I've been argueing with my friends for months now about what will be the sound dominating the floors of nightclubs and festivals this year. I've argued with them that Trance will still be the music of nightclubs, but my friends argue that progressive house, and Hard House are the sound of this year? I would really like to hear other peoples views on this, because I hear all around me off people is that Trance will eventually be swallowed up by progressive House and other genres which I find untrue because Trance is a totally different sound, and has been a strong genre for three years now and i find it hard to think if its lasted this long the sound will die.

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Tell your friends Hard House was the sound of 2000, however they are correct about Progressive. It seems alot of DJs are moving toward a more prog and tribal sound, whether it be progressive trance or progressive house.

Nice 1 mate, that might be the answer I'm looking for to make the Hard House lot shut up!

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Yeah, have them pull out all the Mags from the past year, Mixmag, DJ, Ministry, Muzik and IDJ all dubbed 2000 as the year of Hard House..2001 is Prog and Tribal according to the so called experts.

yep yep. prog is the direction trance is taking right now. not many uplifting/epic trackz deez days comin' out. though i think tech-trance is also slowly rearing its head up a bit more these days as well. who knows...

yeah Tech trance has been hitting scene hard with Mauro Picotto, and Mario Piu who I went to see last month and he was fucking brillant! I've read that Prog was the one to watch in them magazines, just look at Dj magazine for an instance theres always an artical on hybrid, Bedrock, or Deep Dish every week so it must be making some effect, Plus look at Djs like Seb Fontaine i remeber only 2 years ago he sounded very simular to Djs like Judge Jules, and Tall Paul now listen to his show on radio 1 its really progressive and tribal.

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Yeah, your right about Seb he really jumped on the Prog bandwagon, he was really trancey on his earlier Prototype CDs and his club play, now his entire Radio 1 show is Prog.
I also think it has alot to do with the age of the DJs, alot of the A-list DJs, are in their mid 30s, I think there musical taste are changing and that is causing the scene to shift. That's just my opinion, please no hate mail

No mate your right, look at how Djs like Sasha how he was around 1998 he was really trancey, Diggers aswell too, i think theres Djs though who created the sound like Danny Tenaglia,Pete Tong and Nick Warren who have been the key players in the prog sound. Seb has changed a lot I've got one of the earlier prototype Cds i thought that it was a really good CD.

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trance mixed with breakbeats (for example BT & Hybrid)

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Yeah man that might be a good answer, breakbeat trance has been creeping up on people slowely, and over her in the Uk people have really started taking more of a liking to a more breakbeat style sound.

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Tech house, Definately progressive trance & house. Break Beats...Sasha is the God of breaks...Pvd has been using lotta phat ass breaks recently. Epic trance is slowing dying ;(, notice Tiesto's latest production flight 643 is progressive, even though it doesn't go anywhere.

Progressive house is the new trend now.. any real epic or uplifting trance has been dying out~ and DJs are heading for more of that tribal deep sounds... Bcuz of this, DJs like MAx Graham are predicted to be BIG in the upcomming years of this trend continues..

I also think Tech-hard trance is getting more popular.. Just listning to PVD at twilo a week ago saids enuff..

Sasha is breakbeat god???! what are u talking about? I never seen sasha play more then 2 consecutive breakbeat tracks~ he spins breakbeats as often as PVD does.. just to break up the set here and there... the REAL breakbeat GOD is DJ Icey.. He spins that funky/trancey breakbeat all nite.. cant get enuff! =P