This is his latest track (out March 21) and IMO it's one of his best. Skip 2:54 for the mainlead if you don't want to listen to the whole thing.

Arctic Moon seems to be joining Andy Blueman and Ferry Tayle in the "epic overproduced" style of uplifting trance. Literally all the bells and whistles of the subgenre in every track.

Also some of the progressive stuff that FSOE and Enhanced have done lately is pretty good. Probably the top 2 trance labels right now.

Heard it on ASOT, and I love it.

Of course, it's only a matter of time before someone makes a remix where the melody just drops straight back into the beat after the buildup, and every DJ plays that version instead.

Where is the surprise? That little piece of shit has always copied someone. He doesn't have style or ideas at all.
Every time you hear something he produced you're like: "heey, this reminds me of that producer..."

Another ass-licker, another copycat that reproduces things that have been produced for years already. It's a permanent recycling of sound (it's been going for years). Every little kid wants to sound like "Andy Blueman", everyone wants to make a FARTY-ELECTROISH-SUPER-SUPER-SAW-UPLIFTING-EPIC shit.
And then you wonder why trance is death, why uplifting sucks so much, why it is the most predicable trance genre ever.

Go on youtube checking those kids (future producers). They are hundreds but are actually the same person.
No personality, no ideas, no creativity. A factory, at the end is the same product.

You guys say that modern trance music is all so unoriginal and cliched. Although IMO, all the trance you praise suffers from those problems as well. All classic trance sounds the same, all psytrance and goa sounds the same, all deep-prog sounds the same and so on.

Fact is, we haven't seen anything in trance music that has reached the same quality as 'Dark Side of the Moon', and I think the main problem is that all trance music has to be designed to be DJ-friendly. Trance is highly melodic and harmonic, so you can't really mix in the same way as techno or house.

Take this track for example:

This is how I imagine trance is 'supposed' to be. There is no conventional intro or outro, that I think is the reason we have this formula problem. IMO, ideal trance works should entire albums where each track seamlessly flows into eachother in a more subtle way than we have today.

That's my $0.02.

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Originally posted by pointPi You guys say that modern trance music is all so unoriginal and cliched. Although IMO, all the trance you praise suffers from those problems as well. All classic trance sounds the same, all psytrance and goa sounds the same, all deep-prog sounds the same and so on.

That because the last time you were searching for classic trance you were looking for all the over-rated, popular classics albums compiled by Ministry Of Sound, IDNT, Dutch Trance Vol.x etc. I have a collection of Trance tunes from the time when it was still peaking and barely any of them sound the same. Each producer had their own sound, which made tracks distinguish from each other. Look at what Michael Woods used to be for example, and look at his new works today.

Original? No fucking where near.

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All the uplifting sounds the same nowadays, there are a few producers that make some interesting uplifting, it's not creative but has good melodies, good breakdowns etc... i am a classical music lover and i usually like this, on the other hand you've precisely the Anjuna and Enhanced uplifting producers which always sound the same and their melodies are so uninspirational, FSOE is a great label, probably my favourite of this new ones, it's not only that A&F release on it (and they make the few uplifting tunes i could see myself dancing to) but Akesson, Philippe el Sisi and Vast Vision are on it's roster and truly have a different and energetic sound, Vast Vision are now exploring tech trance, thats what producers should do, instead of recreating his first hit they should push their own boundaries with new sounds, arrangements etc...

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Originally posted by Rodri Santos All the uplifting sounds the same nowadays, there are a few producers that make some interesting uplifting, it's not creative but has good melodies, good breakdowns etc... i am a classical music lover and i usually like this, on the other hand you've precisely the Anjuna and Enhanced uplifting producers which always sound the same and their melodies are so uninspirational, FSOE is a great label, probably my favourite of this new ones, it's not only that A&F release on it (and they make the few uplifting tunes i could see myself dancing to) but Akesson, Philippe el Sisi and Vast Vision are on it's roster and truly have a different and energetic sound, Vast Vision are now exploring tech trance, thats what producers should do, instead of recreating his first hit they should push their own boundaries with new sounds, arrangements etc...

I've figured over the years that, as the further the boundaries are pushed, the more obnoxious Trance sounds in general. Might as well leave it to die, just like a star which blows up after a certain amount of expansion.

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they're pushed in the wrong way, someone thought "Let's add pop vocals to our tracks!! it saves time since you don't need a melody!!" another one thought " Let's add a farty electro bassline and slow the bpm's to 130, it's getting all the 15 year old girls crazy!" and soon someone will say "Let's introduce gangster lyrics to get into trance the colleagues from the ghetoo")

I see that the only genre who has some future is tech trance, if you compare it to oliver lieb you can't believe both things are the same but sounds great still.

The whole thing is a circus show slash business. How the Armada/Anjuna fanboys fail to see that baffles the shit outta me.

Ah wait, I know, because its HIP!

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Originally posted by TranceElevation Where is the surprise? That little piece of shit has always copied someone. He doesn't have style or ideas at all. Every time you hear something he produced you're like: "heey, this reminds me of that producer..." Another ass-licker, another copycat that reproduces things that have been produced for years already. It's a permanent recycling of sound (it's been going for years). Every little kid wants to sound like "Andy Blueman", everyone wants to make a FARTY-ELECTROISH-SUPER-SUPER-SAW-UPLIFTING-EPIC shit. And then you wonder why trance is death, why uplifting sucks so much, why it is the most predicable trance genre ever. Go on youtube checking those kids (future producers). They are hundreds but are actually the same person. No personality, no ideas, no creativity. A factory, at the end is the same product.

How many times are you guys going to regurgitate these same redundant talking points? After years and years of bitching, you idiots still can't get it through your heads that people listen to uplifting trance and enjoy it?