With the nice weather we where having, i've been going out quite a lot lately (10x/2weeks), to several events & clubs in Belgium, and one thing struck me ... nowhere - really - none of them played ANY Trance music.

Yesterday at Tienen Rock DJ Mason was playing - he is of course a Club/House DJ - and played some nice club/house tracks... only after his set was finished he played the all-time-classic "Age Of Love - Stella Mix" as an encore ... It was the most Melodic Piece of the evening ...

Every kind of person is at this kind of event: Alternative, Dreadlocks, Goths, Old/Young people, Students, yuppies - even talked with a prison guard ... and the organisation choose to play Club Music ...

(Tiesto also played at Tienen Rock last week, but i feel that's not because they wanted Trance Music to be represented, but just to lure people with a big name...)


What/Who are we producing Trance for ?

Nobody in any (non specific trance) event/club plays Trance music, but Club/House is omnipresent (even at rock events) ... this used to be quite different here in Belgium ...

Just wondering what is happening in the other countries, and how you keep motivated to create Trance ...
The Trance DJ's seem more like a school-board - you graduate when you make their playlist ... but if even the biggest names in Trance don't get their tracks played for the masses - then what is the average TA's chance to get heard by non-trance audience ?

Maybe some will think this is off-topic, but motivation is what keeps you producing isn't it ?

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Last edited by groundzero74 on Jul-30-2006 at 12:59

tbh I stopped producing trance more than 1 1/2 years ago. Not only cause I lost the motivation to do it, but also because every track just sounds the same (not just mine, but overall).
And I probably lost the feeling for the music. It's a little like love, you can love somebody, and you can loose the feeling because you're expectations or imagination changed.

well if i find a melody that i like and that kinda slays into the 4/4 time signature, i wont be afraid to add supersaws (zelda, tetris etc)

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Originally posted by dEEkAy tbh I stopped producing trance more than 1 1/2 years ago. Not only cause I lost the motivation to do it, but also because every track just sounds the same (not just mine, but overall). And I probably lost the feeling for the music. It's a little like love, you can love somebody, and you can loose the feeling because you're expectations or imagination changed.

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good luck and good thoughts!

hehe, that's the f*cking problem in Belgium, I think Holland has a lot more trance parties. Belgium only knows techno, hardstyle (margi-jumpers ) and alternative styles.

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The world of trance as I know it, exists souly on the internet. If it wasn't for the internet I would of never known what Trance was. Texas is not exactly a hotbed for Trance. I listen to the digitally imported Trance almost station ever day, and I listen to 1 or 2 live, online DJ Trance sets per week. If I'm driving around in my pickup truck, I listen to Trance CDs.

Some of the deep progressive house is interesting, but I really don't listen to anything other than Trance, when it comes to EDM. I don't know what goes on in other countries, I'm sure Trance is still big somewhere. Trance is very alive on the internet though, and probably always will be.

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Originally posted by zodiac9 The world of trance as I know it, exists souly on the internet.

To be fair, I really don't go out much.. but I've never heard trance music outside of the internet. (except for that one time in 97 when I heard Robert Miles - Children, but that was in another country so it doesn't count)

This is just me, but I feel that the topics which basically say "trance is dead," are counter-productive. If you think trance is dead, THEN DO SOMTHING ABOUT IT. If you just say trance is dead or trance is only on the internet, then you have just contributed to killing trance. I hear these post and I am actually inspired to create more music, just to show that trance is infact NOT dead. And if you go see DJ's and none of them play trance, then maybe you should learn to mix records and atleast attempt to bring trance music back to those clubs.

I will never stop producing trance music and no it does not all sound the same. The kind of trance that people like Armin van Buuren play, whether you like it or not, I see as the future. The blend of house, trance, progressive, and other EDM genre's is wonderful and calls for more creativity. I feel its a genre of its own.

Trance that was played in 1999 at Trance Energy by Tiesto is dead, so move on.

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In the UK we get Trance on most of the major radio shows ( Just listening to Radio 1 covering the Godskitchen Tent at Global Gathering).
There are also quite a few regular Trance nights on in London to go to.

The funny thing is with Trance nights is that there is usually a House room attached onto it, but with House it's always purely house.

I do agree that there is less trance around in general and commercially. I think it is because when people are out for a good night out their musical tastes basically are after a quick fix - which house and club music can easily accomodate for. The majority of people just arnt prepared to wait a couple of minutes for the track to kick in, they just want some dirty smut bassline and kick to hit them for a couple of mins, then off to the next track.

I know this 'cos I've felt the same way all too many times!

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Originally posted by mysticalninja How to lose your motivation in 10 days ... Just buy a Virus TI! By the time you get it working, (if ever) you won't have the slightest motivation!

Haha! I'm guessing you've had a hard time with yours?

Btw, trance ain't dead. Last time I heard it played publicly was this weekend in a huge electronics store in Lübeck, Germany (two floors covering almost all brands), and I remember I was like "whoa, they play trance here?"

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the internet gives a false idea of how popular trance is. in a electronic world you would be fooled into thinking trance is as big as ever but it is mainly based on people not willing to give up on a dead horse.

i love trance but uplifting is mostly shit these days. it has been overpowered by cool slower tech/electro fueled music. the best of it has a slight trancy melodic feel but the stuff 'standard trance' is not doing anything on dancefloors now. it has had its day back in the early 2000's

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