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I agree with PETRAN here.
It's that people changed that they declare trance as dead and boring and the early years as the best years.
Your taste, view and stance have changed, not so much the music itself.
And the hypnotic repetitive music you refer to as trance is german trance from 1991-1992, it's a blend between techno and trance.
The unicorns started popping out from 1993 onwards in various degrees.
For me it also has been a journey from when i started discovering christian dance up until now, where i mostly like certain modern trance tracks and find much from the middle of the 90s and before not really intriguing and enjoyable because of the lack of harmonic melodies working together.
YES, i love melodies working together harmonically.
Yet i want to see something new, something that makes me consider the track fresh and not just an emulation of previous tracks.
I discovered commercial trance when i heard Barbarus - Hold On.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9WET...feature=related
I became hooked when i heard the Signum remix of Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone"
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=HP8LuR0sHxo
I never really loved Superstring, it grew too cheesy on me.
And the whole commercial sounding shit that i could get on CD was beginning to become stale and overused, so in the beginning of 2005 i nearly gave up on trance when i discovered the newer and more underground sound of Anjuna, Armada, etc. by listening to ASOT.
I quickly learned of other internet trance station and when ASOT became too dull for me, i permanently moved on.
In the last two years i've experienced some trance fatigue so now and then, but not as before and i know it's because much new trance is just rehashed shit.
Some gems are among the sea of shit, but that's alright, it keeps me from purchasing too much dung.
Other genres?
House has some nice stuff, but it's not melodic enough.
Techno is mostly not melodic.
Don't mention hard house, hard trance, hard style, gabber, terror, etc., i just hate the styles.
Ambient... where's that beat?
Electro can be nice, but it needs melodic harmony.
Experimental is too experimental for my taste.
D&B can be nice if it's more jungle, but most current D&B is too hard for me.
I nearly exclusively listen to trance because i like it how the style is, but i do like the mixup with other styles.
Call me a unicorn lover and a deadhead, but i most likely will keep liking trance as it is, just some of the new releases that is.
I have accepted that it doesn't matter for me when a track was made, but that it should be appealing to me.
Yes, i tend to dislike the "authentic" old tracks, but that's mostly because i don't like the harmonies between the different melodies and prefer "nicer" trance and because much of it sounds less well produced to me.
But still, if a track has the right elements, i WILL like it.
| quote: | Originally posted by basd
You must have been doing an awful lot of clicking around to find a gem like this. |
Nah, not really, i followed the following link and accidentally clicked on the right link:
It's just that i love the track, but never knew who produced it, but now i know.
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i prefer his darker stuff though unless its with thomas melchior (eg check your buddhah)
