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Originally posted by Ishkur This is the greatest advice in the whole god damn universe. Always keep a tab of what's hot on the charts, and then don't get that music.

What if some of the music thats hot on the charts actually happens to be good?

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Originally posted by s3nate I was just about to say that!

Well you being a psy fan I'm not suprised.

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But I have to come out of the closet: I’m an anti-trancite.

Guess what, I don't give a fuck. If you don't like it don't listen to it but fgs don't waste your time writing stuff like this because people (such as me) who happen to like Trance aren't going to give a shit. Just because you jump on the 'trance slating' bandwagon like most other people doesn't mean that I respect you enough to change my musical tatses. To people who like Trance still (believe it or not Mr Romero, but they do exist), this article - like the rest of them - won't make any difference to anything; whilst the people who have moved on from Trance for the reasons Mr Romero stated in his article (anticipating some slating at this I want you to know that I have nothing against these people); will simply nod thier heads and agree. Great achievement Dennis Romero.

It is not the fans, the DJs, the venues, the culture or the music itself which is killing Trance music, it is people who overanalyse everything in a record instead of simply listening to it. Its people who write articles like this slagging off everything under the sun which is related to the Genre. Im not denying that Trance can be 'cheesy' and 'commercial', neither am I denying the problem (that most definately exists) of formulaic and sometimes tacky music coming out of the Trance genre (however this does happen in the whole Spectrum of music) - what I am doing is pointing out what I think is doing the most damage to trance. Not people like Tiesto or Armin Van Buuren, but people like Dennis Romero.

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ultra-synthetic trance is miles away from its daddy – Detroit techno.

Trance came from detroit techno?

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Originally posted by Elec What if some of the music thats hot on the charts actually happens to be good?

How often does that happen?

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Originally posted by Tom Scott Guess what, I don't give a fuck. If you don't like it don't listen to it but fgs don't waste your time writing stuff like this because people (such as me) who happen to like Trance aren't going to give a shit.

So then why did you bother to write out that whole post?

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Originally posted by Ishkur This is the greatest advice in the whole god damn universe. Always keep a tab of what's hot on the charts, and then don't get that music.

Yeah, shamming commercialism for the sake of it; that's a good idea.

To the original poster, IF you wrote that article, you're an idiot and a racist too.

Much in the way Sasha Frere-Jones describes the white flight of indie rock in his fall New Yorker essay “A Paler Shade of White,” trance represents an ultra-white, soulless faction of clubland, far removed from the black rhapsody of core dance music. Just as most contemporary rock has abandoned its black roots, ultra-synthetic trance is miles away from its daddy – Detroit techno. Trance long ago made it safe for white, suburban kids with spiky hair and momma-bought gear to indulge a once-ghetto pursuit: DJing. While there’s nothing wrong with embracing white audiences, trance has done so to an unhealthy extreme. Point out the black guy at a trance show, and I’ll buy him a drink.

Yeah, that's right, only black people know how to create and enjoy good music; white people are just rich, clueless suburbanites latching onto every "ghetto" trend that black people come up with. Get a clue. Rap and hip-hop aside, a vast, vast majority of dance producers are white, probably over 95%, and since when was trance ever enjoyed or ruled by the black population anyway?

Also, since when does modern trance feature "thin, jack-rabbit kick drums"? If anything, kick drums have been getting bigger and bigger for the past decade.

The whole article could be summed up in one sentence:

"Trance has changed, and I no longer like it.", which is what every other jack-arse has been saying for the past ten years.

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Originally posted by Clovis But thats going to ruin my posh little comfort zone of familiarity!

I actually know a guy who calls 'Lauschgoldengel' prog-trance just to make sure he hasn't left the trance bubble while listening to this.

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Originally posted by idoru So then why did you bother to write out that whole post?

because im fed up of all these 'trance is dead' articles so i wrote out my own post. the difference between mine and the other guys is that mine is original and not just jumping on, like i said, the trance slating bandwagon

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IMO only Uplifting Trance is "dead". I always wonder why people say the whole genre is when theres TONS of tracks that are plenty good being released all the time.

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Originally posted by Tom Scott because im fed up of all these 'trance is dead' articles so i wrote out my own post. the difference between mine and the other guys is that mine is original and not just jumping on, like i said, the trance slating bandwagon

You're original? That's the funniest thing i've ever heard. Your "points" in that long post of yours are the same as the favourite "points" of all trancecrackers around the globe, you know trancecrackers, the ones that just don't get it. Sorry.

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