Is classic trance going to make a comeback?

[xtreme sounds]

Here is a link to a new song by BT called 1997.

[chk071]

As i couldn't listen to Spotify, because they require you to register i Google'd for the track, and found it on Youtube. Well, not bad, but... doesn't knock me out of my shoes either. I never was a big fan of Ferry Corsten or BT, though. And, i also prefer early 2000's Trance to 1997. Nonetheless, i'd hope they go back, in regards of the style of music. Whenever i listen to A State of Trance now, i hold my head in shame...

Not that i blame them, it's always the audience which sucks.

[sprnva]

All of the 90s will be making a comeback. It's the thirty year cycle.

[Distorted Horizon]

Did it ever go away?

[tehlord]

It sounds like mediocre trance from 10 years ago, not good trance from 20 years ago.

[xtreme sounds]

I switched the link to youtube

[chk071]

[mladi]

The tone of the snare is to acoustic and didn't fit with the rest. Track at all isn't something special the hook is very mediocre and everything sounds like it was produced in a rush & somehow unfinished. I expected much more from this two grand EDM producers. Strange..

[anoise]

It's rather weak and thin. Sounds more like a (bad) remix of this "phat" track:

[ztrauq]

My verdict on "1997" would be: not classic trance. The initial part to me sounds way too sort of modern dubstep-edgy, and the beat isn't nearly driving enough for the main anthem/melody part, which sounds to me more like some sort of synthwave-house thing. Definitely agree that it's pretty thin-sounding. Sadly, so far as trance goes, I don't think it even measures up to the stuff from the "100 trance tracks for cheap" compilation I found somewhere years ago...

[samsam]

Sat on roof terrace with beer.

I subscribe to the Spotify.

Sounds summery.

[Forgotten]

It sounds like mediocre trance from 10 years ago, not good trance from 20 years ago.

[kvnes]

Perhaps it is better described as 'minimal techno' and/or 'house', but its 'trance', too-

Did you catch may's LNOE? It is amazing:

Any 'the field' fans?

[yellowmix]

I like it, it's got cute throwback arrangement and elements, don't think it's going to be a classic. They've produced several classics between the two of them. Corsten's got so many aliases/projects it's hard to keep track, but as Albion, "Air" was everywhere in the late 90s. BT in the 90s, I think Blue Skies was the first thing that charted from over the pond. Great track but it wouldn't fly today.

Technology's changed, new techniques and styles have been developed, things don't come back, they've been subsumed into culture and are always there. People sure ate up An Innocent Man though.

Stromae made a 90s version of "Alors on Danse" way back in 2010—there's been grumblings of an appetite for it. The Korg M1 piano was everywhere around 2015. Is any artist capable of making a 90s homage concept album today?

[anomandaris1]

The best "trance" riffs and melodies I have heard are by guys like Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann etc. Someone just needs to add a techno beat to existing compositions or make new compositions in this style. I remember that there were quite a few trance remixes of classical melodies (before trance died in popularity to anthem house subgenres, which are way more melodic and rhythmically interesting, compared to formulaic trance stuff).