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"Mainstream" is just a nice way of saying that somebody, somewhere, is exploiting the genre for money - that they have turned it into a business. There's nothing wrong with artists being compensated for their work, but when money and fame becomes more important than the quality of the music, the popularity of the thing has truly crippled it. I haven't bought trance in years, merely for the fact that the only DJs worth listening to are the ones on internet message boards just doing what they're doing, pumping out mixes because they love the music. Fuck mainstream, fuck "the underground" (whatever the hell that even means anymore, the term is almost as abused as the word "art"), it should always come second place to the music, itself, and in trance's case, it should probably come second to the feeling you get - memories elicited, imagination stimulated, etc. Was trance ever really about the music to you? It is a simple organization of electronic vibrations - nothing more. There is a lot of interesting music out there - interesting to listen to for its depth, its progress, its actual production and technical mastery - the vast majority of trance is not one of those genres. It pretty much never has been, even when it was new, it was simple as hell and not particularly difficult to imitate, but kind of hard to actually imitate well - mostly because its aim is to capture an emotion and make people react to it.
In conclusion, trance kicked my dog.
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This shit was lying dormant in a state of hibernation with only 2 replies. I revived it after 6 years and gave it a second chance. Wonder how the thread feels in 2007. The forum board must have been in its stone age when he was created. 
