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The tune that started the rot...
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| Lyle |
| No one is in any denial that trance is in sickly state right now, with lines between trance, prog, house becoming increasingly blurred by many producers. However, this was not always the case. There was a time, once upon ago, that all was good in the hood & trance truly shook our world. My question to you, my good people, is: what song in your opinion, signalled the beginning of the end for trance. Many purists may argue that is started just before the 'Crasher era of '99, but of course, it is subject to opinion. I'd have to say "Castles In The Sky", I think it was a precursor to DJ Sammy, Angel City & their ilk. What do you, my esteemed tranceaddicts think? |
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| Ry Diggs |
| ANYTHING BY AQUA OR THE VENGABOYS |
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| Lyle |
| That's a very good point! They peak my -o-meter with a big 10!:crazy: |
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| Ian |
motorcycle - as the rush comes
before this, about 2/3 of all new songs were listenable, now its more like 1 in 100 that is :p |
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| Donkeyness |
| Robert Miles - Children |
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| CranberryJuice |
im sentimentaly attached to "as the rush comes" ....:( i think this tune is great but maybe because she reminds me memories
and i think the dance tunes like fragma alice deejay or some others casted a shadow over the trance music |
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| FiK |
| quote: | Originally posted by CranberryJuice
and i think the dance tunes like fragma alice deejay or some others casted a shadow over the trance music |
yeah all that cheesy, commercial bull |
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| Xavier |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
motorcycle - as the rush comes
before this, about 2/3 of all new songs were listenable, now its more like 1 in 100 that is :p |
couldn't agree more. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by CranberryJuice
im sentimentaly attached to "as the rush comes" ....:( i think this tune is great but maybe because she reminds me memories
and i think the dance tunes like fragma alice deejay or some others casted a shadow over the trance music |
I don't really know about that, they just used a formula that was already there. They never claimed to be something they weren't... but when people started incorporating those same cheesy elements to real trance and pretended it was somehow more serious - that's when things really started to go wrong... ATRC, Satellite, Burned With Desire etc... |
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| [MaRt] |
There's always been commercially successful cheesy dance music so I don't really see how that has contributed to the decline of trance in general over recent years. I think it has more to do with the fact that the genre is stuck in a rut with nowhere to go, and this is partly thanks to the surge of new amateur producers posing as professionals while hopelessly recycling ideas, chord patterns and melodies from years past using all the same sounds and presets.
As long as nobody is bringing anything new to the table, of course what is already there will become stale. Trance needs a big kick up the arse but frankly I'd be surprised if one is forthcoming. |
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| isoterra |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
motorcycle - as the rush comes
before this, about 2/3 of all new songs were listenable, now its more like 1 in 100 that is :p |
i think i'd have to agree with this actually, even though i like the song if i'm being honest (brings back memories of when i started clubbing)
the cheesy trance-tinged vocal pop tracks of 99-00 (alice dj, vengaboys, then later darude, ian van dahl flip & fill) have nothing to do with it... all they did was make trance less mainstream |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I think it was the moment when Rank 1's Airwave became a huge hit. |
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