Lately I've noticed that producers Ive really liked (Simon Patterson, Jordan Suckley, and Bryan Kearney for example) have been putting out cookie-cutter tracks! It's not just those producers but it seems like when I go through the new releases, so many tracks have the same structure, the same "drop," and even the same samples. It's like producers don't have their individual signature style anymore. Prog psy seems to be the cool new thing and many are hoping on the bandwagon by incorporating elements of it in their tracks. I like psy...made by psy producers - not trance producers that try to make it because its become the new trend. So where's the originality in making the same type of track as someone else? Sometimes I wonder if the producers think we're stupid enough to not realize that so much of this rubbish sounds exactly the same!

Is it just me that feels this way? Maybe I am becoming too picky. It's just disappointing because there hasn't been many tracks released for a while now that I absolutely love.

Don't get me wrong, there are still super talented trance producers that put out quality stuff like Will Atkinson, J00F, Johan Ekman, and Indecent Noise to name a few. I can always count on people like them to create original music. But the reason why they're so huge is because they do their own thing instead of following everyone else.

everything is a remix. this world is over saturated with everything, I have learned to live with it.

I totally agree Caitlin!

However, I see you wrote Indecent Noise also in your list of original producers. And no matter how he sees himself also as more original than anyone else, I heard a track from him a couple of weeks ago in ASOT and the start sounded very much like Brush Strokes.
Also Johan Ekman, who's music I really love, but I'm pretty sure that the melody of Rockin, is coming from a classic trance track I can't find the title of.

I know I'm always coming back at him and I might start to be boring, but Menno de Jong also is a producer who remains original. He does not care what the big masses wants to hear, he makes the music he likes, remains different, but that's maybe also the reason why the big masses keep ignoring him.

Originally posted by Remco

I totally agree Caitlin!

However, I see you wrote Indecent Noise also in your list of original producers. And no matter how he sees himself also as more original than anyone else, I heard a track from him a couple of weeks ago in ASOT and the start sounded very much like Brush Strokes.
Also Johan Ekman, who's music I really love, but I'm pretty sure that the melody of Rockin, is coming from a classic trance track I can't find the title of.

I know I'm always coming back at him and I might start to be boring, but Menno de Jong also is a producer who remains original. He does not care what the big masses wants to hear, he makes the music he likes, remains different, but that's maybe also the reason why the big masses keep ignoring him.

Yeah of course Menno is one of the original guys, ... and there are others I didn't mention! I'm sure in a way Indecent Noise probably has some tracks that sound slightly like others, but I really like the fact that he's bringing back the classic hard trance sound with his "hard" mixes.

I don't mind a few similarities between tracks but lately i've been hearing tracks that sound way too similar to the point where you can't even tell who made them! There seems to be this typical sound that many producers are following, and it's getting annoying to me. I'm glad you feel the same way!

At least right now, there is some REAL trance playing - Classic sets on ah.fm.
Talla 2xlc playing now live from TranceFusion!