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The
full story from the start...
Later
on another synthesizer was purchased, a Roland MC-303 and the
computer was replaced with a Pentium class PC (166 MHz). Shortly
after that one an Alesis Quadrasynth arrived (A kind of
expensive period to Alex who paid for all of it but hey, a hobby
is a hobby). One
day in August 1998 DjC & WennE where browsing around the net
for new music and by a pure coincidence or most probably luck
they found mp3.com. After scanning the site for about an hour
they decided to put their own tracks on the site and give it a
shot as this is and was a free service at this site. They signed
up as the 749'th band on the site, uploaded a few tracks and
kicked back for a while. The feedback they got from people that
heard their tracks out overwhelmed the two guys and they just
couldn't believe that they actually had fans listening and
enjoying their music! Just the thought of people downloading and
actually listening to their tracks over and over again made
these two fellows so happy that you probably can't describe
their feelings in words. Somehow one of their tracks (Fragment
of Time) climbed to position No. 16on the MP3.com overall Top 40
chart after just three weeks on the site. Now they started to
take the music they made more serious as they both realized that
there was more than just music downloads in this. After
using the synths a while and also learning how to handle
Steinberg Cubase Audio VST the two fellows decided to send out
their first demo. After all, MP3.com was the largest free mp3
site in the world and they where on the 16'th place on that
site. A few CD's where made and sent out to a few selected
labels and publishers. Obviously the two had a really high
confidence in their music and somehow they managed to hit the
right label on their first try! The band signed a publishing
contract with a publisher called Frontline
Publishing (the publishing company behind Backbeat
Music Group) October 18, 1998, a really big event in the
history of trance[]control. This was a kind of
confirmation that their tracks really was good and that they
really had some strong potentials in their music from the 'label
point of view'. When
signing the contract with Backbeat trance[]control had to remove
their 'Top Chart hit' (Fragment of Time) from mp3.com and start
all over again. So they kept releasing new material while buying
new equipment to improve the sound and the quality of their
productions. A
few synths, and tons of producing hours later… On
the night of November 7, 1998 DjC finished a new track called
Atomic Dance Explosion [Radio Edit]. At that point neither he or
WennE could imagine what that 3 minute piece of music would do
to their name or their lives for that matter. They both kind of
thought that the track was a pretty fair one, neither good or
bad, just fair. The track gave some really serious feedback from
listeners through mp3.com and it was a pure rocket on the
MP3.com top charts! It didn't take more than a week before the
track entered the MP3.com Overall Top 40 chart! A total
breakthrough in the now shaping history of this band. The
band released their first CD through MP3.com called "the.demo.cd"
January 10 1999. The CD isn’t really anything more than just a
DEMO CD containing 5 tracks that still was free to download. The
CD itself wasn't meant to gain any profit, it was more of a
funny thing to do. They both where really amazed when they
noticed that the CD actually sold and it sold pretty good
considering that the tracks on the CD was free to download. Weeks
later Atomic Dance Explosion entered the No.1 position on
mp3.com witch now held a database of over 2,000 artists fighting
for the top spot! At the time when this text was written (June
29, 2000), Atomic Dance Explosion had been on the MP3.com Top 40
Chart for over 82 weeks without dropping out, conquering the
No.1 spot several times while holding back other famous artists
like ICE-T, TLC, Eagles, Beasty Boys, Alanis Morissette and the
rest of the 50.000+ artists on mp3.com (About 350,000+ songs and
still rising)! It has been told that trance[]control songs has
been downloaded over 3 million times from the internet in total
during a period of only 1 year! During
the summer of 1999 trance[]control signed up to another mp3 site
that looked a bit more promising than mp3.com called popwire.com.
Popwire was and is a bit more than just another mp3 site, as
they were and are a publishing company as well as a free music
site. When signing up with this site trance[]control broke the
contract with Frontline Music and got a new publishing deal with
Popwire but they kept most of their tracks on mp3.com since they
obviously got a lot of attraction from that site. August 16,
1999 a new CD was released on MP3.com called 'beyond.2000', a CD
with 10 tracks both released and unreleased. The CD was highly
appreciated and it sold just about twice as much as 'the.demo.cd'.
It now occurred to DjC & WennE that somehow along the way
they could actually make a living out of their hobby, a dream
was about to become true. Record labels all around the world
started to contact them, giving them cheap offers but some how
they managed to stay focused and turned the offers down one by
one In
the end of 1999 trance[]control was nominated as the most
popular artist on MP3.com and also got the nomination for the
'Song of the year' with Atomic Dance Explosion! The band has had
their songs played in radio, clubs, raves and TV shows all over
the world while marking the same as their territory. Y2k!
A new year, a new decade a new millennium and a fresh start… The
two guys probably found the best of ways for an unsigned band to
celebrate such a big event as the new millennium! The two guys
went straight from top notch digital technology straight back to
the ages of black plastic vinyl records. The result of a 4 month
negotiation process between the band and a label was now
finished. Late at night, February 10, 2000 they signed the
contract for a 12” release with the record label FLASH TRAXX! Today
(and most probably tomorrow as well) it can be safely said that
trance[]control will go down in the history as one of the most
popular internet based bands in the world. This also means that
they’ve actually made a ‘path’ for all those other
unsigned struggling artists on the internet, showing that 'if
there is a will there is a way'. That
is basically the story behind these two fellows and the band trance[]control,
so let’s move on to the stuff that’s going to happened in
the future… List
of releases that holds tracks by trance[]control
List
of parties where they’ve performed and will perform
…. There is a lot more parties to come but we can’t mention them here as they’re not all 100% secured…..
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