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Is Trance less popular than it used to be?
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| feidias |
Talking with friends lately and we all concluded to this statement.
What's ur opinion and y?
p.s -I DON'T WANT TO START A FLAME WAR ASOT VS CLASSIC 99 or whateva
I am talking about the genre as a whole
- I would like "Ishkur" to give a proper reply too:happy2: :tongue2 |
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| DJ_Madcap |
| Ishkur is going to say that Trance is much much more popular than it used to be. Because that's the truth. |
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| RapidFire |
| yep. it hit its peak around 98/99. especially in the U.K. |
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| r5a |
| I'd say it's sort of the same really. |
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| r5a |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
Depends on where you are... |
good point but I think the topic starter might be talking in a whole around the world maybe? |
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| r5a |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
Uh... pretty hard to measure LOL.
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yay internet & communication & travelling. |
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| Ishkur |
| It's an unusual question to ask, because for any genuine genre of music that sparingly fosters, promotes and cultivates a narrow and rare esthetic niche, to become popular, it must shed that niche and adopt the extremely broad, mild, generalized mode of commercial appeal. In many cases, this ends up becoming a complete betrayal or bastardization of the original musical form....which is exactly what trance did. |
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| Subtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
It's an unusual question to ask, because for any genuine genre of music that sparingly fosters, promotes and cultivates a narrow and rare esthetic niche, to become popular, it must shed that niche and adopt the extremely broad, mild, generalized mode of commercial appeal. |
:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
It's an unusual question to ask, because for any genuine genre of music that sparingly fosters, promotes and cultivates a narrow and rare esthetic niche, to become popular, it must shed that niche and adopt the extremely broad, mild, generalized mode of commercial appeal. In many cases, this ends up becoming a complete betrayal or bastardization of the original musical form....which is exactly what trance did. |
True. Trance has had many forms since it's original 'start' but to maintain any sort of popularity, it needs to evolve, and the way it's evolving (Mainstream) is the problem. This generation of fans are missing out on the true feelings of being 'in a trance' which while even the styles of 2002, 1999, 1997 did not have as originally intended, it had more so than what's about now. |
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| G-Con |
In the UK there is no doubt that trance has dropped in popularity. Back in 98,99,2000 it was ridiculously big. Every major club round the country held trance nights. We all rememember the status that crasher held.
Nowadays it's still going. Though when I was chatting to some clubbers down London, they said that down there, trance is difficult to find. I think where as before trance completely dominated, now it's about on a par with other genres.
AS for other countries, I have no idea.... |
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| Wicked Neo |
| quote: | Originally posted by G-Con
In the UK there is no doubt that trance has dropped in popularity. Back in 98,99,2000 it was ridiculously big. Every major club round the country held trance nights. We all rememember the status that crasher held.
Nowadays it's still going. Though when I was chatting to some clubbers down London, they said that down there, trance is difficult to find. I think where as before trance completely dominated, now it's about on a par with other genres.
AS for other countries, I have no idea.... |
trance is difficult to find in London?
they cant be looking very hard then as there is at least 3 trance nights almost every weekend in london
At this moment in time i would say that London is the best place to find regular trance nights in the UK |
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| SYSTEM-J |
The commercial and cultural zenith of trance was certainly 1999/2000, when the masses automatically associated dance music with trance. In this regard, it supplanted big-beat (or "electronica") which itself had supplanted old-skool hardcore. Look back at the era and you'd see superstar trance DJs on TV, trance compilations grabbing the billboards, trance singles topping the charts (quite literally, outselling every other record in the country for at least a week) and appearing in films (Human Traffic, Kevin & Perry... all youth culture films being trance-centric).
Americans will probably not grasp this because trance has never reached that level in the US, but in the UK, Ibiza and Europe, trance really did attain that apex. Now, it's dance's evergreen genre - house - which is filling that role, at least until something new peaks for a few years. |
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