how about a happy medium......listen to some uplifting at times and some progressive at other times, accoringly to the mood you're in!!!!! I've caught mylesf preferring progressive over uplifting in the last few weeks, and it's a good thing i had previously burned some progressive trance on cd's just in case i'd listen to them in the future - which i do now.

I think listening to one type of trance gets really old, repetititive and boring, since i listen a lot. That's why i spice it up with variety, so i can still love all my trance.

Give other styles a try, i did and it worked out really great, and gave me more music to choose from...

>JM<

Good discussion for sure, you can tell that a lot of you guys are taking this personally and are afraid that prog will take over. First of all, the god of all epic trance Tiesto is not really playing prog, he's playing some tracks, but man you don't get more layered and melodic then tiesto. Even these new sets of him at Dance Department are very far from progressive my friends. He tends to mix some prog tunes in with huge epic ones, or some tracks that are a bit of both, my fav track which incorporates melodic and prog would have to be Max Graham's Airtight.

I personally love layered, melodic epic trance, and I can't see it leaving anytime soon, I mean can you picture Ferry Corsten spinning prog? heh I doubt it dudes. Even Paul Van Dyk has toned down his angel trance style, but still spins a nice kind of trance which is a good mix.

On another note I've noticed that the female vocals are slowly disapearing, cuz either people think their tacky and cheap or whatever. But those used to be a trance staple, heh, insert woman vocal NOW!

ANYWAYS, I think the prog dj's out there are kicking ass, I really like Gene Carbonell and the god of Canadian DJ's, mr. Graham. =)) Prog is soo fun to dance too, trance is all about feeling like your in heaven or in a dream. Very diff music.

(ok that post was all over the place, sorry it's soo big, lol)

Jonathan

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Originally posted by halo20 First of all, the god of all epic trance Tiesto is not really playing prog, he's playing some tracks, but man you don't get more layered and melodic then tiesto. Even these new sets of him at Dance Department are very far from progressive my friends.

Errr.. mate u didnt hear him two weeks ago @ crasher.. prog.. YES

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Even Paul Van Dyk has toned down his angel trance style, but still spins a nice kind of trance which is a good mix.

Paul van Dyk started out his days doing mostly prog stuff. Check out Heaven by him... As for uncle ferry playin prog, i cant really see that happnin either, but u never know!

Othere than the two minor point above i agree with yer, female vocals cannot and will not go from trance. even prog uses those cuttin female vocalz...

peace

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Trance has already gone progressive. It is very rare now to find a nice melodic, uplifting vocal track that isnt a horrid, or already done crap euro sound. Trance will never fully go progressive because progressive has been around for years and trance is still here. Trance has just adapted to the new sound.

Progressive ranges from the deeper, minimal, bass heavy (often but not always boring) stuff to the type of Progressive I prefer that almost borders on Epic/Uplifting. If not done properly, a Progressive House/Trance set can easily be very boring. I know I've heard my share of boring progressive sets lately. I think DJs that play a deeper style of progressive have to be more skillful and more careful to be able to craft a masterful set. (It can be done, it's just a little harder)

If it's done properly, like I have recently heard from Max Graham and Vancouver trance duo Bajwa & Dale Anderson (who have just started producing under the name Bipolar), a Progressive set can be very powerful and exciting. Max's style is closer to the Epic/Uplifting scale of Progressive, while Bajwa & Dale Anderson's style is on the Deeper end of the Progressive Scale. When I saw Bajwa & Dale Anderson I was very impressed with how well their set flowed and progressed from track to track. It was not quite as exciting as Max's style but it was so very fluid, entrancing and masterfully done. At a party it would be a good way to start off the night and lead into a more upbeat progressive style.

Personally, my favourite type of trance music at parties right now is Full-On Fast and Powerful Goa/Psy Trance. This is another type of trance that sounds SO much better at full volume, since there are so many layers in the music.

Sal

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Not -all- progressive trance is boring like you make it out to be. There is -tons- of pumping 'energy filled' progressive. Maybe *you* just haven't heard it.(Check out some of the Global Underground collections to hear some wicked progressive.) or maybe progressive just isn't your thing. But I definately don't think progressive is gonna 'grow old', hopefully this is just a beginning.


-Peace,

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