Music in general is not helped at the moment with the stupid amount of pigeon holing that journalists are responsible for. Is it tech trance? Is it hard trance? Is it progressive melodic trance? No. Thats killing music. If anything strive to be undefinable! I like Sander Klienenbergs philosophy on dance music - he plays music, if its good he plays it regardless of whether its not deemed prog or house or whatever.

With regards to off beat bass lines, its not the bass line that is boring. People unknowingly dance to the bass line, but too many (mass) producers rely on concepts that work instead of using a concept that works along with new ideas. Hard house died because of a 'formula' being applied to almost every tune that you heard - some producers putting 4 records out a month, every month. If its for the money, its not good for the scene.

Trust me, trance will make a massive come back, and I plan to be at the fore-front, leading the charge slicing the heretic urbanites throats

We are currently experiencing an era of post modernism, not only in trance but in all other forms of art. Just look at the film industry. How many remakes of old movies are made now days? How many comic books are brought to life on the big screen?
With trance it's very likely that we will see a trend of going back to the basics but in an enhanced form. The hypnotizing basslines are the cornerstone of this genre, but I would expect more melodies and pads interweaving with the rhythmic elements to create beautiful, driving soundscapes-trance symphonies.

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entranced

I hope the pads will slowly go away or something. Also Rank-1 rips should be banned forever lol. I like the stuff that is coming out lately. Ton T.B. and stuff like that, I appreciate that stuff. If I listen to the older trance nowadays it doesn't do me anything anymore, I really like the progressive trend. Sounds like the ones in traffic and such I hope to never hear again. The usual trance is just not my thing anymore, I hope I don't have to find another message board now With melodic trance I mean Push and the likes, I'm not into that sound anymore. But that's Push's fault, he over-re-used it in every single song he released I hope that some new type will evolve out of trance, something way different, but still respecting the emotions of the listener.

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The problem, of course, is that by its very nature, trance must be formulaic. Sure, there's lots of room to play within those structures, but when it boils down to it, we're stuck with intro-first motif-small break-first motif and build-big break-melody-build-outro.

We can't stray too far away from that, or the music no longer becomes recognizable as trance. Annoying, I suppose, but it's always fun to have to work within limits.

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Originally posted by alanzo The day trance focuses more on beats & lyrics then melody will be a sad one.

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I think it's unfortunate that trance is taking on progressive elements. Not one new trance track in the past few years has given me "chills" or has stuck in my head as much as the older tunes like in the 2000ish era. Even back then they had progressive AND melodic, both popular in their own way. I just wish progressive wasn't taking over melodic...I wish they could exist side by side and have their own following..not just one big genre with elements from both.

I can't get any of my tunes released. I hear the same reason every time from DJs and labels: It really would have been huge 3 years ago.....and that sucks because that is the kind of music I like and still listen to!

It's just strange with trance that songs from just a few years ago aren't "cool" any more even though you can turn on a rock radio station and hear shit from the early 90's...

It seems as though producers who made epic/uplifting trance are making techy or more progressive trance. It seems as if the heavy synth saw lead sound is being replaced by the lush pad. All of the hardtrance producers seem to make mostly hard techno/hardstyle songs.

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evrybodys gonna go back to digital synths like in the 80's and all VA's and real analogs will drop in price massively....melodic trance weill die out for awhile then poeple(dj's and producers) that don't have much money will start producing this lush uplifing type sound because they are using the cheap outdated hardware that nobody uses anymore and the genre that will inevitably spwan from this, is an erruption of something called trance!!

sounds realistic...well thats exactly what happened and history can repeat itself slightly.


Remeber that trance music is originated from tribal music(not tribal house..real ethnic trib stuff, whatever)..to help the trib memebers to reach that higher state..with drugs of course


Limit Out!

ultimately one overused sound (happy hardcore piano, squelchy acid bass lines, rank 1 style pads, supersaw???) will be replaced by the next big thing. it always happens, a new sound is 'invented', the pioneers make quality tunes with it, the sheep make mundane efforts that people may have been impressed with if it had been 2 years earlier, and the innovators are onto the next sound.

that said, stop worrying about using a specific synth or copying your fav tracks, and get on with producing quality tunes. I cant really think of any time in the past when I thought this tune would be amazing if he had used 'such and such' a sound. Its about making people dance, and frankly its about knowing people who are influential that will play your tunes. thats if your wanting to make a full time living out of music.