Back in to good ol’ days of year 2000 – 2001 I drifted into the wonderful world of trance music. My first ever trance album was Pal Van Dyk’s Out There And Back which I bought somewhere in 2000. I also had some compilation cd’s like trance 2000 and Trance 2000 vol 2. At that time I wasn’t fallen into this genre yet – I listened and digged it, but it was just a nice dance music to my ears.

But then, it happened: somwhere in the early ‘01, trance really hit me hard! I bought a compilation CD called Trancefloor.net (2001) and included were some very uplifting and melodic tracks such as Airfire feat. Talla 2XLC – No Signs Of Life, Svensson – Clubbin On Sunshine, System F – Cry (Oliver Llieb Remix), Traveler – Bright Sun… so much energy, drive and emotion! I got goosebumps all over and I WAS SOLD!

It was a golden era of trance and also a starting point for my music hobby.

Unfortenately, that era is long gone now…

…and electro house seem to rule..

Electro house has taken over all the dance music and IMO it’s the reason that SOUL has disappeared from modern trance. It has killed the traditional trance. Trance sounds more and more like electro house. Sure, there are tons of brilliantly produced trance songs which have cool elements, basslines, rhythms and wacky effects, but where’s the sensation, uplift, drive and memorable melodies? All I here is slow electro house style drumloops, blips and blops everywhere without anykind of emotion or memorable theme… And most of the songs sounds like they’ve come from the same procuder. Everything’s sounding the same. Everyone’s using same drumkits, loops, fx, sidechain compression pumping, etc. There’s no variation in production techniques.

Seriously, it seems electro house has taken over the whole EDM scene. It has infiltrated into every dance music genre, not only trance. Just listen. But most dramatically into trance. Modern trance sounds like 30% trance and rest is electro house: bleeps, blops, wacky fx’s, weird noises, pumping sidechain compression, no melody and if there is it builds up only into first breakdown and then…. nothing… it doesn’t develope anywhere from there, just more bleeps, blops, snap-crackle-and-pops-with-pumping-bass-and-fx and then all the way to outro. Plain boring, I say! No doubt it’ll work on a dance floor, but when “trance DJ’s” play it in their “trance radio shows” it gives me just YAWNS and definetely none of these songs won’t ever stick to my head and most definetely I ain’t gonna listen ‘em again or buy a cd or MP3.

Why’s electro house infiltrated everywhere? Because it’s so freakin’ popular! DJ’s play it, people like to dance to it and there’s some money to be made with it. Of course every producer want’s his music to be popular (and I don’t blame them, I wan’t that too), so add a little electro house elements to your music and you have a hit!

Sometimes I wonder maybe the reason why everything’s electro house these days is because producers have run out of ideas? Maybe all the melodies has been used already so all there is left is just electro house style blips, blops, clicks, fx and drums?

Nah, I don’t think so. It’s just so uber-POP!

I don’t say all electro house is bad; even I like some of the catchier tunes from this genre. It’s just I hate because it has been infiltrated everywhere. Too much is too much. And most sadest thing is it seemed to have killed traditional uplifting trance. No one doesn’t seem to produce good trance anymore and I miss those good ol’ days of hard energy emotional tunes..

Or maybe I’m just getting old and hankering back to the good ol’ days when everything seemed to be better

If you’re a fan of electro house, don’t be offended what I wrote here, this is just my opinion and my taste of music!