Here in Brazil Psy-Trance is well known, but i like all kind of Trance and sometimes i miss someone to talk about it.

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos It's another kind of popularity, in 1994 trance had just bornt, but i'd say in the 2000-2005 trance was massively popular, not the good records but the most commercial stuff in the form of eurodance, hard dance, but clubs played it daily wasn't something fresh like it would be now when you rarely hear a trance tune in a mainstream club. Surely ASOT has now more listeners than ever (15 millions i believe, stunning) but go ask 100 people in the street about : -Armin van Buuren -Ferry Corsten -Oliver Lieb -Sasha Possibly 10 out 100 would know who AvB is 2-3 in the case of Ferry and for statistical beauty we will count 1 for Lieb and Sasha. Now ask the same 100 about : -David Guetta -Swedish House Mafia -Rihanna -Afrojack You'll see that 90% have heard about most of them. So in conclussion trance now has attracted more people but the world seems more unaware of trance than ever. This is illogical but it is what it happens, last week Leon Bolier was a worldwide Twitter trend topic, there must be a lot of hidden trance fans, maybe confessing you are a trance addict is now embarrasing, otherwise i can't understand why if the "#trancefamily" is so big you rarely find trance heads around you. However the current commercial house is focused to casual edm listeners, they don't know what the fuck the djmag is, IDMAS or ASOT is but conform a big fanbase for this djs. PS: IDMAS this year are more a joke than ever, must be a leaked hoax.

I have some serious doubts if e.g. Guetta is better know than Tiesto. But it doesn't matter as I count popularity inside the group of people who listen to EDM and not the people who just happen to listen top40 and get those tracks pushed down their throat.
Trance can be popular even when not a single track can be found in the top40. That's why I think it's still very popular because I don't believe huge numbers of people who liked trance 10 years ago, now hate it. And since most older trance loving people haven't died yet the number of people who like trance still will increase. At the same time other genres could get more fans and even quicker, but that doesn't make trance unpopular IMO.

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Originally posted by rdevito Here in Brazil Psy-Trance is well known, but i like all kind of Trance and sometimes i miss someone to talk about it.

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Originally posted by jayxthekoolest 500/6,800,000,000.00 = 7.4*10^-6%. I wouldn't call that a good turn out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVZsduQQh0
Id say that was a pretty good turnout in my books.

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Originally posted by Trance-MB I have some serious doubts if e.g. Guetta is better know than Tiesto. But it doesn't matter as I count popularity inside the group of people who listen to EDM and not the people who just happen to listen top40 and get those tracks pushed down their throat. Trance can be popular even when not a single track can be found in the top40. That's why I think it's still very popular because I don't believe huge numbers of people who liked trance 10 years ago, now hate it. And since most older trance loving people haven't died yet the number of people who like trance still will increase. At the same time other genres could get more fans and even quicker, but that doesn't make trance unpopular IMO.

Tiesto is a dutch dj living in the netherlands he has to be known, is part of the country history, if you have a sculpture in the madame tussauds you are famous as hell. But people here don't know who tiesto is.

I'd like to say that i have the feeling that the new nº1 is going to be tiesto and not guetta nor armin... also i am happy to see that when the Guetta name isn't next to a big pop name his tracks remain unknown, his new track with Laidback luke is daily migraine.

Tiesto is doing the right thing, playing what people want to hear (sadly) and collaborating with the hot names of edm, edm fans fill arenas, pop bonkers don't

To the people who don't know trance they think tiesto, but to the people who do know about it they know Armin Van Buuren. Only because normal people who listen to chart music see people they know and they see tiesto collabing with him. He diverges outside of trance and remixes othe popular music.

I was in college today listening to digitally imported radio, and a friend came up to me and asked what I was listening to and I said trance and he immediately asked if I was listening to Tiesto. I told him know, I really don't like Tiesto just because he's gone mainstream, I like trance because it's good music and no one I know listens to it. I hate mainstream music, I like how trance is still semi-underground.

I totally like how trance is all underground and everything and how nobody else listens to it. Makes me feel all special and cool. People tell me that trance is gay and stupid, and I know inside that they just don't understand it.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by Adam420 I totally like how trance is all underground and everything and how nobody else listens to it. Makes me feel all special and cool. People tell me that trance is gay and stupid, and I know inside that they just don't understand it.

Thats exactly how I feel, its better to be original than to be a Brainwashed zombie. Thats my whole point to this thread is to say that I like how trance is Underground, and yeah ive had people tell me its gay but ive never taken it to heart just because for me i feel like their really missing out on some good music, rather than listening to Eminem or Lil wayne and they make tracks that are on the charts for maybe a few weeks but then they slip away, with trance, its different, people still listen to the tracks that came out close to 20 years ago.

I think mainstream music is really going shit, i mean i listen to music nowadays and it honestly sucks, two song examples, Rebecca Black - Friday, God awful song, and WIllow Smith- I whip my hair back and fourth, over repetitive and annoying.

Edit: Also i feel like whenever something goes mainstream, its subject to change to the overall liking. I actually don't mind old school Rap, it was pretty good but look at it today, Eminem only makes money because hes angry at the world. You'd think when your a millionaire you wouldn't be so angry but yet he knows that sells.

I think if trance music became mainstream it would turn into more like Kaskade sounding, it'll just be catchy repetetive beats, pretty much Kaskade's angel on my shoulder would be what trance would become in my eyes.

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Can I please ask you to click on these two links, download the files, listen to them and then come back to this thread?

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Originally posted by RebeL9 Part 1: http://www.filestube.com/71780d1bdf027ad703e9/go.html Part 2: http://www.filestube.com/9ad21912e277ee8d03ea/go.html

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by TechnoTranceRM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVZsduQQh0 Id say that was a pretty good turnout in my books.

I agree. That looks epic. At the same time, relative to the world population...

When I saw this thread, I thought it was from 1999

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