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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I love the brilliant little hook in it- not the main melody but the secondary one. It really does lift the track from just another anthem into a truly great track. |
That's funny. I always felt that part ruined the track. It just sounds terribly goofy and hokey (aka the Ayla sound, which is a track that sounds equally silly and stupid). When I listen to Synaesthesia, I always get the image of hundreds of schoolchildren in a field rolling their arms to the snare rolls and then doing star jumps at the crescendo. Yeah. That's as retarded looking as it sounds.
Synaesthesia is MOR trance: nothing new, nothing special, nothing interesting or exciting going on. No boundaries broken, no experimental sounds explored, no real impact or unique emotional quality. No soul, no inventiveness, no catchy hook or groove. Just run-of-the-mill, picture perfect template trance with a doting little 16th note melody. Drab, aimless, and adequate. It's like the producer didn't care and just dialed in a C-average performance with ye olde trance presets at the mixing desk. After 1000 tracks of the same-sounding stuff, Synaesthesia comes out as the answer to all your trance woes. This is like solving someone's appetite for tasty food by giving them a rice cake.
I was at an outdoor party once, and the DJ dropped Synaesthesia. Everyone started hopping up and down. It really did look incredibly fucking stupid.
I guess that's why it's so popular.
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