I would be very surprised if it lasts tbh, there are a very small handful of Producers toying with it here and there and the tracks that they are producing are very average, to call Tomahawk the Trance tune of 2011 is just plain retarded, for a start its more of a Prog house track than it is Trance, it has Adam K's trade mark sound written all over it, he's a House Producer, and the Dub breakdown, well its just another generic Dub breakdown, = the Trance track of 2011???
I think not.
As stated before Trance has been getting more and more watered down as the years pass, but there are still plenty of great producers out their breathing life into the genre. I enjoy listening to shows like Trance (House) Around the World etc even tho they are playing very pop/commercial sounding so called "Trance", its easy to listen too and every now and then they drop a great Trance track. I dont have a problem with the "new" breed of Trance/House thats being produced as it still holds elements of the genre that we used to hear and love so much, but its always important to remember and understand what the genre is about and where its roots lie, which are far from whats being classed as "Trance" these days & thats very important to know. The fact that TATW, ASOT etc are becoming more and more commercialised means that there are more and more newbies being attracted to this whole new "Trance" sound which is where I feel the problem lies. They are hearing all of these House/Trance tracks and believing this is what Trance is all about, when really anyone thats followed the genre for more than the last 5/6 years knows this is far from the truth. If they happened to dig a little deeper into the picture and find out about the not so mainstream artists out there like Patterson, Nick Callaghan, Van Dyk, etc they might get a taste of that proper oldskool Trance sound and tbh I reckon the majority of them wouldnt like it.
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