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Is trance dying?
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| rajay |
| When i first started really getting into electronic music, i was all about trance. The first mixtape/live set i got my hands on was PVD at gallery turnmills like 3 years ago and right after that, i listened to any trance i could get my hands on. Three years later, im still listening to electronic music- i even started spinning but my interest in trance is declining more and more. I live in LA and all the major clubs out here play more house/progressive than anything. Big house DJs draw the largest crowds. I go out a lot and i hadnt heard a trance dj in about 8 months until last week when i saw Armin van Burren at the Myan. It was a cool show but i just never really got that into it. At the end of the night i came to the conclusion that trance is to electronic music as punk is to rock. It follows the same basic equation in almost every song - for trance its a chord or two with a gang of synths and about 140 BPM behind it for punk- its a few chords strung together with the same basic beat and some vocals. There are obviously really good trance songs out there that break out of this mold but i feel like they're becoming rarer. It seems as if the whole scene is moving away from trance and more towards house/progressive/breaks. Look at oakenfold and sasha's new album- none of them were ever trance djs but the trancey elements of their music was removed in their last albums and replaced by breaks. (I know everyone hates Oakenfold but he is one of the most influential people in electronic music) Trance songs are increasingly sounding more and more alike and i think artists are begining to look at other genres to pick up where trance leaves off and people like me are making the same evolution. Its almost as if everyone has been painting with watercolors and are now begining to discover oil paints and sculptures. Does anyone feel as if electronic music is evolving into something different which strays from trance? |
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| Jah |
couldn't agree more, well said
i find more an dmore people
feel like this lately to |
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