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I now realize why trance should be kept underground in U.S.
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| Plaptop |
So last night I went and saw SpaceKid, ATB, and Suzy Solar. BTW I spent an hour talking with her and lil-b before the show and they were extremely nice people, so please support them..suzysolar.com
Anyhow..the crowd.. I guess a lot of it is because of where I live. We have a lot of guidos here. No offense to the Italians that do check this board.. but last night so many of them were there, having nothing to do with the music. There were so many people who went to this show just for their own image. Just walking around back and forth, crying for attention. To go from seeing a great show in Toronto a couple weeks ago, to this.. I may never see another DJ that comes to this city. Maybe its time to move.
ATB was ok. More of a house like set. About the fifth tune in, he mixed in one of his own songs.. I knew it was time to go then. |
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| a-aplz |
Trance should stay away from North America :p
And stay in Europe. Nobody respects trance or understands it here. :( (well at least where i live) Stupid wankers. :p
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| Great Outdoors |
| Well in Singapore it's either people think it's "aquapop" music (for the dance music uneducated) or they think all trance is cheese. Tell me about wankers. |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Plaptop
Anyhow..the crowd.. I guess a lot of it is because of where I live. We have a lot of guidos here. No offense to the Italians that do check this board.. but last night so many of them were there, having nothing to do with the music. There were so many people who went to this show just for their own image. Just walking around back and forth, crying for attention. |
if any of you wonder what a "Gino" is (a term that us Torontonians use often), then you have the defination right there :) |
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| deejayle |
well, tell me about it. (im just an hour away flight from singapore)
Its not easy for me to educated people with trance. Im a Trance DJ back there while I was studied in USA. It seems like people here are still enjoying tribal or house music. I talked to some promotors here, then i passed my demo cd, they can only say "dude ur music is too hard". |
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| _The_Storm_ |
trance should be kept underground everywhere... it's just sad the way some tunes are becoming (or were) comercialized. :(
but here in Portugal.. it's more than underground.. it's unexistent :( unless you're talking about psy/goa, that's genre #2 now after tribal house. |
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| CortexBomb |
Trance just isn't as large in North America because North America doesn't have the large radio stations playing all dance, all the time, and not to mention the super clubs.
You can bet that if one of the mega corps decided to push Trance, that it'd take hold. The pop culture in North America sadly seems to be dictated by the whims of the marketing boys more than anything.
I'm not saying Trance commercialization is necessarily good, but it's not the devil that a lot of people seem to imply that it is either. I think growing the Trance community is nearly always a positive thing. More people into the music means more people making their own music, and more talented people making new tunes for all of us to enjoy.
I think Trance is strong enough to survive being a commercial commodity...as most genres are. On the commercial level you'll have your casual fans who only buy what the radio stations and superstar DJ's play, but on the second level you'll always have the sub-community, which actively digs for new stuff, and advances the whole scene.
I'll put it this way, Trance has been a commercial thing in Europe for how many years now? And what's the end result? The same as you'd expect when *any* underground scene hits the airwaves.
You have some diehards bitching because the scene isn't as exclusive anymore, and hence jump on the next underground bandwagon.
You have the casuals who jump onto the Trance is cool because it's on the radio bandwagon, some of whom eventually dig deeper, and get into the larger pool of music.
And finally you have the people who've been part of the scene and don't really care. Some of the new stuff on the airwaves isn't to their liking, but some of it is. They accept the casual fans ignorance in trade for the mega events that are attracted, and continue to dig for new stuff in advance of the radio stations.
Substitute *any* music that's become popular in the past 20 years and you'll see pretty much the same pattern. As a member of camp #3, I would have zero problem with Trance being pushed into the spotlight...I don't know about you guys, but I'd much rather hear Cosmic Gate and Alice Deejay pounded repeatedly than Eminem and N'Synch... |
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| Project T |
| cheese is fukkin gay and should be destroyed along with all other in crap |
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| Mikrop |
| Define cheese please... without giving examples of tracks... |
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| flystyler |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mikrop
Define cheese please... without giving examples of tracks... |
Depends wot kinda cheesy
Appenzell = Appenzeller Pronunciation: AP-en-zel Substitutes: Emmentaler OR Gruyère OR raclette OR Fontina
Asiago = fresh Asiago Pronunciation: ah-zee-AH-go Notes: Don't confuse this with aged Asiago, which is a firm grating cheese. Substitutes: Provolone OR other semi-firm cheese
I could go on :)twat, wot do you think cheese is |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| ^^ LOL!!! :stongue: :haha: :haha: :stongue: |
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| Mikrop |
| quote: | Originally posted by flystyler
Depends wot kinda cheesy
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U know... if i'd asked u... i'd find that post funny... but i didn't...
It was ur ukTA friend that said it should be destroyed!!! But u guys can't fight for urselves anyway... |
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