I've noticed that in this forum the trance producers (psy- included) tend to be the most obsessed with sounding exactly like existing tracks. They tend to have the strongest opinions about what sounds are commercially acceptable, and tend to attribute any deviations to user error or plugin/hardware quality.
I'm not sure how to square that with the number of subgenres: it's as though whenever someone succesfully creates a new trance track it becomes its own subgenre to clone.
I don't think there is much special about the trance genre that makes this inevitable. Psytrance has painted itself into a corner a bit with absurd loudness targets, but if some community is just willing to turn up their amplifiers a bit I don't see why a "dynamic psytrance" scene couldn't appear. Perhaps it already did?
I'm not sure how to square that with the number of subgenres: it's as though whenever someone succesfully creates a new trance track it becomes its own subgenre to clone.
I don't think there is much special about the trance genre that makes this inevitable. Psytrance has painted itself into a corner a bit with absurd loudness targets, but if some community is just willing to turn up their amplifiers a bit I don't see why a "dynamic psytrance" scene couldn't appear. Perhaps it already did?
Statistics: Posted by imrae — Thu Jun 06, 2024 7:41 am