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| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
Picking up on some other themes that have been highlighted around here recently; I think that the scene is healthy by many measures. The trance scene isn't, but dance music more generally certainly is. The fact that many people here have such a pessimistic view indicates to me that maybe they're mainly focussed on trance.
Relative to rock and other genres, dance is in a far better position. Although maybe the music industry as a whole is not.
There's still a lot of money to be made in film, TV, advertising, games, live shows, DJing etc. You just need a niche IMO. If worst comes to worst, then generally the thing to do is move up a level in terms of technicality. When DJing became big, the wannabe's became producers. When production became big, the producers became mastering engineers. I don't know what the next step is, maybe synth programmer. That's the pattern I seem to see though. |
I wouldn't be able to do what I'm doing it it weren't for my history listening to trance, I practically worshiped Tiesto and Armin in the early-mid 2000s and it galvanized my love for dance music, but I have matured a lot since. Now, I focus on making music that is memorable and makes people dance. Luckily my style is evolving into exactly that, which I'm fortunate enough to be experiencing.
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