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Originally posted by Stu Cox Trance hasn't had this problem and is still, in my opinion, offering loads of originality, so yeah it's a bit less popular than it was 5 years ago, but with 12000 people filling the Godskitchen tent at Global Gathering (with a good 50000 or so at the event in total) and however many people at Dance Valley, Cream @ Amnesia in Ibiza being rammed week in, week out for the whole of the summer and just about any event PVD or Tiesto plays selling out, trance definately isn't dead yet.

Exactly, why would the world's top four DJ's be trance if it was dead? I'm grudgingly getting into prog house/deep house, minimal and the such as that's all they play in clubs in Leeds, but it doesnt give me anywhere near the rush that trance does.

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Originally posted by Stu Cox I haven't been very successful the last few times I've been to record shops, which is why I just buy everything online now. It's just the way things change.

Agreed - I tend to buy (a) online and (b) digital downloads these days but my job takes me all over the UK and one of its few pleasures has been allowing me to check out record shops all over the country. Unfortunately I've never really had much luck record shopping in Brighton. It's not essential that I buy trance there... but it sure helps kill time if I'm earily for a meeting.

Also, cheers Nem: may take you up on that sometime.

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 Yes it's meaningless poll time... Ok folks, now I'm really worried about the state of trance (no not the label). Got my end of weekly update on new tunes from Chemical Records and lo and behold what did I find on the list... Crazy Frog! Not to mention a selection of other trance bordering on Hard House... The trance gigs are getting less and less. More and more you hear people on dance floors saying that they can't be arsed with the long breakdowns and find it tedious not to put it too bluntly. Trance needs to pull it's head out of it's own arse and come up with some quality tunes because this is getting old. These days I get more work playing tough House and Electro House which I don't mind as I enjoy playing that too but I prefer Trance anyday... well used to. My friends record shop is actually thinking of stocking trance as sales have dipped so much. By the way, Indie Pop sucks wet monkey nuts!! Kids these days, think they have found something new when they pick up a guitar and play in a live band... listen man, that's Granny music. Ok rant over and not even sure if it was worth making a thread over but hey here you go. Ok, to the point do any of you think that trance is healthy, needs vamping up, getting old or the best thing since sliced cucumber? Would be interesting to hear your opinions. Cheers Nem PS Did I say that Indie pop sucks wet monkey nuts! ********************* Disclaimer ************************** Any of the persons protrayed in the post above are entirely fictional and are not meant to resemble any living persons and any similarity is coincidental. *********************************************************** PPS Indie Pop... yada yada yada

Hey, is that indie pop stuff Djable???

I'm looking for Rock music that u can DJ with.... u know with a steady doof doof doof, at the start and end. Rather than the broken one that's in Rock.

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 I think I will have to disagree with you on that. I have seen trance played in clubs with 500 capacity and it's rocked... or it used to atleast. I suppose I can't really speak for the US but that was the case in the UK.

I'm talking less than 500 capacity. And I have no doubt that smaller trance nights, if promoted as trance nights, can do well. But my personal experience booking and playing events over here in the states is that a lot of smaller venues (300 capcity or less) do not welcome trance at all really. A lot of the more respected venues have no trance policies because the average person going out to a club / lounge really doesn't want to hear trance...its too over the top to really go over in a party that is being promoted more generally as a "house / edm night."

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i voted on the laaaaast option because...

i dont really have a very developed opinion. but i will say i love trance. i dont spin trance. but i love trance. i wasnt there during the golden age.. but i think that a lot of the trance being put out today isnt thaaaaat bad.. i dunno.

i still really enjoy a good armin set, as much as some of James Zabiela's sets. i find them both to creative, clever and fun to listen to.

I loved Nyana, and i loved the new Pendulum album

i just dont understand how people can hate on like every single genre of music..

i suppose maybe too open. i mean there are certain things i dont like about all of these, but as a whole, i dunno..

good tunes are good tunes..

why cant we just listen?

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Originally posted by dinoXpress good tunes are good tunes..

Too true.
I actually voted for the option to have a hat with earflaps as to be honest, whilst I hear lots of rubbish these days there does come a tune that just makes you praise the heavens.

I see that you are in the city formally known as 'Bombay'. Just come back from Delhi.
India is a crazy place and will no doubt return sometime soon.

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 Too true. I actually voted for the option to have a hat with earflaps as to be honest, whilst I hear lots of rubbish these days there does come a tune that just makes you praise the heavens. I see that you are in the city formally known as 'Bombay'. Just come back from Delhi. India is a crazy place and will no doubt return sometime soon. Cheers Nem

Well, maybe the rest of the world calls it mumbai, but here in bombay, its bombay and nothing else!!

india is a wacked out place. i dont know how u liked it or why u were here, but interms of edm and clubbing, bombay is stuck in a rut.

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Originally posted by Nemesis44 Yes it's meaningless poll time... Ok folks, now I'm really worried about the state of trance (no not the label). Got my end of weekly update on new tunes from Chemical Records and lo and behold what did I find on the list... Crazy Frog! Not to mention a selection of other trance bordering on Hard House... The trance gigs are getting less and less. More and more you hear people on dance floors saying that they can't be arsed with the long breakdowns and find it tedious not to put it too bluntly. Trance needs to pull it's head out of it's own arse and come up with some quality tunes because this is getting old. These days I get more work playing tough House and Electro House which I don't mind as I enjoy playing that too but I prefer Trance anyday... well used to. My friends record shop is actually thinking of stocking trance as sales have dipped so much. By the way, Indie Pop sucks wet monkey nuts!! Kids these days, think they have found something new when they pick up a guitar and play in a live band... listen man, that's Granny music. Ok rant over and not even sure if it was worth making a thread over but hey here you go. Ok, to the point do any of you think that trance is healthy, needs vamping up, getting old or the best thing since sliced cucumber? Would be interesting to hear your opinions. Cheers Nem PS Did I say that Indie pop sucks wet monkey nuts! ********************* Disclaimer ************************** Any of the persons protrayed in the post above are entirely fictional and are not meant to resemble any living persons and any similarity is coincidental. *********************************************************** PPS Indie Pop... yada yada yada

house/electro is so much more danceable. it's more sociable if you know what i mean

I've strayed far from trance, it just doesn't trip my trigger anymore, unless i'm on pills. I loved the older sound of trance... 1999-2000ish... nowadays it's sounding really repetitive as most people would agree. a lot of melodies have that same old, same old, either supersaw synth or that one that sounds like beeps.. like... elevation - clear blue


What I have realized, however, is that electronic music is becoming so ingrained into our culture that there is no way that it will "die out." Think, for the last 20 or 30 years, electronic music has been evolving radically. Just think about all the subgenres and reinventions of musical styles that have developed in the last ten years. It's revolutionary, i think.

Although i've listened to trance for years due to where I lived i've only just started going to proper clubs like Mint in Leeds, etc. What I don't get is why Global Gathering can fill a 10,000+ tent playing trance but clubs don't play it anymore (with the exception of Godskitchen @ Air).

Also, I have to say i'm still heavily into trance, im starting to get into my house and breaks but trance still takes top billing. Although the music doesn't really hit the sort of euphoria of the old stuff, the latest sets I hear still have a good flow and a lot of energy in them.

It's funny how most of the people on this forum don't really listen to trance anymore, tranceaddict.com is being kept alive by the EDM community now.

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