Those on a trance forum who no longer listen to trance probably have a lot more to say about why, than someone who loves trance on a trance forum.

beacuse its easier.

Because its the cheesiest form of Electronic Dance Music.

Can be other things too though, but the majority of trance is easy listening music.

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Originally posted by david.michael Those on a trance forum who no longer listen to trance probably have a lot more to say about why, than someone who loves trance on a trance forum.

Very good point. I actually really dislike about 90% of the trance I hear these days. So much is of it formulaic, bland, tinny and unimpressive....but every so often a track come along that is simply stunning.

Personally, I've been in to EDM long enough to see fads/trands come and go, genres sprout up and disappear, movements develop and then wane, that I'm really just interested is dance music, good dance music, whatever it's called. Trance gets slammed because so much of it is the lowest common denominator and it sometimes attracts a younger crowd and some of the bad (cheesey) things that go with that.

Trance in fairness (along with progressive house, techno and house) gets a bad wrap - so many other forms of music commercialize what it pioneers and that's another thing that keeps drawing me back. It's like EDM is the often at the sharp edge of music technology and trance is fitting method of transport for it or the facilitator.

Its a shame, because Trance now has the reputation which used to belong to what was called Dance. Which pretty much does not exist anymore.

So if u say to people that you make or listen to trance, they will instantly think of the cheesy radio tracks such as Daddy DJ, DJ Sammy etc etc.

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When speaking to a layperson who asks me what kind of music I make, I respond with "I make electronic dance music. You know, techno, house, that sort of thing."

It gets them close enough to the ballpark for me.

Though, I haven't made trance for a while now. But, "techno" and "house" aren't exactly what I do, either.

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Originally posted by david.michael When speaking to a layperson who asks me what kind of music I make, I respond with "I make electronic dance music. You know, techno, house, that sort of thing." It gets them close enough to the ballpark for me. Though, I haven't made trance for a while now. But, "techno" and "house" aren't exactly what I do, either.

i'm not ashamed that i make trance nor should you or anybody else for that mater.
trance is my pet sound stated in my original post. and im guessing for you and most here you will use it in everything you try and make in the studio.

if for example you make a house track i bet you will find a trance element in their at some stage.

TRANCE! I Rather listen to TRANCE then RAP AND R&B!!

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Originally posted by atxbigballer1 TRANCE! I Rather listen to TRANCE then RAP AND R&B!!

+1

i used to listen to rap and r&b back in the days, but the crap they been putting out these days are annoying as hell.. it actually pisses me off when i hear it ..

haha

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Trance is dire these days. I don't really produce any specific genre, but I've been trying to steer towards tech/deep house because it fits more with what I'm playing now. I personally find house and tech a lot harder to make than trance though, which I find insanely simple.

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In my opinion, trance has lots of subgenre's. To name a example, I have a friend with whom I sort of 'started' DJing. We meet up every now and than to spin some records together, and he know's I've been into trance a couple of years now. But everytime I play some newer tracks, he starts telling me that I've changed my style to more minimal / house type of stuff. And everytime I tell him, it's not I changed my style. Trance music is also evolving, and is getting more and more influences from other genre's, and lately a lot from house and more minimal stuff.

I see 'trance' as a mainstream genre. For instance, what is pop music? Pop music can be rock, ballads, hiphop.. you name it, and that's the way I see trance. When you are telling people that you are making / playing trance music, they always think about uplifting/euphoric trance, because that's known as 'trance' in the commercial scene.

Producing wise, I started out making hardstyle (long time ago ), and slowly started into uplifting trance. However, very little uplifting trance astonishes me these days. when listening to trance around the world, I like most of the tracks, but I don't love them. If I listen to the Gareth Emery podcast, I love every track he plays, why? Because he plays a 'wide' range of trance music, with influences from every genre of music, which I think for the 'underground' trance lovers, is much more interesting.

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