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well, i don't think it's the vocalists fault actually, it's the producers, and it's a big problem with producers that have no skills of vocal layering, like carlo resoort, see the instrumental 4 strings stuff is perfectly ok, and take me away was ok in terms of vocal layering, but then after, dude just realized that he can cash in on the vocals and then just slapped on them and it sounded gash.
the key is to make them sound slapped on, one of the most succesful vocals that was slapped on a track was perception, but those vocals were handled good, that is the main problem, procucers need to make the vocals complement the track.
also a big problem is the vocal whoring that jan started, i like jan, she is a great singer, but when people started to hire to sing on tracks just because they wanted some airplay on tmf, that's when everything went wrong.
and for the record, justine is a ok singer, but very, very overated, chicane managed to get the best of her in "autumn tactics", the rest of the songs has just been wrong
this is a special message to black hole, armada music & anjunabeats, stop slapping on gash vocals on mint instrumentals.
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