Okay on that Tiesto thread I mentioned about trance being different in five years. Well I decided that I would make this thread about your opinions about what trance will be like in the future (5 to 20 years probably) and what DJs and producers will still be around. I personally don't think Oakenfold will be around by then, Paul van Dyk might do the occasional appearance and track, Armin will persue his law career, and Tiesto, I could see him sitting around on some remote, tropical island playing music for monkeys and tucans lol. They wouldn't care if he sucked at mixing, or if he played the same song many times, he'd make them happy . He may even play for the pre-school, circus, wedding or birthday circuit . God those little kids would love him! He could dress up in a chicken suit or as a clown or magician!. Ferry I think will still be around, but his sound will be a little different (more electroish as he's gone), with producing and mixing.

As far as trance is concerned, I can see it having a combination of prog, ambient and epic, kind of like it's gone, but even more spacey. The technology will have improved, and synths will start sounding less like synths. The music will sound more organic, natural, but synths will still be around. There will no longer be these grandiose synth breakdowns, but I can definitely see guitars and even "some" live percussion playing a larger role, like famous tracks Seven Cities, Offshore, Summersault but not just rip offs of them. So I think it will be a futuristic version of the Balaeric sound made popular by Chicane, Solar Stone, Tastexeperience, Nalin & Kane etc, but to a whole nother level. Even deeper. I think Alucard, whom I've become really fond of with his remixing and producing, I think he's going in the direction that I can picture trance sounding like for some time to come.