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Originally posted by Rodri Santos It's another kind of popularity, in 1994 trance had just bornt, but i'd say in the 2000-2005 trance was massively popular, not the good records but the most commercial stuff in the form of eurodance, hard dance, but clubs played it daily wasn't something fresh like it would be now when you rarely hear a trance tune in a mainstream club. Surely ASOT has now more listeners than ever (15 millions i believe, stunning) but go ask 100 people in the street about : -Armin van Buuren -Ferry Corsten -Oliver Lieb -Sasha Possibly 10 out 100 would know who AvB is 2-3 in the case of Ferry and for statistical beauty we will count 1 for Lieb and Sasha. Now ask the same 100 about : -David Guetta -Swedish House Mafia -Rihanna -Afrojack You'll see that 90% have heard about most of them. So in conclussion trance now has attracted more people but the world seems more unaware of trance than ever. This is illogical but it is what it happens, last week Leon Bolier was a worldwide Twitter trend topic, there must be a lot of hidden trance fans, maybe confessing you are a trance addict is now embarrasing, otherwise i can't understand why if the "#trancefamily" is so big you rarely find trance heads around you. However the current commercial house is focused to casual edm listeners, they don't know what the fuck the djmag is, IDMAS or ASOT is but conform a big fanbase for this djs. PS: IDMAS this year are more a joke than ever, must be a leaked hoax.

I have some serious doubts if e.g. Guetta is better know than Tiesto. But it doesn't matter as I count popularity inside the group of people who listen to EDM and not the people who just happen to listen top40 and get those tracks pushed down their throat.
Trance can be popular even when not a single track can be found in the top40. That's why I think it's still very popular because I don't believe huge numbers of people who liked trance 10 years ago, now hate it. And since most older trance loving people haven't died yet the number of people who like trance still will increase. At the same time other genres could get more fans and even quicker, but that doesn't make trance unpopular IMO.

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Originally posted by rdevito Here in Brazil Psy-Trance is well known, but i like all kind of Trance and sometimes i miss someone to talk about it.

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Originally posted by jayxthekoolest 500/6,800,000,000.00 = 7.4*10^-6%. I wouldn't call that a good turn out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVZsduQQh0
Id say that was a pretty good turnout in my books.

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Originally posted by Trance-MB I have some serious doubts if e.g. Guetta is better know than Tiesto. But it doesn't matter as I count popularity inside the group of people who listen to EDM and not the people who just happen to listen top40 and get those tracks pushed down their throat. Trance can be popular even when not a single track can be found in the top40. That's why I think it's still very popular because I don't believe huge numbers of people who liked trance 10 years ago, now hate it. And since most older trance loving people haven't died yet the number of people who like trance still will increase. At the same time other genres could get more fans and even quicker, but that doesn't make trance unpopular IMO.

Tiesto is a dutch dj living in the netherlands he has to be known, is part of the country history, if you have a sculpture in the madame tussauds you are famous as hell. But people here don't know who tiesto is.

I'd like to say that i have the feeling that the new n�1 is going to be tiesto and not guetta nor armin... also i am happy to see that when the Guetta name isn't next to a big pop name his tracks remain unknown, his new track with Laidback luke is daily migraine.

Tiesto is doing the right thing, playing what people want to hear (sadly) and collaborating with the hot names of edm, edm fans fill arenas, pop bonkers don't

To the people who don't know trance they think tiesto, but to the people who do know about it they know Armin Van Buuren. Only because normal people who listen to chart music see people they know and they see tiesto collabing with him. He diverges outside of trance and remixes othe popular music.

I was in college today listening to digitally imported radio, and a friend came up to me and asked what I was listening to and I said trance and he immediately asked if I was listening to Tiesto. I told him know, I really don't like Tiesto just because he's gone mainstream, I like trance because it's good music and no one I know listens to it. I hate mainstream music, I like how trance is still semi-underground.

I totally like how trance is all underground and everything and how nobody else listens to it. Makes me feel all special and cool. People tell me that trance is gay and stupid, and I know inside that they just don't understand it.

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Originally posted by Adam420 I totally like how trance is all underground and everything and how nobody else listens to it. Makes me feel all special and cool. People tell me that trance is gay and stupid, and I know inside that they just don't understand it.

Thats exactly how I feel, its better to be original than to be a Brainwashed zombie. Thats my whole point to this thread is to say that I like how trance is Underground, and yeah ive had people tell me its gay but ive never taken it to heart just because for me i feel like their really missing out on some good music, rather than listening to Eminem or Lil wayne and they make tracks that are on the charts for maybe a few weeks but then they slip away, with trance, its different, people still listen to the tracks that came out close to 20 years ago.

I think mainstream music is really going shit, i mean i listen to music nowadays and it honestly sucks, two song examples, Rebecca Black - Friday, God awful song, and WIllow Smith- I whip my hair back and fourth, over repetitive and annoying.

Edit: Also i feel like whenever something goes mainstream, its subject to change to the overall liking. I actually don't mind old school Rap, it was pretty good but look at it today, Eminem only makes money because hes angry at the world. You'd think when your a millionaire you wouldn't be so angry but yet he knows that sells.

I think if trance music became mainstream it would turn into more like Kaskade sounding, it'll just be catchy repetetive beats, pretty much Kaskade's angel on my shoulder would be what trance would become in my eyes.

Can I please ask you to click on these two links, download the files, listen to them and then come back to this thread?

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Originally posted by RebeL9 Part 1: http://www.filestube.com/71780d1bdf027ad703e9/go.html Part 2: http://www.filestube.com/9ad21912e277ee8d03ea/go.html

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Originally posted by TechnoTranceRM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVZsduQQh0 Id say that was a pretty good turnout in my books.

I agree. That looks epic. At the same time, relative to the world population...

When I saw this thread, I thought it was from 1999

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Originally posted by AirPole When I saw this thread, I thought it was from 1999

Yeah, it gave me flashbacks
Nothing lasts but nothing is lost.

i'd like trance to be like in 1999 and popular, if it is not possible like in 1999 but underground but now you have unpopular shit.

The problem with me is not that I just dislike today's trance music, but I'm realizing a lot of the trance music I liked "back in the day" (by my standards, I'm maybe younger than a lot of the old tranceaddicts) I don't like so much either now because I realize they're a bit cheesy. For example: Lange - Follow me (DJ Jam X & De Leon's Dumonde Remix) and also Ferry Corsten - Out Of The Blue. I mean the songs are beautiful, but I feel a little childish and embarassed listenening to them.

HOWEVER, there are some gems I will always love and probably NOT find them terrible or very cheesy in the future, regardless of the era of the track or how much older I get myself:

Rank 1 - Airwave (Original Mix)
George Acosta - Secret Memory (Marc La Cruz Meets George Acosta Remix)
Robert Nickson - Spiral (Original Mix)
Above & Beyond and Andy Moor - Air For Life (Original Mix and Airwave Remix)
Luminary - Amsterdam (Smith & Pledger Remix)
Ferry Corsten - Beautiful (Original Mix)


So... when some of you guys say "trance bores me nowadays," do you mean NEW trance or ALL trance in general (old included)? Has your entire TASTE changed? For one thing, I know my taste has changed a little. I'm liking a lot more progressive tunes now but that's because of a lack of proper trance tunes (I find that most prog tracks are less cheesy); I still like almost all of the songs I did in the past (big exception --> that huge alex M.O.R.P.H. and Daniel Kandi phase I went through a few years ago!)

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos Tiesto is a dutch dj living in the netherlands he has to be known, is part of the country history, if you have a sculpture in the madame tussauds you are famous as hell. But people here don't know who tiesto is.

I'm very aware how small my country is, which is why I wasn't referring to it comparing Tiesto vs Guetta. And also Spain isn't big enough for global reference IMO. I just can't imagine Guetta beating Tiesto with huge numbers for being better known all over the world. But I could be wrong.

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Originally posted by Whirloop Nothing lasts but nothing is lost.

only your losses lasts. other way to see it.

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Originally posted by Trance-MB I'm very aware how small my country is, which is why I wasn't referring to it comparing Tiesto vs Guetta. And also Spain isn't big enough for global reference IMO. I just can't imagine Guetta beating Tiesto with huge numbers for being better known all over the world. But I could be wrong.

You're right we have more french influence than dutch either but if David Guetta isn't the n�1 is just because most of his fans don't know what the dj mag list is, Armin relys mostly in his ASOT followers and he points them in the right direction in every episode "Vote for me at www.djmag.com please" David Guetta relys on his cheesy productions, what can he do?� Maybe instead of saying "Sexy Bitch" "OH, Vote for me...." ?�

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Originally posted by TechnoTranceRM I was listening to ASOT 500 yesterday, it was a live show in Miami and they had like a livestream with photos you could view while you were listening and there must have Been anywhere from 300 to 500 people there, I'd call that a good turn out.

Lol that was at Ultra Music Festival. I was there and there were easily 20,000+ people in that tent alone.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 Lol that was at Ultra Music Festival. I was there and there were easily 20,000+ people in that tent alone.

What country do you live in?

Trance is not popular?

I also thought that this thread was from 1999

Today's Trance aka "Progressive Trance" aka "another version of House" is too popular. It shouldn't be so popular cause it shouldn't represent "Trance" at all.

For me who has been listening to Trance since the 90's, here is popular Trance which is 1000 x times better than today's popular trance.

May I introduce you: Golden age era of Trance: 1998 - 2003:


































































Mainstream and awesome! Golden Age FTW! German DJ:s = The real kings of Trance

Thanks for posting all those videos, im always looking for classic trance, when you think about it, Trance is a bit of a sausage fest, i meant there aren't that many Female Dj's. The only one I know is JES, and her music is Shit. Anyone know of any female Trance Composer/Dj's? Ive always woundered that, im not talking about groups that happen to have a female vocalist, im talking about an actual Female Dj that makes tracks just like everyone else.

Edit: After watching halfway though ive noticed that all these videos are basically the same thing, not that the music isn't good, its great its just the videos are always vacantly colored, lack of people,some dealing with parts of nature, slow motion scenes, high uses of auto-focusing in and out, and rewinding. Is there just one man that directs these videos?

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Originally posted by TechnoTranceRM What country do you live in?

The US at the moment.

the fact that half of the top 10 is composed by trance djs does not mean trance is popular. Trance has proven to be a good genre to fill a 60,000 capacity arena, hands helding high, but it totally fails in a club, i have tryed to play trance in the past, but there is no middle point, people find it too obscure, too cheesy or too boring, better play some vocal house that you know always is of public delight.

When people go out to have some drinks generally go out with a mixture of girls/boys with variated tastes so even if you establish just a single club in the city playing trance it would be empty because of your 10 people sized group of friends only you and maybe another one would like to attend to that event , the others would prefer to be with the girls or they simply don't like trance. In conclussion, there are trance followers in every single place of the world, i know a lot of trance djs in my city but none of them play trance just because the context isn't appropiate and some clubs tryed to establish a trance night and failed because of this.

Do you guys like how trance is fucking shit?

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Originally posted by enydo Do you guys like how trance is fucking shit?

I love it!

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