Let's come at it from more of an audiophile and production angle: post trance/dance/electronic tracks that you think are excellently and awfully mixed and mastered, regardless of how you like the music compositionally.
I'll start:
I consider Solar Fields' Random Friday to be one of the best-mixed trance albums I've ever heard to this day
And while I'm not the biggest fan of what Above & Beyond have done over the past eight years, I think their mixing has been top notch - razor sharp, no muddiness, and pleasantly deep and punchy bass:
Meanwhile: this cut off of an old Armada 50 Trance Tunes comp I found, despite its otherwise pleasing progressive vibes, is so badly mixed and mastered that it's nearly unlistenable. A song I want to like, but painfully cannot:
I'll start:
I consider Solar Fields' Random Friday to be one of the best-mixed trance albums I've ever heard to this day
And while I'm not the biggest fan of what Above & Beyond have done over the past eight years, I think their mixing has been top notch - razor sharp, no muddiness, and pleasantly deep and punchy bass:
Meanwhile: this cut off of an old Armada 50 Trance Tunes comp I found, despite its otherwise pleasing progressive vibes, is so badly mixed and mastered that it's nearly unlistenable. A song I want to like, but painfully cannot: