Miguel Ramirez
Airwave talks trance.
Through album, singles and DJ sets, not to mention a list of artist monikers as long as your arm, Laurent Véronnez aka Airwave has been a trance & progressive bastion for close to 20 years. He has a deep respect among his peers for his beliefs on the industry and he speaks honestly about how he feels and where he sees his musical vision take him. One of the most gifted artists of our time and with a passion still very strong we are sure to see a lot more from this man.
In a recent interview with Tim Stark, promoting his latest compilation, ‘Airwave – In The Mix 001 – Progressive Sessions’, Laurent shared his thoughts on the spread (or return) to the origin of trance, with labels like Who’s Afraid Of 138?!, #138 and movements like Pure Trance. The results of that conversation are as follows…
“In my opinion Pure Trance is (from the three options) the closest to Trance in its original form. I have extreme respect for Rich and for the label.”
“Although I did tons of those trance records with big fanfare riffs in a Dutch way, nothing beats an epic melody with a great sound. It doesn’t need to be this or that, commercial, 138-140 whatever.”
“Now what follows is the less easy part towards those people: none of the labels claiming to go back to the roots of trance can have a pertinent view on the subject because their views are biased. The roots are before them, and I’m not even sure they know themselves what Trance is sometimes. Check their discographies and you can tell. There’s a huge history of Trance, from back when Sven Vath was a Trance DJ running a label called Eye-Q with Ralf and Mathias, the explosion of Bedrock as a Trance act, Laurent Garnier was a Trance DJ too! Man With no Name, Breeder, Cosmic Baby, and that music was inspired by movie soundtracks and emotional acoustic music.”
“I guess everyone in the scene ignores that Cafe Del Mar is for 99% inspired from a Belgian track called Struggle for Pleasure by Wim Mertens. Those people claiming to go back to their roots need a wake up call, you can’t claim this and ignore some of the truth.”
“Trance is about a quest for beauty, it’s not a carnival theme to sell soap. It shouldn’t be abused in order to fool a young public. This is what people like me are trying to do. Educate the younger generation and let them hear those treasures of the past so we get out of that loop period in which every record sounds the same. I’d have them listen to Brainchild’s ‘Synfonica’ a thousand times in a row I think, just to make sure they get it. LOL. I just want to let them hear the truth. And I’m not sure that some of the people claiming they’re trance want to let them know that.”
Airwave – In The Mix 001 – Progressive Sessions is out now.
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