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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
Eh... Nah lol. I can't say I'd benefit from this campaign... I haven't enjoyed the sound of trance for awhile now, it's just not powerful enough these days for me.
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Trance still has power, it just gets more and more difficult to find. You have to first muddle through the "EDM"/House tracks masquerading as trance to get to the core of the scene at the moment, and that can be difficult. But there are a lot of tracks I believe that still evoke power. Standerwick does great stuff, as well as Fady & Mina and Simon O'Shine. Simon O'Shine in particular has produced some truly MOVING and POWERFUL tracks within the past few years!
I was thinking you were judging trance off of ayuTrance4, and that would explain your train of thought, but I see you have yet to listen to that. Lol. I suppose recent trance tracks to require a lot of patience, because they like to take the listener on a detour to a very gentle place, and showcase fragility through the melody. But the power after the breakdown is always enhanced because of that.
I find the power and emotion in this track below, to be seriously stellar, and the anticipation the buildup creates for the release is nothing short of sublime. Especially so after the vocalist draws you in with her tragic story of betrayal and abandonment. I love the analogy she makes between deceit and "stealing the sun," and the sorrow behind the ballad-like breakdown pushes that conveyance over the edge. When the energetic synths follow that at 3:13, and she repeats the refrain, it's as if her heart has opened up, and both her depression and her anger come together and manifest themselves as this epic lead, driving the song home. It really is a trip, and I find myself shaking my head numerous times when getting lost in it, as I often do out of disbelief that a force of minds could come together and collectively make so many decisions, given differing conditions, to bestow upon the world a truly magical piece of work. It has, no doubt, very quickly became one of my favorite trance tracks ever.
I cannot fathom the beauty of this track, and the way it escalates with such intensity after the breakdown. From 3:35-4:30 it begins teasing the listener with elements from the release, prolonging desire, dropping hints, manifesting, until the listener is utterly starving for it to all come together. That's always been one of my favorite things about trance, and this piece is no different - how if one has the patience to listen from start to finish, it's like broken pieces of a very complex puzzle are being shown to you, separately, over a period of time, causing you to make predictions as to what it will sound like when the drop gifts it to you in full form.
Another beauty by Simon. Has some kind of deep heartache to the melody.
I love how this one turns unexpectedly sinister after the breakdown. It's like an explosion at 1:52. Given the subject matter on this one, I see it as the inability to let go, when the heart becomes almost blackened by it's desire for continued possession.
I would totally welcome Ayu's works re-imagined with this kind of power.