If the melodies are really great and the production is not too cheesy, I'll listen to the tune. The thing with more modern trance is that the quality of the song lies in many more elements then just a melody and for me this is a lot more enjoyable. Take for example:

Greed - Strange World (Blackwatch King Monkey Dub)

It doesn't really have any prominent melodies, but the use of synths and the percussion make this a great song and something new to enjoy.

For me, the older kind of stuff just gets boring I guess, but if the melodies are good, like Rank 1/Airwave then I'm in.

I've only been producing for like 7 months, so I don't know how labels react to older style trance, but I'm sure they are looking for more modern stuff...

My $0.02

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New trance in my opinion is darker and more subtle, I love the new sound, and grew tired of all the over the top melodies in the older stuff.

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I started to listen to trance in mid 90's. At that time I liked it a lot. Some days ago I found an old album with one of my favourite tunes from the "oldschool" trance. Sean Dexter - Mankind. Damn, what was I thinking? It IS a great tune, but compared to whats new these days it's a rather poor production. But I still like the old music.

i love the 98-99 sound. check out [P.E.G] - chiba (original mix) by one of our own TA's. incorporates that "old" sound, just awesome imo.

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Jose Amnesia - The Eternal (Pulser Remix) / Chicane - Saltwater / Photon Project - Illumination / Gouryella - Tenshi / Altitude - Altitude (SHOKK Remix) / Rank 1 - Airwave / The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia (En Motion Mix)

Thanks for all of your imput. I guess Im just gonna make what I make, and not worry about it. It seems that I can never really sit down and try to make a track that sounds like something. It just happens. or maybe I need to do some studying.

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Originally posted by Arctic Breeze By starting, try to make music for your own pleasure, only dead fish follow the stream

Nice! Im gonna use that.....

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