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Artists who have never matched their previous success (pg. 3)
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| Cosmic |
Fire&Ice. Last good tune was 'Souvenir de Chine', back in 2001
Dumonde. They were top in 2000-2002, with tracks like Memory, Never Look Back, See the Light, Tomorrow, MUTED.
Push. Really liked his old sound, UN, Till we meet again, the legacy. New Mike tracks can't top that.
Tiesto. So many classics in his glory days 1999-2001. Silence, Flesh, Urban Train, Theme from Norefjell, Flight 643.
Rank 1. They lost it a bit along the way, from Awakening till now not much great tracks has been released as of the level of Airwave, Such is Life |
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| montana |
| quote: | Originally posted by starglider
Markus Schulz was treading water until a few huge remixes got his name noticed anew. |
markus schulz used to be 1/2 of edge factor, but yes, the work he did with cl mcspadden under the edge factor alias was million times better than the stuff he does now |
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| Jake Conlon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic
Fire&Ice. Last good tune was 'Souvenir de Chine', back in 2001
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Para Siempre is a tuuuuune |
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| LazarusDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by trance_n_dance
Push is one for me. I was hooked on Universal Nation and Strange World and Till We Meet Again but he's never really topped those, |
Not even with Plastic Boy - Silver Bath? Best tune he's done IMO.
As for my own nominations, I'm hoping Gareth Emery will one day match or even better "Mistral", but that's not to say the tunes he's done since haven't been mint. I don't think Marcos has ever bettered "Red Bullet" either, and some of his tunes since then have just been wank. Plus Agnelli & Nelson were excellent in their day but I hated Holding Onto Nothing and the Green Atlas tunes they did.
As for Ferry, well, from 1997-2000 he could do no wrong. These days he's just kind of noisy and annoying. Fair play to him for trying something new but it doesn't do it for me at all. |
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| miamitranceman |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
I don't really know - does anyone even care about the original versions of those tracks? I've never heard anyone play them... |
The original version of "Find" was played quite a bit over the summer, but I don't think I've ever heard the original version of the Reflekt play at all. |
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| generic |
| quote: | Originally posted by starglider
Motherload?
Anyway, this is pretty easily come by it seems because if a new (or not) artist has puts out a tune that makes it huge, all their stuff after that gets compared to it. It can be very hard to escape the shadow of a former hit.
Examples:
Nu-NRG - Dreamland
The Italian duo are still popular, but their tunes don't have the widespread appeal that Dreamland did. For a while it was the tune on the forums, and that simply wasn't true for, say, Butterfly or Connective.
Mirco de Govia - Epic Monolith
MdG put out a pretty solid album, and he's had his moments, but none have been the equal of Epic Monolith. In fact, his second single was a carbon copy of the PvD-championed epic. Hmm... PvD again? Maybe he has something to do with this trend. |
without reading everything, i agree completely with epic monolith
i disagree about dreamland, that tune was average and nu nrg have done a few better tunes, imo.
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic
Dumonde. They were top in 2000-2002, with tracks like Memory, Never Look Back, See the Light, Tomorrow, MUTED.
Push. Really liked his old sound, UN, Till we meet again, the legacy. New Mike tracks can't top that.
Tiesto. So many classics in his glory days 1999-2001. Silence, Flesh, Urban Train, Theme from Norefjell, Flight 643.
Rank 1. They lost it a bit along the way, from Awakening till now not much great tracks has been released as of the level of Airwave, Such is Life |
again without reading everything, i agree
dumonde were awesome in 1999, after that they went downhill. which seems to include the tunes you like most.
push went downhill and made lots of generic rehash e.
tiesto....say no more.
rank 1, made some of the best trance tunes ever. wtf have they been doing lately?
lange has ed right off
ferry was awesome, now sucks balls :)
hell, noone is as good as they used to be :clown: |
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| Ste |
marcel woods - dont get me wrong ive always liked him as a dj, but ever since serenity and methods of mayhem everything has sounded like like time's running out, and i didnt really like that, its just a tune based on too much of a gimmick rather than an all round decent tune. however cherry blossom which is out soon has rather changed my opinion, although i dont think anything will reach the levels of drunk in chicago.
mark norman - i dont think i need to say anything here, evrerything sounds like overkill except rush/phantom manor, another great example of sitting on a money making formula rather than exploring the style further. the starr project is just plain , same beats, cookiecutter trance riff over the top.
ron van den beuken - see mark norman except replace overkill with timeless. i love timeless (rvdb mix), it has to be one of my most favourite pieces of energetic tech trance ever, but as with mark norman just repeating a formula to bring in cash/please lables. it pisses me off when people like him and mark norman do this because there is blatently the talent there to produce something different AND good. |
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| Az |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
I don't really know - does anyone even care about the original versions of those tracks? I've never heard anyone play them... |
I played the original mix of find 
who said the MFA? :stongue:
they keep getting better and better |
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| montana |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ste
ron van den beuken - see mark norman except replace overkill with timeless. i love timeless (rvdb mix), it has to be one of my most favourite pieces of energetic tech trance ever, but as with mark norman just repeating a formula to bring in cash/please lables. it pisses me off when people like him and mark norman do this because there is blatently the talent there to produce something different AND good. |
+ ing 1
rvdb needs to stop adding re-using that bassline and those ideas from that track |
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| DickieThijssen |
| g&d??? wtf those guys bring out quality, all the time... Some exceptions of course, but thats normal |
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| BeeJay |
| quote: | Originally posted by DickieThijssen
g&d??? wtf those guys bring out quality, all the time... Some exceptions of course, but thats normal |
agree. Bloom was a very good album. I still put that CD in my player once a week.
agree also on Dumonde, their latest releases are totally crap.
do not agree on Tiesto, I think some of his latest productions are quality, but that discussion.
Darren Tate, lovely producer, but his latest releases are crap. Nocturnal Creatures and Let The Light Shine In were his latest good releases |
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| Sykonee |
Here's one for the old-timers:
Jam el Mar.
In the early to mid-90's, this guy could do no wrong. Then, he seemed to disappear. There was a glimmer of hope of a ressurection when he teamed up again with Mark Spoon for another album but Kaliedescope Skies was mostly vocal pop filler. Where was the Odyssey To Anyonna? Follow Me? Stella??? (I Pull My Gun notwithstanding, of course)
He's put together another album recently but, from what I've heard, hasn't matched anything he did a decade before. |
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