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where is trance going?
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| The Keeper |
That is my question... What does the future hold for this genre??
Reason I'm asking.. I wanted to see if this was something on its way in, in its prime, or starting to get dull. Got into listening to trance for the unique and really great sound it has.
I wonder, though, in a year, is this sound going to be completely worn out, and trance will have morphed into something totally different?
Just opening up discussion. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts... |
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| progressivepey |
i don't mean to hate on you man but...
this has got to be one of the worst questions i've read on the ta forums. trance isn't going anywhere and just in case you do believe that it might, you are posting for the wrong crowd. here at ta we eat, sleep, and breathe trance. we not only listen to trance, but we create and recreate endless amounts of dance tracks every month to fuel our desire to keep the beats going. Trance may or may not be here in five years but if you really need to ask other ta members if they think it will be around for some time so you can "produce your tracks" then it seems to me you aren't living trance. the reason you would get into producing would be because you love every aspect of the music and you want to express yourself by creating your own unique blends of beats, melodies, and breakdowns to satiate your hunger for producing. The reason not to produce would be the fact that you aren't really into trance, but you want to get popular by making music people will like. If your heart isn't truly into producing trance because you like it, you will never get anywhere.
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| Tranc3 |
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=155069
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| quote: | Originally posted by Tranc3
I believe trance, like most other electronic music genres, is evolving more rapidly than anything else we've ever seen. Producers are having to get more and more creative with their sounds, and consequently, the music is always evolving.
Take trance a few years back. You'd use an 808 or a 909 or something similar, maybe add some slight reverb/compression and eq, and you were done. Now sounds are distorted so much that in some cases you can't tell which drum machine (or which actual drumset) was used for the original sample.
Same thing with synths. It used to be that a decent supersaw was deemed "good enough," but now it's not. Once again, producers are doing crazy things to distinguish themselves.
And so what if you can recognize who made what track just by listening to it? The same is true for other genres of music. Musical biases aside, does the fact that I can identify Linkin Park's lead vocalist or signature sound mean that they're any worse? If you said yes, that's tantamount to saying a certain brand of peanut butter tastes different because they changed the label. |
As for this:
| quote: | Originally posted by The Keeper
I wonder, though, in a year, is this sound going to be completely worn out, and trance will have morphed into something totally different? |
Although I'll admit the possibility of someone predicting the future, I highly doubt it, and therefore we'll just have to wait and see if it gets "worn out" or not. |
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| The Keeper |
holy crap progressive.. just drink a glass of water and calm down, my friend.
That isn't why I asked at all. I edited the above to remove that, as it seems to have distracted the topic from the real question. Whether I produce or not has nothing to do with the answers to my question. It has to do with whether or not I have the friggin time.
Sure I totally get that everyone here is a totally addicted to the stuff. So am I. Why else would I be here?
I'm just asking about how the genre is evolving, and what y'all envision for the future.
(btw thanks tranc3 for getting what i was really after) |
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| Bonz |
Wow, so well put.
Why would you ever think it will be gone in a year or worn out? That would imply that there is a general regression of trance production or interest, and that is certainly NOT the case. As long as the interest and the producers are there, I don't see why it would ever go away. Everything must evolve in order to survive, but evolution isn't usually a bad thing. :) |
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| Tranc3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Keeper
(btw thanks tranc3 for getting what i was really after) |
Hehe np, that's what we're here for. The fast and free exchange of information, it's one of the things that makes the internet so great:D Well, that and the fast and free exchange of barely legal coeds:D :D :D
Haha j/k.
Oh and that last paragraph, that's not really relevant to this particular topic, but it was in response to someone saying that he/she could recognize any track made by certain producers. |
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| progressivepey |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Keeper
holy crap progressive.. just drink a glass of water and calm down, my friend.
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ahaha sorry.. i suppose that was kind of harsh. i might have misunderstood your question a bit. but it always gets me a little urked when people think they can start producing a certain type of music just to gain popularity or make some money when their heart isn't really into it. i know you understand our passion to make progress with trance and move it into the future, but who really knows where it will be in the future? it's evoloved so rapidly even over the past two years that i'm curious to see it's future direction. but your questions is sort of like asking where the world will be in a year. Who really knows? I'm curious to see though..
drinking a glass of water as we speak :whip:
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| davidderail |
trance is going where you want it to go. just like every other style of music, you make of it what you want.
if everyone keeps thinking trance is going nowhere or downhill, then news flash, thats where it's going.
TRANCE IS ALIVE AND WELL!!!!!!! |
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| RJOllos |
As the last guy said, if you are getting bored with trance then you probably need to expand your view of the trance scene. It is more than what 1 or 2 dj's are spinnin. There is so much new stuff coming out every month that it is hard to keep up with ... every few weeks i find a new artist, new sound that i like.
My recent favorites are from Andy Moor. Never had checked out his stuff before, but found a bunch of his productions that i really like ... and alot different from the stuff i usually listen to. |
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| Cobalt |
Uplifting is on its way out. It may come back in the future, but right now uplifting trance is so overdone and old that nothing new sounds fresh in the least. A State of Trance is a musical wasteland. Anyone hoping that uplifting will keep going shouldn't hold their breath. Or they should go listen to tranceairwaves.
Tech-trance and electro-trance is the future of the genre, and I strongly suspect this is the direction that the big hitters will move in the next year, particularly Tiesto and Ferry. Paul van Dyk has his days numbered if he doesn't evolve his sound soon, but I'm pretty sure he will.
Gabriel & Dresden and Markus Schulz, on the other hand, are building a new direction of distinctly American progressive trance. I happen to think that it's not particularly interesting or innovative compared to the European changes, and inferior to the older progressive trance of Sasha, but it marks a new development in sound all the same.
Trance will survive and continue, but uplifting trance will not; it started slowing down by the end of 2001 and is grinding to an artistic stop in my opinion. |
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| Cobalt |
| Oh yeah, I forgot that Marco V has some big material coming out too, which further leads me to believe that tech-trance is going to be big in 2004. |
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| Powell |
| I hope techtrance gets bigger |
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