I gave this some thought and wondered. Armin used to hold ASOT once a week for 2 hours and thousands of listeners from around the world would tune in for that time period.
On an average, Armin would play atleast 6-7 new tunes/week and that indirectly means he was promoting 6-7 artists per week. Not to mention, the tremendous amount of support his label provided signing artists off these very forums such as Mike Foyle and Vadim Zhukov to name a few.
In short, the global exposure that trance music got whilst ASOT was around was tremendous. Granted that a lot of this exposure was the same formulaic style of trance, but to a new listener it was just trance and to the rest of us just 'ASOT'.

My question is:

Globally,trance is already in a sad state of affairs. It is not a thriving genre. It is a surviving genre powered by the DJ elite and the budding artists. The tremendous ASOT exposure is now temporarily non-existent.
I feel that this could be a BIG blow to trance music in the long run. Possibly to the point of near extinction. Think about it ppl.

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Spacy dreamer

its gonna go back underground to the ghetto fool. don't be dissin on those of us that be trying to keep it real. check youself before u get a cap busted in dem brains

some wierd people think that the more people that listen to trance the crappier it gets. e.g., if lots o peoiple like a song, then that song was produced for the masses, much like sandwiches.




armin will be back with a similar, don't worry.

u spelled weird wrong u dumbfuck. man, thats exactly what this guy be talking about. don't be breaking radio stations with yo spelling
check yo'self shizzle

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Originally posted by DjSaline u spelled weird wrong u dumbfuck. man, thats exactly what this guy be talking about. don't be breaking radio stations with yo spelling check yo'self shizzle

Be gone thug wannabe fuckboy. Go back to school and get some education.

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Spacy dreamer

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Originally posted by DjSaline u spelled weird wrong u dumbfuck. man, thats exactly what this guy be talking about. don't be breaking radio stations with yo spelling check yo'self shizzle

theres something about you that makes me wanna jerk off with old banana peels.

keep it up man, cause I am too.

there be 2 things wrong with name of yo country.

u don't bang with no military
and u ain't got big....ok

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Originally posted by Boomer187 theres something about you that makes me wanna jerk off with old banana peels. keep it up man, cause I am too.

keep it real

i think that van pushes a good point

however, i don't think this would be the end to trance, but, at the very least, a slight dip in it's history

Y'all betta chek yo' selvz.

Thaz rite you betta be recognizin.

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...hp?s=&forumid=1

Use it.

It threads like this that make me realize how much i love ta spread the love fellas

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