Originally posted by John 00 Fleming
So back to the main topic ‘Deep Trance’. I can see this term being coined to distance itself from the regular commercial Trance to give a clear message its something a lot different.
Sad that all those sub-genre terms are needed, which is why I said we don't need them. Maybe I should have said that we shouldn't need them.
Same for Uplifting by the way. I hope you don't mean that's regular commercial Trance.
But true trance fans know what sound belong to guys like you and Laurent and guys like Solarstone and The Thrillseekers, no terms needed, it's all Trance like it was in the early 90's.
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I don’t care what anyone else says, I’ll still follow my dreams that keep me in love with the music I enjoy. I’ll keep making those dreams happen and be surrounded by likewise people.
Never stop doing that please, only Armin should start listening to us.
John 00 Fleming
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Originally posted by Lews
Could you play more of that deep, lush progressive trance in the UK? Obviously you need to play to the crowd, but isn't part of the job of the DJ to lead the crowd, as well? I've seen you 3 times over the last 3 years and enjoyed every time a lot - KOKO a few months ago was particularly fun - but the two times in Brighton I've seen you were rather banging-tech-focused.
I will say, on the topic of the 'revival of trance,' that after spending the last week perusing Spotify and Beatport for new music, I've found some surprisingly decent 'deep trance' / progressive trance tracks from names I would have written off completely three years ago. I hate to be optimistic about it, but there seems to be a bounty of good tracks floating around right now.
This is certainly something I'm looking to do in the UK, and always feel guilty I don't play a lot more deeper in the UK. I think it's been a combo of me playing at the wrong clubs, the wrong time slots but with the major changes we've made with my team, these will defiantly be addressed from now one.
I'll be making an announcement of some of these changes over the next few weeks, exciting times ahead :)
Lews
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Originally posted by John 00 Fleming
This is certainly something I'm looking to do in the UK, and always feel guilty I don't play a lot more deeper in the UK. I think it's been a combo of me playing at the wrong clubs, the wrong time slots but with the major changes we've made with my team, these will defiantly be addressed from now one.
I'll be making an announcement of some of these changes over the next few weeks, exciting times ahead :)
Well, I look forward to your announcement, and I hope I see you again in the UK soon and that you can play some of that deeper stuff! :)
Godking5
Let me know if this qualifies :
If im correct, i actually think J00F played this on one of his essential mixes .
And also I always though Chris Micali had some deep stuff.Does this qualify ?
Syntonic
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Originally posted by John 00 Fleming
So back to the main topic ‘Deep Trance’. I can see this term being coined to distance itself from the regular commercial Trance to give a clear message its something a lot different.
It's a good way of letting people know that there are other sides of Trance out there to explore, go with it. It's only a matter of time until listeners here a different sound and start to differentiate.
Think you will ever come to Chicago?
Having the Platipus crew back to shake things up is great. They don't churn stuff out but it makes it that more special because you know its gonna be good.
With all the Beatport searching I do, I've seen the frequency of producers leaning to deeper, darker Progressive and Trance over the past 2-3 years. It just isn't trending right now.
Still wanna start some sort of credible modern Trance thread, where TA's can share their hidden gems if they please.
RebeL9
This is probably my all time favourite track that got that deep hypnotizing characteristics.
JonDC
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Originally posted by Godking5
Let me know if this qualifies :
If im correct, i actually think J00F played this on one of his essential mixes .
As has been said a few times on this thread, one man's deep is another man's banging.
This Kay-D track, to me, is a really pumping and anthemic prog trance record. If Sasha and Digweed were still playing that sound (or had it been released in the 90s), it would have been a peak time banger that would send everyone crazy. That's not to say deep necessarily means 'warm up', but all the elements of this track fly in the face of my definition of deep.
To me, 'deep' is synonymous with subtle as opposed to blatant. A deep track from Kay-D for me would be this one
in the end, it all comes down to the music. it just isn't there in any volume. no doubt there is decent stuff today, but it's not special.
the absolute plague of modern dance music is the new age compression/mastering techniques. it turns a track from raw, airy and spiritual - to dense and varnished and plain just unenjoyable. it makes all tracks sound the same - they have no personality. i imagine mixing today (all aides aside) is infinitely more easy then it was when all tracks didn't conform to this disgusting trend.
producers are afraid to put to tracks out in a rawer form, fearing they would sound inferior by comparison. it's quite the opposite. the scene has to snap out of this tunnel vision.
what gimmicks are producers today employing to make their track 'better' or 'stand out' more? cut that , that's the minimum that has to be done to make trance enjoyable again.
take this belter from whitelabel euphoria... honestly why can't we make tracks like that anymore? can you just imagine what a '2015' remix package would sound like? :nervous:
that should be studied to come up with the answer. i suspect a lot of it is a case of less is more.
Trance-M
R-Jen (Audio Mill), techno friend, shared some tracks yesterday in a chat. Thinking of this thread I thought they all had one think in common, sounding deep:
Syntonic
Really like this track, figured it might have a place here. I would call it 'Ambient Acid Trance' but whatever.
Kuhis
^ Love this one, one of my recent favourites from this label. Another one which I liked from Green Martian.
TOR
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Originally posted by Syntonic
Really like this track, figured it might have a place here. I would call it 'Ambient Acid Trance' but whatever.
