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I believe trance, like most other electronic music genres, is evolving more rapidly than anything else we've ever seen. Producers are having to get more and more creative with their sounds, and consequently, the music is always evolving.
Take trance a few years back. You'd use an 808 or a 909 or something similar, maybe add some slight reverb/compression and eq, and you were done. Now sounds are distorted so much that in some cases you can't tell which drum machine (or which actual drumset) was used for the original sample.
Same thing with synths. It used to be that a decent supersaw was deemed "good enough," but now it's not. Once again, producers are doing crazy things to distinguish themselves.
And so what if you can recognize who made what track just by listening to it? The same is true for other genres of music. Musical biases aside, does the fact that I can identify Linkin Park's lead vocalist or signature sound mean that they're any worse? If you said yes, that's tantamount to saying a certain brand of peanut butter tastes different because they changed the label.
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