Okay, I only joined this forum just now because I was googling to see which sets 'Sensual Illusion' by Souls In Motion had been played in, and this thread was somehow among the top results. Anyway, the rhetoric put forward in this thread pissed me off so much I had to create an account just so I could publicly complain about it. Because clearly, not enough people are pushing back.
And to those of you in this thread that have complained about how "creativity is dead", can you even define what creativity is? If you can't, I must unfortunately conclude your arguments have zero intellectual credibility, and that you just miss being young. Don't worry, I too miss being young. In case you wonder how I would define creativity, I'd say it's mainly about noticing the
negative spaces in the grander cultural context, which I personally don't think has ever been a "lost art". Any complaint about cultural decline, is to me always a red flag, seeing how often (and sadly, very effectively) they've been used to promote some extremely reactionary politics, trampling on marginalized communities and our general human rights, all in the name of simulating a past that never even existed.
However, if the point you want to make is rather that the trance scene has been too insular and self-referential, I would actually agree. Listen to more jazz. Listen to more hip hop. Listen to the albums that general music critics have been praising. Put another way: be less Beato-pilled and more Fantano-pilled
