i think its because lately, a lot of trance has the "been there, done that" feeling....that occurs with every music style. If that happens you see the style evolving. Thats why progressive, techno and breaks are even house are getting more involved into trance which causes trance to evolve into new subgenres. Its just the usual stuff that happens with every genre.

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armin just said trance is alive.

Take That!

i don't think its dying but i do think its maturing. which is completely different.

the genre over all seems like it has been lookin around for a new sound since the golden days

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Armin also said he dislikes alot of the music he played on ASOT. Oh, and trance isn't maturing. It's been at a complete standstill for years now, until Markus Schulz' sound came along. Now it has stopped evolving again.

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike If I wanted to listen to a DJ bang out shit as weak sounding as Andy Moor / Markus Schulz etc. i'd go listen to Armin van Buuren. Nothing fucks me off more than a fan that thinks a DJ can do no wrong. There is a lot of good music out there. How some people can be so easily pleased is beyond my comprehension.

Of course its matured over the years.

Compare Grace - Not Over Yet with Armin & M.I.K.E - Pound

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The way it works is that if you listen to trance for long enough you will start to hear the same thing redone over and over again.

That's why new genres are so appealing to people and why their musical tastes "evolve". You listen to a genre for long enough and you start to become tired with it or want to seak out something new. For me I found trance was starting to lack so I've gone more into house and hard trance as opposed to the uplifting and more progressive sound I was into before.

It makes sence to move on and experience new genres.

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Originally posted by Jake Conlon Of course its matured over the years. Compare Grace - Not Over Yet with Armin & M.I.K.E - Pound

My god, Not Over Yet is 12 years old. I'm talking about post-2000.

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike If I wanted to listen to a DJ bang out shit as weak sounding as Andy Moor / Markus Schulz etc. i'd go listen to Armin van Buuren. Nothing fucks me off more than a fan that thinks a DJ can do no wrong. There is a lot of good music out there. How some people can be so easily pleased is beyond my comprehension.

Oh, boy...all that analysing why people don't listen to trance. I think therefore people are people, they change during the years, and sometimes musictaste goes with that.

Some people do that and go listen that other music in silence, some people go on and feel so damn proud about this revelation in their life that their head went up their asses and it won't get out. And some people are content about their music as it is, and some are so content that they have to say it everytime again.

This 'why people do not listen to trance anymore' cannot ever be answered.

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Originally posted by Ory My god, Not Over Yet is 12 years old. I'm talking about post-2000.

exactly so it has changed

post 2000 you got Riva - Stringer and
Rob Rofeles - Mel Percuetek

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Last edited by Jake Conlon on Feb-24-2005 at 21:00

expand ur music horizons, problem solved

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The same people who hate Trance also hate Star Trek and Trekkies... they are repelled by Escapist Culture, whether it is musical or on t.v..... and so the Escapists remain cordoned off, thus perpetuating the culture...



Who cares?/ (a typically Escapist answer)

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cause its time for variety..with trance

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Originally posted by Dj Zak Well my journey with edm started 6 or 7 years ago it started out with atb stuff then darude then eventually things began to propagate and i got to love tiesto (when he was tiesto) i was so mad about his sets i got addicted to his livesets and because of that music i started considering djing maybe ...i got also to like armin so much but before i got to know him so well iio - rapture (john creamer and stephane k remix) hit me so hard i love this tune till this day ..then i got to listen to some of digweeds sets and i really like how unpredictable the music is ..and how there is so much greater room for innovation in that music ..it's more ellaborative and that was what trance lacked at that time progressive house was more appealing ..and since the year rapture was released i lost track of any trance music and i really hated it and what made me hate it more was paul van dyk .... i heard a liveset from the man and i decided it's never gonna be the same ...till recently i got into an argument with a trance fan at college ..i was like "Trance is dead man u still listening to that shit" he replies "Armin is alive" am like wtf are u talking about and i listen to a recent asot ...I reconsidered my thoughts ...Maybe no genre is bad but it's the flow .. the past years were house music time nourishment till now and it's going on ..but trance is still alive with some people and armin is definately one of them ..Not many are available and thats why many ppl hated trance it's not what it used to be n.b i need some help getting back !! this is my first post since many years ne help is acknowleged ..am staring to dig back my trance mix tapes (it's good to get the good from all)

FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK!!!!!!!!!


Trance is NOT DEAD. GO TO HELL YOU PRICK.... I'm KILLING YOUR KIDS, KILLING YOUR DOG, KILLING YOUR CAT, KILLING YOUR FISH, KILLING YOUR WIFE, AND CHOPPING OFF YOUR FUCKING ARMS AND LEG

nothing pisses me off more than "trance is dead"...


ahhh.... now that I've calmed down....

Your not a prick. BUt yeah, your history to trance sounds VERY similiar to mine. Almost the exact same. I started with ATB, then DArude, then Tiesto, then Digweed, but then, I LIKED PVD.

I know this is going to sound absurd, My suggestion to you is download the Paul Van Dyk Live @ ENergy 03, and Paul Van Dyk LIve @ Amnesia.

I find PVD's sets and his music takes AGEEESSSS to get used to. Once you start to like him, u should be cured. ALso get: ANother way, Beautiful place, and Animacion by Paul Van Dyk...

I've gone through the same periods of the "damn, trance is geting so shit" phases. BUt i always stuck in there. Eventually, it comes back. It's like a up-and-down roller coaster. It's a sign u need to spread ur tastes more, and experiment a bit, and try different stuff ur fav artists already make. Or go back to the era u liked, and get more stuff from then that's good, but u don't have yet.

What made u come back on TA anyway?