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Originally posted by Ory No, please give examples.

Why? I don't listen to much melodic trance anyway, but if you compared an Above & Beyond track to Tiesto's Traffic or Marco V's Godd, you tell me which is the more melodic.

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Originally posted by Radagast Melodic = containing melody.

i'd say a melodic track is a track where the melody is the main feature, where all elements are built around that one melodic sequence.

that is not always the case.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Why? I don't listen to much melodic trance anyway, but if you compared an Above & Beyond track to Tiesto's Traffic or Marco V's Godd, you tell me which is the more melodic.

I see what you mean, though I don't agree with it. For me, it's either melodic or not.

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike If I wanted to listen to a DJ bang out shit as weak sounding as Andy Moor / Markus Schulz etc. i'd go listen to Armin van Buuren. Nothing fucks me off more than a fan that thinks a DJ can do no wrong. There is a lot of good music out there. How some people can be so easily pleased is beyond my comprehension.

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Originally posted by Ory I see what you mean, though I don't agree with it. For me, it's either melodic or not.

Well why not just define it all as music? To hell with describing sounds, it's either music or it's not.

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I think its necessary to have certain genres. For example: progressive, breakbeat, goa/psy, d'n'b, techno. You can really tell the difference between these.

However, I dislike the uplifting, melodic, minimalistic, vocal genres that people would like to certify tracks as.

There is some type up 'uplifting' element in every song it depends on a person. There is a melody in every song, it just differs. There is minimalism in every song too but it too varies. Also, many many tracks have vocals. For this reason these names could now serve to represent genres. They can only represent some elements that the track is composed of.

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Originally posted by mto progressive

And what is 'progressive'?

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike If I wanted to listen to a DJ bang out shit as weak sounding as Andy Moor / Markus Schulz etc. i'd go listen to Armin van Buuren. Nothing fucks me off more than a fan that thinks a DJ can do no wrong. There is a lot of good music out there. How some people can be so easily pleased is beyond my comprehension.

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Originally posted by Ory And what is 'progressive'?

Where the bassline changes key every bar, to give the feeling of progression, and the other elements of the music add to this feeling.

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Originally posted by Ory And what is 'progressive'?

Lol. I knew that someone would ask that. My definition is Sasha, Sultan, The Greek, Deep Dish, Scumfrog, Infusion, Hybrid. It can be prog-house, prog-trance, prog-breaks.. its still prog. I really cannot define it in words.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Where the bassline changes key every bar, to give the feeling of progression, and the other elements of the music add to this feeling.

Wonder who actually made up that description.

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike If I wanted to listen to a DJ bang out shit as weak sounding as Andy Moor / Markus Schulz etc. i'd go listen to Armin van Buuren. Nothing fucks me off more than a fan that thinks a DJ can do no wrong. There is a lot of good music out there. How some people can be so easily pleased is beyond my comprehension.

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Originally posted by Ory Wonder who actually made up that description.

Well it does make sense, however, I believe that it is really hard to actually put a definition on it.

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Originally posted by Ory Wonder who actually made up that description.

It's pretty evident if you listen to a prog track, like Open Up by Leftfield. Not all tracks do the bassline thing any more, but they keep the same progressive feeling.

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