Artist Name: Sean Tyas
Country of Origin: America, New York City
Aliases: 64 Bit, Angyla, Sonar Systems, TT, Tyas & Lawrence
DJ Mag 2008 Ranking: 54
Official Website(s): http://www.myspace.com/seantyas, http://www.seantyasmusic.com/

Interesting facts:

Sean Tyas exploded from relative obscurity into a worldwide trance name in early to mid 2006 with his first single Lift signed by John Askew on his label Discover, which historically has an amazing track record of great uplifting tracks.  His tracks were being played by Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Ferry, and every big name DJ in the blink of an eye.

As a double whammy for Tyas, at the same time his first single Lift came out, it was also announced that he won Sander van Doorn’s remix competition for Punk’d, beating out 250 other remixers to take the grand prize.

Sean is an NYC/philly regional local, even though he now lives in Switzerland with his wife Mirella.

Artist Analysis

Productions: As we had mentioned before, putting aside our cheering for a local DJ (I still remember our local philly DJ’s giving me a copy of Lift before it had been signed to Discover), Sean Tyas simply has amazing talent when it comes to producing.  He’s mastered the art of uplifting trance; especially with insane buildups and payoffs.  Although it’s a common theme that many of his songs sound similar (with the same background beats, acid gates), throughout all his tracks he retains a pulsing and driving life of its own that makes every track and remix gleam with its uniqueness.
Score – 9/10

Remixing Ability: Sean Tyas is definitely among the top elite producers in terms of remixing ability.  I mean if you didn’t catch the interesting fact above, he beat out 250 other contests in a remix contest for SvD’s Punkd.  Listen to his remix of Mike Foyle’s Shipwrecked, turning a classic and typical Mike Foyle chilled track with its usual haunting piano chords into a song that will tear up the dancefloor and mind of anyone who loves uplifting trance music.  Like all of his remixes, he leaves the distinctive portion of the song in there, so no one will ever make a mistake in knowing what the song is.  The scary part is he does it so well it feels almost impossible that a song that was so many BPM slower and in energy as well suddenly turns into a different track that has the essence of the original at its heart.  Listen to his remix of Vincent de Moor’s Fly Away, his remix of Airwave, Lost in Love, Punk’d, Diary of Jane, Divine, etc to see more of what we mean.  Absolutely amazing.
Score: 10/10

DJ ability: This is a conflicted category for us, because the sets he has put together earlier on in his career basically ended up sounding like one long uplifting trance track.  Make no mistake about it though, when this is done in a club where he is the headline DJ, it makes for one of the most fun and amazing nights possible where the entire club is just dancing the entire night.  Over time, his set mixing and track selection have got much better and varied, so I feel we can safely give him a decent score in this category now.  If you have the chance to see him live, don’t walk just RUN to go see him.  In terms of his recorded sets and radio shows, about average ability for mixing and track selection.
Score – 6/10

Conclusion: Like another masterful production artist we reviewed, Orjan Nilsen, Sean Tyas is masterful in producing and especially remixing tracks.  His recorded set DJ ability is about the only flaw in his game right now that is preventing us from giving him a perfect score on the overall scale.  As was the case with Orjan though, we will judge him purely on his ability to contribute to the experience of the Trance Dance Music that we all know and love.  He makes absolutely electrifying trance songs and trance remixes.  So in keeping with this blog’s theme, we feel that his contributions in casual listening with his productions and remixes are second to none, and if you have any doubts about how his sets sound live, then check him out for yourself and stop being a deprived human.

Bottom-Line Trance Dance Music Score – 9.5/10

Trans music features repeated synthesizer grooves in the whole track. This genre is actually very similar to techno and house music as they share the same elemental design with regard to their beats and rhythms. However trans music has more melodies than techno and house music. It has achieved the name of trans due to its repetitive sounds and beats, which can put a person in an almost trance-like condition. It is even said that trance music has a hypnotic quality which induces the person. Early track of trans music have repetitive rhythmic beats and more catchy tunes. Trans music from the very beginning started to dominate the dance music scene and many DJ’s and artists start creating their mixes and tunes of trance. To explore the rhythms beats and catchy tunes of trans music, one can take the help of online sites offering trans music online. The essential elements of trance, which are important to completely change the music sound, are:

• Rifts, rolls, breakdowns and buildups.

• Short samples often going into 16th and 32nd notes.

• Anthems.

• Highly intermixed major and minor chords.

Trance music usually features more complicated chord progressions and melodies than were found in the music of the 90′s. It includes 4 chord progressions symptomatic of 80′s new wave music and it also uses saw tooth waved synthesizers more than used in other genres. Some listeners claim trans music to be euphoric and evokes spiritual feelings in them. Different styles of trans music can be easily heard online as there are different websites that are working to popularize the trans music. To avail information about artists of trans music and the chartbuster songs of trans music one can avail it through online trans music stores that offer famous trans music and tunes.