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its slowly disappearing up its own arse in other words 
Trance Will Eat Itself 
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| Originally posted by gaz@influential Hard one, but my best suggestion is that trance, as one of the most futuristic music genres, seems to attract (or at least has in the last few years) tech-savvy mp3 using fans. It's nothing to do with commericalisation IMO - obviously, yes, a totally underground genre won't have a massive mp3 scene, but house is just as commerical as trance in the UK and that doesn't suffer the same problems. I think it comes down to this. Back in 1998/99 people heard new trance in a club, that was the place to hear new music. Then they went to record stores, listened to, and bought the music they liked. But the key point was, the primary listening was done out clubbing on nights out - AS IT SHOULD BE. Music sounds a lot better in a club than on some desktop speakers. In house, d&b, breaks etc, people still hear most new tunes out. Yet somewhere down the line, trance became *the* dance genre for the internet community. This now means that most people don't hear new trance in clubs - they hear it on mp3s, on live rips, on Armin's ID&T show, on net broadcasts, etc. This for me has had two main reprocussions (going slightly OT here, but interesting none the less): a) People are much more critical about trance than before. Fact is most half decent dance music sounds great in a club, but it has to be AMAZING to sound great on your home PC. For example, the big tunes a few years ago, ie: Binary Finary - 1998 were loved by pretty much everyone, without exception. But these days you never seem to get such universal love for tunes, because the internet community is so incredibley critical, even about things you wouldn't notice in a club: "Hmmm the hi-hat programming isn't quite perfect". b) Clubs are less fun because of increased amounts of people knowing the music that's getting played. Gone are the days of whole rooms of people going properly mental, oh no, there's also a few geeks around the edge going "No way man, I've had this tune on mp3 for like three months, how behind is he?!". Big club tunes stop being big clubs tunes sooner than before and DJs often end up playing crap tunes, just because people don't know them. So yes, in a way, trance is a victim of its own popularity. People becoming so obsessive about trance, and trance tunes, has in effect taken a lot of the fun out of the genre. (all completley IMVHO and a bit deep) Thoughts?? |
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| Originally posted by gaz@influential Hard one, but my best suggestion is that trance, as one of the most futuristic music genres, seems to attract (or at least has in the last few years) tech-savvy mp3 using fans. It's nothing to do with commericalisation IMO - obviously, yes, a totally underground genre won't have a massive mp3 scene, but house is just as commerical as trance in the UK and that doesn't suffer the same problems. I think it comes down to this. Back in 1998/99 people heard new trance in a club, that was the place to hear new music. Then they went to record stores, listened to, and bought the music they liked. But the key point was, the primary listening was done out clubbing on nights out - AS IT SHOULD BE. Music sounds a lot better in a club than on some desktop speakers. In house, d&b, breaks etc, people still hear most new tunes out. Yet somewhere down the line, trance became *the* dance genre for the internet community. This now means that most people don't hear new trance in clubs - they hear it on mp3s, on live rips, on Armin's ID&T show, on net broadcasts, etc. This for me has had two main reprocussions (going slightly OT here, but interesting none the less): a) People are much more critical about trance than before. Fact is most half decent dance music sounds great in a club, but it has to be AMAZING to sound great on your home PC. For example, the big tunes a few years ago, ie: Binary Finary - 1998 were loved by pretty much everyone, without exception. But these days you never seem to get such universal love for tunes, because the internet community is so incredibley critical, even about things you wouldn't notice in a club: "Hmmm the hi-hat programming isn't quite perfect". b) Clubs are less fun because of increased amounts of people knowing the music that's getting played. Gone are the days of whole rooms of people going properly mental, oh no, there's also a few geeks around the edge going "No way man, I've had this tune on mp3 for like three months, how behind is he?!". Big club tunes stop being big clubs tunes sooner than before and DJs often end up playing crap tunes, just because people don't know them. So yes, in a way, trance is a victim of its own popularity. People becoming so obsessive about trance, and trance tunes, has in effect taken a lot of the fun out of the genre. (all completley IMVHO and a bit deep) Thoughts?? |
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