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Help me understand what happened to Trance... (pg. 8)
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| Tsunami One |
Trance started sucking when it got into that fluffy hands in the air bull around 2000, electronic music in general started to go way down hill around then and it has not learned its lesson.
Part of the problem is genre specific parties, that ruined the whole scene because it segregated the community and made a US VS THEM mentality where Techno people hate Trance people and so on. If you remember the oldskool trance around 92-94 it was great, electronic music had that wow factor whuch is lost for sure but all styles incoperated aspects of each other and you didnt have to listen to one syule of music for the whole night.
People complain about the boring state of trance or techno and when something new comes out they love it but its just the same repacked formula and the big build ups are just replaced y prog synths or minimal bleeps opposed to loopy techno. |
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| DJ Intrigue |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
Why do you keep making this argument? It's like people aren't allowed to like certain music unless they come "of age". And what, pray tell, is the minimum age limit for listening to trance? Your ears can't hear it before then?
Does all past music completely unexist to you? You never listen to Pink Floyd or the Beatles? When you get into a certain music, do you not do some research and background checks to find more of it, and familiarize yourself with its history, its development, its styles and aesthetics? Do you not go out and actually look for good music yourself? Or do you just sit at home like a useless lump of flesh waiting for Armin's set of the week or Mixmag to come down the pipe and spoonfeed you what they want your favourite trance to be? Pulp pop sludge for your soulless mass consumption.
Look: It doesn't matter when you got into the music. I didn't start listening to trance until about 97-98 either. And it became readily apparent what was happening, in accordance with the rising popularity of trance.
Older trance was real, raw, arresting, and experimentative, with limitless power and persuasion in it. It had feeling, humanity, and emotion. It was trance in its essence: Undeterred by bull, uncorrupted by frivolous gimmicks, and unswayed by money and pop uniformity.
But it was slowly being overwritten with a new kind of shiny, plastic fake trance. Bright and crisp. Like a predictable Hollywood blockbuster. Armed with relentless PR and marketing of big DJs, big stadiums, big anthemic sing-a-long trance. It was big, cheap, canned, fake, shiny plastic bright candy-coated happy clown trance. Not even trance anymore. A bastardization of trance.
But the thing is: People (ie: you) are ing stupid. They can't enjoy something bizarre and crude. They don't like reality. They are easily distracted by pretty melodies and shiny things, like raccoons oggling over jangling keys. They don't understand the unresolved, infinite beat, the suspended state of momentum, the TAZ, or even the concept of intellectualizing these abstract things.
They want the insta-gratification. They want the euphoria without having to work for it. They want to win the lottery. They don't want their food to taste bitter. And the new safe, boring world of album-oriented marketing and predictable formulaic MTV trance gave it to them. Their own private little fantasy comfort zone.
And thus: Trance became very popular with you, the masses, the stupid majority, the lowest common denominator of society. Trance reformed itself into pop music so that you could like it, not the other way around. You did not grow as a person to go it. It came to you. It opened your mouth with a vice and poured its cheesy, glowing tripe down your gullet, and with a bloated belly you screamed for more.
Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not telling you what to like. I just want you to own up to what you're liking. You like crap. |
Very, very nice. It's just unfortunate that so many people don't see the real truth in all of this. |
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| DJ Intrigue |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spirit5
I don't even listen to much trance anymore! There's only a select few I do still like, and most are from last year...again the only reason I defend this stuff is because it's what got me into the finer forms of electronic music in the first place, and I still appreciate it's contributions. That doesn't mean I worship it, or listen to it that much. I'm a passionate person, I have passions, and this music has been one of them...I don't think there's anything wrong with having a passion for music, and even expressing it openly. People are different... |
But you are still majorly contradicting yourself though... and I'm not sure why you keep bringing up your passion for music when it really isn't relavent in this case. And please, please stop acting like you are the ONLY person who has a deep passion for music and those others who happen to disagree with your thoughts do not. |
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| Ivand |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spirit5
Yeah repetition is fine, it's a part of a lot of music, including trance, however some music is TOO repetitive without melody or emotion, and just builds and builds and builds without letting the repetition go anywhere. This is what I can't stand... |
Fred Baker - Total Blackout FTL :whip: :whip: |
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| Ivand |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spirit5
Goodbye, i'll stop posting on these threads, or this forum period...maybe i'll just shut up for a while. |
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| Ishkur |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spirit5
I'll throw away all my old Armin CDs (Boundaries of Imagination sucks, Seven Cities, C-Sharp, Dido (Armin van Buuren's Universal Religion Remix), all those tracks on it are CRAP), i'll burn all the vinyl I have too, the hundreds of dollars worth of utter pre-packaged garbage fed to the masses to salivate. I'll delete all those god damn MP3s too. Oh and i'll throw away that awful piece of CD called "Tranceport" from Paul Oakenfold from back in the day. Man that CD had some utter bull. Rendezous (Pvd. vs Tilt Mix) damn that was some stupid , and El Nino by Agnelli & Nelson, what were they thinking? Ascension's Someone had some pretty cheesy vocals too. I HATE epic trance, I hate that MTV garbage (never played on it though...not here), I hate Armin, old Tiesto, PvD, BT (god Flaming June was some crap), Micro de Govia can kiss my ass (Vital Spark, damn that is some cheesy ). PvD's "For An Angel" wow, I hate that tune, it's what got me into this and now I'm a messed up fu*k who doesn't know his ass from his head. Damn, I should just go listen to some REAL trance and bang my head against the wall feeling like utter because i've been brainwashed by this . Go to hell Paul van Dyk, it's your fault! |
If you don't want to listen to crap: yes. You should do that. I'm not telling you to do that. You are.
Everything you listed is crap. For real. It's all crap. For an Angel is crap. It's a tepid, boring, mediocre track with an average 3-key melody any accomplished musician could come up with while eating breakfast, which is why it was so successful because anything that milquetoast is instantly accessible to simple people. Like you. Of course it got you into trance. Because you celebrate crap. It is crap.
Tranceport is one of the worst DJ mixes in the history of the Universe. Playing the year's top 10 tracks back to back doesn't make you a DJ, it makes you a glorified stereo; a jukebox marketing the trance equivalent of "MTV AMP". El Nino is bombastic, over-the-top cheese, a forerunner to Dutch Trance.
Everything you listed there: All crap. I'm not saying throw it away. By all means, if that's what makes you happy, go on listening to it. Just remember what it is, what it does, where its intentions lie, and why you like it so much. |
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| Ishkur |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spirit5
Oh Iskur I don't listen to ASOT. I've actually only listened to a few episodes in the past, and I'm not THAT into Tiesto or any of them. I don't even listen to much epic anymore. I'm more or less defending the stuff I liked over the years that appealed to me. Everything from BT's early work, and PvDs, to Armin's old stuff, Oakie's, and all of those guys I used to be a big fan of. Am I anymore? Not as much |
And I can explain to you why: You can not live on a diet of chocolate and candy all the time. Every so often, an apple or a carrot or some broccoli is pretty damn appealing.
Me? I eat all food. A well-balanced diet keeps one fresh in this scene. Sounds to me like you spent your formative years gorging on junk food, and now you're sick to your stomach.
That isn't your fault. As I keep saying: The music is crap. You eat crap, you're going to feel like crap eventually. Try something with more substance sometime. |
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| Spirit5 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
If you don't want to listen to crap: yes. You should do that. I'm not telling you to do that. You are.
Everything you listed is crap. For real. It's all crap. For an Angel is crap. It's a tepid, boring, mediocre track with an average 3-key melody any accomplished musician could come up with while eating breakfast, which is why it was so successful because anything that milquetoast is instantly accessible to simple people. Like you. Of course it got you into trance. Because you celebrate crap. It is crap.
Tranceport is one of the worst DJ mixes in the history of the Universe. Playing the year's top 10 tracks back to back doesn't make you a DJ, it makes you a glorified stereo; a jukebox marketing the trance equivalent of "MTV AMP". El Nino is bombastic, over-the-top cheese, a forerunner to Dutch Trance.
Everything you listed there: All crap. I'm not saying throw it away. By all means, if that's what makes you happy, go on listening to it. Just remember what it is, what it does, where its intentions lie, and why you like it so much. |
Yeah everything I like is crap. I'm crap. I'm actually a very complex person, i'm not a simpleton. I think very complex and I am a deep thinker and I like to write and think and melodic, uplifting trance has allowed me over the years to imagine things and to dream about things. I have moved on, don't think I still sit here and listen to those things. I like beautiful music, I like emotional music, I like dark music, I like light music. I went through phases where I listened to really dark stuff. I went through phases where I liked really bright stuff. I've liked many forms of EDM. Right now I am into warm, melodic progessive tracks mixed in with progressive and electro breaks. I like electronic music, ANY electronic music that is warm and passionate, because it fits with who I am.
I am deep, so I like deep stuff, I am passionate so I like passionate stuff, I am emotional, so I like emotional stuff. I pick things that relate to who I am as a person. Thats why I like it. I don't buy into the whole Dj Worship thing, I don't buy into all that big super saw sounds. I just got into this stuff because I felt it was more "warm" then the other stuff I was hearing on the radio at the time that I didn't like. Thats what I like, putting a human and emotional element into it, but also an ethereal and heavenly type of feel as well. That is what i've looked for over the years, in many forms of music, not just trance. It was closest I could find to music in a computer game I was into called "Unreal" and to some of the artists I had liked such as Jean Michel Jarre, Enigma, Enya, Tangerine Dream and Delerium. I'm just trying my best to explain myself without getting ridiculed for who I am and why I like the things I do.
All I ask for is understanding, not agreement. A little respect would go a long way. I respect you, you respect me. And I will admit to being someone who was a bit closed minded to music over the years, but has since branched out into other stuff slowly but surely and still needs time to get out and be exposed to different music. Most of the CDs i've bought lately have not been trance, but downtempo, house, ambient and breaks. So I am getting better... |
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| Ishkur |
Deep, shallow, sophisticated, simple, crap......I don't care what you are.
One thing you absolutely HAVE to learn is: brevity.
jesus ing christ. |
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| Spirit5 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
Deep, shallow, sophisticated, simple, crap......I don't care what you are.
One thing you absolutely HAVE to learn is: brevity.
jesus ing christ. |
I'll work at that. |
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| Durrrtysouth |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
Look: It doesn't matter when you got into the music. I didn't start listening to trance until about 97-98 either. And it became readily apparent what was happening, in accordance with the rising popularity of trance.
Older trance was real, raw, arresting, and experimentative, with limitless power and persuasion in it. It had feeling, humanity, and emotion. It was trance in its essence: Undeterred by bull, uncorrupted by frivolous gimmicks, and unswayed by money and pop uniformity.
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Wrong! Older Trance/EDM had its share of stupid gimicky bull too. You were just a noob then and didnt realize it or maybe thought it was "cool". Smart E's- Sesame's treat pops to mind. If someone did that today, you would have a holy fit, and go on a 2 hour long rant on your soap box. All that stuff that Judge Jules, John Kelly, Seb Fontaine, Guy Ornadel, George Acosta, Talla 2XL....etc played pre 2000 was the worst I ever heard. That was alot worst and even more umimaginitive than anything I have heard today. Every time the trance genre goes through changes, there are going to be some people not happy. But the 16-21 year olds who are just now discovering trance through GDJB/ASOT/TATW feel just as excited and un-jaded as you did when you first discovered it.
Minimal techy trance that you are championing right now is great....its like Picasso. Very minimal, clean and the beauty is in its rawness. But if everywhere you went you saw ing art with black lines on a white background, you would lose your mind. Just because you outgrew your Negel prints and now have moved on to more "sophisticated" originals, does not mean that the Negel's have lost their artistic meaning. |
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| wolftickets |
| Trance peaked around 2000, then started to suck when all the once good producers went all commercial/pop/switched to other styles. |
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