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Is there a Trance/Progressive revival? (pg. 2)
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Obviously.
Anyways... Everyone I've played music to from Pylon Pigs has loved it. I'd love to think that it will become popular again, but I honestly don't know. AvB's fanboy army might be too strong for even this amazing stuff. |
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| Nostalgic |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sand Leaper
The question is if there really is an audience for this at trance nights in 2009, now that they have essentially turned into dancefloor hug-a-thons with hours of anthems and fart basslines. I can't help but worry that this stuff will sit awkwardly between two chairs: trance fans won't like it because it doesn't have any familiar anthems and breakdowns, and non-trance fans won't like it because, well, it's trance. So who will it be for, in the end? |
Not everyone is a trance cracker or an elitist minimal hipster. There are plenty of sane people who are in the middle of both extremes like myself and many others. |
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| Nostalgic |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
I think a lot of people are ready to let a little melody back into their playlists, now that the whole minimalized techno/house thing has been beaten into the ground about as far as it can go. Perhaps this is part of that. |
Finally someone else agrees that this plodding minimal/tech house sound devoid of any melody, emotion, character or soul needs to go. |
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| vinnie97 |
| Blue Amazon has been producing on-and-off since James Reid (the melodic bread and butter of the project) left the project shortly after the new millennium...all of it pretty lackluster. Did Darcadian (James Reid) team back up with Lee Softley? Otherwise there is little meaning in any announcement regarding new material. |
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| djdk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sand Leaper
I can't help but worry that this stuff will sit awkwardly between two chairs: trance fans won't like it because it doesn't have any familiar anthems and breakdowns, and non-trance fans won't like it because, well, it's trance. |
Well this is kind of what I was saying, the Union Jack stuff Ive been playing people has been getting a decent response from both camps so hopefully it can straddle those chairs! |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
I think a lot of people are ready to let a little melody back into their playlists, now that the whole minimalized techno/house thing has been beaten into the ground about as far as it can go. Perhaps this is part of that. |
You forget that a lot of people never listened to that stuff in the first place.
| quote: | Originally posted by Sand Leaper
The question is if there really is an audience for this at trance nights in 2009, now that they have essentially turned into dancefloor hug-a-thons with hours of anthems and fart basslines. I can't help but worry that this stuff will sit awkwardly between two chairs: trance fans won't like it because it doesn't have any familiar anthems and breakdowns, and non-trance fans won't like it because, well, it's trance. So who will it be for, in the end? |
While I think this has merit on both points, I actually believe that if trance fans were played a decent set of classic-feel tracks they would be able to appreciate it. Also, I'd like to believe that non-trance fans would give it a go if they heard it wasn't complete , but I'm not so hopeful there. A lot of techno and house fans dismiss trance out of hand just because of what it is.
| quote: | Originally posted by Nostalgic
Not everyone is a trance cracker or an elitist minimal hipster. There are plenty of sane people who are in the middle of both extremes like myself and many others. |
This. I go to house, techno, progressive, trance and psy-trance nights, where I'm pretty much open to whatever's playing. I'm not alone there, either. |
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| Light The Fuse |
yes i believe its happening and im farken excited.
there are so many tunes that sound like they are from the 90's atm its great. It seems like the producers that grew up loving that sort of sound are beginning to come into their own with quality tunes. Combine this with guys like union jack and the platipus second coming and its only a matter of time before people begin to catch on. |
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| trancedanne |
| I think they should just re-release old music over again, with the original versions of course and perhaps some new. There is to much music that is impossible to find in good quality |
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| DJ_Lord |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancedanne
I think they should just re-release old music over again, with the original versions of course and perhaps some new. There is to much music that is impossible to find in good quality |
that actually is the most lazy idea labels love to use to prepare releases.
when labels do this, it will like edm went into recession. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by vinnie97
Blue Amazon has been producing on-and-off since James Reid (the melodic bread and butter of the project) left the project shortly after the new millennium...all of it pretty lackluster. Did Darcadian (James Reid) team back up with Lee Softley? Otherwise there is little meaning in any announcement regarding new material. |
Yes, I'm well aware, which is why I said "BA has never been quite the same since James Reid quit." However, the reason I mentioned them in this thread is because these new releases sound like the classic Jackpot stuff. Hell, he's even dragged Shango back into the studio.
Granted, Blue Amazon has not gone back to the act of 1995 that out brilliant productions while reading the morning paper, but these new tracks are definitely not the mediocre uplifting trance we heard from BA in the 2000-2005 period.
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
This. I go to house, techno, progressive, trance and psy-trance nights, where I'm pretty much open to whatever's playing. I'm not alone there, either. |
But which of those nights are playing Union Jack tracks? That's the point. We know there's plenty of people who still like classic trance, and plenty of open-minded people who appreciate good music. However, I don't see a current aesthetic movement in dance music that will budge over and let these tracks in. |
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| vinnie97 |
| Ah, I skimmed, apologies. ;) I'm not familiar with Shango (at least by name off-hand), did Lee collaborate with him previously? Also, I would classify the sparse original material/remixes between 2000-2005 as more generic progressive (with the occasional breakbeat) than uplifting trance (sure, the remixes during that time period by other artists of the classics like "No Other Love" fall under the generic euro/uplifting trance umbrella but that isn't what I'd qualify as authentic BA). |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by vinnie97
Ah, I skimmed, apologies. ;) I'm not familiar with Shango (at least by name off-hand), did Lee collaborate with him previously? Also, I would classify the sparse original material/remixes between 2000-2005 as more generic progressive than uplifting trance (sure, the remixes by other artists of the classics like "No Other Love" would qualify but that to me isn't authentic BA). |
Shango are BA's former label-mates from the Jackpot era. The whole idea of the new material is to pay homage to that classic mid-90s Jackpot sound. |
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