Do you think trance is getting more generic??

[Tomonaro]

trance is generic since 2006, especially uplifting scene

explore the underground 90s trance and you will see how boring it is today, compare to old masterpieces.

[Euforix]

trance is generic since 2006, especially uplifting scene

Could explain a little bit more please? Why that year?

[Georgii]

Uplifting trance has gone horribly generic lately. IMO it's almost impossible to tell uplifters apart until they reach the breakdown and crescendo.

[Tomonaro]

Could explain a little bit more please? Why that year?

Dunno why...

I noticed then everybody in the uplifting trance started to sound the same and not only that, the biggest fall where the melodies (+ big amount of bedroom producers came on the scene which wanted to copy that typical uplifting sound that Above & Beyond had in 2001 and the sound quality was mostly terrible).

I can still remember how amazing melodies the uplifting scene had years back, today it's just unbelievable how totally boring and forgetable melodies there are in the scene.

In 2004, 2005 you could listen to Manuel Le Saux radio show (which was the best radio show for pure uplifting music) and every uplifting track was something special, melodies out of this world...today it's just boring, beside of those 2 or 3 interesting tracks. Tracks became too much filled with too many sounds and the sound of uplifting tracks is mostly to murmuring...

the only really good examples of uplifting i can say today are Static Blue, Ferry Tayle and maybe Bjorn Akesson.

I miss the days of such uplifting:

[Euforix]

^^Heh, speedfamgirl's video.

[dfx]

I miss the days of such uplifting:

http://www.youtube.com/v/g0UDE74EoVY

i dunno man, isn't that what all trance from that time sounded like?

[Luconia]

oh yes it's sounded almost the same decade after decade....but only i prefer the simplicity of older trance, hence the youtube upload

[Tomonaro]

i dunno man, isn't that what all trance from that time sounded like?

not really...

every producer had his unique sounds and nobody didn't copy anybody (Green Court, Svenson & Gielen, CJ Stone, Hiver & Hammer, Wippenberg, Silverblue...)

and i'm talking here about uplifting, commercial trance scene, underground trance is his own story, something that doesn't exist anymore:

[dfx]

every producer had his unique sounds and nobody didn't copy anybody (Green Court, Svenson & Gielen, CJ Stone, Hiver & Hammer, Wippenberg, Silverblue...)

well that is still true today. you can recognize a paul miller track immediately, you can recognize an activa track immediately, you can recognize an ottaviani track immediately, you can recognize an aly & fila track immediately, you can recognize a mike nichol track immediately, you can recognize a blueman track immediately, etc etc etc. they all share a common sound (hence why it's all trance), but each also got his distinct sound.

so i still don't see what you mean. the melody of the track you posted is as good as any modern trance track's melody. the bassline is different, it has the bounce bass that pretty much all old trance tracks have, while today you mostly have the rolling bassline, which they also all share to some extent. the old sounds were simpler because technology wasn't as advanced, so yeah, old trance sound different from new trance, but each within its own group still all sounds very similar.

and i'm talking here about uplifting, commercial trance scene, underground trance is his own story, something that doesn't exist anymore

if you mean underground because it actually was underground, no that doesn't exist any more, dj culture, EDM and trance is in everybody's mind today (thanks to superstar mentality of certain people). if you mean underground because of the sound, then you need to look at the progressive trance scene (and i mean real progressive, not what some people think progressive is just because armin plays it and it's not really trance...)

[Alex E]

Underground is usually underground because it's less accessible (read: creative and sometimes revolutionary) so only the die-hards listen to it That means underground artists usually get more appreciation for what they're doing, but from less people. (I don't believe it's about the money, there's a very tiny chance you'll actually get a lot of cash in this business.)

The thing is, trance artists these days seem to only feel appreciated if they have enormous masses of people in front of them. So they make a few accessible been-there-done-that tracks, get enormous amounts of people to listen to that by smart marketing, do massive pop-concert sized shows, and they feel as if they're doing great.

Somewhere, somehow, making creative and inspiring music becomes less important along the way... And well, then everybody starts making the crap these big guys have started producing, because that generic (see, it's ontopic!) stuff is easy to make, even by less talented boys and girls. But these people DEFINITELY don't create revolutionary music, so everything turns to shit...

[^JASON]

Absolutely getting mroe generic..

Uplifting is one of my favorite styles of trance, but this is by far the style getting more and more generic. However, music evolves and will do so again.

(Currently hating all the trance elements in new pop and RnB songs on the radio fyi)

[wangwang]

Absolutely getting mroe generic..

Uplifting is one of my favorite styles of trance, but this is by far the style getting more and more generic. However, music evolves and will do so again.

very true. listening to future sound of egypt and alot of other productions/sets by those artists eg. a&f, neptune project, akesson, philippe el sisi etc.. are all to similar

(Currently hating all the trance elements in new pop and RnB songs on the radio fyi)

[aki]

I think that Tiësto's creativity was used up for trance. I think it was a good move of him to mingle with other genres, otherwise Tiësto would be really dead. I don't hate 'Feel it', I think it is something different from the usual stuff, it is not a classic but I like it, a 7.