Trance.nu
Encyclopedia
Trance.nu is an independent English trance
-oriented music site including news, reviews, interviews and forums.
The site is notable for its compilation releases and interviews with artists such as Tiësto
, Ferry Corsten
and Armin van Buuren. Trance.nu also hosts the "Future Favorite" segment on Armin van Buuren's radio show A State of Trance
, which, internationally, attracts more than 6,000,000 listeners weekly.
. The promotional work of mailing several labels and artists resulted in interest from Armin van Buuren and Misja Helsloot
, and after interviewing these DJs and producers, trance.nu's news and interview sections were created.
The first version of the site, released in late 2000, contained news, links and reviews. In the summer of 2001, trance.nu released their first community website, which included guest-books, private messages and profiles, which took them closer to their goal of promoting trance music. In late summer of 2007, trance.nu released their fourth reincarnation of the site with Facebook
-like features such as status updates, friends and galleries.
The following is the news item that was published:
"Trance.nu - it's time to say goodbye
After 12 years, tens of millions of unique visitors, thousands of articles and million upon millions of topics it's time for trance.nu to finally be put to last rest. It's not an easy decision to take, but its something that has to be done to preserve the good memory that hopefully all of you have of trance.nu.
The reasoning behind this is due to the lack of time to maintain the site and that the site need a complete restart to gain its former glory. A task that unfortunately is big to undertake within a reasonable amount of time and effort. We all sincerely wish that we could revert time but unfortunately this is the position that we're at.
Its been a fantastic ride which we're sure that no one will regret, we've released CDs, sailed the sevens seas on the trance.nu summer boat, we saw and helped djs rise, we've seen (and maybe helped) users fall in love and join each other in holy matrimony, we've spread trance to every corner of the world but more importantly we made friends, loads of good friend - friendships that will last for a lifetime.
For that we are eternally grateful and would wish to thank every single one of you, keep in mind that you made the site the success it was, not us.
We will apply a technique call sundown when shutting down the site which means that the forums have been put on read-only which the ability to log-in, sign guest books and send PMs will remain for another 2 weeks.
This is to give a users a fair chance to hook up on alternative networks and/or sites to keep in touch. When the time is up we will disable the
login-system and keep the site as an cemetery/archive for the time being.
With that, this is the end - the final chapter, the last good bye and the chance for us to tell you all which fantastic time we've had together. Thank you for everything and hopefully we'll all stay in touch one way or another.
Signed,
Tommie, Kevin and the trance.nu staff "
, Smarty
, PHP
and PEAR
.
Alliance, founded by Google. They also announced the public release of their API, making it possible for other websites to gain access to its data.
, Jezper Söderlund
and Elizabeth Fields, combining established artists with up-and-coming talents from the site. The CD was also selected "CD of the Month" on dancegrooves.com.
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
-oriented music site including news, reviews, interviews and forums.
The site is notable for its compilation releases and interviews with artists such as Tiësto
Tiësto
Tijs Michiel Verwest, , known as Tiësto , is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto...
, Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten, also known under the alias System F, is a Dutch producer of trance music, in addition to being a DJ and remixer. He also hosts his own weekly radio show, Corsten's Countdown. He routinely plays at events all over the world with crowds in excess of tens of thousands. In 2009 Ferry...
and Armin van Buuren. Trance.nu also hosts the "Future Favorite" segment on Armin van Buuren's radio show A State of Trance
A State of Trance
A State Of Trance is the title of a weekly radio show hosted by prominent trance producer DJ Armin van Buuren. First airing in March 2001 on ID&T Radio , the show takes the format of a two hour mix in which he plays new trance music, both promotional and commercially released...
, which, internationally, attracts more than 6,000,000 listeners weekly.
History
The domain was bought in 1999 by Tommie Podzemski to create a free webmail and redirection service. After one year in operation, Ralf Elfving came aboard and they both created the foundation of trance.nu along with a third person, Jezper SöderlundJezper Söderlund
Jezper Söderlund is a Swedish record producer and electronic music artist who records mainly under the name of Airbase. His experimentation with electronic music began in 1994 after he was introduced to a digital sequencer application called Scream Tracker...
. The promotional work of mailing several labels and artists resulted in interest from Armin van Buuren and Misja Helsloot
Misja Helsloot
DJ Misja Helsloot is a Dutch Trance and Progressive DJ. Misja was born 21 on January 1973 in Rotterdam and in 1992, at the age of nineteen started to purchase albums and organize his own parties. Mixing music with a friend, Misja worked hard for six years until he became friends with DJ Tiësto in...
, and after interviewing these DJs and producers, trance.nu's news and interview sections were created.
The first version of the site, released in late 2000, contained news, links and reviews. In the summer of 2001, trance.nu released their first community website, which included guest-books, private messages and profiles, which took them closer to their goal of promoting trance music. In late summer of 2007, trance.nu released their fourth reincarnation of the site with Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
-like features such as status updates, friends and galleries.
End of an era
On 9 October 2010, trance.nu announced that the website would be shut down and archived. The reason stated was lack of moderation and maintenance, and as years go on, the main contributors and moderators find themselves busy with other commitments.The following is the news item that was published:
"Trance.nu - it's time to say goodbye
After 12 years, tens of millions of unique visitors, thousands of articles and million upon millions of topics it's time for trance.nu to finally be put to last rest. It's not an easy decision to take, but its something that has to be done to preserve the good memory that hopefully all of you have of trance.nu.
The reasoning behind this is due to the lack of time to maintain the site and that the site need a complete restart to gain its former glory. A task that unfortunately is big to undertake within a reasonable amount of time and effort. We all sincerely wish that we could revert time but unfortunately this is the position that we're at.
Its been a fantastic ride which we're sure that no one will regret, we've released CDs, sailed the sevens seas on the trance.nu summer boat, we saw and helped djs rise, we've seen (and maybe helped) users fall in love and join each other in holy matrimony, we've spread trance to every corner of the world but more importantly we made friends, loads of good friend - friendships that will last for a lifetime.
For that we are eternally grateful and would wish to thank every single one of you, keep in mind that you made the site the success it was, not us.
We will apply a technique call sundown when shutting down the site which means that the forums have been put on read-only which the ability to log-in, sign guest books and send PMs will remain for another 2 weeks.
This is to give a users a fair chance to hook up on alternative networks and/or sites to keep in touch. When the time is up we will disable the
login-system and keep the site as an cemetery/archive for the time being.
With that, this is the end - the final chapter, the last good bye and the chance for us to tell you all which fantastic time we've had together. Thank you for everything and hopefully we'll all stay in touch one way or another.
Signed,
Tommie, Kevin and the trance.nu staff "
Software
The site is based on its own software called omgApi, which is coded and maintained by Tommie Podzemski, and open source software such as MySqlMySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
, Smarty
Smarty
Smarty is a web template system written in PHP. Smarty is primarily promoted as a tool for separation of concerns.Smarty is intended to simplify compartmentalization, allowing the presentation of a web page to change separately from the back-end...
, PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
and PEAR
Pear
The pear is any of several tree species of genus Pyrus and also the name of the pomaceous fruit of these trees. Several species of pear are valued by humans for their edible fruit, but the fruit of other species is small, hard, and astringent....
.
OpenSocial and API
In May 2008, trance.nu announced that they were joining the OpenSocialOpenSocial
OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces for web-based social network applications, developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other social networks.It was released November 1, 2007....
Alliance, founded by Google. They also announced the public release of their API, making it possible for other websites to gain access to its data.
Staff
Throughout the years, staff expanded to over 15 volunteers who were working nonprofit for the website.Statistics
Since 1999, trance.nu published over 3,500 news items, 1,600 reviews and 200 interviews. Trance.nu is home to over 70,000 members. The site is solely run off the nonprofit work of an independent staff from across the globe.Surviving The Chills
In November 2002, trance.nu released their first CD compilation, Surviving The Chills, on Nordic Records sub-label Green. The CD included artists such as Mark NormanMark Norman (DJ)
Mark de Jong Norman Lenden forms the alias of Mark Norman. He is a Dutch award winning producer who has produced several high profile tracks and remixes.- Early career :...
, Jezper Söderlund
Jezper Söderlund
Jezper Söderlund is a Swedish record producer and electronic music artist who records mainly under the name of Airbase. His experimentation with electronic music began in 1994 after he was introduced to a digital sequencer application called Scream Tracker...
and Elizabeth Fields, combining established artists with up-and-coming talents from the site. The CD was also selected "CD of the Month" on dancegrooves.com.