Donna Summer "Try me I know we can make it" .. the first ever trance record?

[ashley]

.. last year I was reading about the history of dance music in a British music magazine .. the author claimed Giorgio Moroder's disco productions gave rise to today's electronic dance music .. they cited "I feel love" as the first genuine techno record .. (although I always considered other electronic disco records from this same period like "Magic Fly" & "Wardance" to be equally significant) ..
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.. but the most suprising statement in the article was the assertion that Donna Summer's "Try me I know we can make it" was the first genuine trance record ..
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.. this had certainly never occurred to me before .. and, if correct, is especially interesting as "Try me" was recorded in '76, a full year before the electronic Star Wars inspired spacey/electronic driven euro-disco boom ..
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.. certainly the song has much in common with many of today's trance tunes .. i.e: soothing female vocal over a repeated hypnotic hook-line ..
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.. but I suppose the real test would be the reaction of today's trance audience to this old Donna Summer standard ..
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.. "I feel love" can & will still get played for a techno audience, without emptying the dancefloor or starting a riot ..

.. but I can't imagine Tiesto or Paul Van Dyk playing "Try me I know we can make it" anytime soon .. but who knows?

[BrunoRepublic]

Hmm, I think not. That's a *real* stretch.

Klaus Schulze's "Timewind" and "Moondawn" albums from 75 and 76 have much more in common with Trance, even though they're not danceable and are instrumental. Or perhaps Steve Reich's "Music For 18 Musicians".

[QUINNY]

Rhythm Makers - Zone would be my candidate, especially if sped up. It was the first record I ever heard that was sooo........trance inducing.

Bands like Neu, Faust and Can paved the way for electro long before Giorgio Moroder, didn't they.

[ALBATROS]

I don't really understand this obsession with music classification...
As for any track released in 70's, it can ONLY be regarded in context of time when it was originally released/recorded... Even if they seems beeing similar with some contemporary songs/tracks - they come from completely other breed. And it was looong way before word "trance" as description of some separate music form come to life...

[The Boogie Doctor]

albatross - you may be interpreting the word 'trance' too literally. while the statement suggests that 'try me...may be the first trance record,' i think it's meaning is really: 'is try me...one of the first records to contain those elements that we now recognise as characteristic of contemporary trance music.' i don't think any sensible person would argue that the mentioned moroder productions were, truly, techno or trance, but were rather some of the tracks that were formative of the genres and that first possessed the characteristics by which we judge them today.