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Re: Dutch trance 2002
just curious but how is yet another day junk?or even ordinary by any one's standards.
Just curious
| quote: | Originally posted by Vesa
Epic trance isn't dead. Many producers were only starting to get good at it back in 2000. If they had continued their development, there would have been lots of innovative melodic tracks with new soundscapes this year, but instead, the producers lost it completely for some reason. Too much money? Too much drugs? Too old? Dunno, but many people made better tracks a couple years ago. Not all, of course, but those producers that I've been following most closely.
Here are my biggest disappointments of 2002. Note that I'm not saying that these tunes suck. Actually, many of them are quite OK. But I had extremely high expectations for them because the producers seemed godlike in their earlier career.
Kid Vicious - Proceed
(not as good as his earlier melodic tracks)
Mesh - Purple Haze
(very simple track structure even for a B-side, and his new sounds do not convince)
everything by Geert Huinink
(too proggy, why wasn't there even one old-fashioned Dawnseekers track with strings?)
everything by Armin
(his previous years were master's work, but now it's only ordinary stuff)
Rank 1 album
(not bad, but I had hoped they could recreate their 1999 sound)
Sunstar - Sea Of Desire (Sunstar club mix) and a few other their tracks
(the vocals suit the track quite well, but otherwise the tune lacks energy)
For me, Ligaya was what I expected. Not a super-innovative tune, but it was still at least normal Ferry quality. Signum and Katana also kept their own.
The only guy to improve was Ralph Barendse, who's already starting to compete for number one position in Dutch trance.
I think the other Dutch guys should now stay in the studio to regroup, instead of putting out lame tracks just for the sake of releasing. |
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