I haven't listened electronic music as long as many of you have. For me it started through mainstream EDM in 2013 and since then I have made trips to see DJs and also started to DJ and produce myself. So yes I don't know the golden ages like many say that early 2000s are.
And as I know think I fell in love with Markus Schulz who was already commercialized. That's what I think now as I like more deeper and underground sounds. And that makes me really sad and actually it's getting worse with almost every GDJB(these days I just check tracklists and listen old GDJBs).
So I would like to hear your thoughts about this matter but specially I would like to hear other good artists who play like he used to play(I know that Open to Close sets are still amazing). And also I would like to know artists who produce music like he used to. I know that Saturate Audio and JOOF are pretty good right now but could you tell me more.
I specially like the music he used to play in his sets between 2005-2009. Yes I know that his style changed during those years but they are styles I like. Specially Im interested in DJs who produce the kind of techno Markus plays in his sets.
Thank you already and I would like to hear your opinion in this thing as I'm pretty new in the scene.
Sykonee
Ah yes, the twinkly McProg era. Heh, you'll find much debate on these forums regarding the subject, especially from Schulz' peak years. Honestly though, aside from an occasional one-off, I don't think anyone else is making that style anymore. It was pretty much Schulz' thing, and the artists he cultivated to his label that helped spread his manifesto. When he was done with it, no one had much reason to keep making it.
Syntonic
This one came out last year and reminded me of his Miami '05 mix compilation, full of warm, melodic, driving Prog.
Alex Stealthy recently did something forbidden, he made a tune that sounds exactly like in the old days.
How ing hard can it be? This track is awesome
good old
Miami '05 and the music he supported back then is amazing. I also like his 2008 style a lot, it's just badass.
Seen him spinning live about a month ago, and the music was awful - although I got to admit those big-room-style sounds do work in a, well, big room :) But I just can't listen to that anywhere else. It got that bad I had to set up a non-stop 24/7 stream containing the GDJB shows from 2004 playing randomly. Those 4 hours Party 93.1 "South Florida Pure Dance Channel" episodes are the best.
Dj Pluviose
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Originally posted by ArdyBirk
I haven't listened electronic music as long as many of you have. For me it started through mainstream EDM in 2013 and since then I have made trips to see DJs and also started to DJ and produce myself. So yes I don't know the golden ages like many say that early 2000s are.
There's a lot to learn. but once you go back in time on EDM, and you put in the time and patience to understand it's message and era, and once you really give it a dedicated effort to get into, you'll never want to go back to listener the majority of the newer stuff nowadays.
miamitranceman
Nice tracks posted above. The first one is particular sounds like it was ripped from Coldharbour '04 or Miami '05, which are two of his greatest mixes bar none. Almost every track was a winner.
Syntonic
Forgot to mention this one as well...it's an alias of the Solid Stone track posted above.
Innocence Lost
Innocence Lost
DJGolf
he's gone for years, i've never been his fan anyway, but he's ruining others too in my opinion, Ferry and MIKE for good examples...
crazydave023
The worst show that I have seen in the past 3 years was Markus Schulz at Webster Hall. It was all big room and pop "trance". It was like he wasn't even there. He tried to incorporate live singers in his show and it totally did not work. He brought out CeCe Peniston for a remix of Finally and another track that she was on. Unbearable. That was after Adina Butar sang over one of his tracks, which was also gut wrenchingly terrible. He is just one of many to go pop. It's kind of why I am throwing in the towel for trance music. Too much over produced mediocrity. That and the fact that DJ's play other forms of electronic music and re brand it as trance. The fanboys eat it up. "Oh, he's just forward thinking", or "trance is just headed in a new direction". I guess lots of money can change you (for better or worse).
However, I have listened to some Markus sets from 2003-2007 and his first album "Without You Near" and I certainly get why people like his McProg sound from that era. I was not a member of TA during that time but I have come to understand that there were quite a few debates on the whole trance/prog issue.
