I'm not sure it's the producer/label considering attention span as a somewhat artistic choice i.e 'listeners love short tracks today' or that they want to generate as many plays as possible in order to boost ratings and revenue on streaming service websites, which have the pay per play model. I have a feeling it's the latter, but who knows maybe Trance Wax likes tracks like this.
Trance music suffers when it is cut short, the whole point is to do things slowly with tension and build. I know that most of the album is breaks/ progressive breaks, but even these feel way too short and as you say they are like radio edits. I guess Thrillseekers last album was similar, with many 3-4 minute tracks. Maybe the data does show that today people don't engage with albums well over 1 hour? Well then the question is do you feed into that behaviour or do you try and change things for the better. Either way it has made the album bit of a disappointment for me (slightly).
I read Trance Wax's perspective from his DJ Mag interview from March of 2019. Here are some excerpts from his interview:
In his first interview under the Trance Wax moniker, Ejeca tells us about the origin of the project, uniting young clubbers and older ravers, and more...PICS: Clarke James, AJR Photography, Stuart Taylor & Grant Jones
djmag.com
"Well as lovely as it is, I realised a lot of people don’t play trance because the records are eight minutes long, the breakdown is a minute-and-a-half and it’s 140bpm,” says McCartney, who started by experimenting with original trance records in his Ejeca sets, pitched down to the more appropriate speed. “Those types of dynamics don’t communicate so well with the crowd nowadays. Everyone wants a 30 second drop for Instagram, and people are too impatient for big breakdowns now too.”
“I find the breakbeat brings things down a level, it’s easier to slow things down that way,” says McCartney, who tends to describe Trance Wax as a breakbeat act rather than a trance act. It makes sense; the whole reason for this project is versatility. Trance Wax isn’t about nostalgia, or trance for trance’s sake. It’s about bringing certain aspects of it back into the mix because they work, they’re relevant and worth revisiting. It’s why the project began as an anonymous series — they’re DJ tools for Ejeca and other DJs to bring colour into their sets, regardless of genre."