Seems to me like its finally happened. Trance and progressive trance have returned - its just not called trance.
Right/wrong/move on with your life?

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The new trance, like in terms of popularity and being an undemanding gateway genre? I don't think so. As far as I can tell, the new prog is just the new prog.

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More in terms of the trance 93-97ish sort of stuff - which wasnt super accesible as say edm was like 2 years ago or ferry corsten was in 2005

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This happened about three years ago. In fact, I'm sure you made a similar post ages ago. Melodic, hypnotic, ecstatic dance music is clearly back in fashion, just at a different tempo and a different groove. It's only sad old bastards who need to jump around at 135+ who haven't realised.

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Mixes:
> Back To Deep [Deep Trippy House]
> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]
> Rough & Ready [Modern Trance]
>A Different Energy [Good Modern Trance]
> The Edale Mix [Panoramic Beats]

Somewhat related rant but I see a lot of people on Reddit etc. talking about "melodic techno" when what they mean is some Tale Of Us -style track where someone noodles on a detuned monosynth arpeggio with some awkward strings on top for 7 minutes. Not very interesting or melodic tbh

Like this compilation, there is the odd decent track there, nothing is offensively bad but most of it is just piss boring, extremly flat, no energy or genuine emotion. Also, we've talked about this before here but man, there are some huge breakdowns in there. Who wants to listen to a minute long breakdown where nothing is happening, neither in the buildup, nor the drop? If you go the hands in the air route at least make it epic and PLUR and shit.

https://soundcloud.com/afterlifeofc...ciousness-ptiii

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June 2018 mix

There is also the "business techno", 130+ bigroom techno that directly riffs off cheesy 90s trance but most of it is genuinely awful.

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June 2018 mix

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Originally posted by Woony Somewhat related rant but I see a lot of people on Reddit etc. talking about "melodic techno" when what they mean is some Tale Of Us -style track where someone noodles on a detuned monosynth arpeggio with some awkward strings on top for 7 minutes. Not very interesting or melodic tbh Like this compilation, there is the odd decent track there, nothing is offensively bad but most of it is just piss boring, extremly flat, no energy or genuine emotion. Also, we've talked about this before here but man, there are some huge breakdowns in there. Who wants to listen to a minute long breakdown where nothing is happening, neither in the buildup, nor the drop? If you go the hands in the air route at least make it epic and PLUR and shit. https://soundcloud.com/afterlifeofc...ciousness-ptiii

Yeah, I personally hate that whole Tale Of US / Bodzin sound that is so popular. All of those guys abuse that same shitty rubbery synth horn sound that seemed to originate with Ten Walls - Gotham. I was trying to explain this sound to my girlfriend, and in the end I just skipped randomly through a Tale Of Us and then a Mind Against track on YouTube. Within ten seconds the same sound had cropped up. Painfully generic.

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Mixes:
> Back To Deep [Deep Trippy House]
> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]
> Rough & Ready [Modern Trance]
>A Different Energy [Good Modern Trance]
> The Edale Mix [Panoramic Beats]

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Originally posted by Woony Somewhat related rant but I see a lot of people on Reddit etc. talking about "melodic techno" when what they mean is some Tale Of Us -style track where someone noodles on a detuned monosynth arpeggio with some awkward strings on top for 7 minutes. Not very interesting or melodic tbh Like this compilation, there is the odd decent track there, nothing is offensively bad but most of it is just piss boring, extremly flat, no energy or genuine emotion. Also, we've talked about this before here but man, there are some huge breakdowns in there. Who wants to listen to a minute long breakdown where nothing is happening, neither in the buildup, nor the drop? If you go the hands in the air route at least make it epic and PLUR and shit. https://soundcloud.com/afterlifeofc...ciousness-ptiii

Pretty boring, and the noodling monotony of it all sounds reminiscent of the Cocoon and M_nus compilations that were coming out around ten years ago. I'm under the impression that Fuse was referring to melodic house/techno a la names like Christoph, Cattaneo, Khen, etc,. but if it's this, then it feels more like the new mnml rather than the new trance.

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I think minimal has created an enduring producer culture where it's acceptable to have no traditional writing skill provided you can fill in the compositional gaps with dark trippy production and twisted drug noises.

On a general producer-trends note, I've noticed that it's becoming much more common for modern tracks to have multiple bass parts around the kick. You might get three or four low end patterns these days, which to me feels like a recent development.

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Mixes:
> Back To Deep [Deep Trippy House]
> Terra Nova [Modern Progressive Trance]
> Rough & Ready [Modern Trance]
>A Different Energy [Good Modern Trance]
> The Edale Mix [Panoramic Beats]

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Originally posted by Light The Fuse Seems to me like its finally happened. Trance and progressive trance have returned - its just not called trance. Right/wrong/move on with your life?

do you listen to bateman's mixes? the techno he plays is a lot more interesting than 95% of the trance i listen to.

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Yes...

and psytrance is the new EDM

Last edited by Omnisphere on Jul-14-2018 at 05:24