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Originally posted by Microlab On the one hand, not all the music of the past was great. In fact, a lot of shit was released too and even included in numerous compilation. On the other, back in the past there were more beatuiful tunes than there are today. the melodies were catchy (fields of love by atb is definitely an example and my all time number 1). I think it's because at present everyone has an access to cracked software, and doesnt matter if a young producer is talented or not, he/she will "compose" something anyway. Although basslines have become too sawish nowadays, the drums punchy, i tend to like more the standard early 2000's trance basslines (today's just sound too noisy). Overall i dont think that only trance has become worse in terms of quality productions. The whole music has become way more shitty. Compare todays' pop music to past one. even pop of the past used to sound more melodic and catchy.

A lot of my thoughts are sum up here:

Old trance had amazing melodies that you can't find in nowadays tracks i think the market was less saturated , now people expect from a producer to drop a track every 2 weeks and this affects the quality, since the melody it's the innovative part that take some time if you want to create something fresh.

On the other hand now the bassline sound more powerful and i like this but the melodic aspect it's missing, to the point that some "trance" tracks have no melody at all.

Last edited by Rodri Santos on May-24-2010 at 16:24

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos A lot of my thoughts are sum up here: Old trance had amazing melodies that you can't find in nowadays tracks i think the market was less saturated , now people expect from a producer to drop a track every 2 weeks and this affects the quality, since the melody it's the innovative part that take some time if you want to create something fresh. On the other hand now the bassline sound more powerful and i like this but the melodic aspect it's missing, to the point that some "trance" tracks have no melodie at all.

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos A lot of my thoughts are sum up here: Old trance had amazing melodies that you can't find in nowadays tracks i think the market was less saturated , now people expect from a producer to drop a track every 2 weeks and this affects the quality, since the melody it's the innovative part that take some time if you want to create something fresh. On the other hand now the bassline sound more powerful and i like this but the melodic aspect it's missing, to the point that some "trance" tracks have no melody at all.

1 st paragraph is exactly my thought but the 2nd was actually my adherence to old time basses. Punch basses may sound really great but most of them are just damn saw!

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Originally posted by hachiroku no wonder why we strive to goto parties that only play music from 2001 and earlier.

So happy I don't share that lame ass attitude.

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos A lot of my thoughts are sum up here: Old trance had amazing melodies that you can't find in nowadays tracks i think the market was less saturated , now people expect from a producer to drop a track every 2 weeks and this affects the quality, since the melody it's the innovative part that take some time if you want to create something fresh. On the other hand now the bassline sound more powerful and i like this but the melodic aspect it's missing, to the point that some "trance" tracks have no melody at all.

exactly my thoughts. I am loving the new sounds from Joe-E (Star Bar wow!) but after hearing the hard bass drops a few times it feels empty. The SOUL of trance seems to have vanished - The amazing melodies that make it more like a song.

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Melodic soulful trance is dead . The one with the lush melodic atmospheric pads. Its why I listened to trance in the first place. Hell, its why I listen to music in the first place. We need the catchy melodic back. This Tech shit needs to die.

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Originally posted by daeus Music is ever changing, njoy the ride!

What does that even mean? Music de-evolves when it tries to evolve especially trance from my observation.

The subject got me thinking. Years ago I got into EDM and listened to nothing but trance and it was good. I started to listen to other genres and expand my horizons. It was still good. My music collection contains so many genres now and I only consider myself a music junkie.

Do not bemoan trance music. Find music you like and crank it loud. Remember if it is too loud, you are too old.

Forget the genres and play what you what. Do not pigeonhole yourself.

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Originally posted by EddieZilker I watched an interview with Gene Simmons on Shatner's Raw Nerve. When He asked Gene what his favorite song was Gene said it was "Rock and Roll All Night". It was his favorite because that song's made him the most money. That song is my fucking musical nightmare. It is the fucking sound-track to a suicidal over-dose, blaring out of the one working speaker on a boom-box purchased at a dollar store three years ago while a combination of heroin and methamphetamine course through your system and your eyes flutter to the back of your drug-addled skull. You'd have been too high to remember it so it's just as well it was your intention to have your heart explode or stop from the ill-suited combination of opiates and amphetamine plus the massively corrosive stepping ingredients your third-tier dealer added to maximize his profit margin, never-minding the speed wasn't properly filtered when it was being titrated and you'd be retarded from mercury poisoning. Sort of like the line of shit you're trying to sell, right now. What you just said about those old geezers pushing their left-over crap and selling out shows isn't any antithesis to my point. It is EXACTLY my point. "Rock and Roll All Night" still sucks donkey nuts. It doesn't matter that people love it or any of the other pap littering thrift fairs held at a local dilapidated hanger on an old air-force base. Among the other white-trash paraphernalia, like Dokken concert T-shirts and unsent mix-tapes made for girls who were so far above the station of the sender, he could have set himself on fire and she still would never have remembered his name, that song is nothing more or less than detritus littering the cultural milieu like a Coors beer can in a collection of beer-bottles in a frat-boy's dorm room. I have appreciation for good music. What you and I consider good music is, however, radically different. It doesn't matter how many people love that song they lost their virginity to after a romantic date involving a fondling during Cannonball Run II, liberal amounts of a horrible drink which ambitiously combined peach-schnaps and Ripple White Zinfandel with dinner in the car near the local Dairy Queen. 80's music will always suck. It sucked then and it still sucks. It doesn't seem to matter who it was made by, but 90% of it was garbage. Using an appeal to populace logical fallacy just won't make it better. It had nothing to do with one-hit wonders or established bands. It was still absolutely horrid and the only reason people glob into concert stadiums to see the washed-up, has-been, drug addled Ozzy Osbourne is because of a combination of saccharine sentimentality, a cloying desperation to hold onto their youth, and otherwise ossified thinking resultant from one too many re-runs of MacGyver and Night Rider.

Oh geez! Funniest thing i've read on this forum in a long while. I had to look away as to not spit my tea on the laptop.

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Originally posted by Col However, EDM seems to be political for some people - it's not about the music itself but it's about what the music symbolises, where the music came from, who spins it and how obscure it is.