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Originally posted by Dj Pluviose Trance is supposed to remain underground.

I don't know you and I don't wishyou any misery at all, but claiming a certain type of music must be restricted to a group of selected individuals is just so wrong on so many levels, for so many reasons.

First of all, I believe it's something self-fulfilling to experience as much different styles of music during your lifetime, because that means you will find new music you'll love all the time and I consider that to be a human right. No one has the right to take that right from me, only because someone claims to have superior knowledge about this certain music.

Secondly, you do realize that something cannot evolve without outer influences and if you have a problem with these influences, promote the artists to take a u-turn in their style, instead of dwelling about how trance isn't like it was during the Eye-Q/Harthouse period.

In my oponion, a certain type of music doesn't get better by integrity, or a more proper word, isolated. The music just gets more pretentious and un-friendly. It doesn't matter if the music is deep and meaningful, when nobody can be shared of that experience.

I think that what people made wrong in the ninetee's (espescially early 90's), was that we didn't make sure trance was making a deep enough impact on mainstream culture.

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Originally posted by pointPi I think that what people made wrong in the ninetee's (espescially early 90's), was that we didn't make sure trance was making a deep enough impact on mainstream culture.

Mainstream culture inherently kills everything it touches because it's meant to appease the most amount of people possible. Art created for this end is hollow. And not just music, but everything. Tell me Olive Garden is the best Italian restaurant you've been to, or that Transformers is the best movie of all time. I cry everytime I hear people longing for underground art to become mainstream which btw, killed trance

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Originally posted by Brick Mainstream culture inherently kills everything it touches because it's meant to appease the most amount of people possible. Art created for this end is hollow. And not just music, but everything. Tell me Olive Garden is the best Italian restaurant you've been to, or that Transformers is the best movie of all time. I cry everytime I hear people longing for underground art to become mainstream which btw, killed trance

This.

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Originally posted by Brick Tell me Olive Garden is the best Italian restaurant you've been to.

He's from Stockholm, not sure if he would know what Olive Garden is.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J This applies to all club music. "The real problem for house music is that it has never had any critical forum. Those few, like myself, who pipe up when things are patently, obviously fucked up are shouted down by DJs and promoters who should know better. There is still much to celebrate within house, but when the crap rises to the surface, most are either too busy networking, counting their own money or getting shitfaced to speak up. True constructive critisism is born of concern and a dream of just how good things could be. House music doesn't need any more people brushing things under the carpet. It needs more people who are in a position to change things by making their private post-club fears public." -John McCready.

Do you have the actual article this came from? I would love to read it.

That's what I said but I got attacked for preferring that Trance remains isolated.

I dont necessarily want it to be isolated, but it is a fact that mainstream kills everything.

It is the media for dumbing down the Art, and then it is the mainstream crowd for following what the media puts out, and in this case, the media spat out cheese/commercial Trance in mid 2000.

The people don't know any better though. If only, when Trance was being commercialized, it was the GOOD SONGS and GOOD ARTISTS that were praised, not the lame ones at the time.

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Originally posted by goodtime hahahahaha wtf. I can't read through all that!

people from George do tend to stuggle

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Wat kyk jy doos?

yall have come with convicing arguments about I still say silence DJ Tiësto In Search Of Sunrise Remix chris benoit'd trance

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Originally posted by Mattinsanity yall have come with convicing arguments about I still say silence DJ Tiësto In Search Of Sunrise Remix chris benoit'd trance

the vocals totally raped that track

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Originally posted by david.michael Do you have the actual article this came from? I would love to read it.

http://www.johnmccready.co.uk/10_years_of_house.htm

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Eastern Europe killed trance. Too many producers releasing too many average choons from that region of the world. Not to mention the pirate sharing websites that stem from those countries as well. I don't want to offend anyone but that's one of the biggest reasons that has contributed to trance's downfall over the past couple of years

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