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> Hector, if some musicians did not break some rules and not
> cow tow to the "crowd"  your beloved trance music would never
> have come about in the first place!

_All_ musicians break somebody else's rules, some do it more than others.
There are no written rules. What is a rule in one person's mind is not
necessarily a rule in another's.   There were _no_ universally accepted
rules.  People did as they wanted in studios,  and genres were allowed to
form because of that.

It is a shame I should be having to repeat myself.  The words below are
quoted from my own previous posting.    Did you  read them?

'just look at the genre 'psychedelic trance'.  There is and has
been an enormous amount of sonic innovation/experimentation. Sure, you could
do so much to a track that it becomes virtually unrecognisable as being part
of a particular genre.  But a lot of producers don't want to and prefer to
stick _loosely_ to styles that they know and love.  Just because there are
many people that like to take their music to completely new/original
structures and styles, it does not mean that _everybody_ has to do this and
should
be criticised if they don't.'

'The truth is that most DJ's, like myself, fall
into a middle-ground or grey area where _some_ risky new stuff is tried out,
but most music played is in a style that the crowd wants and expects.'

'It is perfectly possible to, within the course of a DJ set, to be
innovative/creative  _and_  play a lot of what a crowd wants to hear. The
tricky bit is
getting the balance right.'

The two quotes above referring to dj'ing apply just as much to bands.

Regards Hector.