I must admit I do enjoy reading your posts Chris. You post with a lot of thought and meaning and I respect that.

Yeah I totally see your point. I think because forumlas are being stuck to because of fear of trying something new. There are not many "risk takers" in the production ranks these days... harder and harder is covered in hard style and melody madness is covered in uplifting... if you go change the trance forumla to much it becomes another genre and if you don't change it all then its same old same old.

I think there has to be more adventerous structure to a trance track... we have seen to much of the same layouts and build ups and break downs. The rules need to be broken, but not irrationally... with carefully planning.

There's too much copying and not enough pioneering going on in production these days. And problem is that when a producer gets a whiff of doing something differnt, they are often locked in the producing position with all there releases... (i.e Sam Punk or some Uberdruck... great producers but not really changing things from production to production to keep the sound evloving....)

I think its time for producers to take risk, or more to the point produce from the heart/soul. Forget about trying to make a track that is popular by playing it safe and going for a forumla that has been successful, make a track that means something or is different way of going about things. Hard House for me was a genre of empty noises, tt was a rhytem, it was beat and it was hard... but it meant nothing more than a collection of noises and patterns. Trance for me was always more than just the sounds that made it, it left an image, emotion or feeling in me as well as something to stomp to. This is what is missing in music. It seems Hard Trance has just split... the feeling and emotion is captured in uplifting and the hard rythem and power is in hard style.

Perhaps I'm waffeling and over thinking this, I don't know... but I just don't hear many tracks these days that shock me for there genius.

When will I again hear a tune that will hit me so deeply as Flutlict - Mutterkorn? or Shokk - Folie-a-Duex? - these tunes were great because there was nothing else soudning like them before they were made.