Seems like there was more of what he said but he deleted those comments.

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@alexmorph i was referring to the trance of recent times which i feel lacks the imagination and emotion of previous years

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@alexmorph youre right its not nice. I hope ive made people out there want to prove me wrong and make some decent creative music

https://twitter.com/#!/mat_zo

Original Source: http://forum.anjunabeats.com/topic/57918-mat-zo-voices-his-opinion-on-trance/

Funny that those 2 are saying it. Alex R.E.M.A.K.E. has always lacked creativity and Mat Zo didn't have a great contribution to trance recently either...

Mat Zo has been talking a lot of rubbish for ages now - he has hardly added anything to the trance scene in the last 18 months in my opinion. Him and Arty are probably two of the most over-rated DJ's/Producers I have seen in recent years. He said trance fans should not moan about other styles being played at trance nights.

I always mention it though, I do like his Dub/DnB stuff though.

Originally posted by Daniel

Mat Zo has been talking a lot of rubbish for ages now - he has hardly added anything to the trance scene in the last 18 months in my opinion. Him and Arty are probably two of the most over-rated DJ's/Producers I have seen in recent years. He said trance fans should not moan about other styles being played at trance nights.

I always mention it though, I do like his Dub/DnB stuff though.

Totally agree here they are totally over-rated. With Arty I heard his new stuff that's going to be signed on Anjnabeats no doubt they are just following where the latest fad lies these days. Have never been a fan either of them.

Arty released a couple of good tracks but I never bought into his sound, I remember having this conversation last year I think.

Anyway, totally agree, after seeing him go around in his stupid truck at WMC acting like he had made it I decided that I should just ignore him from then.

Originally posted by Daniel

Arty released a couple of good tracks but I never bought into his sound, I remember having this conversation last year I think.

Anyway, totally agree, after seeing him go around in his stupid truck at WMC acting like he had made it I decided that I should just ignore him from then.

Arty for me has always been a bit of a Deadmau5-for-Trance, almost as if he's used the same style as Deadmau5 but morphed it to Trance. And just as Deadmau5 is a bit of marmite DJ/Producer, Arty has become the same way in Trance.

As for Mat Zo, I've always been a big fan of his stuff and I completely understand what he's on about with some of the Trance that's being churned out but considering some of his latest releases, it does seem like the record labels will publish anything as long as it's got a top-name DJ/Producer's name on it.

The creativity has gone a bit shoddy, but it happens year-in, year-out at some point, and then a group of producers release a set of awesome tracks and our faith is restored again.

Honestly, I would just want DJs and producers to release only the best tracks and if they're going to be 'alright', then release them for free just so the listeners can at least hear the ideas that might influence a later, awesome track. That way record labels will be seen as a great label for most of its tracks rather than an intermittently good label with a back catalogue of select tracks holding it together.

<Rant over>

EDIT: I just read the Anjunabeats Forum and found the best comment after ALL the arguments against him: "Who is Mat Zo?" hahaha

It's funny btw that Arty is also mentionned in the same topic as Mat Zo, cz together they produced one of the best tracks of last year hehe

Originally posted by Remco

It's funny btw that Arty is also mentionned in the same topic as Mat Zo, cz together they produced one of the best tracks of last year hehe

Too true

Originally posted by Remco

It's funny btw that Arty is also mentionned in the same topic as Mat Zo, cz together they produced one of the best tracks of last year hehe

Never liked Mozart (track name) nor did I like whatever that other track they produced together. I wouldn't call either of the tracks trance they are more like big room dance tracks to me.

Since when did Deadmau5 morph trance with his sound?

I think Mat Zo also mentioned that "even thinking about the trance genre makes his brain melt and leak out of his noise"

Originally posted by Progrez

Never liked Mozart (track name) nor did I like whatever that other track they produced together. I wouldn't call either of the tracks trance they are more like big room dance tracks to me.

Wasn't referring to Mozart, but Rebound, which is an amazing trance track