actually, not bad for what he has been doing under the SvD guise lately. dub mix will make this much much much better. he's been leaning towards the house side and trying to do the marco v thing which is cool to a certain extent. track is clearly aimed at SHM and the likes for sets.
osterzone
I'm wondering when any of these electronic music vocalists will ever innovate in terms of their singing delivery, pitch, or lyrics.
The style you hear in this song is exactly the same as every other song out there. These no-name singers show up, record a couple tracks, and then disappear into oblivion as quickly as they came into the scene. Remember how Armin Van Buuren was hyping up Sophie Ellis-Bextor earlier this year for his new album? Surprise, surprise...she's a zero now (just like every other flavor of the week vocalist). The only singers you can recognize from their voices are Fisher and Justine Suissa. Everyone else sounds like Emma Hewitt/Aruna. Dull. Bland. Uninspired.
With any other genre of music, you have vocalists singing in different styles or trying to sound different. Vocal dance music on the other hand is the definition of monotony.
eyebegod
^^ a number of singers used in trance are not "trance" singers but rather singers in punk or rock bands, reason being, there isn't a market for it in the trance scene, it's not about the singer, but rather about the producer, in contrast to, dare i say, all other genres of music
chimera66
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Originally posted by osterzone
i'm going to add Jonathan Mendelsohn and Julie McKnight to the list of great EDM singers but other than a very short handful of names vocalists are garbage; even the ones with good voices are far from original. although for edm the human voice as a whole isn't really supposed to be stand out awesome just an added layer of sound.
as for this SvD track, not forward thinking on any level just ok and unmemorable.
Ali Mahmud
by far the best edm vocalist are, Nadia Ali, JES, and Zara Taylor.
civicstyle
Jan Johnston, anyone?
shaminii
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Originally posted by eyebegod
^^ a number of singers used in trance are not "trance" singers but rather singers in punk or rock bands, reason being, there isn't a market for it in the trance scene, it's not about the singer, but rather about the producer, in contrast to, dare i say, all other genres of music
I'm going to have to call BS on the fact that when a 'singer is featured, its still mainly about the producer'. I know many people who recognize EDM singers and they nut themselves when they see their name listed ' feat - . My cousin, who doesn't listen to much EDM can identify the singer of that Afrojack song (can't think of title atm). Even in the commercial word, the singer/rapper is known and almost 99 percent of the time, the producer isn't mentioned on the title.
