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I'm just suggesting if he claims its boring him why doesnt he have a go and produce some music which doesnt bore him and then share his efforts to give us our reaction.

look @ 1st responce

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Originally posted by Cobalt Figuratively speaking, of course there will be another '99. Where people go wrong is in thinking that it will sound like '99. The entire reason that trance exploded was that it was fresh and full of a new vibrance. That sound isn't coming back anytime in the near future, because people still remember it. There will be a major shift in dance music sometime in the next decade, I'm sure, but it probably won't be anything people expect. I had really hoped that tech-trance would be turning things over by now, but it just hasn't happened.

i'm gonna have to agree here - there will be no other '99
in terms of sound.....but there will be another yr of glory, no doubt

we just have to accept what we hear, and be patient for another
"golden year"

but also, i LOVE the trance i'm hearing now, so i'm not complaining

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Originally posted by Galapidate I think so. At some point (in the near future hopefully), trance producers will begin realizing that it all sounds the same and that we need to return to that late 90s sound.

That would not be another golden period of trance, if the producers just returned to the late 90s sound, a new golden period of trance would require a whole new sound, or else you are just reverting back to copying classics, and that could hardly be another golen age. I think we obviously will see another golden age, with all the new producers out, it seem inevitable that there will be lots of great songs, however it also means there will be lots of more crappy songs, and I think thats why people seem to think that trance has gone down hill, too many people producing pretty similar tracks that just dont evolve at all, but there are still plenty of great tracks coming out nowadays.

thanks cobalt...i missed your post before...

and 02 imo had a shit load of fucking amazing tracks also...

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But there was something really special from 1998-2000 that hasnt been replicated since.
The trance from those golden years was very musical and timeless. Serious I can sit around and hum the tune to Cafe del Mar, Greece, etc. I cant do the same w/ the most of the songs from the past couple of years. Also I think those tracks were popular b/c we heard sounds/synths that we never heard before. When I first heard Gouryella and Adagio I was blown away not only by the melody but the unique sounds (they were at the time) coming from these tracks. After a whil and BILLION copies of these sounds it gets boring.

I think as technology advances and different talented people come into the scene we will have another "golden year"

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Originally posted by Frase Heck, if you guys are complaining about Trance go out there and produce yourself, if you guys reckon you can come up with some better lets hear it!!

i'm working on it ...anyone else who thinks that their sound will be the future...feel free to contact me via PM and we can talk a little...

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But there was something really special from 1998-2000 that hasnt been replicated since.

disagree, there have been tracks just as good as greece/cafe del mar

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The music from 1998 and 1999 are what got me knee deep into trance so of course I have some fond memories from that time period, but I honestly couldn't pick a time period and say that it is/was the best for me. The reason that the songs from 1998 and 1999 stand out so much is because for a lot of people that was the first time that they had heard music quite like that. For me I had heard plenty of techno and house music, but nothing quite like trance. Everything that I hear today evolved from that. People and music evolve. If not...then why even bother? I enjoy the music of yesterday, but I am eager to hear the music of tomorrow. You can have both. There's plenty of room for all of it in my life.

², nicely put

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Originally posted by sandstorm03 ², nicely put

Thank you!


I still remember the first time that I heard music like Papau New Guinea, Out of Body Experience, Flaming June. I remember that feeling of "wtf is that"? All of this breakbeat music around me and here was this sound that I wasn't used to. I really think that me listening to music like that in the mid to late 90's was the gateway to me getting involved with trance. On my webpage I mention that the song that did it for me...I mean really did me in...was Paul van Dyk's remix of 1998. I had heard other trance music that peaked my interest that year (or I probably wouldn't have sought out music like 1998), but that song just got under my skin. I don't know what it was about it, but I was hooked after that. 1998 was the defining year for me. Between then and 1999 I had became a bonafide tranceaddict! Some of the other trance that I had heard around that time period still had some form of vocals in it...like the Gamemaster...which of course is a classic. But when I heard songs like Cafe del Mar, Cream, Greece 2000, Gouryella, Xpander, Carte Blanche, Out of the Blue, Universal Nation, Madagascar, Saltwater, Godspeed, etc...I knew that this was the kind of music...the kind of trance that my ears had been craving. I like a variety of music, but give me the energy and drive of a bad ass trance song any day over top 40.

i recently wrote up my list of 20 personal trance favourites.. 19 of them were produced in or before 2000..

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I think that with people like Luke Chable, Filo & Peri, and the rest of the newer names in trance, we're going to see some good new styles and tunes crop up in the next few years.

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1. Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness (Oliver Lieb's Main Mix)
2. Klea - Tic Toc (Paul Van Dyk's Re-Edit)
3. Alibi - Eternity (Inner City Mix)
4. Cirque de Soleil - Pokinoi (Sasha Mix)
5. Chris & Kai vs. Levin - Gone to Heaven