how do you feel about the music NOW compaired to late 90's

[AndyH]

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97/98

For an Angel - PVD

Brrrrr, goose bumps...

I def think music from the latter part of this year has really picked up. i like the leaning towards minimal type sounds that are creeping in. Even some housey stuff u hear on the radio, although I dont like it, sometimes has a nice little noise in it or something that u can pick up on..

[Kamal]

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Voyage - Yahel

didn't think I'd see that on here

[rainman]

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VIVA KEOKI

[thesightless]

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EDM is better for my tastes, rock got a lot worse

[RiseandShine]

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Even though i really love prog, i'm impressed how edm as a whole has made its way through, never thought it would have like this - also like how it accomodates with other musical genres

[Funky Dredd]

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I've enjoyed it all since the late 80's! There were a few times when I wasn't too interested in some tracks (2004/2005) but overall it's been good.

[DancingQueen]

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Brrrrr, goose bumps...

I def think music from the latter part of this year has really picked up. i like the leaning towards minimal type sounds that are creeping in. Even some housey stuff u hear on the radio, although I dont like it, sometimes has a nice little noise in it or something that u can pick up on..

I agree...the last yr and a bit has given life back to the scene. I was starting to lose faith that the music was going to continue down a crappy spiral. However, we have been graced with many new talents that actually know how to make a tune. Even some of the older producers out there have turned it up a notch to stay up to par with the noobies.

didn't think I'd see that on here

haha I am full of surprises

Voyage is one of my favourite tracks ever! I missed the days when this was played live, and thought I would never hear it until Tiesto came to The Docks here in December of 04, and played a 6hr set and he went all old school with the tracks for a good 2.5hrs of the set and when that dropped...man I had goosebumps. I lost it!

[AndyH]

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Even though i really love prog, i'm impressed how edm as a whole has made its way through, never thought it would have like this

Def agree.. I was saying this to my mate the other day. No other 'scene' has stuck around for anywhere near as long as dance music. Long may it continue..

[BSully828]

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I don't know if this goes for anyone else, but the reason I look back to the late 90's so fondly is because that's when I first really really got into the music. Since I was a newbie I listened to just about everything I could get my hands on that would be considered "electronica". Some of the mixes that came out in that time - Tranceport 1 & 2, GU's from Digweed, Emerson, Sasha, Gatecrasher Red/Blue TranceGlobalNation - those were my first real, proper mix CD's. Follow that up with seeing some of those DJ's live for the first time and my taste in music was totally defined. It was solely because of the sights and sounds from that time that I got put on the progressive track rather than D&B or jungle or happy hardcore. Sure, my tastes have changed a little bit since, but they've never strayed too far from the prog style and its all because of tracks like Belfunk, The Bassline Track, 1998, Someone, Greece, Calling Your Name ect.. ect..

The best part of this music (and any genre of music really) is how in changes. Like some have already said, listening to prog morph from trancy to dark and evil to techy to electro has had its highs and lows, but it's always kept our interest. Let's face it: even at its worst, the music has us on this site all day every day talking about it - that alone should speak for its longevity!

[picklemonkey]

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maybe it's because we were all still doped up during those years.

[AndyH]

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Maybe its coz the dope was any good in those years

[Flingleflump]

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I'm still stuck in the 90s, Xpander, Space Maneouvres Stage One, Tyrantannic, Innerspace! I find some of the newer stuff a bit too funky! Give me dreamy ... although some of James Holdens recent sets have some pretty cool tracks.

[losehlertx13]

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Its all what you find and where you find it. 90's had some choice tunes, but it also had some crap that would make you want to claw your ears out in self defense, then again the same could be said about recent music as well. As far as 90's go, progressive house to me was at its peak, and that is what really got me "hooked". As of late the genre has been less than decent but that is just my 2 cents. As the years progress so does technology allowing any slapdick the ability to make music which is a ginormous double edged sword. Wow, with all those words you think I would have come close to answering the question...

[GregWhelan]

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I think there is still quality music out there but you have to look MUCH harder to find it.

There is an unbelieveable amount of garbage out there e.g Trentemoller, MANDY, Booka Shade, Tiefschwarz and all that german minimal crap can just go right away, I can't stand it really.

The late 90's are quality, but I don't listen to it all the time, I do seek out new sets, but like I said it's harder to find something I like.

[hypoluxxa]

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I don't care much for the music that has come out over the past 3 years. That's the reason I hardly post here anymore, nobody wants to hear people bitch about how much you hate the music they still like.