quote:

Originally posted by Dj Pluviose you can do that?!

Yep, Beatport, iTunes, Amazon, Juno, you name it...even international retailers such as this...
http://recochoku.jp/album/A1000712013/

This is the way I see it: People aren't discovering good trance because there's not enough people making it. People get discouraged (I've even felt this way occasionally) because they see the same type of stuff being labelled, or mislabeled rather, as trance, and this is the stuff that gets pushed and tops Beatport charts. They say "Well, this sound is dominant, so nobody will ever listen to my songs if I produce traditional trance music..." and then they either give up on being a musician or join in adding more tracks that will be forgotten due to lack of any real heart or soul. They'll make tracks that fit in flash-in-the-pan genres such as trap, big room, electro house, etc whatever is the "now" sound, and their tracks will often go nowhere.
So the producers that say "I love trance, so I'm going to make some" never get discovered because there is so much of this cheap, mass produced garbage to wade through that calls itself trance that any real trance artists rarely ever get discovered.
We can combat that mass market domination by producing some good stuff ourselves. Music with integrity which stays true to its roots. I think if enough of us make these kinds of songs, we can eventually make trance popular again.

___________________
Elitist and smalltime label owner
PM me your oldschool style trance tunes for potential worldwide digital releasing and free mastering!
RIP Little Jam, DJ Energy, Tillmann Uhrmacher & Gary D

Last edited by kosmotika on Jul-23-2014 at 06:04

the trouble is, these days, it all sounds the same.

___________________


Found Atlantis - Mixography [mix archive/mokumentary/my soul]?
i writed a song.

Main difference as stated is ease of access to production software vs the old days. I also agree there is a loudness but no clarity to a lof of the stuff being pumped out today. Finally, a lot of the mainstream stuff does sound the same. Yes you could've made that argument with something like the mcprog era, but at least you were getting a mix of unique, new, and discernible sounds.

___________________
Click the link below to stream all of my mixes past and present. New mixes go up about once a month. Enjoy!

www.mixcloud.com/jluger

quote:

Originally posted by miamitranceman Main difference as stated is ease of access to production software vs the old days. I also agree there is a loudness but no clarity to a lof of the stuff being pumped out today. Finally, a lot of the mainstream stuff does sound the same. Yes you could've made that argument with something like the mcprog era, but at least you were getting a mix of unique, new, and discernible sounds.

Well, back in the day there were also quite a few artists, such as Pulsedriver, Airscape, Antiloop, Mauro Picotto, etc who would use the same set of sounds for many of their songs, but it would be distinct to them. Nowdays you've got everyone going for one industry standard sound, instead of people having their own unique styles.

___________________
Elitist and smalltime label owner
PM me your oldschool style trance tunes for potential worldwide digital releasing and free mastering!
RIP Little Jam, DJ Energy, Tillmann Uhrmacher & Gary D

quote:

Originally posted by kosmotika Well, back in the day there were also quite a few artists, such as Pulsedriver, Airscape, Antiloop, Mauro Picotto, etc who would use the same set of sounds for many of their songs, but it would be distinct to them. Nowdays you've got everyone going for one industry standard sound, instead of people having their own unique styles.

Agreed.

___________________
Click the link below to stream all of my mixes past and present. New mixes go up about once a month. Enjoy!

www.mixcloud.com/jluger