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The future of music is here, and as this article lays out, it is incredibly bleak.

> Flooding the zone this way caused TikTok’s algorithm to funnel posts featuring “Toxic” into the feeds of users who consume gym-centric content [... ]they began to weave YoungX777’s clip into videos targeting related subcultures—like the region of TikTok obsessed with highlights of soccer players bursting past hapless defenders.

It's a well-known joke that soccer highlight compilations have some of the worst-sounding music known to man, an alternate universe where vocal trance and dubstep never fell out fashion.

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> vocal trance

I find this comment offensive.

I miss mid 2000s vocal trance. Let's see what Spotify has to offer on that.

Sade, dis-moi?

I feel like enigma is more worldbeat than vocal trance though

Somehow I haven’t found anything as good as the internet radio streams that I was listening to with Winamp back in the day… alas now I can’t even remember the name of the big trance / electronic / etc internet-radio group-of-stations website

(Is internet-radio still a thing? Like dedicated internet-radio stations, as opposed to IRL-radio stations who happen to have a web player. I don’t even remember the name of the shoutcast index, and shoutcast itself seems to have been bought out several times over. My gut tells me that on-demand streaming like spotify + podcasts have probably totally killed the space that internet radio used to occupy...)

Internet radio is still a thing! I have recently re-discovered it and now use it daily as background music. If you buy smart speakers that can stream radio (e.g. Heos/Denon), you can use the free TuneIn internet radio service in their app and search for whatever obscure music you are interested in. I just looked up "vocal trance" and there are at least a dozen matches, including stations that have "Vocal Trance" in their name, e.g. "FM 98.5 of Vocal Trance Live". I am not familiar with the genre though so can't vouch for quality.

I had some "Future Trance" CDs that I was listening up and down till I got my first own computer + decent internet and was then hooked up to some 96 kb stream. :-D

Really can't say where the break was, where I ditched WinAmp/Foobar 2000 and had only Spotify left.

Will have to look into internet radio, the other commenter is very positive about that.

> Like dedicated internet-radio stations, as opposed to IRL-radio stations who happen to have a web player.

Digitally Imported is still good, speaking as a happy customer.

> the big trance / electronic / etc internet-radio group-of-stations website

DI.FM?

They're still up, although I don't know how up-to-date their rotation is. I stopped listening to their "stations" when they stopped being a radio, and became a sort of an on-demand streaming service, where every user is fed a different random playlist, and what one hears when tuning into a station is not what everyone else is hearing. They admittedly switched their business in order to pay less taxes, but it completely destroyed the feeling of social connection with other listeners for me. On top of that, closing the lively forums, which provided a comment section for all tracks and shows played on the stations, sure did not help. In retrospect, freeloading those 96kbps mp3 / 64kbps wma / 48kbps aac streams was a good experience; today it's not the same anymore.

(Big off topic, but I don't care much. Those not interested probably collapsed this comment section at its root and are not reading this anyway.)

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