Here are some comments someone made about techno/trance. Tell me what you think.

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I hate to be the elitist music bitch, but please stop speaking about trance in reverent tones. Trance fucking sucks, and is best left to DJs getting paid ludicrous amounts of money for absolutly no skills. The good trance tracks have all been made in the mid-90s (Juno Reactor, Nuclear Ramjet, etc.), and the "new wave" is pushed by compilations, sucky labels and marketing. The best electronic "dance" music, IMHO, would be french house, à la Etienne de Crecy, Demon, Stardust, Cassius, DJ Oizo, and some Daft Punk (Mostly Revolution 909/Phoenix). Ain't nothing funkier on earth. As for "easy listening", we call that Downtempo. DJ Toa Tei, Tosca, K&D, Dzhaimen & Kaimien, The Gentle People, Freight Elevator Quartet, Fantastic Plastic Machine, etc. Check those out.

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If you limit yourself to whatever trance compilation vol. X is out there, and that somehow defines the whole of techno music for you, then I really can't say anything that'll change your mind. Also, if you listen to early trance, and what's getting pushed today, I doubt you'd use the word "evolution". A real, reall gross and unfair comparison would be that trance is the teen pop of the electronic music world. Far from the truth, but you get the gist of it. Drop by the 313 mailing list, and post something like "trance is king! The rest is trash!", and you'll get firebombed. Rasta is right. Most people equate techno with trance. Ask any person on the street what techno music is, and the first words that'll pop into his or her mouth would be "raves?". It's like any style of music. Just don't limit yourself to that.

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The first quote is pretty whack but I see where the guy is coming from. Trance used to be better IMO and I can see how some people may think that it really has gone down. It really has become bigger and things like that happen when things get big. Trance nowadays is great but not as good as it was a couple of years ago.

The second quote pushes this concept but in a different way. He's saying don't listen to one compilation and think thats what trance is...also don't think of it as 'techno'. It also goes into how many people just know the term 'techno' and have no clue what trance is. Truth is, you will get fire-bombed if you tell most people in Detriot (313) that trance is King...people need to get they're vocab straight when it comes to the difference between trance and techno.

Thats what I think

Ummmmmmmmmm...........I listen to Trance because i like it, i don't care where and who wrote the tracks (be it France) if i like them i would listen to them.

I can't remember when was the last time i bought a mixed album (or any album for that matter). Sure, at the beginning i used to buy albums because they gave me a good indication of major artists out there. But really mixed albums (MOS, GateCrasher, Slinky, etc) are not intended for listening to them (what i mean is that they are made for parties, ppl go to clubs to have a good time they don't just sit back and enjoy the music). My point is that i listen to trance, where as most of the ppl (who could not tell trance fomr heavy metal) would label it as DANCE and would instinctively start dancing to it.

Ppl should listen to what they like, not neccesarily to what is out there.