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I'm a bit drunk right now, and was reading the thread about Tiesto @ Disney Land, the Olympics, etc. Much of Tiesto's crossover success has been accredited to his management and pr teams. I'm just wondering if people think that progressive/acid/tech house could really break through (closer) to the mainstream with the proper forces behind it, or if there is something else about Tiesto and his sound that puts him at the forefront. Thoughts?
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Fucking Tiesto,i hit the ceiling about Tiesto
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tiesto = lame i want to go to his show jsut to experence how shit the crowd would be but then again i would propably cost 40 bucks to see him.Comment
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i feel your pain, friends, but perhaps we could get some more relevant answers?Comment
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quite a good question for your state of mind... :ROFLMAO:
I think for something (genere of music for example) to become successful in comercial terms there has to be a wide enough audience. You don't start advertising something if you're not sure there is enough customers in the target group of your product to cover your marketing costs. With music, it sometimes so that the media tries to create taste for music that is not yet there. Also, if you want anything to reach large number of people it has to be simple enough.
So answer to your question is yes and no
Yes, because prog is something you could easily create taste for (judging by the fact that it was possible to do so for Marylin Manson music... 
) but it would certainly have to change a bit in course of this process - and therefore no, because I'm not sure if you could still call it prog.
On a side note, I think Sasha's pr team is as far as you can get with this type of music. I don't think any other dj form this particular playground has such good marketing. All this talking about ableton LONG BEFORE he actually started using it created such a hype! The fundacion series was also well advertised (in advance too). And just look at the Orlando benefit gig flyers - nothing better for a celebrity than to have a charity show at the right moment. Somebody there is doing their homework.Comment
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well, i think its about the electronic music, djs who mix trance get more crowds than djs who do progressive
i guess its something about the bitrate of the sets mixed with extasy that gets to the people
its not just tiesto vs digweed, check pvd, or avb, they all get big shows all the time, i dont thing its about mostly about promotions, carl cox,steve lawler, big names who dont need further promotions and they dont do as well as these trance djs
basicly, trance is the music for the masesComment
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Some time ago I read an (scientific!) article about music complexity. It was some measure designed by profesional musicians to judge the difficulty (in lack of a better word) of a piece of music. The most charging factors were key changes and rythm/beat/whatever changes. The more intricate the tempo and so on, the more complex a piece is. The highest scores were from classical music of course and the lowest for some brazilian dance songs The conclusions from the article were that the complexity can be quite easily translated to popularity - the less complex music appeals to larger audience, while the more complex pieces are savoured by connoiseurs.
If you used this measure to rank edm genres, trance would probably prove to be teh simplest kind, while prog would land somewhere at the other end. This could explain the differences in popularity. And it also means in order to get prog to the masses it would need to be simplified = it would not be the same prog anymore.
Let's face it. We're the elite of the edm listeners. And let's leave it this way.
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There are but three true sports -- bullfighting, mountain climbing, and motor-racing. The rest are merely games. -HemingwayComment
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Trance appeals to girls.
Girls appeal to boys.
Boys will chase girls
Hence trance will be more popular!!"Pain is only weakness leaving the body."Comment
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Fucking Tiesto!!I hate his music!!He play very shit music for me....
Not Question(Tiesto vs.Digweed), Digweed the GOD!!!
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No woman of mine will love trance. Checkpoint #1 on a first date.Originally posted by MorganBlowkick visual & graphic design - No Civilization. Now With Broadband.
There are but three true sports -- bullfighting, mountain climbing, and motor-racing. The rest are merely games. -HemingwayComment
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he is popular for the same reason pop music is popular. zero integrity but will play what the less "into-it" fan wants to hear. he plays to the casual fan of dance music and will probaly be playing garage if it ever becomes the new trance. he is a cunt.your life is an occasion, rise to it.
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Finally the right answer...Originally posted by thesightless
Moreover he's a commercial whore, who'd sell out to anything and anyone if necessary to sell...My life is full of dark times and times when the sun breaks through and makes everything okay again.
People don't know how uplifting music is, until they have been through the dark.
Markus SchulzComment
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no comparisson.... digweed is a leyend. an influence to all of us. tiesto is shit. i would like to go to a gig just to check out the babes though.Comment
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^ I don't think you're answering the right question...Comment
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