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Trance is not a general term. It is very specific. Think of what the word means and how you would go about inducing a trance.
Trance is repetitive by design, doesnt break for any significant length of time and usually consists of very fast 1/16ths and 1/32nds, usually in arpeggios. The point is that trance is like a weave of instruments and interlocking notes, usually played at short intervals. Beyond that anything else is stylistic. But at the root of it, it has to be repetitive. It has to be subliminal/hypnotic.
This will always be a niche market. It always was except for a brief moment in the late 90s when it was still sort of cool to appear on TV mashed off your face or completely out of it.
I dont see how Andain - Beautiful Things (G&D Remix) is trance. For a start it has a breakbeat and breaks down for half the track. And it has sung vocals which have never really been a part of trance music.
I dont especially like that tune but I can see why people do. It certainly has more massmarket appeal and more pop sensibility than trance does, at least these days anyway. Most of the people I know tend to think of us psytrancers as smelly hippies that like tripping on acid to repetitive bleepy music on our dad's allowance. That rep is undeserved but...it just aint cool.
Last edited by Derivative on Jun-30-2006 at 10:41
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