Trance and Progressive

I’ve gotten a lot of feedback regarding the music choices I’ve used in my WOTLK arena videos. Before I started using trance and progressive, I was aware that it’s not for everybody. It’s different from the general mainstream you see in most WoW vids although that’s not always the case. Even though not everybody likes it (and I’m not saying you have to) a lot of people who aren’t really familiar with the genre ask me where I find my music.

I really got into it over the past few years although I’ve always enjoyed it. Hopefully this post helps you if you’re interested in this kind of electronic music and don’t really know where to start. I really have to thank Tipss (see mage in eviscerate 8 or arenas: v II and V) for helping me out finding a lot of great tunes.

First, here’s a playlist with a sample of some tracks I like. Unfortunately, I can only use tracks that have already been posted somewhere using playlist.com, so most of these are at least fairly popular and there’s thousands of other great songs I’d like to post, but hopefully you can find something new or something you like here. I’ve also included as many tracks from my recent arena videos as were available on the site. If you’re going to listen I suggest using the shuffle feature.

So that’s somewhere to start from me, but here are some great places to start listening to trance and progressive:

www.di.fm – Great, free streaming music of all genres, but for this type of music check out the trance, vocal trance, or progressive channels. Tons of great shows from some of the leading dj’s in the world (some of which I’ve included below), very few commercials and great quality.

Some popular shows that I enjoy, a good place to start:

Club Elite Sessions – M.I.K.E. (aka Push) – Just after 4pm, thusdays – trance channel – official site

A State of Trance – Armin Van Buuren -2pm, thursdays – trance channel – official site

Trance Around the World – Above and Beyond – 1pm fridays – trance channel – official site

Global DJ Broadcast – Markus Schulz – 12pm, thursdays – trance channel – official site

If you can’t catch the shows they are always available on torrent or direct download shortly after, google is your friend here.

www.shoutcast.com – same idea as di.fm, if you’re not familiar with shoucast it’s server software for streaming media. It allows digital audio content to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling hobbyists and professionals to create internet radio. Do a search for trance and it should bring up a ton of stations to choose from.

I also often search google for personal or professional trance top lists, like this one. Of course these are matters of opinion, but usually when people sound off about their favorite tracks you’ll find at least a few you can enjoy. You can usually preview the songs by searching youtube.

Some Mainstream Albums and DJs

Anything by Armin van Buuren (ASOT best of, “Imagine”), Tiesto (“In search of sunrise” series is amazing), ATB (“Addicted to Music”), Paul Van Dyk (“Seven Ways” is my fave from him), Paul Okenfold (“Tranceport” has some amazing tracks), Above and Beyond (“Sirens of the Sea” or “Tri-State” are both great), as you can tell by my last vid I’m a big Deadmau5 fan (“random album title”)

I’m really just scratching the surface here, there’s so much more and I’m really only hitting on the mainstream. Hopefully this helps those that ask me where I find this kind of music or people just getting into the genre.

Unmercey 7

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This will be my last WOW US video, I am going back to China in 2 weeks to work. This video contains S6 footages on Cho ‘Gal server. It includes arena 2v2, duels, and BGs.

Song list:
Tyga feat. Lil. Wayne – Lay you down
Plain White T’s – Hate
Hollywood Undead – Sell your soul
Anberlin – Undeveloped story
Linkin Park – New devide
Orange range – Hana

Really just another quality video from Unmercey, if this was rushed because he was moving it sure didn’t feel like it. Not a lot of rogue videos can keep me watching but I thoroughly enjoyed the entire vid, but I had no problem watching this one until the end. Video quality was improved from past video, skill was high as always, and shadowdance was a welcome change of pace. Unmercey is also a genuinely nice guy and I wish him the best of luck in China.

RMP Wins MLG

Congratulations to SK US (Pooks, Sekko (Aka Enforcer) and Realz) on winning this leg of the MLG tournament as RMP. They did this in a dominant fashion, defeating the other top RMPs including the much heralded Hydra’s team, Complexity (who they actually lost to in mirror in a close series 3-2), and Gravitas Gaming (aka Duelists going for Glad), a scary RLS run by Kollectiv and Azael, and the ultimate RMP counter comp of BM hunter, Unholy DK, and Paladin (Who made a questionable choice moving to frost for the final). Not only that, SK did it in their first time together at LAN.

What does this MLG say about RMP? A lot of people cry buckets of tears about the strength and high representation RMP currently holds, but does this automatically make it an overpowered comp? There’s no doubt that it’s strong, but I don’t think it’s overpowered.

First, what makes RMP a solid comp is the fact that it has few direct counters. It rarely dominates another composition purely based on class, but at the same time it rarely gets countered directly. You always have a chance to win because it’s versatile and can play extremely offensive.

Second, RMP has been viable since arena came into existence. This means that a lot of players have a lot of experience with the comp, which builds teamwork and synergy and allows for the best strat selection. A team like BM hunter, Unholy Dk, Holy Paladin is something that hasn’t been around for years, so a team running it will lack the synergy and experience to be ready for anything, and that’s what LAN success requires.