Originally posted by Excess
well, electro-trance may not be your thing but i have to disagree with you on the production quality aspect. i would say production is light years ahead of where it was in sound quality, almost every track that makes it onto the major shows is produced to an extremely high standard even by the lesser known guys.
well by poor production i mean as in composition. Everything is mostly boring lately. Almost every producer has no experience in music theory or any lesson at all except of mimicking Sonic academy or YouTube videos. The problem lies on the whole song itself. seems like everyone is focused on 4 to 4 bars and not being able to connect the whole song's body to work in harmony. Boring stabs and annoying leads and cheap pads(if even) that make a cool 30 seconds of mediocre "sound" its the only reason to build a song apparently. Almost %80 of songs getting produced don't even have proper drums for its build. Amateurs that can't tell the difference from electo kick and hats to house basselines are the one that killing every type of the music now. everyone i suffering because all of a sudden there is trance with dubsteps elements in there. And by dubsteps i mean the kick and hats and wooble basslins and glitchy leads. its chaos everywhere and who ever has a slightness love for the music is sick to the stomach.
also the reason why its electro and loud it's to keep the ADD massive herd of people focused. I mean how could you even dare to relax for a second when you have loud stabs screaming for your attention. commercial music has always thrived on this. its everywhere.
So you are correct to the fact that a sound gets more production detail, but they are trying to improve a shitty sound. you can take a piece of turd, try to decorate it and place some nice flowers around it , but it still shit at the end of the day.
Here is a sample. the only reason this is called trance because labeling it with the name "trance" will give this song more credit/listeners rather then call it house (which i mostly made of house elements) or pop music(which is mostly extinct now)
May-15-2012 04:55
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Originally posted by acetate212
got it z. not a big help on the pure trance side of things here
some d&b recommendations:
trancey d&b: sunchaser-hold on & only a thought away. june miller-in my eyes, pro luxe-sun goes down.
not much of this type of d&b to be found, I know mat zo also does some as MRZA. if you know any other similar tunes feel free to let me know!
vocal & other d&b: schematic-my friend, technicolour & komatic-deepest blue. anything by breakshift & technicolour/komatic basically.
you probably know some or all of those if you're into d&b. if you like any of them I'll def recommend some more
thanx for those recommendations, I definitely like the apex one, nice and atmospheric. check this one out, it's my pick for best summer d&b track this summer..
I've long since jumped onto the nu-disco and deep house boat (think Add2Basket, Jody Wisternoff, Danny Howells, Luke Fair) but have tuned into a few GDJB episodes and have been pleasantly surprised with the proggy vibes... not to mention Oakenfold of all people have been playing some throwback-sounding trance with psy influences. Even though DJs like Tiesto have abandoned the genre, and Armada/Anjuna* shovels out so many samey sounding records, I have more hope for the future of the genre than I did when I jumped ship during the "Anthem" time period.
*at least there's Anjunadeep, which has a great roster of artists on it.
Originally posted by xcubed
Trance is alive and well. This conversation is dead.
is it really? By saying its alive and well and not elaborating isnt really changing ppls perceptions as to the state of trance so no, this conversation isn't dead. So on that note can you elaborate as to why you think this.
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Jun-08-2012 15:03
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Follow J00F, Mistique and Pharmacy Records on Beatport and then tell me trance is dead
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