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| quote: | Originally posted by harriz
Your 'trance was better a year ago' assumption is widely known in the dance world as Ishkurs nine month honeymoon effect.
The truth is that epic trance sucked a year ago it sucks now and it will suck a year from now.
Dont confuse spiritual feeling with cheep trills 
Unlike epic trance which is as artistic and original as sunday afternoon soap-operas, techno music is music for the thinking electronic music fan that has reason and reflection!
But lets be fair... there is great progressive house and trance out there... artists like... Luzon, Kosmas Epsilon, Yunus Guvenen, Pole Folder, Nathan Fake, Moshic, Max Graham e.c.t. but they will never sell anywhere near as much as the epic trance people do unless they license their tune for a Tie$to-brand compilation.
To be honest with you I am happy trance exists.
Record stores sell Tie$to-brand products to your average 'Joe Bread-cracker' consumer, they make enough money to pay the bills and as a result of that we have a place to find quality electronic music on physical formats.
Quality music that is based on complex texture not little mediocre pop 'till I come' hooks!
Quality music that sounds 'too mechanical' to you...
Last I looked hard to find records had an entire section of their shop dedicated to Oakenfold-brand products... unbelievable... this guy is so special there that he has his own f*#$^!@n genre section!
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I concede that not all epic trance is good. But I am talking about the stuff with angelic voices, pianoes, guitars, euphoric melodies and almost new-age and tranquil qualities, not the over the top super-saw stuff. The tracks I listed aren't "huge" anthemic tracks. These tracks are beautiful, lush music among many others. They might not be the super-complex, thinking..intellectual stuff, rather they are for people like myself or others who are highly imaginative and are dreamers. We are people who like dreamy, emotional music, whether it's classical, soul, jazz, blues, rock, pop, ambient/downtempo, house or trance. This stuff isn't "pop till I come" stuff, it's beautiful, euphoric and melodic music. Feeling wise, it's not that much different than opera or classical or jazz, in it's use of melody and harmonics to create emotion. It's right brain music, and I mostly a right brain person. It's the whole idea to me about putting a human element inside technological music, rather than using technology to push limits with music..ie experimentation. I prefer warm, human sounding stuff yet with an ethereal quality to it (it dates back to when I, and I am sure other people on here, were into Enigma before we got into trance).
It's like Boards of Canada in your sig vs. Ulrich Schnauss. Boards of Canada is more experimental, more subtle and more technological, they appeal to people like you who like that kind of stuff. Ulrich Schnauss' music on the other hand is imaginative, melodic and dream like, with a spiritual and ethereal quality to it. Ulrich stuff can be experimental too, but the use of melody to convey this can't be denied. Listen to "Nobody's Home" by Ulrich, and tell me that doesn't strike a chord with you emotionally. It's the same with lush and beautiful trance music, not the huge cheesy anthems your making the stuff I like out to be (I used to be big into them for a few years, but not anymore). I'm into all of the progressive stuff your talking about as well (though I look for the deep, melodic stuff vs. the really rhythmic stuff), heck it's what I spin now and look for on Beatport, but also beautiful, melodic music period.
Last edited by Spirit5 on Aug-16-2006 at 20:25
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