Unpopular trance/electronic music opinions

[Gagi]

The gold standard for golden-era trance is the Tiesto Silence/Suburban Train/Goldenscan remix/Tears of the Moon sound.

This sounds like something you read on Reddit twice and embraced it like a fact.

No matter how much I tried to like it, I couldn't get into 76 other than Precious, and that is largely because it's essentially an Airwave track.

Don't hear the influence honestly. You have a collab with Airwave on 76, and this isn't it.

Imagine and Mirage (the album tracks) are some of the most technically complex tracks Armin ever made. They sound like they took Armin weeks to create and arrange, and the production in them is top-notch. There's so much attention to detail and ambiance that you just don't hear in his earlier productions.

Which is all a perfectly valid reason to prefer something, and knowing you also like pop, it makes sense for you to like these two albums more (believe me, I love them too). Of course they sounded technically more proficient, I mean that's what 5-7 years of producing constantly does.

I can accept taste, but I just believe Armin' s best and most special work came much earlier. And even though he had some tracks that might sound 'dated' to you, I think you still need to give his (older) discography a chance.

 

[Magdelayna]

The gold standard for golden-era trance is the Tiesto Silence/ Suburban Train/Goldenscan remix/Tears of the Moon sound. I'm not saying Tiesto is a good producer, but instead the team responsible for making that sound.

Apart from Silence,some of the most overrated Tiesto tracks imo.

Try these :

01 Delirium - Innocente (DJ Tiesto Remix)
02 Sarah McLaughlin - Sweet Surrender (DJ Tiesto Remix)
03 Lost Witness - Did I Dream (DJ Tiesto Remix)
04 Dave Matthews Band - The Space Between (DJ Tiesto Remix)
05 Aria - Willow (DJ Tiesto's Magikal Remake)
06 Salt Tank - Eugina (DJ Tiesto Remix)
07 Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun (DJ Tiesto Remix)
08 Delirium - Silence (DJ Tiesto In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
09 Dumonde - Never Look Back (DJ Tiesto Remix)
10 Lunatic Asylum - Cabal (DJ Tiesto Remix)
11 Allure - We Ran At Dawn (DJ Tiesto's Magikal Remake)

 

[Progrez]

This sounds like something you read on Reddit twice and embraced it like a fact.

Don't hear the influence honestly. You have a collab with Airwave on 76, and this isn't it.

Which is all a perfectly valid reason to prefer something, and knowing you also like pop, it makes sense for you to like these two albums more (believe me, I love them too). Of course they sounded technically more proficient, I mean that's what 5-7 years of producing constantly does.

I can accept taste, but I just believe Armin' s best and most special work came much earlier. And even though he had some tracks that might sound 'dated' to you, I think you still need to give his (older) discography a chance.

Precious sounds like this track below.

 

[dmgtz96]

This sounds like something you read on Reddit twice and embraced it like a fact.

You'll be surprised to hear that is my actual opinion. I think that style was very innovative and sounds modern/revolutionary. Nothing else from that era sounds so clean and well-put together.

Don't hear the influence honestly. You have a collab with Airwave on 76, and this isn't it.

Precious sounds like a darker version of Alone in the Dark, as if it were inspired by Alone in the Dark. And yes, to me it sounds more Airwave-like than Slipstream.
Listening to Slipstream again, it actually feels more like a Fire & Ice track.

Which is all a perfectly valid reason to prefer something, and knowing you also like pop, it makes sense for you to like these two albums more (believe me, I love them too). Of course they sounded technically more proficient, I mean that's what 5-7 years of producing constantly does.

Exactly, what's what I like about Imagine & Mirage. Armin's production skills peaked with those two tracks.

I can accept taste, but I just believe Armin' s best and most special work came much earlier. And even though he had some tracks that might sound 'dated' to you, I think you still need to give his (older) discography a chance.

Maybe. There's a charm to his earlier productions, and they do sound more original.