is it just me or is trance and all its genre cousins completly sucking these days?

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Posted by shanehanner on Feb-28-2005 15:58:

is it just me or is trance and all its genre cousins completly sucking these days?

I love everything, trance, house, d&b, you name it. But i remember a time when their was a plethora of badass tracks always coming out. now everything is some rip off and completly sucks! I have been so dissapointed in the music latley that i have started to go back to other kinds of music. I guess i just miss that feeling when you hear a song that just takes you away...you know.

only thing ive heard lately is "darkside of the moon" and it isnt anything that is just breaking the barriers. Am I just not looking in the right places or what?

Posted by Lira on Feb-28-2005 16:00:

I agree with you. Lately everything seems to be so derivative. I've been listening to old edm and non-electronic music as well for this very reason.

Posted by trewqy on Feb-28-2005 16:01:

I like listening to music too

Posted by UWM on Feb-28-2005 16:04:

Here we go again.

Posted by Jake Conlon on Feb-28-2005 16:06:

open your ears.

Posted by nwopper on Feb-28-2005 16:11:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
Here we go again.

+1

Posted by DJMaytag on Feb-28-2005 17:51:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
Here we go again.

This statement is more true than you realize.

Techno and trance went through a similar phase between 1995 and 1997, when everyone and their mother was basing their tracks on TB-303 acid lines, many doing it badly. It got totally over used and finally the next great sound came and replaced it (the JP-8000 and the "supersaw lead").

Give it time and we'll see a similar cycle happen. We can't go on with the same old leads and riffs forever. Just be patient.

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Feb-28-2005 17:58:

quote:
Originally posted by DJMaytag
This statement is more true than you realize.

Techno and trance went through a similar phase between 1995 and 1997, when everyone and their mother was basing their tracks on TB-303 acid lines, many doing it badly. It got totally over used and finally the next great sound came and replaced it (the JP-8000 and the "supersaw lead").

Give it time and we'll see a similar cycle happen. We can't go on with the same old leads and riffs forever. Just be patient.

This is the best post ever made on this subject. No sarcasm. Thank fuck someone has recognised that trance wasn't golden right up until 1997 when suddenly it became evil.

Posted by Atari Addict on Feb-28-2005 18:11:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
Here we go again.

+2

quote:
Originally posted by DJMaytag
This statement is more true than you realize.

Techno and trance went through a similar phase between 1995 and 1997, when everyone and their mother was basing their tracks on TB-303 acid lines, many doing it badly. It got totally over used and finally the next great sound came and replaced it (the JP-8000 and the "supersaw lead").

Give it time and we'll see a similar cycle happen. We can't go on with the same old leads and riffs forever. Just be patient.

nice.

Posted by daeus on Feb-28-2005 18:22:

Im loving it, ever since 98 the sythns get better and better!

new tune recently out for example - Jonas Steur - Castamara - WOW!

Posted by miamitranceman on Feb-28-2005 18:49:

It's just you.

Posted by UWM on Feb-28-2005 18:50:

quote:
Originally posted by DJMaytag
This statement is more true than you realize.

Techno and trance went through a similar phase between 1995 and 1997, when everyone and their mother was basing their tracks on TB-303 acid lines, many doing it badly. It got totally over used and finally the next great sound came and replaced it (the JP-8000 and the "supersaw lead").

Give it time and we'll see a similar cycle happen. We can't go on with the same old leads and riffs forever. Just be patient.

I'm not saying there's no validity in his statement, only that this topic has been covered X number of times already.

Posted by DJMaytag on Feb-28-2005 18:58:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
I'm not saying there's no validity in his statement, only that this topic has been covered X number of times already.

Feel free to use my statement next time it comes up again. It will. Soon.

Posted by UWM on Feb-28-2005 19:07:

quote:
Originally posted by DJMaytag
Feel free to use my statement next time it comes up again. It will. Soon.

The all knowing oracle speaks!

Posted by electronicmaji2 on Feb-28-2005 19:19:

they say trance is dead

but I will prove trance is not dead

with this next track

*plays yahel - behind silence*

Posted by DJMaytag on Feb-28-2005 19:36:

quote:
Originally posted by UWM
The all knowing oracle speaks!

"And don't worry about the vase"

Posted by tranceaddict991 on Feb-28-2005 19:47:

the never ending argument starts another chapter

Posted by Project 7 on Feb-28-2005 19:49:

Posted by placebo on Feb-28-2005 20:20:

Most of it sounds pretty much the same.

The more I listen to EDM, the more I start listening to weirder, and weirder shit.

Oh well.

I still listen to ASOT every week, and sometimes Armin will drop something on there that doesnt sound so generic, but the problem is, alot of it sounds really, really, similiar.

Trance just needs to evolve again.

Posted by dratsaag on Feb-28-2005 20:39:

Yeah trance wasn't golden up until 1998. Meanwhile it lost arpeggiation and complexly interwoven melodies and gained giant wash effects, banal melodies, and general over-the-top bluntneess in order to appeal to more people. Way to go you fucktard.