Hi Mark.

That's a similar thing that I have naturally drifted too this year.

below is a Trance Music Review I did for www.HighLightUk.Co.Uk
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Future of Trance in 2003

Trance music has hit its peak in 2002 and it’s interesting how it will develop in 2003. It saw off Hard House music in 2001 and we have had some absolute fantastic trance titles come through with the German producers showing us how to be uplifting as well as dark and nasty. The Germans have definitely set the pace in the trance industry for most of 2002.

2001/2 for producers like Scott Project have had extraordinary results with fantastic remixes as well as their own work in Twisters Silence - Listen To Me MaMa and Arome – Hands Up. SHOKK & Flutlict saw their efforts be praised heavily in remixes of Dave Joy- First Impressions and Marc Dawn – Expander and DuMonde showed their class with such tracks as Can U Dig It! Uberdruck have more recently been getting the raves they deserve for there superb production work which is getting better and better. Overall, it’s been a good year for the German Trance… although it’s they have a fight for who will be setting the score for 2003.

As trance music has become so popular it means that there is far more tracks being produced than before. This has led to the part commercialism of trance music. Commercialism is always something that happens to a genre of music when it becomes popular, however people who are worried that the underground world will be wiped out can think again, as the Italians have had something to say.

The last six months of 2002 has seen a dawn of a new sound in Hard Trance… the Italian Sound! – And boy are they playing it hard! Look out for producers such as Technoboy, Luca Antolini, Giada and Trance Generators who are really pushing trance music to the techno edge. Trance music is now more about the percussion than the melody and is how I think 2003 will progress. We can expect a lot of hard and nasty tracks before we can see cheesy snare rolls and uplifting breaks being what trance is about.

Either way, enjoy your music and have fun!

Hakka

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Interesting stuff...

:)