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I say listen to whatever the fukk you want and don't whine about losing interest in a certain genre/artist/whatever. So much stuff crosses the lines between trance-progressive trance-house-techno-electro-minimal-etc., it's useless categorizing music and shutting off part of it.
The reason that electronic music pulled me in was the fact that it was raw, untamed, and purely for the sound. In almost every genre you have sort of fashion or chic (including EDM) that distracts from the actual music. But the roots of electronic music come from the love of sound and not the style.
I entered these forums and started reading them quite a bit in the begining of the year and there are many great things that have come from it (learning about new music, sharing my mixes, meeting people), but there is one thing that has got to me in a bad way. The constant bashing of genres and artists. I know it's just people's opinions but I don't see why people go to such great lengths. Some even go as far as bashing artist's in their custom status (*cough* aloep *cough*). And for a while I thought their must be something about that artist that would cause a person to go way out of his way to bash them and it affected the way I listened to that artist. I was listening for something in the music that would cause such hatred. Which was very annoying as it distracted me from enjoying it or just taking it for what it was. Then I soon discovered the truth..
There is a major hate machine on these forums that many people like to be a part of and it's getting very annoying. The allure of the advanced music listener who dispizes trance because it is clearly a lower form of music. It's a ridiculous notion, tempting at first, but clearly flawed after having the same thing repeated over and over.
I'll tell you why it's flawed. Trance is SUPPOSED to be surface area (as is all EDM really). It's supposed to be immediately enjoyable to the listener and that causes it to be superficial, obvious and unabashed. And all these people complaining about Trance being too fluffy or too cheesey these days doesn't realize that it hasn't changed at all, it has always been about this fluffy folks. Sure some songs are fluffier than others, and some just plain suck. But the ratio is about the same.
Ok, so the quality of the music hasn't changed, you have. You've become more sophisticated right?
No. You've bought into the fact that Trance is a lesser genre and have adopted the 'chic' of EDM and now only enjoy it's more subtle genres.
I feel sorry for you. I personally am loving so many different genres atm. And it's only expanding as I am exploring new artists (thanks mostly to TA  ). I listen to ASOT and GDJB every once in a while (it can get pretty old, they come out every week for god-sakes! And btw ASOT and GDJB are NOT commercial bullshit, MTV is commercial bullshit! It's internet radio ffs  ) And I enjoy my share of house, prog, techno, chill/ambient, minimal, a little acid here and there, and my tastes are only getting more expansive.
So I guess my main point is: Stop pigeonholing music and listen to it for what it is! You will have a much better time.
And btw this..
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Does anyone feel the same as i do regarding trance and it's lack of creativity in the past 6 months or so ??
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is such a nieve question if you been here any amount of time at all. Which you have. So either you just crave to be welcomed on the bandwagon or you are a complete dolt.
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