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ULTRA 2014 Electronic Music Festival

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the line between prog house and trance is so blurred these days it almost exclusively comes down to a question of bpm. for instance, Above & Beyond, typically considered 'trance', plays a lot of prog-house on their podcast but at a slightly faster bpm than the track was composed at. then people call it 'trance'.

basically at some point there's too much 'oonce oonce' and people call it 'trouse' instead.
 
is that what this is considered? always heard it as big room house

Tiesto on Trouse-

“The Christmas break gave me the chance to get in the studio and make some Trouse, this is my new word for trancey-house,” Tiesto exclaimed. “Over the past few years different influences have worked their way more and more into my production and it is an ever evolving sound.”


basically what happened-


The Swedish House Mafia/Steve Aoki/Hardwell/AVIICI "dirty dutch electro house" sound became mainstream 4-5 years ago. Typical Trance DJ's who wanted to stay current, make big money and contiune to get booked on the main stage, switched from Trance to a fusion of Shit car alarm sounds+fart noises with big builds, crescendos, and drops.
 
If you gave me unmarked mixes from W&W, Martin Garrix, Tiesto of today and Fedde le Grand for instance, I probably wouldn't be able to differentiate them. Such a shame.

Can't wait for Umek to switch it up a bit.
 
If you gave me unmarked mixes from W&W, Martin Garrix, Tiesto of today and Fedde le Grand for instance, I probably wouldn't be able to differentiate them. Such a shame.

Can't wait for Umek to switch it up a bit.

Glad I am not the only one that hates those kind of drops and progressions
 
Tiesto on Trouse-




basically what happened-


The Swedish House Mafia/Steve Aoki/Hardwell/AVIICI "dirty dutch electro house" sound became mainstream 4-5 years ago. Typical Trance DJ's who wanted to stay current, make big money and contiune to get booked on the main stage, switched from Trance to a fusion of Shit car alarm sounds+fart noises with big builds, crescendos, and drops.

This cannot be said enough.

If more people decided to man up and not support this trouse shit thats infected Trance, i think the scene would look different.

Thank God we have #puretrance and Solarstone.
 
Not a fan :/

Krewella on after this right? They usually put a good set on.

No, it's the one after the next one I think.

Krewella has some good tracks, but their performance last year was awful. Just play your music, no gimmicks please.
 
Yo party people what time is it at Ultra now? I just woke up and I'm hoping to see some of the Car Cox and Friends tent stream. Is it possible or are they only streaming the main rooms?
 
This cannot be said enough.

If more people decided to man up and not support this trouse shit thats infected Trance, i think the scene would look different.

Thank God we have #puretrance and Solarstone.

This is so false. The sad truth of the matter is that if it wasn't for trouse, trance would be so small right now. The mainstream public just don't want to hear it. You think Armin would be able to have this much success with his ASOT tour if all of the DJs were Solarstone?

As a huge trance fan you just have to learn to accept trouse (the "trance" melodies in these tracks make it worth it for me), while enjoying people like Giuseppe and Solarstone as well. It's the only way.

Not a fan :/

Krewella on after this right? They usually put a good set on.

I have yet to see a good set from them. Saw them live twice and once on Ultra stream. They are shit. Yelling into the mic half of the time, which is 90% just nonstop cussing.
 
Yo party people what time is it at Ultra now? I just woke up and I'm hoping to see some of the Car Cox and Friends tent stream. Is it possible or are they only streaming the main rooms?

They are streaming Fanciuli b2b Carl Cox at 5:15 for 30 minutes. I don't know what b2b means.
 
This is so false. The sad truth of the matter is that if it wasn't for trouse, trance would be so small right now. The mainstream public just don't want to hear it. You think Armin would be able to have this much success with his ASOT tour if all of the DJs were Solarstone?

trance today is barely a shadow of what the genre started as. what the public wants to hear is dance-pop with soaring trance synths and anthemic lyrics. eric prydz comes kind of close with his unique brand of crunchy/dark synths, but even he cheeses it up pretty regularly. trance is barely even what it was at the turn of the century when guys like Oakenfold and Paul Van Dyk were dominating the genre and even THEN people were crying about how trance was this cheesy mass of poppy bullshit.

the fact is trance will NEVER return to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMYEUbbr_48 and will probably continue on this trajectory of marrying poppy structures with blaring synths and driving beats. which is fine, it's popular, it makes money, and people want to hear it, it mostly just serves to prove how useless genre labels can be when what the genre is continually changes.

GAF's favourite blonde dancer is back.

UNNNGH.

all these dancers are UNNGH.

doesn't seem like they have the water fountains again this year. shit was so hot last year.
 
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