Is it me or is this forum being overrun by prog trance addicts. I never see or hear much about quality uplifting trance no-more, ie trance styles like cosmicman, unknown source, airbase...
Or is it just that no one is producing it as much anymore?

In the first place define what you mean by progressive trance

look at fuzzions style and i think u get what i mean. basically all that slow stuff that, ok might sound good, but doesnt get u up and jumpin! lol

I'd have to say that I think it's simply because there isn't as much good 'straight' (i.e. non-progressive) trance out there any more.

Lots of people (me included) are heading the progressive way, simply because it's usually easier to find better progressive.

What is your problem? There are enough producers who make quality uplifting tunes ( Jonas Steur , Steve Helstrip, John O' Callaghan....)

But for me personally prog has just the better vibe

Most of uplifting trance etc. are s**t nowadays. Only some producers still makes good stuff. Progressive is the way today.

+1
and there is no need to use me as example i truly enjoy both progressive and uplifting unfortunately uplifting has been all the same lately and its rare something great comes out sure hope its gonna change but progressive is a sensational style of trance as well and i dont know what you mean by jumping around but when i play it in a club people dance obviously they dance when i play uplifting as well but progressive seems to be pretty popular around here so why not

i like prog-trance too, but not all the time!
Uplifting trance i can hear 24 h but prog-trance max. 2 hour
but prog-trance is comming bigger and bigger.
but there are some really good uplifting-trance producers left =)
look on anjunabeats...more are there really good uplifiting trance producers

ah but fuzzion i'd say being in america is the reason why u guys like it so much. america always has had a big prog scene. sorry for using you mate
i just miss quality like the old matt darey why do they do this to us and deprive us of quality!

sad but true, there are still lot nice uplifting trance tracks but there is also too much boring stuff

oh i am not mad
i know what you mean m8 i can make more money playing progressive vs uplifting cuz uplifting is really weak here but i am not giving up i play them both cuz i love them both but the truth is progressive scene has been hott lately while uplifting is extremely boring and monotone for the exeption of few producers that still create quality but i think it ll be ok after all just will take some time

miami trance (Hydroid, Elevation, Markus Schulz, G&D...)

hydroid and g&d are surely not from miami

Who is it who keeps using the phrase 'miami trance'? For christ sake, you cannot bracket every record Markus plays under that banner. He's probably the only known prog trance dj in Miami but he certainly hasnt spawned his own genre.

If you like Matt Darey you will find his sets regulaly posted here cos Fly is a big fan. He also has some sets available on his website... go check.

As for Fuzzion, I like his show and style. Bottom line is, if you dont like prog trance dont listen to it. We all have different tastes in music. It would be a boring place if we didnt.

i love trance, progressive an "straight"

but id hate to see it ALL go prog...


trance will loose its bollocks if it all goes prog, for music to be "raveable" it needs bollocks, i like prog, but i just cant jump up an down to it

bollocks is the way forward..... not prog


oh and "miami" trance... yeh rite

i blame g&d

i think even darey has changed his style a bit, done a tiesto and went hard for a while, since he made that "mash it up" was it?

I love uplifting, vocal, epic, progy, yeah I just love trance

The only trance I don't really like is when it is just mainly bass and beats with a few odd sounds thrown in on sequence. I guess that is more like tribal? Whatever, it annoys the crap outta me.

ozgur can??

calm down, was just a joke and not serious

I think people's thoughts on progressive trance depend on who they listen to. Anyone to listens to GDJB regularly will tend to have an inkling towards progressive, whereas if someone only listens to sets by the likes of The Thrillseekers or Ronski Speed then they will be influenced by the more uplifting sounds.

For me, I like a balance of both. I am worried about the lack of good uplifting releases at the moment though, but it will come good again.

Me too

I've faith in John O'Callaghan though, and I'm hoping that Kenni Poulsen will put pen to sequencer again soon too.


Edit: Should've mentioned Icone too.

Second time Ive been told to calm down on here in a week!!

No, but really - someone on here does keep referring to Miami Trance as if it is an entirely new genre Markus Schultz has created. He's a good dj but his style is nothing new.

Calm now!!

well tribal should be completely eliminated.. complete rubbish
maybe we should start a petition and send to artists like lange, darey, ronski, saying we want them to start producing ultimate quality uplifting choons like the ones they used to. I must admit even artist like lange who I used to love a few years back have gone verrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy borrrrrrrrrrrringgggggggggggggg

heh discussd this same matter with a friend of mine of the "scene" a half month ago

i've been into trance for like 4 years no( only 17 so yeah i know the classics of way back but i missed like 3 of the "deads" of trance lol) and i noticed how my taste and the scene itselfe evolved quite fast
I've always been a fan of uplifting trance, even hardtrance and "jump" ( aka norh french tekno and whatever) but since i really started listening to a state of trance 2 years ago i also noticed his changement in style
i yust listened to asot episode 124 and you cant quite compare that

to get to the point: "progresive" has made its way in, and how can you define a genre that is called "progresive"? i mean in the word itself you hear the worde "progres" to get forward. I think we reached a moment where our "progresive" isnt really progresive anymore but yust expanding itself over the whole trance scene ' (especially amerika etc but also noticing lil bith of changement in belgium we yust have a more hardtrance etc tradition you cant go to a big city without finding jump especially here in "west-vlaanderen)


i feel i am losing track on my post and the meaning of it so a lill conclusion, trance is still evolving even after it has been decleared dead numberous of times. uplifting is going to a period of crap but we all know progresive will make place after a x amount of time for a new form and that both the progresive and the uplifting wont dissapear but yust become more "adult" like yazz and rock did

for me progresive is already a more deeper form of trance but yeah that is already a personal interpretation


cheers, renZo

note: yust check my top5 a year ago i never wouldv imagined having these kinds of sound in a top5 of me...

I have to agree theres to much progressive, I like old school like PVD, Blank & Jones.........

Simon.

PVD-For an Angel, Cygnus-the Orange theme.....oldies are good. but I like the prog. stuff too...it's all good...

oh yes! cygnus x - the orange theme! Bervoets & De Goeij mix definately best...

you need some more markus shultz in your life

I like uplifting trance ALOT!!! but I have to say im really starting to like progressive trance either. alot of them are just MINT!

Markus kicks ass...& I Love that he includes a classic track in all of his sets now

Great songs, we need more of their type!

I like progressive trance & techno trance,as long as they sounds good,I will always listening that.