ATB's final album in 2025 (I guess we can make it a music appreciation thread too)

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This is something I've been putting off for a while. I idolise only 3 people in this world and only two of them are still alive. I am not ashamed to say their names - André Tanneberger, Chester Bennington and Thierry Henry.

Andre had been such a huge influence, not only on my music taste, but my life as a whole. So naturally when he announced he will be releasing his last album next year, I couldn't help but get a little bit nostalgic.

I saw his set a few weeks ago here in London and although it was a purely EDM set I enjoyed it. Looking back I finally realised that this is someone who has been in the music industry for more than 30 years. There is a handful of people in the world that can match his djing for sure.

I am hoping that for his last album he will delve deep into that 30+ years and even if its mostly dance music I hope he will still bring his old sound in at least a few songs.

No matter what direction he has taken in the last 10 years, he is still one of the most influential trance producers. One thing I will remember him for is popularising guitar sounds in trance alongside Chicane and BT. Not that it wasn't done before, but it shows how a handful of people can have a massive influence on a music style.

Through the years I amassed a huge collection of his albums, singles, official remixes and a ton of mixes and unofficial remixes of his songs.

Today I wanted to share the jewels of my collection from 2 projects that he made before Sequential One and I am guessing a handful of people still know/remember that he was in.


 

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Why Final album? Is he resigning from music?
I think he is still gonna make music, but he thinks the music industry is shit at the moment and streaming services are tanking albums. And I believe it's true.

He also mentioned thay he used to remember fondly spending months just making the transitions from song to song so people can listen the album and have an amazing expirience. I can definitely feel it in his older album.

I don't know why people are scared of AI when at the moment streaming services are the bigger problem. Spotify is a great example.

On top of that the CEO of spotify came out and said that music these days costs next to nothing to produce. Hence is his eyes most music doesn't really have any value.

Spotify has progressively started getting worse and being downright shitty to artists especially smaller artists.

My guess is he might just focus on DJing or slowly retire. He has not been producing often in the last several years. Also he has been touring almost non stop and it definitely feels like he might be ready to retire.
 

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Of course, he is a legend, but nothing good has been heard from him in the last 10 years, it is unlikely that his latest album will be anything special. The best works will always be at the beginning of a career, when there is still a lot of inspiration and ideas.
 
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Of course, he is a legend, but nothing good has been heard from him in the last 10 years, it is unlikely that his latest album will be anything special. The best works will always be at the beginning of a career, when there is still a lot of inspiration and ideas.
I don't know, not many people retire from music that early and I am thinking he have been working on stuff in the last few years since he haven't published a lot of music. Nothing better than to retire in a blaze of glory. In Sequential one they did a lot of euro dance and he kind of returned to that sound last year:


To be honest I do expect to be mostly deep house and dance, but it will definitely be a two part album with the second part being a lot ambient and trance.

Anyways I love him as a producer, not a just a trance producer. His deep house songs have always been amazing. Also he is definitely one of those people with very recognisable sound without sounding like recycling the same idea.

Even if you listen this one if you look the song apart from the music style his melodies are still top notch. Just listen the breakdown melody:

 
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ValentinVV

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One of my favourite ATB songs lately...

Even if his latest music is not for my taste, I really respect his whole career - especially because his songs were my very first exposures to trance music as a child (to name some, "Loose the Gravity" and "Angels" as Sequential One).
 
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One of my favourite ATB songs lately...

Even if his latest music is not for my taste, I really respect his whole career - especially because his songs were my very first exposures to trance music as a child (to name some, "Loose the Gravity" and "Angels" as Sequential One).
I love those. And Humanity was on a daily playlist that I played for years. Lets see he might surprise us all next year :)
 
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