The story behind "Dance 2 Trance - Power Of American Natives" by Jam El Mar | Muzikxpress 122
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Dance 2 Trance was a project from Rolf Ellmer a.k.a. Jam El Mar, together with Dag Lerner a.k.a. DJ Dag. In the year 1990 the very first ever Dance 2 Trance record got released; a 2 track vinyl with the song “Dance 2 Trance” on side A and “We Came In Peace” on side B.
The big commercial break-through for Dance 2 Trance came 2 years later, with their track “Power Of American Natives” for which they worked together with singer Linda Rocco.
It became a Top 10 hit in countries such as Germany, The Netherlands, Finland, Norway and Austria.
For this week’s vlog I sat down with Jam El Mar in his studio, to ask a him about the story behind “Power Of American Natives” and more.
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
Don't forget to check out all my interviews with Jam El Mar;
• Jam & Spoon - Stella : • The story behind "Jam ...
• Jam & Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona: • The story behind "Jam ...
• Jam & Spoon - Follow Me: • The story behind Jam &...
• Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka - Right In The Night: • The story behind "Jam ...
• Dance 2 Trance - Power Of American Natives : • The story behind "Danc...
• Storm - Storm : • The story behind "Stor...
• Storm - Time To Burn: • The story behind "Stor...
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I thought you did a wonderful job on the interview with my buddy Rolf!! It was very well done thank you very much for that. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much Linda! And you did an amazing job on the vocals, what a track! I hope you guys make new music in the near future, how cool would that be ;-) Thanks for the nice words!
muzikxpress ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Rolf and I always had a good feeling with each other, we pretty much started out together, let’s see what happens for the future.....
Linda Rocco Fingers crossed! Would be great to hear some new material from you guys in the near future!!!
muzikxpress I really appreciate the fact that you really investigated and found out the right things and know what you’re talking about. Really want to hug you for that. Take care, stay healthy please. Maybe we can meet one day❤️❤️❤️
Linda Rocco aw thank you! Next time I’ll go back to Frankfurt I’ll let you know!!! Would love to meet you and I’m sure you have a lot of great stories too 😉
The balance between the interview vocals and background music is just perfect 👌
Thank you! I know it is a lot better now compared to my earlier interviews, so I’m glad people notice this too hehe
Like the mix in the background. Which one is it, please?
@@ScrubsIsee Sorry I only see this now! Which part of the interview are you talking about exactly?
Another classic whit a mystical touch... But for me dance 2 trance - FREAKS its a totally visionary track! From 1991 i dont know how this man could create such piece of trance 30 years ago 😶
All of their music is out of this world incredible. Never gets old!
thank you for recommending this!
Music way ahead of its time
This track is timeless! If they did it yesterday it would be hit aggain!
A wonderful interview. I liked it. This is my favorite tune by D 2 T. It's a timeless tune. It still rocks for me.
Rocking that pan flute ! I love this track !
Heard Goa Gil play this in May of 1992 in San Francisco. Like many Goa Dj's, he cut out the vocals which made the track less commercial but more tribal, which is what the sound of Anjuna Beach was known for. RIP Goa Gil AKA Babaji
Unbelievable interview. D2T are my heros from back in the day & now...✨🌹✨
Such a sweet and humble guy....
I love the interview, thanks a lot for it.
And thank you for the nice words! Glad you enjoyed it!
Jam is a legend - don't know how you landed the interview but well done! When Dance 2 Trance & Jam N Spoon were doing their thing i was much younger ;) and very much into the dance scene. They had a sound which just worked and actually still sounds good. Wonderful nostalgia. Thank you for doing this.
Thank you Gary! I've always been a big fan of Jam & Spoon / Dance 2 Trance / Storm. I met Rolf / Jam some years ago and as soon as I started my channel I had him on my wish-list. I don't live anywhere near Frankfurt, so it took a while, but hey, good work needs time right? ;-) Still very happy he invited me to his studio and shared all those great stories with me! What a legend and so down to earth! Glad you enjoyed the interview! :)
@@muzikxpress jam and spoon really did put their unique stamp on the trance genre IMHO. They were experimental too - you only need to listen to the 2nd tripomatic fairytales to realise this.
The sad thing is i think an awful lot of older people reckon the music in their younger years was the best but i swear the 1990s was a truly amazing time for music. When you look at the trance scene, then progressive trance and progressive house. Extraordinary. I'm so lucky i was around for the likes of Prodigy (ok - breakbeat / hardcore), Underworld, Jam N Spoon, Leftfield, Sasha, Fluke, etc. When the scene was sorta still underground or at least club based while still kinda 'free' and not too glam. Hope you get what i mean. Clubs are very different too now.
I'm listening to tripomatic fairytales 2001 as i type and it's a masterpiece. It's a proper trip.
Don't get me wrong. There's been fantastic music since but i'm not sure you get tunes like Odyssey to Anyoona anymore. Perfect euphoric music but with a great beat and you don't have to have cheesy vocals. Everything in the track fits together so well.
Makes me very happy (but sad too - life was good then and much has happened since but there again that's life).
"... if he was asked at this moment where he would like to be he would probably have said he would like to be lying on the beach with at least 50 beautiful women and a small team of experts" 🤣
Thanks again brother
Great Time, Great Producer´s...maybe the best time of my life
Really interesting to learn the bass drum was created on the system 700. TIL
The love for trance started at 1992❤🙏
What a hit. And what a synthesizer behind him. 🤩
Roland System 700, very rare and expensive
Another great interview Twan!
Sooo well done - thank you very much for this interview!!! - and, of course - for this UNFORGETTABLE song!!!!! It is still one of my favorite tunes - I play it for 30 years now.. and still it make me dance wildy and uncontrollable through my flat whenever I play it :)))))
Thank you Charly, what a classic!
7:46 the word you were looking for is "chant" :)
Great interview. So bad Linda was not involved. Especially if she lived close by.
"Moon Spirits" is my favorite trance album. (Yes, I'm that old.)
Glad you enjoyed the interview! And FYI, I did 3 interviews with Rolf that day. I hope to do a separate interview with Linda another time I’m / around Frankfurt.
Thank you twan for another great interview! Classic! 👍👍love your channel!
Another great interview! Well done. Shame Peyote - Alcatraz wasn't mentioned! Tying in with the native American theme. That was a stunning, deep and often overlooked 'recovery' classic!
Huge classic in Belgium.
big big trax!!! Thnaxz a lot!!
This track is one of my faves - it is a shout out to my ancestors! ✊
Love your work and obvious massive passion for music. That song has always had a very enigmatic special place for me from my very early raw 90s years when the dance music really sparked my soul also. Thanks from far away in Australia :)
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoy them!!
Legends TRANCE MUSIC! The beggining...
Incredible. So phenomenal the times back than, the production....lol...how we used to really MAX whatever we could do with what we had in our Studios. Limitations everywhere....we had to use our Studio equipment to the limit. And you can hear it when you listen to the great classics of the time....him talking about the Korg Wavestation....my favorite Synth for Atmospheric Ambient type pads...I used to get lost in programming the darn thing.
hi Twan, your German trip is great so far ;-)
Rolf and Dag added so much to the trance music with their unique spheres, somehow their productions were of a higher musical level. I'm sure a lot of people got goosebumps when hearing their stuff.
Thank you for adding your interviews and all your hard work in arranging this.
Thank you so much! Super happy I managed to do this trip, it was on my wish list for a long time already!
A wonderful and talented man 💖
Superb interview specially on the lost of innocence when you create a hit .. keep doing those great interviews !
Another great and interesting interview, I think at the time I bought two maxi-singles of the track and later the '98 remixes.
So I guess I loved it a lot :)
Trance-M thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Hi Twan, just discovered your channel and I absolutely love it! Thank you 😊
Thank you very much! More to come soon! This week I will hopefully record 6 (!!!) new interviews, so there should be a lot of content in the next months 😊
@@muzikxpress goed bezig Twan, op naar 100k subscribers en ik wens je veel succes! Ik ga zeker kijken 😃
A superb and enjoyable interview!
Thanks for putting a name and face to part of D2T. I'm listening to Revival and blown away by the bass and kick drum combo plus the rest of it let alone it was from 30 years ago. Also brought back great memories of touring with a German band in 1996.
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Great interview
What a Legend.
And pretty chill guy too.
I love these videos!
This production and Linda Rocco is still the best! This is The first euro song wiht that kick drum. Lindas song is magic
Amazing track indeed, timeless!!!
another great video mate
Again great interview, really looking forward to the Storm - Storm interview :)
I love the original but my God I was so obsessed with the 98 version.
Finally i have the vinyl, with this amazing track... Logic records!
Ah awesome!
Great work as always :-D
love dance 2 trance! got many of their 12"s, my childhood music! great video! thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
I remember this being my favourite track on Move the House 9 😀.
Amazing video. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Wow! Supercool interview. :) Thanks! Gratitude. I was glad to hear about the spontaneous creative process of composing "Power Of American Natives" and the story behind the bassdrum. :)
This is one of my fav tunes from the rave years ❤️
Another fantastic interview. Am informed and entertained too. You do roughly 3 types of interview in my eyes: 1) when I knew the tune well (like today's); 2) where I've heard of the musician/dj/producer and some of their work (Robin Albers- Jaydee, Ben Liebrand come to mind) - 3) None of 1 ) and 2)
It was THE kick drum which Jam El Mar created - that is what set THIS track apart from absolutely anything else that was playing in the clubs back then! On top of having great music in it, as soon as you heard that kick on large speakers you realized this is something completely NEW never heard before! Of course it was not long before other techno artists copied it, and then something terrible happened - it migrated into the dance scene and at one point every "dance" record in every European country had this kick drum to the point it became a bit too much.
Good job man !! Your video are awesome.
Glad you like them!
Dude just saw u yesterday 1st time. U r amazing keep up the good work!, nice ferry Interviews!!!
Welcome aboard!
Lovely interview! Thank you, Twan!
I'll be honest, I never had an opportunity to dig much of the music of the "Dance 2 Trance" project, until, probably, a couple of years ago, but I must say, I really like some of the tunes.
Nowadays I'm working on a compilation of old-school-classics, that, is really valuable for the dancing generation of the '90s, so I'll definitely going to include "We Came In Peace" (Desert Mix) on it.
I guess I'm loving Ethno Instrumental Mix more than a Vocal (Original) mix of the "Power Of American Natives", probably because I remember it off of the radio airplay of back in the days. I guess, it was featured on the "Dream Dance" compilation series, that was Huge (literally, fucking, Huge) on post-soviet space, probably because of, those compilation series were like the breath of fresh air, so local radio station DJ's picked that version, and that's why I prefer it to the well-known vocal mix.
Once again, what a pleasure to have an opportunity to watch such privileged content! You do amazing work, Twan! Thank you!
Legend springs to mind. My youth would have been so different without his tracks. Great interview
Thank you Michael, glad you enjoyed the interview!
Great interview, Twan! You asked all the right questions, a lot of things I really wanted to know about Dance 2 Trance and Jam el Mar!
Thanks so much! In a few weeks I have 1 more interview I did with Rolf / Jam El Mar. In that one we discuss the track "Storm" by Storm.
@@muzikxpress, I'm looking forward to it!
Excellent!! So glad I found your Chanel mate!! Seen you post on a Facebook group 😀
Thanks so much! Guess my spamming helps lol 😉
@@muzikxpress it did on this occasion, you need to spam more. As your videos are excellent 😀
@@johneff8942 haha! Well thank you!
fantastic.
Thank you!
@@muzikxpress would love to hear about BG Prince of Rap as well...and how Jam used some of the same music from D2T. thanks
@@pare4918 there’s not really something in the works for those to be honest. I focus more on the bigger international hits for my interviews usually.
flutes are factory preset of Korg synth
its rare to find factory preset that good without extra programming
8:55 the word he is looking for is american natives, coincidentally pretty similar to the song's name. :D
Damn another interview I missed ☹
Well watching it now🤩👌thank you Jam & Spoon sir(they're my favorite u see🤩👌) and Muzikxpress 🤩🙌🏻♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙂🙌🏻
I miss the 90's ☹🙂♥️😇
Super Bericht. Hoffentlich kommt etwas Neues von Dance 2 Trance im alten Stil. Übrigens: Wo gibt es den Hirsch-Pullover zu kaufen?
I find your videos and interviews with famous stars of the music scene from the past very interesting! If you were to ask in the future which instruments or sounds were used, that would be great! In this case I found it interesting that a Korg Microwave was used for the panpipe.
Thank you so much! And I usually ask what kind of equipment was used 😉
@@muzikxpress Then I was probably not paying enough attention every now and then. ;) Thanks for your great work!
@@sergeyklimenkov Yes, a mistake. Thanks for correction. :)
MartyK No worries! I hope you enjoy the interviews, working on some new names for later this year as we speak!
Any chance of a michael woods interview? My favourite trance producer from the early 2000s with his warrior guise
Please check my recent post in the "community" section :)
What is your favorite Dance 2 Trance track?
I really like "Hello San Francisco"
FREAKS!!!
Power of American Natives (Vocal Mix)
all of them!! :)
Freaks from the Moon Spirits-album
Where is the Kraftwerk poster from? I was at K20 Dusseldorf, and Neue National Berlin. Power of American Natives is one of my all time favourite tracks first discovered with the 98 Quicksilver Remix
I got it after their concert in Düsseldorf in January 2013! Amazing experience!
⭐️👍
Хотелось бы в переводе послушать !
Rolf is from Germany and I’m Dutch, so the interviews with him are all recorded in English 😊
What about "follow me" of jam and spoon?
Sorry what do you mean?
He means, the Story behind the Jam & Spoon Track „Follow me“
@@Datirez ah, maybe one day in the future. I don’t live near Frankfurt and I already did 3 interviews with Jam El Mar this time. So not sure if it will ever happen (I hope so, but just being honest / realistic here since these 3 interviews took a long time to plan etc).
Anyone got the link for the Top of the pops video with D2T?
Here you go!
ruclips.net/video/L6-P5WU8Xoo/видео.html
I’ve been looking for this video for so long. Thank you so much for posting it here! ❤️❤️❤️
Linda Rocco you are brilliant!
@@lindarocco5543 You are welcome!!! :)
I like the original version! Please make a 1080p version of the original video! Don't make more remixes!
Looking the background of the interview I see the Buddha statue.
My question is: did you ever thought of asking the artist about the items they keep in their studio?
Awww what happened to the MoS poster? Haha
Haha after many years it was time for a change 😉
You have an interview with the producer(s) of The Age Of Love?
Or is this the man himself?
They’re on my loooooong interview wish list. But unfortunately I don’t have a travel budget at the moment for new interviews or time. My schedule is full already for the next months. Hopefully one day, but please keep in mind this is “just” a hobby for me. Anyway, fingers crossed it will happen one day if they’re up for it 🤞🏻
@@muzikxpress Dude...respect.
I was hoping I missed one, but I feel you hehehehe. Fingers crossed 😆
The younger generations needs the information.
@@Projacked1 thank you! More to come soon!
@@muzikxpress 😘
this track has million versions
one of them remixed by Dj Quicksilver
I have some special vinyl on Mad dog label.
it was from 2 vinyl set
my choice is Ethno instrumental mix
Lots of great remixes for sure! I love the Dance 2 Trance project! :)
@@muzikxpress Dance 2 Trance is just one of many outstanding productions.
West Bam,Sven Vath,Bass Bumpers,Manic Mc's,KLF,LFO,808 State,,Guru Josh,Man Machine,Joy Kitikonti,Digital Boy,Dj Dado,Atahualpa,Sueno Latino,Rexanthony,Mato Grosso,Antico,Datura,Moratto,Einstein Dr Deejay,Ramirez,Nylon moon...Emmanuel Top....etc....
I was a huge fan of rapper DMX.
I have one special electronic vinyl from 80's, in many copies,Hashim-Al Naayfish .
that one is cult .
@@muzikxpress thank you very much for a Peter Slaghuis video.
he was my idol .
@@muzikxpress Do you know anything about projects Age of love ( Age of love ) and Outlander ( Vamp ) ?
by the way Jam and Spoon were great with singer Plavka .
@@muzikxpress by the age of 18 I have listened more than 5000 songs,
I liked pop,rock,house.
I liked Level 42,Curiosity killed the cat,Talk Talk and one project Picnic at the Whitehouse .
then in 1988 I switched to house and techno and followed till 2000.
Then I switched to Metallica,movie soundtracks and classic music.
electronic music nowadays is not my choice.
I like serious art and now Im reading more books cause its good for a brain health.
music is just tool for relaxing .
I also made a lot of demo tracks on Dat tapes but never finished them,
some of them are very good .
track id at 19:19 ? (background)
That is "Dance 2 Trance - Dance 2 Trance".
did you interview emmanuel top
No, he doesn’t speak English unfortunately.
The vocal version is too commercial. Only the original instrumental version from "Moon Spirits" rules!
How are they Called? American Indian? Doesnt Matter... he forgot. "AMERICAN NATIVES" Hilarious!!!!!!
that one cracked me up
Hahaha, thought the same, was trying to feed him the word... NATIVES! AMERICAN NATIVES!
i thought the same. but maybe he was looking for the word aboriginal or indigenous
Thats one for ever
One of the most best 90s track 😍