The REAL trance/progressive revival thread

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Posted by SYSTEM-J on Jun-13-2025 19:32:

I don't think they're very good. Neither one is trance, I would hesitate to even call them progressive house really. Not enough groove. Both sound like Yotto tracks from 8 years ago with those melodramatic power chords.

The thing is, before this revival sound came around I was, of course, playing the kind of progressive house that Hernan Cattaneo and Nick Warren deal in. The tracks you've shared would certainly fit in with that scene, but I would have passed them by if I'd found them on Beatport. There is undoubtedly some gold in that scene but you would have to sift through a hundred bland, wishy washy tracks to find that gold. I was always trying to find ways to inject a bit of energy and nastiness into it by adding some tech house, some acid, some old tracks that could fit in. How successful I was at that mission is for others to decide, but once this revival sound came around I just binned off the whole enterprise quite quickly. The tracks in this thread have the energy and the acidic rawness built into them. You don't have to sweat and slave as a DJ to make it sound like filthy, nasty drug music. It's already there.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Jun-14-2025 14:06:

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I don't think they're very good. Neither one is trance, I would hesitate to even call them progressive house really. Not enough groove. Both sound like Yotto tracks from 8 years ago with those melodramatic power chords.

The thing is, before this revival sound came around I was, of course, playing the kind of progressive house that Hernan Cattaneo and Nick Warren deal in. The tracks you've shared would certainly fit in with that scene, but I would have passed them by if I'd found them on Beatport. There is undoubtedly some gold in that scene but you would have to sift through a hundred bland, wishy washy tracks to find that gold. I was always trying to find ways to inject a bit of energy and nastiness into it by adding some tech house, some acid, some old tracks that could fit in. How successful I was at that mission is for others to decide, but once this revival sound came around I just binned off the whole enterprise quite quickly. The tracks in this thread have the energy and the acidic rawness built into them. You don't have to sweat and slave as a DJ to make it sound like filthy, nasty drug music. It's already there.

Thanks so much mate! Fascinating. Have usually assumed anything i�ve been into was trance or trance-adjacent/relying on 1234 or 1231 chords etc. But if those tracks aren�t even prog house i�m as lost as ever

I acknowledge your general disdain for melodic trance but you�d be surprised how awful it is being a cheesemeister these days. I�d be stoked to find 20 decent tracks a month. More like 2-3 a year if im lucky.

Thanks for your opinion!

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Jun-14-2025 17:57:

Beatport has the category "melodic house and techno", which basically means "Cattaneo prog but with even less groove". That's what I'd call these. Beatport has the Arodes track filed under that category.

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