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Originally posted by Woony Well, the difference between that and this is that the Kompakt and Petar Dundov trance-not-trance tries really, really hard to be "trance" without being trance if that makes any sense. This actually doesn't shy away from using trance tropes like cheesy supersaw synths, which Peter Dundov or the Kompakt producers would never do.

Yeah, but everyone is already doing that and has been doing for years. Half the pop music in the charts sounds one step removed from Alice Deejay. I think the true fate of trance is pretty much the same as old skool rave/hardcore - to have long-since died as a functional scene (the odd throwback and persistent revivalists aside) but to have a lasting influence on loads of other music.

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I'm not sure if there is anything necessarily new here- there have been trance revivalists through every iteration of the genre dating back as far as I can remember listening. By the time the mighty Armada took over, people were looking to artists like Moogwai and Union Jack as preservationists of the genere's authentic sound.

But this also emphasizes the difference between perspectives that see a genre change into a different form, and those that see a genre change into a form that's no longer of that genre. That's also why this and similar discussions are so difficult to have, because depending upon who you ask, there's virtually no such thing as trance anymore in the first place.

Next thing you know, people will be side-chaining in the name of trance revivalism.

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psy trance seems to be grabbing s decent a foothold though....everywhere, and not that annoying elephant buddha psytrance....but well-composed deeper melodic darker psytrance...with some great sounds...