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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Pinko</strong> • November 26, 2001 17<br />
Dj Transse Ex-p-RE:-N*s brings us<br />
the experience of trance<br />
Busta Ghost<br />
<strong>Pinko</strong> Staff<br />
Dj Transse Ex-p-RE:-N*s is the<br />
biggest thing to happen to<br />
MP3.com since<br />
Trance[]Control.<br />
Citing Aura — the<br />
source of trance,<br />
and Trance Jax as influences,<br />
Dj Transse<br />
Ex-p-RE:-N*s blends floor-thrillah<br />
beats with psychedelic journey-trance<br />
melodies. “I just want<br />
people to dance,” says Alex Peters,<br />
the brains behind the Dj<br />
Transse Ex-p-RE:-N*s project.<br />
“My parents don’t really like my<br />
music, and my friends don’t understand<br />
trance, but that hasn’t<br />
stopped me.” In fact, nothing<br />
seems to be able to stop Dj<br />
Transse Ex-p-RE:-N*s. On his very<br />
first day on MP3.com, his site received<br />
a whopping 20 hits. Alex<br />
attributed this to his ambitious<br />
marketing strategy. “<strong>The</strong> day before<br />
my site went up, I put posters<br />
up around my high school that<br />
said: ‘Who is Dj Transse Ex-p-RE:-<br />
N*s? www.mp3.com/Dj_transse.’<br />
I also told all my friends to go to<br />
my site.”<br />
MUSIC<br />
DJ Transse Ex-p-ER:-n*s<br />
Basement<br />
MP3.com<br />
Alex’s latest track “Astral Sky<br />
Energy (Extended Mega Starlight<br />
Trance mix)” has been climbing<br />
the charts at a breakneck pace.<br />
“Yesterday it was number 23,743<br />
on the charts. Today<br />
it’s number 14,297.<br />
That’s a 9,446 jump<br />
in one day. At this<br />
rate I’ll be number<br />
one in two more<br />
days!” Alex attributes the popularity<br />
of “Astral Sky Energy” to its<br />
innovative structuring. “I’ve really<br />
taken trance to a new level.<br />
Trance is all about reaching a climax,<br />
usually with the help of a<br />
snare build. Well, it’s a sevenminute<br />
track and there are 53<br />
snare builds. You do the math,”<br />
he gloats. Admittedly, the next<br />
day, “Astral Sky Energy (Extended<br />
Mega Starlight Trance mix)”<br />
dipped to 59,7011 on the charts,<br />
but Alex is confident it will<br />
bounce back.<br />
Foolishly, I asked Dj Transse<br />
Ex-p-RE:-N*s if he had ever spun<br />
at any clubs before. “Um, well,<br />
I’m not really a Dj in the traditional<br />
sense. I don’t spin records<br />
or anything. I’m more of a producer.”<br />
After setting an ignoramus<br />
like me straight, I asked<br />
what kinds of equipment he uses<br />
to produce his chunky beats.<br />
“Well, I’ve got a bunch of shareware<br />
programs I found off the<br />
Net. Mostly samplers and things<br />
like that. Like, I can take any<br />
kind of sound I find on sample<br />
sites and loop it over and over,<br />
and then layer the loops. It’s very<br />
complicated,” says Alex. And it<br />
certainly was. Alex tried to give<br />
me a quick run through of Ejay,<br />
but I had to say “no thanks mr.<br />
producer! Leave that to the professionals!”<br />
Dj Transse Ex-p-RE:-N*s is currently<br />
working on a new concept<br />
piece called “Anomalous Energy<br />
Radar Transformation (Elaborate<br />
Phattness Moonbeam mix).”<br />
Alex reveals “the concept is I<br />
start the track off with a phat<br />
bass that sounds like it’s in 4/4<br />
time, but when the drums come<br />
in, it turns out the bass is in 3/4<br />
time. It’s really mind-blowing.” I<br />
think it’s clear, we can expect<br />
great things from Dj Transse Exp-RE:-N*s.
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