But there's always underground and mainstream. It's just that some producers get tired of being "in the shadows", putting to much work into their music for a small niche of people who appreciate it and probably download the music from the web for free. The way I see it, it's just some musicians that get seduced by the lights of fame, success, the chance to make real money from their work. There's some very bad examples of that. I think there's a band with a name similar to this forum that rings a bell.
But while there's a whole pack of artists in psytrance that started good and then turned to more cheesy commercial music, there's still a very diversified underground scene and music going. What we sometimes feel is that it has changed and we can never get that element of surprise back. But that's mostly us that have changed. It used to be new for us, now it isn't. But there's always new people coming in and their amazement is very similar to what we've felt back then. It's only different.
And while we can go on talking about the specifics of a given genre, I feel trance is like a state of mind that can be achieved through music and sharing the experience with other people. That's just as good a possibility as it was when it all started, the rest of it is just trends, labels, organizers and their greed levels - sometimes it goes of the charts, sometimes you find good stuff. Take a look at this events, for example: boom festival and ozora festival. The atmosphere in there is just amazing. Just an example.
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