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Are TranceAddicts just gonna die out?
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| Dj Pluviose |
It seems to me that with every year that since EDM's lame boom with all that electro house garbage, people around the world have seem to be more and more into it. Even pop artists have added the cheesy electro anthem house breakdown formula and included it into their songs. (Blame David Guetta?)
So nowadays when you ask the average EDM listener, the only thing they know about is either House or Trance. So, it ain't about the old days when people got mixed up with Techno vs Trance. It's now House, Trap, Dubstep, and a bunch of other newer sub-genres.
The average EDM listener does not even know what Trance is, and since these average EDM listeners are soooo much into the 'what's NEW!' scene, they are only looking at Armada Label artists such as Dash Berlin, Armin, and a bunch of lame representations of real trance music. None of them would actually take the time and energy to research into anything from the 90s and discover that most of the crap you hear today is just watered down, recycled, butchered concepts from the 1990s electronic music scenes.
This begins to lead me to the question... that maybe we are the last straw of life left who still even know what old school trance was all about?
Most of us are already old, so are the memories and everything from the 1990s of EDM just gonna be forgotten?
It pains me to imagine that the good old psychdelic, acid sounds, and anthem/epic trance tracks of the 90s is just gonna be long forgotten and not looked back upon. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Pluviose
So nowadays when you ask the average EDM listener, the only thing they know about is either House or Trance ... The average EDM listener does not even know what Trance is |
What? |
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| Dj Pluviose |
Me: So do you know what Trance is?
Average EDM listener: What? like... Deadmau5??
Me: So do you know what Trance is?
Average EDM listener: What? Dash Berlin?
Sorry, Dash Berlin is not trance.
Me: So do you know what Trance is?
Average EDM listener: ohhh, I don't even know the difference! it's all the same!
Me: So do you know what Trance "90s" is?
Average EDM listener: Oh no, I don't listen to it, I feel like EDM has evolved itself a lot since the 90s.
Average EDM listener: OMG! Trap is awesome! It has trancey elements in it I think youll like it too!
**Listens to Trap song**
Me: Oh yeah... it's cool....! (I didn't hear a single trance element in it at all, I only heard a breakdown and a drop) |
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| inversoundzzz |
| this just occurred to me, i think trap music is called trap because it's named after trap houses, trap houses are houses in certain neighbourhoods that gangmembers sell cocaine out of... |
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| Sykonee |
| quote: | Originally posted by inversoundzzz
this just occurred to me, i think trap music is called trap because it's named after trap houses, trap houses are houses in certain neighbourhoods that gangmembers sell cocaine out of... |
That's exactly why it earned the name.
I don't think trance as a movement will totally die out - Trancefix is still kicking, after all - but I can see it becoming more and more niche as time wears on, maybe even becoming something akin to what space synth is doing these days (probably not).
That, of course, assumes the name trance doesn't continuously get co-opted by whatever the latest anthem house trend is doing. |
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| TranceElevation |
And what I wonder is why do you care about the "average edm listener"?
Like, why does it bother you? He doesn't know what real trance is? So what? him. The average listener by definition is average. Some people are average, some are more refined preferring going beyond the surface. It has always been like that. The mass is attracted by shiny things, by appearance and trends. Just accept it, feel special and move on. |
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| Viber |
| Trance a bitch and then it dies. |
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| Godking5 |
Your example is completely anecdotal. I myself am very young, early 20s, and therefore have no connection to the "old days" (lol) except through the vicarious experience of your stories. But when looking at some data , for example betport charts, it is easy to draw some weird cause and effect conclusions based on some of the correlations. The audience consuming dance music has exponentially grown, therefore I would agree with you if you were to say listening preference per capita/ on average is leaned more towards cheese. But based on that you cant say less people aggregately are listening to old school style music than 10 years ago.
But there is no question, that less "real trance" music is being produced today than perhaps 15 years ago |
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| rubez |
a lot of the good stuff is already pretty obscure and rare, e.g. platipus. so i can only imagine it going downhill from here.
the only thing that will keep future genuine dance fans from discovering it is they will no doubt get into sasha and digweed early on, due to their fame, and go mining through their old set and mix CD playlists.
when i discovered a good tune i would want to track down every other track and remix by that artist. maybe i am just obsessive, but i think this is a trait not uncommon in people who love dance music.
back then p2p was invaluable. these days i hope download sites can keep decent dance music, if not in the public eye, then easily available for people who are naturally drawn to it.
it will of course become ever more niche. |
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| Godking5 |
| ^^^ agreed mostly. p2p was essential in the spread of the type of music we all enjoy. Its actually how I fist got into the scene. Not many people understand how to use cyber lockers and all the ones with good content get taken down quickly. Not to mention using any type of torrenting to obtain music has become so vilified and demonized, its not even funny. Although I dont mind obscurity to be honest |
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| Guest |
| quote: | Originally posted by rubez
not uncommon |
You mean that it is common? :P
Yes we are obsessive. Dance music meshes well with eccentric people. There's just something about it. |
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