What I like about classic trance ... hmmm

It doesn't sound like psytrance, very little synth-on-synth overload (I love using that term), and no loud blasting bass which is very tiring especially when you have really good headphones.

Attention to detail, simple but rich melodies, more sound variations. Many unique and captivating tracks, seminal music that was to shape the trance scene to come. A lot of the new trance uses similar synth combinations, unfortunately, which makes really good tracks hard to find.

I like how the tracks are light in terms of studio production sound, even hard trance classics. Very easy on the ear, pleasant, subtle. I love the deepness and acid influences are featured on classic trance, more standout and brain-tingling.

Other reasons ... if I think about it, yes.

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Originally posted by Magnetonium very little synth-on-synth overload (I love using that term), and no loud blasting bass which is very tiring especially when you have really good headphones. I like how the tracks are light in terms of studio production sound, even hard trance classics.

this for sure. i like very much how the old tracks hold back -- have a distance to the sound. sometimes you really have to put yourself
in them to hear the change over time.

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What is so great about 2010 trance?

older trance is just so deep, the range it had as a genre was amazing. innovation at every corner. it sounded like a human actually made it...it was sexy, groovy, melodic, mean...etc etc. now it's just the same old tired sound being pushed by a bunch of tired producers who should stop producing. modern trance is too predictable, it's now boring, uninspired and full of empty melodies. the tracks have a horrible energy, i'm practically overwhelmed and ultimately bored. i really do miss all those classic trance tunes that had sooo much power and drive, they just didn't punch you in the face with it...

class trance do have very charming melody, e.g Robert Miles.

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Originally posted by GrimReaper Classic trance is not about the same damn trance classics everyone who's ever listened to trance knows about.. the term is merely a reference to an era for the early days of trance, roughly around '91-'96.

Whilst I know that amongst the regulars on this forum, the definition of "classic trance" is as you describe but where is it set in stone that this is the only acceptable definition?

If my friends and I are chatting about old trance tunes, sometimes we will say Trance classics, other times classic trance. In both cases, we are referring to the 97-02 period of trance.

Often on this board disagreements and misunderstandings occur because one person posts tunes that they believe to be "classic trance" (97-02) and then someone else comes on ranting how that's wrong, classic trance is the older stuff - Cosmic Baby, L.S.G, etc.

This always frustrates me because clearly the first person has a different definition of classic trance to the second, so then we get several rants back and forth over what is nothing more than a misunderstanding over which era we are discussing.

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Classic trance should always be about the sound that is no longer in play. That would be 1988-2001 era. Otherwise you are gonna have to be a bit more specific, because you will get a lot of answers, like on this thread.

My interest lately has been into pre-trance trance stuff. I will hopefully make a mix of that sometime

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I like classic trance mostly for all the work it did for Kosovo in the late 90's.

1.Because its very easy to lose your motivation and inpiration in todays studio

2.Most of the time,Excessive choice leads to poor production


3.Production has become more intellectual than a 'feeling', you can tell when a track has been forced

Its because of a bunch a shit really

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Originally posted by Matt Leigh 1.Because its very easy to lose your motivation and inpiration in todays studio 2.Most of the time,Excessive choice leads to poor production 3.Production has become more intellectual than a 'feeling', you can tell when a track has been forced Its because of a bunch a shit really

ill bite.

(1) the studios of the 90s werent magical places, nor so romantic.
(2) excessive choice is a misnomer. there aint such a thing -- i think you mean choosing synths and phrases at random, laying them onto a track without a real purpose for them, but even then it can leads to interesting improvisational stuff.
(3) i doubt very much that this was ever true, in any genre. tracks aren't produced in a flash, on a whim, out of inspiration. the mind-numbing hours its takes to make even a nice synth dissipates that feeling and it is largely intellectual. there's millions of edits that dont show up on the final product. even when you think of poets, dont assume their work happens all at once, on a whim. it takes a long time, with much editing and erasing, "intellectual" decision and approximation.

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Originally posted by pozz (3) i doubt very much that this was ever true, in any genre. tracks aren't produced in a flash, on a whim, out of inspiration. the mind-numbing hours its takes to make even a nice synth dissipates that feeling and it is largely intellectual. there's millions of edits that dont show up on the final product. even when you think of poets, dont assume their work happens all at once, on a whim. it takes a long time, with much editing and erasing, "intellectual" decision and approximation.

Many tracks are produced in a flash mate, often within a few hours. I'm not including all the final polish, mixdown etc (which can take ages) but for many producers, they consider their best work the ones that came together very quickly when inspiration was flowing.

However as the technical production has taken greater and greater priority over actual song writing, I can see how some producers treat the whole affair in a more scientific, intellectual way, allowing little room for true creativity to occur.

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