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h@... writes:

>Then the question remains: if today's "trance generation" (if such a 
>thing exists) is 20 years older, which songs that still receive 
>airplay will then be "nostalgia" to them?
i don't think there is a 'trance generation': lumpifying listeners by 
age-category seems a mildly deluded activity, at best.
*-))
my kids enjoy listening to squarepusher, oval, aphex, takemura etc, as do i 
w/them:
indeed, i turned them on to that kinda (not-trance) stuff.
they --- and their friends, and their crowd --- do not seem to specifically 
identify w/any musical 'style', which i perceive as truly open-minded: would 
that more people of *my* generation were like that!
i think that there *was* no 'beatles' generation, nor was there a 'steely 
dan' generation:
that type of thinking seems to conform w/a standard of 'media convention', 
arrived at and agreed upon via consensus for conversational convenience.
(when you were listening to the beatles, i was listening to ornette coleman, 
miles davis, al green and hari prasad chaurasia etc--- when you were 
listening to steely dan, i was listening to the early ecm recordings, magma, 
carla bley, lookout farm, the headhunters, mahavishnu, etc. 
howver..... lucky for me, i played catch-up, later on.....)
and:
fwiw:
there is truly fresh and recent music in the world, today; it's simply become 
necessary to look for it..... in trance, in hiphop, in songwriting, in new 
music, in jazz.....
best,
dt / splattercell