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Um... I think 'progressive trance 2005/6' is what straight 'trance' in the golden era was (ie the Heaven Scent's/For An Angel's etc)
Trance is now interchangeable with ASOT. Which is interchangeable with utter crap.
The 'top tracks of 2005' are basically all complete rubbish! Which is either cos the wrong labels now get the recognition and were far better and promoting themselves and the artists than selecting decent music, or cos there really are no good tracks being made anymore.
I will say I have SERIOUSLY fallen in love with Love Theme Dusk, gorgeous! And Zocolo is great too... there's still some gems out there!
I've been getting the feeling that Trance has been coming to a head in the mainstream market and we're bound to have meshes and bad creations of trance music (and bad is quite arguable in this case). Overall I think it's been pretty good, obviously with bad points i can't remember of right now (other than I know a few CD compilations i've listened to were pegged as trance and were far from it i.e. this one DJ who "has just broken from the dance scene into the trance scene" and boy, this guy really needs to shed his Dance skin 'cause the whole CD was pure Dance still lol).
Overall it's been pretty good although the mass commercialization of a few artists will inevitably harm the genre after it's done its help (again this is arguable). Hopefully the budding artists and more localized/less over mainstreamed artists will see what's happening in terms of negative reprecussions and will avoid the mistakes their predecessors and some of their equals are/will make.
when i find good tracks, trance is sounding better.
however, with each passing year, those tracks becoming harder and harder to find.
between end of october to today, i may have been excited about 3 tracks at the most!
its pretty bad...iv done a lot of dabbling with breaks and house, and even a little drum and bass as a result.
but when that one track comes around, its awesome. Track 4 in Precisions True to Trance jan 06 set is an example. Prior to that, you have to go back to oct for me to find an exciting track
hmm
i dont really listening to trance anymore , i went back to early rave, hardcore, darkcore , hardstyle.
I know lots of people think harder styles of dance music is just a noise but its not cheese as the new trance
this is just me but if anyone's interested in listening to some good, relatively new trance (minus one or two tracks on the CD), then check out Trip in Trance 4 (can't say much about Trip in Trance 5 since I don't own it yet). I found that Rank 1 did an excellent job mixing the majority of the songs i.e. Sandler - Theme Song, Kenny Hayes - Daybreakers (Airbase mix), etc. (check out www.hibias.ca). I know it's a bit biased but that might rekindle some interest 
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| Originally posted by sshyperion this is just me but if anyone's interested in listening to some good, relatively new trance (minus one or two tracks on the CD), then check out Trip in Trance 4 (can't say much about Trip in Trance 5 since I don't own it yet). I found that Rank 1 did an excellent job mixing the majority of the songs i.e. Sandler - Theme Song, Kenny Hayes - Daybreakers (Airbase mix), etc. (check out www.hibias.ca). I know it's a bit biased but that might rekindle some interest |
It can't become much worse, i'm afraid.
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| Originally posted by Radagast It can't become much worse, i'm afraid. |
Its plagued by recycled production techniques and lazy composition without any innovation or attempts to change its direction.
Thats why its has become like Ishkur's proverbial rollercoaster; a few times around and you get bored because you know whats coming....
Who can save it? Sounds like a job for Duffman! 
personally it's been getting worse as the years go by.
occasionally however, there is always that one or two (or more 
) diamond out of the rough that puts faith back into the genre.
IMO is going to shit. Everythings getting monotonous and formulaic, and theres little or no innovation.
All the harder DJs seem to be switching to house (MarcoV, even Picotto from his latest Meganite set) and the scene seems to be dividing. Rather than being called 'trance', its going like 'tracks Armin would play', 'tracks PVD would play' etc. People arent making tracks for the sake of it, theyre making tracks for their DJ to play. Which is creating a lot of shit and dividing the industry.
On the plus, psy and prog-psy are on fire at the moment 
Trance is shit nowadays. Goes for all melodic trance (thank you Above & Beyond) psytrance (thank you, Skazi) and everything else.
Blaah.
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| Originally posted by RebeL9 psytrance has to be split up in various parts before it can be analyzed. if we talk about the old goa trance sound it's definatly almost dead. it had it glorious days but they ended. at the same time the psytrance that most people refer to as full on trance emerged and gained huge part of the market. it was quickly flooded by all israeli acts. but the old psytrance sound (such as Hallucinogen, X-Dream, The Delta etc) still lives on and is more exprimental today. Just listen to X-Dreams latest album. It borrow loads of elements from electro. Personally I'm quite fed up with the full on sound atm. not many really good releases out there nowadays. |
looking back at the type of music that i've liked over time, sometimes i wonder if i ever really even liked trance. i mean of course i like a lot of trance tunes from back in the day, but my favorite has always been the more progressive and housier basslines out there...never really listened to ferry corsten sets or a lot of tiesto sets or paul van dyk. i always preferred sasha and oakenfold's style...
I dunno if I would say it's getting worse or better...it's just different. and as tunes have changed over the years, so have my listening habits/preferences. there's some tunes that i listen to now that i thought i never would....and likewise when i listen to some older stuff from 99/2000, i don't understand why i liked it.
maybe all that is a bad thing....but whatever i just roll w/ it.
well.. in my personal opnion hopin no one gets offended.... i think that trance became the basic commercial genre of the whole edm scene for the past years... i used to like trance when i was a kid.. when trance used to be underground... when you listen to tracks no knowing where they came from.... but now... unfortunately... it became too happy too melodic... lots of vocals kicking in... you find poeple at a gig singing along to vocal tracks as if its a fucking alternative rock concert....
so breifly... trance on commercial basis... is doing good,the only underground trance is psychedelic trance.
NOW i prefer other geners... such as prog house which is my fav,tech house,funky house,electro,psy trance and some downtempo music
I found 2005 to be a weak year for trance. Imo there just aren't that many stand-out tracks as in years past. I have difficulty making a top 10 this year but not because of overwhelming worthy candidates. This past year I listened to a lot more deep house and the whole electro thing, and a more techy sound which has been creeping in to trance. Like many people mentioned before, trance as we used to know it won't be the sole source of trance. The blending of genres will likely continue.
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| Originally posted by eRRaTiK +1 though for house and electro it's been rockin' |
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| Originally posted by Ian For progressive, you can't beat progpsy, esp the swedish take on it, son kite, human blue etc. |
for me the only thing that is going forward is progressive, but im not really into edm anymore, i listen mostly too filmmusic.
let's keep in mind that even if trance in general is hitting a monotonous, relatively mainstream effect, stuff like this both good and bad will show up. but like anything in the music industry, it's on a cycle. so it's arguable we're at the peak starting to hit the trough of the cycle but that just means in time over the next few years we'll get back underground moreso and start all over again.
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| Originally posted by RebeL9 if we talk about the old goa trance sound it's definatly almost dead. |
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| Originally posted by Eagle` K albums are more than a year old already but, I think Ypsilon5 and Filteria revived it with Binary Sky and Sky Input |
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sorry I felt I had to do that 
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| Originally posted by RebeL9 that's exactly why I said almost |
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