afterhourpower
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Grum is varied but has a recognizable sound. Art of Trance. Man With No Name. Three Drives on a Vinyl. Silvio Ecomo. Classified Project. X-Cabs.
4 StringsIm surprised so many people are mentioning modern producers - thats been the downfall of the scene for me in the last 15 years or so,most producers dont have a unique sound or style. Its either that or so generic you dont have a clue who made the track.
The obvious ones for me,back in their heyday :
Dumonde
Ferry Corsten
Push
Airwave
Matt Darey
Lange
PVD
Signum
Darren Tate
Marco V
4 Strings
Above & Beyond
Hemstock & Jennings
JS16/Darude (1999 - 2003)
You forgot.
I agree.Without being disrespectful to 'the new guy', I think it is indeed a little bit funny to name people like Allen Watts.
What I find difficult in the debate, is that music labels don't seem to hunt for uniqeness, so it stimulates the 'watts' to just come up with another generic template 'are you affraid of 138' trancer with yet another 16th note arpeggio in the same synth that everyone used for a decade. The chance of having a bit of a career in trance is simply a lot bigger when you copy what all the others do... That's quite sad.
When an artist comes up with something that's not made all the time, labels reject it (think of Narel's tune).
Yeah that’s why I bring them up m8.Im surprised so many people are mentioning modern producers - thats been the downfall of the scene for me in the last 15 years or so,most producers dont have a unique sound or style.
Yeah that’s why I bring them up m8.
precisely because there has been an uptick in (new) producers who do have their own sound and don’t rely on template trance.
Without being disrespectful to 'the new guy', I think it is indeed a little bit funny to name people like Allen Watts.
What I find difficult in the debate, is that music labels don't seem to hunt for uniqeness, so it stimulates the 'watts' to just come up with another generic template 'are you affraid of 138' trancer with yet another 16th note arpeggio in the same synth that everyone used for a decade. The chance of having a bit of a career in trance is simply a lot bigger when you copy what all the others do... That's quite sad.
When an artist comes up with something that's not made all the time, labels reject it (think of Narel's tune).
Hoopoe, enigmastate, Julian del agranda.Who? I cant think of any modern producer who started in the last 10 years with their own style...not someone if you were in a club and you can say 'oh yeah,here is XYZ's track coming in' like you could with push/ferry/dumonde etc.
I suppose a modern one for me would be Stoneface and Terminal,but even they have that style since the late 2000's. They do indeed still use it though.
From the last 10 years:
Activa
The Digital Blonde
Cosmithex
Timewave
You Are My Salvation
Coredata
Thomas Datt
Thrillseekers
Astral Projection
Morphic Resonance
Crossing Mind
Solarstone (Kinda..)
Clementz
Magnus
They still got their own trademark soundMost of them arnt from last 10 years...more like 20-25.
Who? I cant think of any modern producer who started in the last 10 years with their own style...not someone if you were in a club and you can say 'oh yeah,here is XYZ's track coming in' like you could with push/ferry/dumonde etc.
I suppose a modern one for me would be Stoneface and Terminal,but even they have that style since the late 2000's. They do indeed still use it though.
I named a few mate. I follow the modern trance scene and there are plenty of top artists that have their own distinct sound. I can recognise them clearly.
For some strange reason Allen Watts was joked about but I can only assume that the guy doesn't know who he is.
The problem is they are not distinct enough. If you follow all these bigger uplifting/vocat/tech/steroid producers you could prolly tell some of them apart but alot of them also kinda overlap with eachother from release to release. The copy eachother. Sometimes you find one made a certain tune and the other time its another guy within the same style. And even if they could be told apart they operate within this generic/formualic trance arena imo. They use sounds from the same sources/vsts/soundbanks etc and their drums/foundation is often very similar aswell as the structure of the tracks.
I get that newcomers will like these but 35+ or 40+ uear old people who has been into trance for decades is a total mystery for me how they still embrace the mainstream uplifting sound.