trance takeover?

[CharlieTuna]

Originally Posted by MC Hammered

Trance is here to stay regardless of what people say.

Obviously there is some really good stuff out there and then true garbage. When I hear a sweet trance set it does nothing but put a smile on my face.

This is one set I tell people to check out if they never heard trance before. Right click and "Save As"

PS. They usually come back asking for a ftp account after they are done listening to it. :c-tard:

ftp://form:kaos@ftp.mchammered.com/l...(01-22-00).mp3

What a wicked set!! I've listened to trance before, but that set was pretty awesome.

[Wood]

i just can't get into it... not knocking anyone who does, but in general there just aren't any elements in a trance tune that impress or excite me. it just sounds too clean & contrived. the cheezy chords. the obvious build-ups. where's the grime?

i think what turns me off the most is how seriously trance seems to take itself. could be just me, but i hear no sense of humor in that music. same way i feel about a lot of dark drum'n'bass. it just doesn't speak to me.

[C_squared]

word. trance is all the same to me. i cant take it, really. i've spoken many times about how much trance is ghey wank. but thats just my opinion.

get back to the groove. electronica is about diversity of styles...trance just doesnt do that. it's too predictable.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Wood

it just sounds too clean & contrived. the cheezy chords. the obvious build-ups. where's the grime?

Yeah there's a ton of trance out there like that, but there's also a huge amount that's not as well. Tech Trance is becoming more and more popular and it contains none of the elements that you describe disliking that much. Check out some new Marco V tunes, and that Mr. Sam - Forever Waiting (Dmitri Andreas mix) as recent examples that have been through Boomtown in the past couple of weeks.

Sometimes I find that obvious buildups are a good thing. Based on personal experience as a trance DJ, I find a lot of trance tunes with tricky buildups tend to annoy people more than get them excited; maybe that says something about most people who listen to trance, hehe. Personally I'm really feeling the darker tech stuff these days with lethal percussions and basslines, and tunes that don't follow the typical trance formula of kick -> bass -> hook -> breakdown -> buildup -> repeat -> outro. Cheesy melody lines ala DJ Sammy never have and never will impress me.

[D]

Originally Posted by Wood

i just can't get into it... not knocking anyone who does, but in general there just aren't any elements in a trance tune that impress or excite me. it just sounds too clean & contrived. the cheezy chords. the obvious build-ups. where's the grime?

i think what turns me off the most is how seriously trance seems to take itself. could be just me, but i hear no sense of humor in that music. same way i feel about a lot of dark drum'n'bass. it just doesn't speak to me.

Werd.

I can totally apreciate your comment about trance. I just recorded a new mix that is dark as fuck. Dark progressive, goa/psy trance, etc. I have received positive feed back about this from people who don't like trance. This mix will be up for DL in the next week or so. I'm doing mest best to bring back the good name of trance. Hope you guys like it.

=)