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| quote: | Originally posted by Cobalt
No one "eliminated" anything. There's no international gag order on what can be produced as trance, and what cannot. If people want to make classic, unadulterated trance they're fully able to. |
They do, it's called psytrance.
| quote: | | That's empty semantics. Have you read the definition of "Rock" lately? |
Rock wasn't called Rock because it resembles the definition of a rock.
| quote: | | That makes no sense, because you're evaluating epic/anthem trance from your own set of values. |
Not my own. Anyone who has any idea what trance is. Anyone who understands trance. People who have been making/made it since/in the beginning. People who have been in the scene since it began. People with an objective view of trance as a whole. People whose frame of reference extends farther back than 1998, and people like me who understand and agree with their perspective.
| quote: | | The genre as a whole doesn't fulfill what you want out of music; that's fine and well. |
Parts of the genre do and parts don't, but that's not what we're talking about here. I'm not judging how trance fufills my needs based on what I want from music. I'm judging how trance is good and bad based on what it was intended to be. Based on its own merits.
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But it gives you no right to assume your opinions apply to everyone when others may be approaching the music with a very different set of criteria to judge by. |
Faulty criteria based on incomplete experience gained since they began listening to pop trance when they heard Sandstorm or Tranceport or Castles In The Sky.
| quote: | | judgments on the genre elements itself, which have different importance to different people, different interpretations by different people. |
The general interpretation of old school trance listeners is that Epic /Anthem trance is not what trance was intended to be. They were hypnotized by trance. The general interpretation of most of today's more ignorant post-'98 new trance listeners is that Epic/Anthem trance is the greatest thing god gave them. They are dumbfounded by pop. You cannot judge a genre of music without an understanding of what its roots are, how and why it is where it is today. Most people don't even endeavor to figure it out. They automatically judge early trance as repetitive and boring; beneath notice. They're content with what they have. No questions, no opposition. Stupidity.
Look here man: Nothing you say is going to change my opinion (which is based on an unbiased objective view of all trance as a whole), and replace it with an opinion that comes from a biased view that comes from the effects of the most popular and accesible [i]part[i] of trance.
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Last edited by Radagast on Oct-21-2004 at 06:22
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