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Originally posted by Arksun Here's what I think, Trance can be a wide variety of styles. I've always believed Trance means a more literal sense of moving someone emotionally and/or physically (Armins ideal behind the title 'a state of trance') If you taste is limited to uplifting only stuff thats fine. If you only like the more 'proggy' stuff, thats fine. If your tastes happen to cover both, or more, thats fine. It's not a crime to only love one, or the other, or indeed both or all. Why waste time trying to convert others to your taste in music. I don't spend hours trying to convince my friends to have the same choice of favourite colour as I do. If I happen to like black and red, doesn't make me anymore right/intelligent/enlightened than say someone thats into blue. All this crap about things going bad/ or betrayal of the trance sound I read in forums from those that only like one style, bullshit. Trance evolves naturally by itself, it grows expands, maybe fills out a little this way.. then spreads out another way a bit later. There's no rules, there's no conspiracy. Just producers making music, thats it!. We make the music we love and believe in and are under no obligation to make what we believe specific people want to hear. The minute you start working like that, then you really do end up producing shite, you have to make it for yourself first. So when a producer who's works you've liked a lot starts to take his music in a direction that doesn't agree to your tastes, cut them a little slack please!. If thats what they want to do let them be, they're not harming you, or threatening your family, you have a choice, a choice not to continue buying their music and find other artists you do like. Remember that others will actually like their new stuff!, and may even garner new fans in the process. Are they wrong and you're right because the producer didn't stick to your tastes. of course not, they just evolved into something different. And that's all the different styles and genres of music are 'different', not better or worse I've always noticed the tranceaddict forums are such a breeding ground for negativity and its always puzzled me why human nature makes is soo wrapped up into it, this.. this need to convince others we're right, our taste is best. To be truly opened minded, you need to be able to accept the differences, the differences of other peoples tastes, as well as any difference in style a producer may go through throughout their career, and be comfortable with it and move forward in a positive way. I just had to get that little rant out of my system. Arksun

Greatest post ever.