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| quote: | Originally posted by nikhil chinapa
I find it difficult to believe most producers would subscribe purely to an economic model, especially the new-breed of producer talent that's out there in the middle distance. I saw it happen to heavy metal in the late 80's too... the creativity just seemed to go out of it. People were just getting tired of manufactured pretty boy bands, and then Nirvana exploded globally with a completely different sound.
I still think that limiting yourself to whatever you may consider encapsulates / includes "trance", limits your ability to create new frontiers for the sound.
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Hmm, yeah i see your point but the heavy metal example is utterly wrong. Mainstream heavy-metal may have stopped to be as popular as other genres (like bloody grunge), but in the 90s there was a huuuggee underground metal explosion, you got power/epic-metal, atmospheric black metal, doom/gothic metal there was really lots of quality of music around (who would imagine bands like Theatre of Tragedy, combining slow heavy quitars, orchestras, synths, aggresive male vocals and female operatic vocals all in one?). So, yeah, who cares that bloody nirvana got famous and more MTV plays then metallica or iron maiden , metal music had as much quality as ever.
Well, electro got famous and nocked trance out of the genre of choice but unfortunately ,trance didn't evolve into someting with orchestras,more riffs,more synths and operatic female vocals lol...
And this would say something, probably that the underground spirit of the genre is totally lost. In order for todays trance to survive, it must stay mainstream. Metal is inherently underground, and most metal bands wouldn't give a shit if they were not played at MTV. They have their own target-group. But in trance, we are talking about a famous mainstream dance music which is played in Stadiums and the olympics.
If you are a producer, you can't "play" or experiment a lot with it, since tiesto and armin wouldn't play your track in their well-payed big events. Trance is somehow popular now and todays people seem to want simple things, they like the old formula. They will pay for the old formula. And djs will give them what they want. As a result, producers (especially those whom music-producing is something of a proper job) would have to conform and produce something that will sell not something they would really like. In times were EDM is striving, and people just seem to pay some attention to what is hot,and with all this electro hype right now people are afraid to experiment. IMO, a lot of today's EDM has completely become very tight to the music industry's demands and has lost its underground flavour, or the deeper substance that once had in the 90s.
Furthermore, if producers get rewarded for what they do, why experiment in the first place? If their tracks is played in all those big events and people are satisfied and praise them in trance.nu, who cares about experimentation? I mean, even if your atitude towards music is "do it for the music's sake", in the end you will conform in what is really happening. Todays EDM doesn't allow much of creativity.
People just want to easily get the tiramisu by cheating the camel an by not giving what the legend says...that is "authentic trance" !(or any "authentic" EDM that comes from their soul for that matter).
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i dunno
