This Boss@nova-guy has such a great voice. For me one of the best vocals ever in a trance-tune!!!

'You left me stonecold, you left me hours in the rain'

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they work fine
they might seem to work "better" in rock because most rock needs to throw in some random vocals so they can sell their music

they are used to using vocals with no meaning, trance vocals if put on randomly usually get criticized and then people demand a dub

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I agree that if more people get used to it, it won't seem like such a big deal. Acclimation and desensitization ya know... at first you may passively, perhaps actively try to resist -- especially if you're a guy in the first place -- but things change. Just like how forms of technological music used to have more of a "faceless, anonymous one-man" vibe before the ascent of superstar DJs and producer personalities like Moby and Keith Flint of the Prodigy.

Or, if there were more trance 'n' bass combinations with MCs from the latter joining the supersaws of the former.

I also point to psy/goa-trance as experimentation in this regard. For example, Infected Mushroom and their layering and messing-around of their own vocals with gate effects and modulators.

It's such an obvious idea -- dudes singing, yay! -- that it'll be generally overlooked. So we can still make a unique case for all the Tiesto & BT "Love Comes Again" pairings of the world.

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Even though the male to female vocal ratio within EDM is drastic I found a few male vocal tracks that I like MORE than female vocal tracks...

NuBreed & Luke Chable - One Day
Kevin Aviance - Give It Up (Tony Moran Mix)
Bossanova - Stonecold (Agnelli & Nelson's Afterburn Remix)
BT ft. JC Chasez - Force Of Gravity (DJ Tiesto Remix)
DJ Tiesto ft. BT - Love Comes Again (Mark Norman Remix)
Kane - Rain Down On Me (DJ Tiesto Remix)
Paul Oakenfold - Hold Your Hand (Bill Hamel Remix)
Paul van Dyk ft. Second Sun - Crush (Radio Edit)
Paul Van Dyk ft. Vega 4 - Time Of Our Lives (A Time To Chill Mix)

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i used to think male vocals in edm songs were gay but not so much anymore. though i still think ray wilson in yet another gay song.. now that song is awful and the vocals make it even less tolerable lOl... song songs w/ male vocals that work well imo:

*Nubreed & Luke Chable - One Day
*Ian Brown - Fear (U.N.K.L.E. Mix)
*U.N.K.L.E. - What You Mean To Me (Sasha Mix)
*Grand Nationals - Talk Amongst Yourselves (Sasha Mix)
*Quivver - Twist & Shout
*Dave Gahan - I Need You / Dirty Sticky Floors
*Depeche Mode - Only When I Lose Myself (Lexicon Avenue Mix)
*Peter Gabriel - Darkness (Greed Meets Engelposst Mix)
*Lenny Kravitz - Believe (Blackwatch Mix)
*Tears For Fears - Shout (Skylark Mix)

i guess male vocals work better in progressive than trance.

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Originally posted by J:\Digital I find that male vocals work with EDM... just harder styles... Hard Trance/House... DnB, hardstyle, hardcore.. etc.. where female vocals work best with more melodic, uplifting Trance...

i totally agree...harder driving tracks like Infusion-Legacy (Junkie XL Remix) or Dogzilla - Your Eyes, male vocals work very nicely there. However, if i was to hear male vocals for tracks like

Mike Shiver & Elevation - Hurricane or Andain - Beautiful Things it just wouldnt work as nicely.

i just think its a lot harder with male vocals becuase they have to be more picky to find that perfect beat/melody where as female vocal seem to sound good in just about every trance or edm song!

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I think that is a great example of it working well.

I like male vocals and it the past few months great tunes were released using male vocals!

for excample:

Quivver - These are the Days
Grayarea - Gravity (Grayarea's Albatros Remix)
New Order - Crystal (Lee Coombs Dub) - this is kinda old but released a few days ago!

i think male vocals are coming - and people begin to appreciate it! Sometimes they can be more sexy than female vocals

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Originally posted by Dan1584 Even though the male to female vocal ratio within EDM is drastic I found a few male vocal tracks that I like MORE than female vocal tracks... NuBreed & Luke Chable - One Day Kevin Aviance - Give It Up (Tony Moran Mix) Bossanova - Stonecold (Agnelli & Nelson's Afterburn Remix) BT ft. JC Chasez - Force Of Gravity (DJ Tiesto Remix) DJ Tiesto ft. BT - Love Comes Again (Mark Norman Remix) Kane - Rain Down On Me (DJ Tiesto Remix) Paul Oakenfold - Hold Your Hand (Bill Hamel Remix) Paul van Dyk ft. Second Sun - Crush (Radio Edit) Paul Van Dyk ft. Vega 4 - Time Of Our Lives (A Time To Chill Mix)

the problem there is that Rain on Me & TOOL are hideous

I'm not against male vocals, infact I think they can be better than female ones, I'm just wondering why there's not as many in EDM as female ones

Actually the vocal trance track that i think has the best lyrics , features a guy:

Ameoba Assasin - Piledriver

nuff said!

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