Is Trance as a genre dead?

[Who?]

I remember a few years ago the misc was obsessed with Trance. Multiple threads, Trance crews, multi pages of vids.. now I never see Trance mentioned ANYWHERE. It's like the genre just died.

Wtf happened?

[LaCosaNostra90]

older trance was goat. now it sounds like its music for ****s

[YeBrah]

nah bro it's sweet

[Rexcalibr]

It's never going to die IMO. The people who listen to techno, trance, dub step, etc. is a small niche fan base.


Music and lot of other things go through phases/fads. When the fad dies, the hardcore fans of whatever the genre will still follow it.

[kahri]

nah it's rising again

[AGstrong]

Well, it's evolved, but not dead.

It's obviously not the same as it was in the 90s and early 2k but shiet like psy trance and tech trance is still going very strong.

[Who?]

So who are the good artists to listen too?

I really missed the days of overdosing on some OG Craze pre-workout and banging out a sick workout in the gym while blasting some Trance and imaging how godly it was gonna be when I got some Zyzz level gains.

Damn, strong nostalgia. The simple days.

[Pterodactyl314]

[TooAnabolic]

So who are the good artists to listen too?

I really missed the days of overdosing on some OG Craze pre-workout and banging out a sick workout in the gym while blasting some Trance and imaging how godly it was gonna be when I got some Zyzz level gains.

Damn, strong nostalgia. The simple days.

better times boyo

back when I was first getting shredded around '11-'13 fuaaaark

[k20z3]

Trance is not as popular because of house, most of these band wagon *******s just listen to House. Trance has more build ups, more melodic, it's not really made for ADD *******s.

[Who?]

Trance is not as popular because of house, most of these band wagon *******s just listen to House. Trance has more build ups, more melodic, it's not really made for ADD *******s.

Always felt Trance was more appealing to the mainstream than House. Unless we're talking the dub step type house.

[chrsschb]

I remember a few years ago the misc was obsessed with Trance. Multiple threads, Trance crews, multi pages of vids.. now I never see Trance mentioned ANYWHERE. It's like the genre just died.

Wtf happened?

Trance is doing just fine. Those of us who mostly posted trance stuff just got tired of the misc really. The support here was dying down so we focused our attentions elsewhere. The crew that did trance events and stuff here still exists, we just spend most of our time talking outside Misc.



https://soundcloud.com/djzenoth/allin2016
https://soundcloud.com/djzenoth/on-the-road-to-dreamstate

I've almost entirely stepped away from Uplifting. I still love it but I find myself spending most of my time in Prog House, Techno and Psytrance.

[k20z3]

Always felt Trance was more appealing to the mainstream than House. Unless we're talking the dub step type house.

Phuck nah bro, last time I went to a rave was 2013 EDC, that's the year EDM really got popular, the house stages were always way more packed than trance. As a matter of fact, how many trance DJ's have transitioned in to mainstream? None really, sure Armin is known by everyone but he hasn't really made a radio mainstream hit. Unlike avicii, Calvin Harris, David Guetta.

[chrsschb]

Phuck nah bro, last time I went to a rave was 2013 EDC, that's the year EDM really got popular, the house stages were always way more packed than trance. As a matter of fact, how many trance DJ's have transitioned in to mainstream? None really, sure Armin is known by everyone but he hasn't really made a radio mainstream hit. Unlike avicii, Calvin Harris, David Guetta.

Gareth Emery, Sander van Doorn, Arty, W&W, Ummet Ozcan, Tritonal, Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, MaRLo, Orjan Nilsen, Andrew Rayel, Jorn van Deynhoven, Ben Gold, Andy Moor, Rank 1, Cosmic Gate, Lange, Paul Oakenfold, and several others who can't make up their damn mind.

[ruskiMishka]

Let me aware you bruhs.

[Kermeli]

time for real music ( metal ) to rise again! yay!

[AGstrong]

Gareth Emery, Sander van Doorn, Arty, W&W, Ummet Ozcan, Tritonal, Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, MaRLo, Orjan Nilsen, Andrew Rayel, Jorn van Deynhoven, Ben Gold, Andy Moor, Rank 1, Cosmic Gate, Lange, Paul Oakenfold, and several others who can't make up their damn mind.

tiesto, Markus Schulz, David guetta, ferry corsten, fedde le grand.... the list goes on and on.

[KramericaInd]

Trance is not as popular because of house, most of these band wagon *******s just listen to House. Trance has more build ups, more melodic, it's not really made for ADD *******s.

u on dat 8th gen civic si time?

[BigOlBish]

the GOAT in my mind. Bumped this sht in the football locker room after losing to our rivals. Still blast it 6 years later

[k20z3]

Gareth Emery, Sander van Doorn, Arty, W&W, Ummet Ozcan, Tritonal, Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, MaRLo, Orjan Nilsen, Andrew Rayel, Jorn van Deynhoven, Ben Gold, Andy Moor, Rank 1, Cosmic Gate, Lange, Paul Oakenfold, and several others who can't make up their damn mind.

None of those dj's have any mainstream hits though, David Guetta - sexy bitch hit the top 100 billboard, avicii -wake me up hit number 4 on the top 100, Calvin Harris- summer hit number 7 on the top 100.

Don't get me wrong i love trance but house is way more mainstream, in fact any trance DJ that is even contemplating going mainstream will have to go house like tiestö has.

[k20z3]

u on dat 8th gen civic si time?

Fuark, aware I was when I made this account 10 years ago.

[420Layers]

tiesto, Markus Schulz, David guetta, ferry corsten, fedde le grand.... the list goes on and on.

You mean all artists that have long abandoned their roots.

I don't see a single artist listed except for AvB and Paul van Dyk and Oakenfold that regularly play house sets.

You can also include O' Callaghan.














Never again


I doubt the world will ever see another event as epic as trance energy in its early days, or 90s warehouse raves...

The golden age of EDM is gone, now all we have is big room commercial sounds that all have the same.



No literally, the tracks are all exactly the ****ing same.

[WestAfrica]

I don't see how you would think trance is dead when Dreamstare which started in 2015 in SoCal blew up and is now either having Dreamstate/Presenting Dreamstate almost every month across the US/World. EDC is getting a full 3 day trance stage. Trance back then was just trance, now its trance, psytrance, uplifting, dark, tech. The genre is expanding not dying...

[420Layers]

the GOAT in my mind. Bumped this sht in the football locker room after losing to our rivals. Still blast it 6 years later

Please




GOAT hardstyle track, no question at all

[tightteeshirt]

So who are the good artists to listen too?

I really missed the days of overdosing on some OG Craze pre-workout and banging out a sick workout in the gym while blasting some Trance and imaging how godly it was gonna be when I got some Zyzz level gains.

Damn, strong nostalgia. The simple days.

bro....yes. sounds just like me back in 2011-13. get that dopamine rush from some good tracks, hit the gym and get a sick pump. always looking for new house/trance songs on youtube and on the misc (sometimes from the latest zyzz vid lol). I remember the misc threads for festivals like Ultra and EDC and Tomorrowland. The Ultra threads had 100+ pages and there would be miscer meet ups at the festivals and then they'd make a thread and post their group pics on here...I stopped listening about 2 years ago. just couldn't get into it anymore, guess I got too old :/

[Peacening]

My main source of trance was always ASOT and i stopped listening regularly a couple years ago.. just popped on a recent episode the other night and mpst of it didnt even sound like trance at all. Goat era was like 2003-2008

[NVious]

RIP in pieces

[danielmoo]

Well, it's evolved, but not dead.

This. Still some good tracks coming out

[TommyRO]

House and Trance are definitely donzo. Remember golden age back in like 08-2010s good old days I feel like an old funk now

[vinhuman]

Dead in terms of popularity? Nah, music goes in waves. Trance originally was big in like the 90s/early 2000s. There are plenty of people producing trance, probably as many as ever due to the availability of tools/tutorials etc on music production nowadays. It hasn't really been the "it" genre of EDM since before the misc existed though (if it ever was). Electro house and progressive house were bigger.