Hope for my electronica IQ?

[flexagon]

Ooh, this is very exciting. We stopped for pizza after tango class, at this weird-pizza place we decided to try one more time for the sake of their more normal fare. While sitting there I got very into the music that was playing, some kind of pretty fast electronica but with some slow parts, and at some point, bells... whoa... finally I just had to ask. The guy said it was Paul Oakenfold, and a google search tells me that one of his albums, Journey by DJ 5, definitely has bells on one track. But god, I sure hope it's the right one, because there are like 45 hits on his popular music at amazon... it also looks like I should maybe get Tranceport as a "see if I'm into it" test.

Does anyone have advice or know of this guy? Yes, clearly he's a huge star-type DJ... bear with me, I'm a trance moron. :b I would be so excited if this worked out though. I was quite disappointed to find that, despite my liking Massive Attack's Mezzanine, I'm not into trip-hop. This liking one album from every sub-genre just can't go on though...

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Sell your soul?

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Hehe, another one I can suck into the flock. I have all sorts of recommendations - some of oakenfold's stuff is pretty good. By no means go just on the bells sample though - that's sort of thing is kind of widely used.

The best trance cd ever is trance nation volume 2 but you can only special order it. :(

I'll put together some more recommendations tomorrow after putting some thought into it.

Oakenfold

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I'm an Oakenfold fan. I've heard some random stuff at clubs that is pretty good. The only album that I have experience with (and I like it) is 'Perfecto Presents Another World'

If I'm very lucky...

[flexagon]

it'll turn out that I like trance in general and won't have to find the exact song(s) I heard in the pizza place. I can cross my fingers, right? I did just buy Journey by DJ 5 from amazon, because it has bells, it's an import-only CD and it was there used for $10. Probably a good deal and maybe The One, who knows?

I thought by now my trip-hop-listening friend DS would be here and would have given me much more info and a loan or two. Hmph. But thanks to you both for your advice so far. bluechromis, you do realize that if you happen to have that super-rare CD, I have access to a cd copier? :)