Documentary about beginning of trance music. Ben Hardyment, director, said recently: “A non profit documentary I produced in 1993 in a wintry Berlin on the back of an article I read in Mixmag about the burgeoning trance music scene out there.” Don’t be afraid of the march and military uniform with boots on the start—that’s Mark Reeder—creator of the MFS Records, the first trance label in the world. He was a big fan of East Germany aesthetics and East Berlin in particular. “My little Disneyland”—he said in one interview.
From the start his hypno-trance music promoted like a melodic techno—that’s why he was then supported by Sven Vath from Frankfurt’s Eye Q label and Laurent Garnier, which always was about French techno, but in this movie he speaks about trance music. Reeder wanted to stand out, he wanted to create a new music market and that was a reason to promote his label as a trance imprint, not techno or something else. German trance had two centers. As Mijk van Dyk noticed, trance music from Frankfurt was under heavy influence of Industrial and Belgian new beat. Berliner trance was more earthy, a little bit raw and under Detroit techno influence. Here: Mark Reeder, Laurent Garnier, Paul Browse and rising youngsters Paul van Dyk,Mijk van Dyk and Dr. Motte—a Love Parade founder.
