At 10/28/09 01:46 PM, Calamaistr wrote:
Im sorry im not even going to, last time i listened to a track someone sended me a link of on msn saying 'it was awesome' (being trance...ofcourse) i clicked it away within 5 seconds.
I dont feel like wasting another 5 seconds of my life ever again.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you don't like trance because of its particular lack of melodic movement? Like how lots of trance songs have one repeating melody with very little variation. I ask this because when I listen to your tracks, I hear honestly some impressive arranging, and you seem to be very biased towards that quality in music. But the thing is, not all music is about the depth of arrangement, like classical is.
The concepts behind trance actually hails all the way back to the days of shaman witchdoctors, who used repetitive but slowly evolving melodies and rhythms to lure their subjects into a trance. Now I wholeheartedly agree with you that there is TONS of cheese and shit in the electronic music world, and the endless copies of 4 in floor rhythms paired with cheese trance leads we get on ng audio is frustrating. But the real gems of trance I think are superb in terms of overall musical quality and complexity. A few of those songs I provided do have repeating melodies, but you should listen to the way the rest of the song evolves around it and plays with your emotions in that manner.
It's pretty ignorant to reject a particular kind of music due to your biases. Your tastes are your tastes, of course, but I'm sensing more of a condescending type of rejection here. I try to listen to all kinds of music and honestly I have learned something from everything, from hip hop to mozart to drone metal to shoegaze.
