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| quote: | Originally posted by gizzymcg
Looking at those tracklists to call ASOT "A State of Trance" is so false. It really annoys me Armada music are trying to pass this off as a trance event. It is commercial EDM end of story. None of this "dont be a prisoner of your own style" shit.
And to be honest with the line up that is left to come I dont see it getting much better apart from some of Schulz and Armin. Ferry and PVD dont play trance anymore. So why are these artists playing what is supposid to be a trance stage? But like I say my definition of what trance is and what Armada music think are entirely different. |
As valid as a lot of these points are, the problem is that with the likes of huge multi-stage events like the Ultra Music Festival, Armin / Armada / ALDA don't actually have a say in who gets booked.
What usually happens is Ultra will book all the people they want, and whatever they assign as "trance" becomes the ASOT stage for the event. That's why you only get the likes of ATB appearing at these shows (Ultra, ASOT stage at EDC New York etc.) rather than the other shows on the 600 tour. Although it sometimes has its advantages like getting PvD on the bill today.
I think in analysing everything that has happened on the tour so far is that the laziness of many of the DJs has been exposed. By all means, you can expect people to play their signature tracks, but when you show up with 90% of your set the same tracks in the same order, it's made to look so much worse on radio (and further downloadable) broadcasts.
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