Trance is shit nowadays. Goes for all melodic trance (thank you Above & Beyond) psytrance (thank you, Skazi) and everything else.

Blaah.

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Originally posted by RebeL9 psytrance has to be split up in various parts before it can be analyzed. if we talk about the old goa trance sound it's definatly almost dead. it had it glorious days but they ended. at the same time the psytrance that most people refer to as full on trance emerged and gained huge part of the market. it was quickly flooded by all israeli acts. but the old psytrance sound (such as Hallucinogen, X-Dream, The Delta etc) still lives on and is more exprimental today. Just listen to X-Dreams latest album. It borrow loads of elements from electro. Personally I'm quite fed up with the full on sound atm. not many really good releases out there nowadays.

Bah the full on sound really turned me off big time which was I stopped listening to psy. Been almost 2 years now. Too much GMS shit, dark and evil shit or what ever they call it from labels like Pavarti. Skazi and the guys from chemical-crew blew it up big time. I still do like the tech-trance section though from labels such as Moonflower, Psyristor Traxx, Sounds of Feedback. Miss the old school stuff a lot!

Back to the topic, I do not think trance is dying, I think its still getting better everytime

looking back at the type of music that i've liked over time, sometimes i wonder if i ever really even liked trance. i mean of course i like a lot of trance tunes from back in the day, but my favorite has always been the more progressive and housier basslines out there...never really listened to ferry corsten sets or a lot of tiesto sets or paul van dyk. i always preferred sasha and oakenfold's style...

I dunno if I would say it's getting worse or better...it's just different. and as tunes have changed over the years, so have my listening habits/preferences. there's some tunes that i listen to now that i thought i never would....and likewise when i listen to some older stuff from 99/2000, i don't understand why i liked it.

maybe all that is a bad thing....but whatever i just roll w/ it.

well.. in my personal opnion hopin no one gets offended.... i think that trance became the basic commercial genre of the whole edm scene for the past years... i used to like trance when i was a kid.. when trance used to be underground... when you listen to tracks no knowing where they came from.... but now... unfortunately... it became too happy too melodic... lots of vocals kicking in... you find poeple at a gig singing along to vocal tracks as if its a fucking alternative rock concert....

so breifly... trance on commercial basis... is doing good,the only underground trance is psychedelic trance.

NOW i prefer other geners... such as prog house which is my fav,tech house,funky house,electro,psy trance and some downtempo music

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I found 2005 to be a weak year for trance. Imo there just aren't that many stand-out tracks as in years past. I have difficulty making a top 10 this year but not because of overwhelming worthy candidates. This past year I listened to a lot more deep house and the whole electro thing, and a more techy sound which has been creeping in to trance. Like many people mentioned before, trance as we used to know it won't be the sole source of trance. The blending of genres will likely continue.

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Originally posted by eRRaTiK +1 though for house and electro it's been rockin'

I've never doubted a downfall in trance, for every bad track i hear a great one makes up for it.

If anything trance only gets better as hardware is always developing newer sounds.

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Originally posted by Ian For progressive, you can't beat progpsy, esp the swedish take on it, son kite, human blue etc.

dont forget ticon..

i was listenin to crazy dark psy all fucking weekend in with a bunch of fucking crack heads.. some group called jelly heads.. fucking wacked shit!

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for me the only thing that is going forward is progressive, but im not really into edm anymore, i listen mostly too filmmusic.

let's keep in mind that even if trance in general is hitting a monotonous, relatively mainstream effect, stuff like this both good and bad will show up. but like anything in the music industry, it's on a cycle. so it's arguable we're at the peak starting to hit the trough of the cycle but that just means in time over the next few years we'll get back underground moreso and start all over again.

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Originally posted by RebeL9 if we talk about the old goa trance sound it's definatly almost dead.

K albums are more than a year old already but, I think Ypsilon5 and Filteria revived it with Binary Sky and Sky Input

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Originally posted by Eagle` K albums are more than a year old already but, I think Ypsilon5 and Filteria revived it with Binary Sky and Sky Input

that's exactly why I said almost

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