Trance Producer To Add Uplifting Female Vocal To Track So That People Know It’s Definitely Trance
Not one to be overwhelmed by convention or hackneyed cliches a young trance producer has elected to use what he has described as “a haunting, yet uplifting female vocal” on his latest production to ensure that anyone who chances to listen to it will be reasonably assured that they are listening to trance music.
“If you don’t include a vaguely uplifting and gaspy female vocal on your track then how are people supposed to know that it’s trance they’re listening to?” questioned producer and man, Gavin Maxwell, who creates pounding trance beats and soft mid song breakdowns using a variety of piano phrases.
“As a producer you need to take people by the hand and guide them through the song by using all the obvious markers that they understand and are familiar with – it’s how Martin Garrix writes all of his tracks that sound broadly identical.”
Gavin claims that the human ear tends not to recognise trance music as trance music if a soaring female vocal is removed from it – with most people terming the resulting vocal-free music as “music from like a film or an ad or something” and “mad string sounding shit that would be sort of epic if a bird warbled over it about reaching for the skies”.
“The vocal has not only to be sung by a woman but must also have the suggestion that she’s an elven princess singing it on top of a castle in a thunderstorm,” he continued, insisting that to achieve this effect he’ll simply add some raindrop effects like N-Trance. “It won’t work with a male vocalist. The last two tracks I made used a slowed down, filtered male vocal but people just though it was a nu-disco.”
“One track I actually didn’t use any vocals whatsoever but people just thought it was classical music, sped up with a beat thrown under it,” he added. “Which, I think, is pretty much how trance was invented.”
Gavin’s track, entitled Seabeams & The Smell Of Rain and featuring an especially epic female vocal about nature and stuff, is set to be released next week and is expected to feature on the playlists of teenaged girls everywhere under the heading ‘Trance’.
“It’s important for contemporary dance music fans to know exactly what genre it is they’re listening to at all times,” concluded Gavin. “That way when they’re questioned by their wannabe DJ, genre-pedant mates on the ‘scene’ they won’t lose face by mistakenly identifying the wrong genre – a fate which would see them labelled as a philistine fan and someone who doesn’t know their tech-house from their tech-progressive-future-trance.”