anyone still listen to trance?

pafufta816 · Post by **pafufta816** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:19 pm

does anyone have suggestions for what they consider quality, top of it's game, modern trance music? back in the day, even up to almost 4 years ago, i used to really enjoy trance. matt darey, paul oakenfold, hallucinogen, earlier juno reactor. i couldn't get enough of this stuff (juno reactor is still hella tight though).

then something inside me changed, i no longer craved to listen to trance music. this is partly because EBM and techno both wandered enough into trancey territory to keep me satisfied. bands like razed in black, assemblage 23, apoptygma berzerk (which i've now gotten over like a bad flu). i was drifting into more expiramental, minimal and deep sounds in techno, and over time i desired less and less to have melody and harmony be the anchoring, ear catching component in my listening experiences.

i have lost interest, since that point, in trance music. the reason being, in my mind both trance and jungle/drum n bass seemed like they weren't changing, with technology or the times. it felt (and still feels) like any dj tiesto setlist could be from 2012, or 1996 and still not have much variance in sound, melody or style. and aside from that i almost feel hatred (probably equal proportions jealousy) at tiest, paul van dyk, and oakenfold. i can't even listen to 80% of that music anymore without feeling the need to change the music.

just some thought, discuss if you must, but suggestions are welcome. i feel like it's been long enough that i probably havemissed on some good names in the scene, maybe producers/dj's who are willing to step outside the norms of the genre.

Maiyal · Post by **Maiyal** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:46 pm

No. No one does anymore.

MarkA · Post by **MarkA** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:27 am

Still play some lieb stuff, lost vagueness and tracks like that

upekah · Post by **upekah** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:54 am

I hate trance

Atheory · Post by **Atheory** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:07 am

i always thought that trance and junlgle post 96 weren't very musical, and were just about physical excercise on the dance floor.

they are completely sexless music to my ears, so i never liked them, too plastic.

pafufta816 · Post by **pafufta816** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:12 am

grace anxiety · Post by **grace anxiety** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:14 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGDnwYad9Q

pafufta816 · Post by **pafufta816** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:07 am

border community is great, archipel, traum schallplatten, all great labels with melodic techno. i guess i'm looking for something less wellknown...