Calling Brave & Unique Trance Producers - J00F Wants You!

For all you trance producers that have something a little different to offer in the way of fresh new trance tunes, and are looking for inspiration to perhaps get your lucky break with releasing your work, then read on: this is taken directly from John 00 Fleming's latest diary entry.


We need your music!

I've started researching for a future column that I'll be writing in a magazine. One part is the current lack of quality music available and this inspired me to write this for my own website/Myspace. A few years ago I used to go weekly record shopping and come home with many gems that I had found. I used to get frustrated because I couldnt fit all these new tunes into a 2-hour set! Today I struggle to find 2 or 3 quality releases every month. I get send loads of promos every week; also being a record label boss I get hundreds of demos sent in. All of them seem to have the same generic Trance sound.

Know one seems to be pushing the way forward with new music. It's great that Trance music is being pushed to the masses by my colleagues as this introduces many people to electronic dance/trance music. Once people are hooked they usually explore different genres within the scene, not only as a punter but DJ's and producers. So theoretically we should be bombarded with new talent and producers. But its the complete opposite, we now have less producers offering new styles. We had many more when the scene was in its early days. So where have all these producers gone? One theory is that the decline in sales due to illegal file sharing. This hit all underground producers very hard. They still have bills to pay so many started to make more commercially viable music as there where more sales in this market.

The other theory is that budding DJ's/producers inspire to be like their heroes, so they emulate their sound hoping to bust a career in this DJ world. That simply doesnt work because thousands of others are doing exactly the same thing?!

Maybe its just me not following the masses and doing my own thing, so am I being the fussy one?! It frustrates me not being able to find music that I truly love. There's plenty of new talent out there, I just wish they would be brave and try something new. Think about it, youre more likely to get noticed doing something different and original, this way youre not swamped by the masses. This has been the case with many new guys, Sander van Doorn being a prime example.

The new World of digital record labels makes this much easier to happen. Yes we get flooded with lots of crap, but on the other hand it's easier for a label to take a risk on less commercial releases and again its more likely to get noticed and stand out from the rest in on the website. This is exactly how I run my label; I only release music that I like as opposed to what will sell. This way I can expose new music and talent, and it working!

If I inspire just one new producer from my words written today, then I'm a happy man. We desperately need some fresh new Trance music. I'll even be happy to release it myself. Even if youre an established producer reading this, be adventurous and try something new. So no excuses now!!! Get those studios cranked up and send me your music.

Refer to john00fleming.com.au

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Too old for this shit. But still luvin it

Couldnt agree more with this tho i know i'll probably cop a flamming from a few for saying so.

I used to buy about 10-15 tunes every fortnight and get them home and just be blown away by nearly all of them, these days im buying 10-15 every six weeks and really loving maybe one or two at best in the orders i get and am buying the rest simply to fill in the blanks for a set.

I havent made a promo mix in nearly 12 months simply because i cant find 12 or so tunes that i really like at any one given point.

Even the prducers that have really stood out for me over the last couple of years are also releasing nowhere near as often and nowhere near as good.

Im still very much a production n00b (like begic) so dont have the skill to write tracks how i would like them to sound but surely not everyone is in the same boat??

WTF is going on lately?

Oh you just like it because he gave sander van doorn a mention scotty . Anyways its true, youd be pressed to find 3 good tracks a week, thats why I stopped buying records around the 2004 region, that and I had to support my crack habit.

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there is still good music out there but i think there is more innovation in other genres of edm than in trance at the moment. even now the sander van doorn style is being copied by other producers so it is becoming the norm rather than unique.

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good point teflon

in the past year and a bit ive gone away from playing trance pretty much for all the above reasons. there arnt unique tracks anymore and to many songs seem to be following the same formula.

enter sasha (& diggers to a certain extent)

i dont quiet know what he plays because everytime i hear him or a set of his it seems to be pushing some new boundaries. for me its not so much the type of music being played its the atmosphere it creates.

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Originally posted by PauLie_C whats wrong with electro??

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Originally posted by Aesthetic Oh you just like it because he gave sander van doorn a mention scotty . Anyways its true, youd be pressed to find 3 good tracks a week, thats why I stopped buying records around the 2004 region, that and I had to support my crack habit.

omg, believe it or not i missed that part til u mentioned it!!

Having said that, SVD is the best thing that has happened to the genre since tiesto was doing suburban train, fl 43 and lethal industry etc.

First time since then i have seen ppl from so many genres really love the tracks a trance artist is writing He brings credibility back to the word trance because its not the same, ultra epic, over the top, generic rubbish.

At the end of the day its just dance music, thats the primary role a tune has to play; it must make u want to dance, and too much trance (imho) is too busy trying to be some sort of opus that it has no appeal to a dance floor.

This is why the electro thing has gone stupid.

there's plenty of great tunes to get you through, my advice would be to be musically promiscuous and not stay 'loyal' to any one style.

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There still is good songs around that ive heard,
very few like mentioned.

Last track i remembered that i like was
Marksun & Brian - Neno Itome

just a simple production good melody concept,
nowdays too much overdone stuff.
But whos to complain, if theres no music around why not
play old music gee, theres a load of stuff from 1995-2000 (HOLY GRAIL).
Thats when the mojority of class came around.

well im not in any position "yet" to be pumping out choonz and sending em off to JOOF... i wish

i do understand what hes sayin, but it can also be dependant from person to person on wwether on not a track is a gem to them or just a filler track. ive counted heaps of occasions where i have heard what i believe to be a killer set, yet the bloke next to me says its boring...

SVD ftw sander is teh pwneth

so wish i had some good choonz sorted atm so i could send

maybe in a year or two from now

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Originally posted by batemanscott First time since then i have seen ppl from so many genres really love the tracks a trance artist is writing He brings credibility back to the word trance because its not the same, ultra epic, over the top, generic rubbish. At the end of the day its just dance music, thats the primary role a tune has to play; it must make u want to dance, and too much trance (imho) is too busy trying to be some sort of opus that it has no appeal to a dance floor. This is why the electro thing has gone stupid.

yes yes yes so true.... BUT, what if some of us like epic tracks that often enough lack beat throughout big portions of tracks ???

When i first started out listening to trance (15 years old maybe) it was all about going out with mates, having a good time and dancin like nooblets to trance. I however found a love and appreciation for epic & euphoric synth and it was such a good feeling because not only did it sound great to me, but i actually found the music extremely moving... and this isnt drug related either, i can listen to melodic uplifting trance and be blown away just sitting down in my study while reading text books.

back on topic of what JooF mentioned, i have noticed a large amount of electro/trance tracks coming out, which i think are great and to me are from a new genre within the trance scene... yet i see people from both the trance and the electro house scene saying they dont like it...

Ive heard martin roth do this recently, using Aalto - 5, Cirez D - Mouseville theme and C.S.I - Direct Dizko (Sander van doorn mix) all in the one set. 5 being a electro trance blend, mouseville electro as anything and dizko being alot techier. SOunds awesome to me, is very different but is it what the rest of the trance scene loves ? WIll electro/trance be the next big thing or will it just turn into a small sub culture of trance ?

is there a proper name for this genre ?

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