Recent content by allende

Sorry for the late reply and topic bump, but big thanks for everyone for their feedback! Yes it most definitely is. I didn't intend to copy Solarstone, it just kinda came out this way. Once I realized it, I might have leaned on into it a bit more. But yes the demo draft of this was actually...

I disagree, if anything the "classic" trance sound (95-2005) era waspretty clean as it was mostly based on the first era of VA's hardware and later first VST synths. Which in comparison to modern plugins sounded quite digital. Legendary VA synths like JP8000, Nord Lead, Yamaha AN1x, Access Virus...

The first one (Mosaic) the kick is in 9/4, and the pluck is playing dotted 8ths on top of it (the pluck cycle counts to 6, while the kick cycle counts to 9). The part really starts from 5:58, although the breakdown is already in that timesignature. I think what makes it sound pretty "normal" is...

As a huge fan of unusual time-signatures, I've found that the best way to utilize them in trance is either polyrhythms or quarternote signatures, so that the kick keeps pumping, but we get unusual and interesting patterns in composition and arrangement. In my opinnion they sound way more...

Seems to be back on Spotify, at least for me, I don't know if it's a location / country restriction or something: Midnight Train @ Spotify I'll try to find out what happened with beatport.

Thanks for all the positives and also for all the criticism! I agree the "main theme" is super simple, just three diatonic minor chords and a simple lead. When composing I don't really think what kinda track would be well received and what wouldn't. The level of complexity in melodies and...

Out Now! If I may extend my description from page one, Midnight Train is a fairly straightforward minor chord progression wrapped around in atmospheric hypnotism, acid lines and dissonant techno influences. The original mix is the most organic of them and the most progressive in terms...

Jeez guys brutal feedback, I guess not underrated at all. I have no idea why the effort is not translating, but I can assure you I did work really hard on this and it took months to complete it. But that's just how it goes sometimes. The main idea was to do something, atmospheric, progressive...

Yeah I can definitely hear it, that second acidy arp lead has a bit of art of trance vibe in particular.

Thanks for the feedback guys! This is actually my first remix since 2018's Lime Island Remix. I used to do a lot of remixes, and I think it was a good way to improve my technical skills when my compositional skills weren't quite there. But I really don't like doing much remixes these days, I...

Thanks for the feedback! I've been there, where it seems nothing sounds like the olden days and everything has lost what made it so good. Modern trance definitely lacks a lot of good qualities of the past, but I can assure you about half of it is in our heads. The power of nostalgia, a certain...

Thanks for the support guys! I’m positively surprised by the reception. It’s one of those tracks that had multiple different iterations with many different riffs and sounds. I think I managed to cut out just the right amount of stuff, so it’s not too crowded yet still stays interesting enough.

I just want to say, what you have done with your YT page is pretty remarkable. 14 million views on a video is something that more or less just Armin and Above&Beyond have accomplished in this scene. And even the 28k subscribers is more than what someone like Solarstone has. For reference I have...

Indeed! I'll have to go through my collection, there ought to be some tracks from the early 90's at least. BTW this track was on that amazon prime's 808 documentary and it absolutely blew my mind! Kinda ashamed I didn't know about it. It's called "Raga Bhairav" by Charanjit Singh. It's listed...

TR-909 has mostly been the machine for trance music and where even most of the modern samples derive from, but I think it would be nice to post some 808 trance here if you can come up with any. I made this tongue-in-cheek 808 mix of "10 Minutes to Infinity", and started wondering do I even know...