Why are Trance tracks getting so short?

[Daysleeper]

There is the original netherworld which is a lil over 11 mins.


The thing is with longer tracks, it lets the listener and producer 'explore' more of the track. When you are listening to a track song, you are going through a journey, personally I'd take a long and beautiful journey over a short, yet beautiful one.

Doesn't it all depend? Why must it be a one-way-over-another-thing ?

[Magdelayna]

Doesn't it all depend? Why must it be a one-way-over-another-thing ?

Cos you cant have a proper journey under 7 minutes - unless you want each element to come in every 10 seconds.

[Daysleeper]

Cos you cant have a proper journey under 7 minutes - unless you want each element to come in every 10 seconds.

A musical journey isn't equivalent to song lenght. Thats ridiculous. To press on about trance needs to be 10-11 min to be a journey feels like real trance snobbery. Very cliche imo. With that said I don't support tracks under 6.30-7.00 min, if its not a special case. Its all relative anyways. Music is about content.

[Magdelayna]

A musical journey isn't equivalent to song lenght. Thats ridiculous. To press on about trance needs to be 10-11 min to be a journey feels like real trance snobbery. Very cliche imo. With that said I don't support tracks under 6.30-7.00 min, if its not a special case. Its all relative anyways. Music is about content.

I havnt mentioned 10+ minute tracks - only certain producers can pull that off, like Laurent with the Planisphere stuff.