, or else it’s not trance.”
