JiPi
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Trance. How can you people like it? I mean, there are so many electronic music genres out there, and out of all of them you choose trance? Seriously now. I must be honest, I, like most people, started into this electronic music phase with trance music (that would be back in 1999) with the likes of Paul van Dyk, DJ Tiësto, Ferry Corsten and the list goes on and on and on. True, trance has it's classics (PvD - For an Angel, Cafe del Mar - Energy 52, to name a phew) but trance started to get in this repetitive cheesy pattern by the end of 2000. Take dear Darude for example, his 'superb' track 'Sandstorm' came out early 2000 or so, and was a 'good' track back then. I remember listening to it and how quickly I went into puking every time I heard it after that. And then, a year or so later, it starts playing on radio. Now that was just another sign of how low trance was going and how it's still going.
To be honest, I don't think there are still any good trance producers. Ok, some people will come up with Gouryella's ''new'' track Ligaya or with POS's Remember (The Sun) track but that's a small number for all this time since trance started going bad. Then there's Sasha's ''new'' album, Airdrawndagger, which I thought was a mix of cheese and very well-put tracks. At my first hearing of his album, I was stunned by many tracks but then I realized how he degraded from his quality tracks he's made in the past.
And why do Tiesto, PvD, Oakenfold and Corsten always come up when people talk about trance? Because they are good? No. Because they 'were' good. Now they've become way too exposed and at the same time have begun to produce more and more crappy tracks (Flight 643 for example).
Of course this kind of cheese might appeal to a very big part of the population, but it's not even electronic music anymore, it's pop. But this is probably an advantage to the true electronic music fans who like seeing which producers stay true to their music and keep producing quality tracks without being lured into this pop culture.
All this to say this thread is about pop music, not trance. Flames are more than welcome.
Trance. How can you people like it? I mean, there are so many electronic music genres out there, and out of all of them you choose trance? Seriously now. I must be honest, I, like most people, started into this electronic music phase with trance music (that would be back in 1999) with the likes of Paul van Dyk, DJ Tiësto, Ferry Corsten and the list goes on and on and on. True, trance has it's classics (PvD - For an Angel, Cafe del Mar - Energy 52, to name a phew) but trance started to get in this repetitive cheesy pattern by the end of 2000. Take dear Darude for example, his 'superb' track 'Sandstorm' came out early 2000 or so, and was a 'good' track back then. I remember listening to it and how quickly I went into puking every time I heard it after that. And then, a year or so later, it starts playing on radio. Now that was just another sign of how low trance was going and how it's still going.
To be honest, I don't think there are still any good trance producers. Ok, some people will come up with Gouryella's ''new'' track Ligaya or with POS's Remember (The Sun) track but that's a small number for all this time since trance started going bad. Then there's Sasha's ''new'' album, Airdrawndagger, which I thought was a mix of cheese and very well-put tracks. At my first hearing of his album, I was stunned by many tracks but then I realized how he degraded from his quality tracks he's made in the past.
And why do Tiesto, PvD, Oakenfold and Corsten always come up when people talk about trance? Because they are good? No. Because they 'were' good. Now they've become way too exposed and at the same time have begun to produce more and more crappy tracks (Flight 643 for example).
Of course this kind of cheese might appeal to a very big part of the population, but it's not even electronic music anymore, it's pop. But this is probably an advantage to the true electronic music fans who like seeing which producers stay true to their music and keep producing quality tracks without being lured into this pop culture.
All this to say this thread is about pop music, not trance. Flames are more than welcome.
