The Future of Trance ?

[Ian]

Trance is an ever-evolving music, So much is said about which way it's going, but which way would you like to see it go, Harder, More progressive, back to the uplifting, More commercial & over radio waves, a totally different way, keep it as it is now.... Have your say here

[Above&Beyond]

I think for the time being it'll all stay quite hard & dark, artists like Ferry Corsten are turning they're attention to the darker sound (example: Punk). Maybe there will be a few uplifting numbers during the summer but i recon its gonna take an absolute anthem to bring the scene back into its former 99 glory. Only time will tell...

[((-&E-))]

i hope it doesnt go too underground...

id like to see it stay uplifting and hard with a slight hint of commercialism ..

... who knows what in store or us tho in yrs to come (hopefully lots of tunes tho )

[kuRtis248]

I think it will go to go deeper and more subtle and mabe a little more psychedelic but mainly deeper and darker, more exotic and weirder, and also it will be more Underground and obscured. Oh ya thats the way i want and many djs and producers are already taking a step forward to do that.

[Ami]

[zox]

I think artists like Armin, FerryCorsten, Tiesto, Lange, have already made their biggest tunes of their life , for example look after the new remixes of Lighthouse Family and Cosmic Gate made by Ferry Corsten, imo its shit, the scene needs new artists, it would be a good way if the whole scene goes down underground and new artist come, and not only a dozen producers make trance. The problem is that always the big names do the biggest hits, what are the favs atm? new Armin remixes of Shane and Solid Sessions, the Tiesto remixes of Moby and Paul Oakenfold, Airwave remix of Green Martian, Ferry Corsten stuffs, Rank 1 blabla.., they can't make it forever, the scene needs new faces. Just listen to a live set of Ferry Corsten in 2000 and 2002. (Sets from Ferry in 2000 are the biggest live sets imo just rememeber the RosemontagsRave or Trance Energy..) So he plays the same tracks always (Punk, Ultra-Free, 4Strings, Rank 1 blabla), it's a bit boring for me.
Imo that kind of progressive trance/house what Deep Dish, John Creamer etc. plays, will be more commercial, because of the use of vocals and melodies again in these stuffs. Look after the "new" GU022, it's sounds differently, it's not like the Deep Dish or the Darren Emerson GU. That kind of progressive stuff is more popular than ever, maybe the new classical trance tunes such as stuffs from '99 or 2000 will be the tunes featured on GU or Renaissance complications (it's trance, those tunes has vocals, and melody, not as uplifting as Ferry or Armin, but classical trance was not uplifting too) Perhaps if there will be more vocals and melody in these tunes (and there will be more vocals and melody) we will hear great pure trance tunes again.

[kuRtis248]

Once trance goes commercial it dies. and its the catchy characteristics that make the song commercial, they are not bad at all but a little bit too easy listening for electronic connoisseurs ears.

[zox]

yes, and some of those guys, who once listened to Paul Oakenfold, Ferry Corsten, Tiesto in the past want something new, they growed up, and new trance tunes are so boring for them.
But there's a big difference between progressive tunes, just listen to John Digweed's MMII and for example Deep Dish GU21 or Satoshi Tomiie remixes. I think the Deep Dish or Satoshi Tomiie like stuffs will be very popular and commercial. We can call it trance it has melody and as I see most of those stuffs has a vocal mix not just a dub version. The problem is that people call these tunes progressive, but it's not progressive, it was progressive 2-3 years ago, when it was new, but now these artists just repeat each other too, like in trance. I think that kind of stuff will have the same ending like trance had.