Lunedì 4 Gen 2010, 7:29
Trance music has changed a lot in last years. Even though I was literally absent on last.fm last year, I'm still very much into trance, but the changes in my favorite genre of music are making me sad. The best explanation about what I'm talking is Top 20 of A State Of Trance from last 2 years - full of "pop-trance" tunes, which are mostly commercial crap, far away from what trance used to be. I can't blame Armin Van Buuren here, top 20 is based on the taste of listeners, which is worse and worse every year. If Armin would stop playing pop-trance he would lose a lot of listeners. That's sad conclusion, many of today's so caled "trance fans" don't know what trance really is. Tunes like Armin Van Buuren & DJ Shah feat. Chris Jones - "Going Wrong" "Broken Tonight" (Armin Van Buuren), "Stoned in Love" (Chicane feat. Tom Jones) are very popular, while great euphoric, melodic and uplifting trance relases are in marginal interest now.
Fortunately, there are fresh artists like Claudia Cazacu, DJ Eco or The Blizzard who continue the best trance tradition.