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so if trance is dead and minimal is in wtf is everybody making? (pg. 6)
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| wrzonance |
I am making psychedelic space- atmospheric breaks.
It's the latest thing.
Didn't you know? |
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| Derivative |
I've stopped producing altogether and gone back to solo acoustic guitar. Being plagued with technical difficulties and massive learning curves plus an inability to find a job in the industry has made the past few years headwrecking. Things are alot simpler now in the sense that I know what to do, how to do it and where I want to go which is nice. Getting back into regular exercises and practises which I stopped for years so my technique is ropey as hell.
Eventually I'll get back into producing but the way I have things set up right now isn't right. Its not immediate and frankly a pain in the ass. I program rather than play and I don't feel it so whoever listens to my doesn't feel it either. |
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| Kismet7 |
| Trance is very far from dead, and minimal is very far from the forefront. Over the next few years, there wont be much dead of anything or much landslide genre of anything, because of the internet, and the fast movement of information that will allow things to move around with lesser longterm concentration, and at the same time allow different genres to flourish. Most importantly EDM will continue to grow, and what genre is hot or not becomes irrelevant, whatever genre you produce will likely have plenty of listeners. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
I have been making ambient for a longish time now... But I have never shied away from Trance either.
I am in the middle of working on a trance track, but I always get stuck someplace on it and then get fed up with it.
So I just make more ambient till I figure something out. :p
Still though, ambient is the most freeform genre out there... :D I mean you could make an ambient track and have 5 minutes of it be 160bpm full-on psy... but the rest could be 50bpm soundscapes. :p |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Still though, ambient is the most freeform genre out there... I mean you could make an ambient track and have 5 minutes of it be 160bpm full-on psy... but the rest could be 50bpm soundscapes. |
This is why I always return to ambient. With other genres I feel like to some extent I have to color within the lines, so to speak. I feel like there's a limit to the sort of sounds that will "work" in the context of the genre. But in ambient there are no lines, just a blank canvas for sound. |
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| zodiac9 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Derivative
I've stopped producing altogether and gone back to solo acoustic guitar. Being plagued with technical difficulties and massive learning curves plus an inability to find a job in the industry has made the past few years headwrecking. Things are alot simpler now in the sense that I know what to do, how to do it and where I want to go which is nice. Getting back into regular exercises and practises which I stopped for years so my technique is ropey as hell.
Eventually I'll get back into producing but the way I have things set up right now isn't right. Its not immediate and frankly a pain in the ass. I program rather than play and I don't feel it so whoever listens to my doesn't feel it either. |
I've gotten back to the guitar as well, electric guitar for me. Metal rulez dude! I just ordered a new toy, a guitar multi-effects unit that has a USB interface.
I do fine producing EDM, and I can still feel it. I play live into the sequencer more than I program. Think I got burned out on EDM, don't listen to it much anymore. I like producing EDM more than I like listening to it. The new stuff out there just doesn't do much for me. I just finished a remix for Olympic Records, but other than that I haven't done much EDM producing lately. I suppose I'll get back to it, in time.
As far as the style of EDM I produce, it's progressive something. I just call it music. When I write, I don't think about what the end result will be, I just let it happen. |
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| sterilis |
| i made trance for years then there was so much being produced i couldnt get into it anymore and drew a block in writing tracks. now i play and produce techno im enjoying producing again and playing it in clubs is so much better. |
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| Nemesis44 |
Still producing Trance, just making sure I do it from my own angle. Admittedly keeping away from long lush breakdowns as they don't work so well on the dancefloor thesedays but the driving stuff still kicks ass on the dancefloor with the odd break here and there to give the folks a rest.
Still Djing trance, still making trance and playing my stuff out too.
There will always be a landslide movement in terms of what is in, but that's only because mass media will pick something up in order to make itself seem credible for a while then everyone gets bored. Trance lost out to Prog House, then Trance bounced back, then came the electro House wave, then can minimal (YAWN), breaks and DnB don't seem to be affected so much as they have a slightly different following. You will see vocal house bounce back and fourth but clubland works in cycles and you will see genres grow and diminish in popularity. Nothing has ever been quite as big as trance in the EDM scene and it has a lot of die hard fans. If you look at who people are voting as the top DJs (Yes I don't attatch too much value to it either) it's always the trance DJs who dominate. The following is out there, it just needs a new identity.
But trance is definitely not dead.
Cheers
Nem |
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| Kismet7 |
| Sure there will always be big upfront genres, but I dont think we will see a landslide like we saw with Trance and then Prog and then Minimal. The media was all over Minimal, but there wont be that many landslides like what happened with Minimal for quite a while. I dont think the media, if they have power, will push anything like they pushed Minimal. So whatever upfront "landslides" we have will come from whatever the DJs are feeling and want want to play out, and whatever they are charting, and what the Top Producers are creating. Minimal got huge because it was pushed by the DJ, Producers, Listeners, and the Media went full blast. They wont do that for many other genres in the future. The media tried to push Dubstep on people, actually still are trying to shove it down peoples throats, but no one is budging, so it means with underground music the only time the media has weight is when the people really want it. They cant create fires, they can only help grow them and keep them burning for a while, until the DJs, Producers, and the Listeners decide its time to move on. And because of the internet, and an increasing access to music by a growing diversely tasted DJ, big movements will be shorter lived and rarer. Its good for producers who like things to shift around, and for DJs who like things to shift around, and for the listener who got bored of minimal's long stay. So thank God the modern minimal movement has become daft, and we've moved onto a more musical sound, whether its from deep house to tech house to a more musical and organic minimal techno. The next few years should be constant circulation of exciting smaller movements. :happy2: |
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| crazedonee |
they dont play trance on the radio the only place you can hear it is a good club the last time they played any thing close to trance was t-99 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BALrsIKMr3c and that was like 1991.
History does repeat itself so trance will be hot again soon. |
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