Above & Beyond accidentally played a good track in their tatws a few years ago when i dared to listen to a track that claimed to be tatw supported, never downloaded a show, the most boring uplifting could be found there.

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos Above & Beyond accidentally played a good track in their tatws a few years ago when i dared to listen to a track that claimed to be tatw supported, never downloaded a show, the most boring uplifting could be found there.

Agree with you here. Honestly, I dont have much respect for A&B given the fact that their TATW shows (or GTR, whatever the fuck it's called now) always play the same shit over and over. If you listen to their show for the first 3 weeks of a month, by the 4th week it will sound exactly the same with the same tracks as before. I dont understand when there is 3 of them. 3 of you guys..neither of you can dig a little harder to find other tunes? Really? Not to mention the fact they they will have the same tracklist at their live shows for a full year. (Almost every big name DJ is guilty of this) but again, A&B there are 3 of you fuckin guys. Thats embarrasing if you ask me. They are also famous for refusing their sets to be recorded (whenever they possibly can refuse) and its no wonder....they play the same tracks over, and over again. Can't fathom this when your a DJ that can play hundreds of different tunes on any given night. You're not a rapper or rock band who is limited to the music they write. Unbelievable.

Yea the show itself is repetitive because the audience always wants the same stuff played, which is frustrating. The guestmixes of Group Therapy have been a lot more interesting; Guy J's was great. Highly unlikely he'd be invited to play on a show called Trance Around The World but I'll take the name change to get more of those kinds of guestmixes in.

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Originally posted by Sleightful Yea the show itself is repetitive because the audience always wants the same stuff played, which is frustrating. The guestmixes of Group Therapy have been a lot more interesting; Guy J's was great. Highly unlikely he'd be invited to play on a show called Trance Around The World but I'll take the name change to get more of those kinds of guestmixes in.

Agreed.

It's obvious A&B have very diverse taste in music, and actually seem to want to push trance forward in a variety of ways (from the electro-tinged stuff to the Anjundeep stuff), and they seem better at balancing their tastes with the tastes of their listeners than, say, Armin.

Obviously it's still "mainstream" trance, but I seem to find more refreshingly creative stuff on Anjuna than most other big labels.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk At least last time you Brits got pissed off, we got punk music out of it. This time, it'll probably just end up being embers breaks

this one time i went to an Above & Beyond show. Nic Fancuilli was opening for them.



Yeah I left after Nic Fancuilli lol...

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Originally posted by Quazar Agreed. It's obvious A&B have very diverse taste in music, and actually seem to want to push trance forward in a variety of ways (from the electro-tinged stuff to the Anjundeep stuff), and they seem better at balancing their tastes with the tastes of their listeners than, say, Armin. Obviously it's still "mainstream" trance, but I seem to find more refreshingly creative stuff on Anjuna than most other big labels.

they have taken the trance out of the name - so i guess this means they dont want to 'push trance forwards' - just their own sound - which is fair enough i guess and i appreciate them taking the trance out of it tbh.

i dont see adding an electro bassline or some dubstep breakdown (emery styles) or whatever as pushing trance forwards - its just further diluting and bastardising it tbh. - if they had decided to call the show 'the trance 3.0 show' - well that would be shit.

kind of reminds me of tiesto saying 'no more trance' as he went to shit - i appreciated that. (although he pretty much went to shit after nyana - but his heart was in the right place)

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Last edited by Light The Fuse on Dec-21-2012 at 11:26

Well Spoken...

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hopefully armin and the rest of the clowns abandons labeling their stuff trance and moves on. this is the only way real trance makes a comeback. once no one is putting out garbage cheesy trance records more underground techno and house producers will start incorporating trance type sounds into their songs, they have already started actually, in addition to the great trance coming out already by j00f, cosmithex, etc. and sooner or later it will comeback in a proper way and more akin to its initial german roots than the dutch sound that just killed the artistry out of it.

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This guy needs to come back

^somehow I don't see that ever happening.