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Is Trance less popular than it used to be? (pg. 2)
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| pvdAngel |
| quote: | Originally posted by RapidFire
yep. it hit its peak around 98/99. especially in the U.K. |
Yeah, same here. I would say trance is changing rather than it becoming less popular, with the intro of all the new tecnology. But in my opinion, I like EDM as a whole rather than just sticking to trance all the time.
I would say it depends what your outlook is on it. |
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| KilldaDJ |
i just think its evolved into something far bigger than what we imagined
trance got killed because of competition, producers wanted to be top dog by creating a new sound n , eventually trance just lost its identity so to speak
nowadays anything thats around 140bpm and is synth based would be classed as trance or techno
its rly. |
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| RapidFire |
| quote: | Originally posted by pvdAngel
Yeah, same here. I would say trance is changing rather than it becoming less popular, with the intro of all the new tecnology. But in my opinion, I like EDM as a whole rather than just sticking to trance all the time.
I would say it depends what your outlook is on it. |
thats whats interesting though. even with the "new technology" tracks from 1990 - 2000 sounded much better and more natural than they do now. |
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| pvdAngel |
| quote: | Originally posted by RapidFire
thats whats interesting though. even with the "new technology" tracks from 1990 - 2000 sounded much better and more natural than they do now. |
Apparently it's ironic how that works out. I think most people including myself, still enjoy trance when it was made back then, because it was more clean cut and fresh. That's only made me wonder what trance will be like in the next 10-20 years. If some of us still prefer trance back in 1998/2000 will trance be in the future? :conf:
I have a strong feeling that Happy Harcore will die out very soon, personally, I can't stand it! It all sounds the same to me! :whip: |
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| RapidFire |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
Its because new technology = Reason and VST sequencers and that allows any old idiot to start making tracks and getting them played.
Mp3 labels and Reason/Fruityloops/Cubase using just VST's KILLED trance.
It had cancer for a while, but that was what made it terminal. |
thats still no excuse for once great artists to suddenly start making .
| quote: | Originally posted by pvdAngel
Apparently it's ironic how that works out. I think most people including myself, still enjoy trance when it was made back then, because it was more clean cut and fresh. That's only made me wonder what trance will be like in the next 10-20 years. If some of us still prefer trance back in 1998/2000 will trance be in the future? :conf:
I have a strong feeling that Happy Harcore will die out very soon, personally, I can't stand it! It all sounds the same to me! :whip: |
who knows if there will be trance in the next 10-20 years? it will most likely evolve into something else and the odd few artists will still be making it but it'll be nothing like it was back when it started (much like how its evolved from smooth textured and layered music into a supersaw circus). |
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| s3nate |
| quote: | Originally posted by RapidFire
thats whats interesting though. even with the "new technology" tracks from 1990 - 2000 sounded much better and more natural than they do now. |
I agree. All the classic tracks (1989-1996) sound a lot more different and have a different atmosphere than all the new stupid supersaw cheeseyness. |
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
Some Do.
Tracks like BBE - Seven Days One Week are bare as anything, but have some weird sorta atmosphere to them, it's proper strange.
A lot of tracks from back them do sound dog though. |
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| dj_kane |
| all genres have to evolve. i agree that most records that have the 138+bpm are classified as trance even if it is cheese. although i disagree with the comment: Mp3 labels and Reason/Fruityloops/Cubase using just VST's KILLED trance. i think this helped small djs like myself get into producing. i use hardware as well as vsts and alot of people in the production forum are on the boat and they make great tracks. |
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| Marc Summers |
| It seems that every other thread in the MD is about how trance has seen better days. :rolleyes: |
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| G-Con |
| quote: | Originally posted by Wicked Neo
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 |
Well I dont't live in London myself so am only speaking from what I've been told but if there were only 3 mights in London when there must be 20 - 30 nights going on , that aint much especially when compared to few years back. As for rest of UK, Cream finished, Crasher now playing house and commercial . Godskitchen only have 1 trance night a month rather than every week. I think Passion is the only big club thats left still dedicated to trance and even thats been cut down to fortnightly.. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7
Tracks like BBE - Seven Days One Week are bare as anything, but have some weird sorta atmosphere to them, it's proper strange.
A lot of tracks from back them do sound dog though. |
srsly ftw |
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| tnt_ |
if trance is less popular today its really a good thing.
1. it will make all the kiddies who produce crap stop producing cause they wont have a chance of as much recognition
2. it will give the trance scene the long lost underground feeling
3. it will generally give the genre time to evolve and improve ready to become more popular again.
music genres dont die. they just evolve. its a wheel, every genre has its peak.. then goes away for a while and then it gets back.. for example people are so after electro elements in music now its becoming more and more mainstream. sooner or later it will become a sterile and boring direction and everyone's gonna move away from it to a new direction till it gets reinvented. |
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