i agree with you mate, it feels more shallow these days.

in my opinion 1995-2001 was the best time for trance music and during that time it was a really credible and exciting part of electronic dance music as a whole.

nowadays theres only the odd peice of trance music i come across that makes me stop and listen and its usually from the more deeper tracks, not this cheap anthematic rubbish that crops up a lot.

hard trance used to be deep, it wasnt all about the word hard, it was harder then progressive trance but with equal time given to making it have substance.

when i look back at all the brilliant music that the scene generated back then it makes me sad at what comes from it now.

i really belive that the way forward requires some steps back, its like we were building up to something magnificent than all of a sudden people took a wrong turn and for these next 5 years weve been lost, we never reached the next level we were looking for but for some reason people didnt think itd be a good idea to backtrack and try again.

id absolutly love the old thinking to come back behind trance music