still has that undeniable whiff of new trance about it, but i guess it's probably better than most of the flying around these days.
here's a better example of new good old fashioned trance... has that 2003 sound, and i think you'd be hard pushed to identify any elements in the track that would betray that. the other track screams 2013 on the other hand.
trancedanne
ing crap tracks, this is better :cool:
AlphaStarred
Agree with Rubez, sounds too much like the new crap, nothing special about it. That track Rubez posted, btw, uses the melody from the movie, 28 Day Later, if I recall aright.
SYSTEM-J
Okay, this is going to be a rant, but it encapsulates a lot of what I've been feeling about this "real underground trance" thing that everyone bangs on about.
I think people are so starved of good trance that whenever they come across something that isn't horrendous cheddar and sounds halfway deep or restrained they get over-excited and start hyping what would be seen as a very average track if it came out 10 years ago. I know you've got a vested interest, Jules, as you're pushing yourself as a Real Underground Trance DJ, but a lot of these prog-psy tunes you dig up and rave about are actually very bland.
I found myself getting sucked into this same J00F-inspired narrative of "real trance is coming back" a couple of years ago and I started going to trance events as much as possible again. I saw J00F about 8 times and Airwave 3 times in the space of a year. I bought a lot of psy-ish tracks and spent a lot of time digging in that sound. And eventually I realised that I was just fighting for scraps, and I was giving far too much credence to uninteresting records just because they were trance. It's much like how as a teenager I'd be much more forgiving of sci-fi because it was my niche interest that appealed to my particular niche identity. Actually, a lot of what I was spending time on was , and a lot of this trance is just . Just because it's a bit darker or less overtly cheesy doesn't mean it's actually any good.
There's really no need to obsess over this "trance" word anymore, because unlike the dark days of click 'n hiss minimal and tech, there's actually loads of great house and techno being made right now, and you can go see it with your mates and hundreds of people will be there and everyone will know what the you're talking about when you mention tunes and DJs. Everyone in the "serious trance scene" is just as ignorant, close-minded and uneducated as in the Armin world, the music is still predominantly wank and hardly anyone turns up to the parties.
The funny thing is, on NYE I was unexpectedly treated to two local DJs bust out a prog classics set in a warehouse basement. Chable, Holden, Breeder, Hybrid - all that . I was blown away by how good it was, not because the DJs did anything special but because that era of prog/trance was just fantastic, and there were literally hundreds and hundreds of great records being made. This vacuous chuggy prog-psy coming out now filled with endless whooshes and side-chained white noise washes just doesn't compare. The halcyon days of trance and prog was a great period but it's over now, just as minimal is over and this bass-y deep house thing will be over. Just stop being deluded and move on, because there's great music elsewhere. There's no need to scrape the barrel for anything left with the word "trance" attached to it.
Sykonee
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J The halcyon days of trance and prog was a great period but it's over now, just as minimal is over and this bass-y deep house thing will be over. Just stop being deluded and move on, because there's great music elsewhere. There's no need to scrape the barrel for anything left with the word "trance" attached to it.
I prefer fighting a futile crusade at taking the name "trance" back for the hypnotic, melodic techno being produced these days, even if it is a hopeless cause.:toothless
Light The Fuse
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Okay, this is going to be a rant, but it encapsulates a lot of what I've been feeling about this "real underground trance" thing that everyone bangs on about.
I think people are so starved of good trance that whenever they come across something that isn't horrendous cheddar and sounds halfway deep or restrained they get over-excited and start hyping what would be seen as a very average track if it came out 10 years ago. I know you've got a vested interest, Jules, as you're pushing yourself as a Real Underground Trance DJ, but a lot of these prog-psy tunes you dig up and rave about are actually very bland.
I found myself getting sucked into this same J00F-inspired narrative of "real trance is coming back" a couple of years ago and I started going to trance events as much as possible again. I saw J00F about 8 times and Airwave 3 times in the space of a year. I bought a lot of psy-ish tracks and spent a lot of time digging in that sound. And eventually I realised that I was just fighting for scraps, and I was giving far too much credence to uninteresting records just because they were trance. It's much like how as a teenager I'd be much more forgiving of sci-fi because it was my niche interest that appealed to my particular niche identity. Actually, a lot of what I was spending time on was , and a lot of this trance is just . Just because it's a bit darker or less overtly cheesy doesn't mean it's actually any good.
There's really no need to obsess over this "trance" word anymore, because unlike the dark days of click 'n hiss minimal and tech, there's actually loads of great house and techno being made right now, and you can go see it with your mates and hundreds of people will be there and everyone will know what the you're talking about when you mention tunes and DJs. Everyone in the "serious trance scene" is just as ignorant, close-minded and uneducated as in the Armin world, the music is still predominantly wank and hardly anyone turns up to the parties.
The funny thing is, on NYE I was unexpectedly treated to two local DJs bust out a prog classics set in a warehouse basement. Chable, Holden, Breeder, Hybrid - all that . I was blown away by how good it was, not because the DJs did anything special but because that era of prog/trance was just fantastic, and there were literally hundreds and hundreds of great records being made. This vacuous chuggy prog-psy coming out now filled with endless whooshes and side-chained white noise washes just doesn't compare. The halcyon days of trance and prog was a great period but it's over now, just as minimal is over and this bass-y deep house thing will be over. Just stop being deluded and move on, because there's great music elsewhere. There's no need to scrape the barrel for anything left with the word "trance" attached to it.
i think your reading a little bit to deeply into things. i like what i like and this tune really stands out to me. i thought id put it up on trance addict because it sounds like golden era progressive trance - listen for yourself and tell me that it sounds even remotely like prog psy or whatever. thats really about it.
im not really following or even buying into the whole trance is coming back thing - its a niche thing and will probably remain that way (underground & mainstream etc). but at least there is a niche now - 4 or 5 years ago there was barely that.
Now - yes - Joof & Airwave are killing it (joofs latest gtg contains only 1 tune that i would call prog psy - the times are changing) - but along with those guys other things are popping up - ben lost and lost language, daniel lesden, simon patterson is coming good- - i dunno its more than scraps to me mate.
im just into the trance sound personally and i get a lot of pleasure out of hearing the new stuff that hits me the same way the old stuff did and sitting in my little garage/studio fiddling with sounds trying to do it myself.
but yeah really the only reason i had in mind when i posted this was that this site is tranceaddict and this is a cracking trance tune imo.
SYSTEM-J
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Originally posted by Light The Fuse
im not really following or even buying into the whole trance is coming back thing
Well, your DJ bio says this:
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Style has always been the major point with Jules. He has spent nearly half a decade in an almost purgatory state as the style of music he finds most enthralling almost disappeared off the face of the earth...
The light at the end of the tunnel is arriving quickly for Jules - progressive trance has begun to find its own niche again, the cycles of fashion and music are turning - and this time its in Jules' favour - and he is ready - and this time he comes with skills.
Whether it's as a "niche" or not isn't really relevant to me. Five years ago everyone just said trance was dead in the water but now there's this narrative that it's coming back, which encourages people to try and find these tunes and be overly optimistic about them because they simply can't let the old times go. You're not the only one I've seen do this, to be fair. As I said in my last post, I think you're giving average tunes extra value because they remind you of better records from a better era in the past, not because they're actually very good in their own right. I think it's inevitable you'll disagree though, isn't it?
rubez
people have been saying trance is dead from before a decade ago, and the OG's, a decade before that.
i didn't cling too long, as soon as the quality went, so did i - i was however in disbelief for years! returning periodically to see if things had improved, only to find worse and worse records, by producers i was unfamiliar with. it became a totally different thing. i suppose then, the term "trance" does hold a certain power.
what i do is go back and discover records that i've never heard before... believe me, there's tons of out there, even for an obssesive track collector like me.
more than 99% of 'trance' records that have come out in the last 7 or so years have been total and absolute guff. i attribute that to the rise of the bedroom producer, from there trance has become a form of pop music for young people.
but there has definitely been excellent records in the field since, i do although wonder who they are for! i suppose it kind of gives me hope, but i don't pedestal medicroity just because that's all there is - because it isn't.
i've always seen the wider genres of dance, of which there is an essentially unlimited supply, as a branch of trance.
here are two fine examples of a great trance records, although they are a couple of years old now :stongue:
undeniable quality, that i'd have lapped up in the day... enjoy!
People have been saying this about since the mid 90's, Trance is more lucrative...it'll never go anywhere if there's money to be made. Also, every generation will produce future producers and purists.
rdevito
I keep saying this: JOOF should jut get rid of these psy-ish sounds.
Usually, the first hour of his GTG is enjoyable, with a good mix of Progressive and Techno (for Trance DJs :P). But when the turbo mix starts, it's just a load of pathetic crap tunes that sounds like Electro with psy basslines. What the hell? So loud and annoying these days. That vibrating and hypnotic vibe of Psy Trance is completely dead in my opinion.
And yes, i agree with Jack. It seems that 'Underground Trance Scene' is so desperate in making a 'Trance comeback' that every new Airwave tune is the best Trance ever made, according to the scene. Mostly are good though, including those 2 new tracks, Triangle and Tigris & Euphrates. Actually, the last one was stated by JOOF as THE BEST trance ever.
