I think this is more about politics than actual music. Never really cared much about it myself.
Samuri
I love Armada label T - Shirts, would have definitely got one if it was free shipping.:(
ownymcown
one of the guys on the first page of this thread hit it on the head, this is about making money. trance as an underground phenomena churned out some good quality . as a mainstream and money making phenomena later on, it caters to the masses to sell records, or the emphasis on quantity over quality.
trance is commercial now (the majority of it). the best trance music in terms of quality right now probably is made by some guy at home in his basement somewhere, never to be discovered. the producers who have their names out there create to make money. armin plays/creates to build his name and his brand, not to develop trance music.
for the people who hate armin/tiesto/pvd/whoever for ruining trance, get a life! this is how works. its about the money, not about pleasing some pseudointellectual critics on tranceaddict... get it through your brains. this is just like criticizing Britney Spears for making shallow music, grow up.
if you want good new trance, you have to literally scour the internet (not beatport), or just switch to a different non-mainstream genre.
jesus i wrote way too much than i should have.
Why can't more trance djs be more like peter hook? he doesn't care about the money, he just wants to gyrate and have fun and doesnt give a damn about track selection.
Nostalgic
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Originally posted by ToF
Then again, it doesn't really matter what threads are started here because elitist fgts will just use any opportunity to bash. The most recent example was the Armin teaching how to DJ thread. Now I'm no fan of him but that video was somewhat useful and not completely pointless. It did not deserve such bashing and garbage to ruin it.
It's always same crowd of plink-plonk minimal hipsters of TA that do all the bashing in every single trance related thread, we all know who they are.
mystiknate
how about a glass of stfu.
isrefel
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Originally posted by RebeL9
which man are you talking about?
armin van buuren... he is the number one... there is no better music when ure off ure head that trance its that simply... tiesto...what the funk happened to him.. he went down the hill from he is a pirate remix... how can you go from tears from the moon ( possible the best remix of all time) to he is a pirate....
Sykonee
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Originally posted by isrefel
armin van buuren... he is the number one... there is no better music when ure off ure head that trance its that simply... tiesto...what the funk happened to him.. he went down the hill from he is a pirate remix... how can you go from tears from the moon ( possible the best remix of all time) to he is a pirate....
Tiesto's #2, therefore he must have just as good of music as Armin.
By your logic, anyway.
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by ownymcown
Why can't more trance djs be more like peter hook? he doesn't care about the money, he just wants to gyrate and have fun and doesnt give a damn about track selection.
Are you joking? Peter Hook doesn't even DJ, he puts a mix CD in the CD-J and then dances around like an idiot.
