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Originally posted by DOOMBOT I don't want to stray too far off topic here, but I think in order to keep the music as a whole alive for yourself, you need to go out an exprience it from time to time. Staying in and simply listening and looking for tracks can get boring and I think allows you to lose interest faster. But if you go out and actually experience them in the environment they were meant for and enjoy it with other people, it helps keep a genre or the music in general fresh. I suppose this is why dj's usually tend to play the same style(s) throughout their career because of the reaction they get from the people and the reaction they get from themselves playing it for the people.

Don't you think clubbing can get boring too? It's basically just a better way of listening to a set at home - much cooler sound system and atmosphere, you can dance, there's alcohol, etc. I dunno, many aspects involved. You get the picture though, the thing is... clubbing probably won't get boring as fast as listening to music at home, but it still can, I bet.

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Originally posted by Allied Nations However, same goes with this. If you do this too often you'll get bored just the same. I like to keep a nice medium between going out hearing djs and huntin on the internets for tunes.

Great minds think alike.

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Originally posted by Rainborn Don't you think clubbing can get boring too? It's basically just a better way of listening to a set at home - much cooler sound system and atmosphere, you can dance, there's alcohol, etc. I dunno, many aspects involved. You get the picture though, the thing is... clubbing probably won't get boring as fast as listening to music at home, but it still can, I bet.

Clubbing has never gotten boring for me. But I think I help that by going out and experiencing different dj's and different types of music.

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Originally posted by DOOMBOT Clubbing has never gotten boring for me. But I think I help that by going out and experiencing different dj's and different types of music.

Still, this whole theory can be applied to something as big as music in whole. Music can get boring. But yeah, the more variation, the better.

And let's get back on topic. 2006!

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Originally posted by Allied Nations And let's get back on topic. 2006!

Agreed.

since this seems to be the "right thread" for probably the wrong question, let me ask you something:

i was listening to trance about 2 years ago before it became boring, full of stupid remakes, cheesy and to put it simple for those who know what i mean: trance did not, as it previously always did, bring me to this trancy state of mind where i just move and my brain is empty and after a couple of minutes i have to ask myself where the heck i am - and there were no tunes who made shivers run down my spine. so trance lost its very essence for me ...

thus, i missed 2004 and 2005 - i really did. there were some tunes i can recall from early 04 like matys and marc van linden - am 2 pm ... but that's about it. it's great to hear from other people that i actually did not miss that much.

i was listening to some rock, began playing the guitar etc and now i ended up with trance again.

so what would you recommend me to listen to from 06? you said 06 was a good year with a redefinition of the genre -- could you please tell me in what context and some significant tunes that really stand out for 06 like in 03 when "as the rush comes" blew everything apart.

thanks fellas, much apreciated.

good and bad.

the music i love started becoming huge in 2006. i thought i would like it, but actually there are too much good nights to attend to in clubs, raves, etc...

But still, its a good thing for the music.

THis is always a dispute amongst people. I have to agree that some decent trance has been released this year, just two weeks ago I ordered 11 records, and already I have a list of 8 new ones to order. But I check 6 different online record sites and go through their stuff. Psy def blew up this year, SOOOO many releases its crazy, and some of them are pretty dam good. The whole elctro/minimal/house movement I really havent gotten into. Just alitttle boring for me, respect if you like it or like spinning it, it just not my cup of tea. From the uplfiting trance poitn of view I think there have been some killer releases, Two names that come up instantly Activa and Above and Beyond. Quality tunage all the way with them. From the remix side, ya I thnk a few certain names did one to many remixes but what ever I like some of their normal productions. I noticed that from the electro stuff coming out, I have widened my range from just spinning uplifting trance, to throwing in progressive trance ex. cold harbour label stuff, progressive house, hard house, and hard trance as well. Pretty much my fav producer at the moment is Mark Sherry. Anyway onto the explosion of tech trance this year. Most undoubtly Mac & Mac and SVD added and aided this growth enormously. Though the problem was in my view that people took the way they produced and did a cookie cutter production producing tracks that souned similar in structure. Even SVD I feel rushed to get stuff out just b/c he was in such great demand but produced tracks that weren't all that special. Also with tech there seemed to be a split. Tech with little melody SVd or tech with a melodic aspect, ex John Marks-Do it Again or New Life. I feel John Marks put out some great tunes but then switched over to SVD's style of tech and wasn't really that good.

The Overall scene-Trance is constanly evolving and is changing and there is alto of experimentation. In this past year more electro minimal domianted with an undertone of tech. Probably next year it will be different. It seemed that when a few artists made some decent tracks, whether electro or tech or whatever, people then copied it and started producing the same sound, and this was an unending cycle flooding the trance market with shit. Probably next there will be another unending cycle of music and trance productions from copying off a few successfull tracks that get alot of hype. Still I think there was some great tunes this year, guess if your really love EDM or spinning EDM you'll always be able to out weigh the good from the bad. Just curious what the TE theme song is going to be this year lol.

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2006 was the year the word electro lost all meaning.



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Really, I've seen 2006 as a year that a lot of electronic music began getting back to basics, kind of taking on more of a grassroots formula again. Part of it has been the emergence of new talent and labels that have avoided falling into over-hyped messed marketing (EDM's overall appeal being much less than it was in years past to the masses certainly helps). A lot of the old guard has been retiring or falling off for folks who've been into the scene for a while, although a few made comebacks as well.

It hasn't been all peaches and cream, mind. The novelty wave of faux-electro house certainly dominated the chedder factories. It should go the way of speed garage by this time next year though.

On the trance side, the biggest pushes appeared in prog psy and neo-trance, both of which seem to be reproducing trance's initial appeal (hypnotic stylee). Heck, even some epic trance producers went for a simpler sound this year, although their arrangements are still predicitble as fuck. We're probably on the verge of a retro trance emergence. I suspect this will be the hot sound of 2007, on all fronts. (prays for the return of acid along with it)

Breaks has been dominated by a lot of dubstep. Didn't pay much attention to that though, so no comment there.

Jungle? Um... Kind of went through the motions this year, I think. I didn't really see much break out in the same way Pendulum's sound did last year.

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Hell, it was a better year for dance music than rock music.

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