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| quote: | Originally posted by Neo95gt
I like all types of music, I could give a shit about what the genres are. And to say that suddenly all trance is trash is ridiculous. Especially up until 2006. People were saying the same thing in 2006, going back to 2000. And you know what, in 5 years people are gonna be saying how bad trance sucks and how awesome it was in 2008. |
That's a good way to look at it with regards to the labeling thing. I hate labels - good music is good music. But labels do exist so in light of that the music that is labeled as 'trance' today doesn't really hold a candle to the music that was labeled as 'trance' in the past. I think that is true of all music, even beyond EDM.
Hip hop for example is an obvious case. It, like trance came about as the coming together of other forms of music and remained innovative in its early days. It had an accepted golden era where mindblowing shit was released left and right and always seemed to one up what came before it. Then, it stagnated and rappers and producers all adopted a cookie cutter mentality. Little originality and innovation. This led to where we are now in hip-hop, with half hearted attempts at records and releases that would have been laughed at 10 years ago. The same is true of a lot of EDM, but trance is the worst offender. People will say that it merely has evolved, but it hasn't. It's stagnated like hip-hop, and will probably need to return to its roots to reinvent itself.
I'm speaking generally of course, there are still a ton of great tracks being released, it's just that the Armin Van Buurens and Above and Beyonds aren't really playing them anymore.
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