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I know PPK, Dumonde, and ATB are all considered epic trance, but I'm not sure about the others. I would say Deep Dish is almost trance-house, or "deep house" or whatever. Basically, if there's a constant base drum every 4 beats, a breakdown with no bass drum for more than 1 minute anywhere in the track, and then some synth comes building in, it's epic trance.
I got into trance in 2002, so I guess I can't understand the hatred towards epic trance. Supposedly, anybody who went to raves before the year 2000 knows all about the "love" and what the meaning of raves was supposed to be, like some sort of new wave hippies, and then people like Ferry Corsten popularized trance and killed the "vibe" of most of the raves by getting more mainstream attention. If you go to any raves nowadays, everybody calls them "parties," and about half of the people there will be crashed out along the walls on drugs. A lot of "jaded" ravers there will tell you how the scene is dead because of trance or whatever, so Ishkur must be one of those people. I've been to about 10 "parties" so far, and the music is usually so loud and poorly EQ'd that all you hear out of trance is the thump-thump of the bass drum. Then it gets quiet because of a breakdown, then back to thump-thump. Listening to trance on your home speakers is about 100x better. Maybe I've been to a bunch of lame trance parties though, I've heard Seattle has zero in the trance department compared to everywhere else.
Epic trance is my favorite kind of music, so long as it doesn't sound warmed-over or generic. Isn't that the way with any kind of music though, it sucks if it doesn't sound stereotypical? Anyways, I recommend the following artists for some good "melodic" trance, which is basically the same thing as epic trance:
Jonas Steur
Solid Globe
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Ronski Speed
Those guys make very few crappy tracks. Hope this answers your questions.
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