I was into Tiesto about 2 or 3 years ago...was listening to his Magik compilations. Especially like Magik 4 - A New Adventure and also Magik 5 - Live in Amsterdam but as time went by...I just progressed from it and got into more tribal,dubby,techy house. It's not that I didnt like his music, just that I got a bit tired of that sound. He's a very talented DJ/Producer.....that Tijs Verwest . Oakenfold on the other hand....WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED MY FRIEND. he has SO MUCH talent...but he chooses to take it in the wrong direction. He is musically going BACKWARDS in time. And I DON'T mean going back to the roots of music, because alot of DJ/Producers are doing that in fact with house music, but he spins stuff that you would hear on a Dream Dance compilation with the dolphins on the cover. Take your pick 1 through 17 . In turn, trance isn't bad...just that trance itself has progressed...to stuff like tech-trance...artists such as Starecase,Max Graham,Tilt (Parks and Wilson), have made it into this techy, non cheezy, yet still trancy sounding form. and the guys who really take the cake on taking trance to a new level are Way Out West. I can't even put their stuff in a category.If you've heard their album Intensify.... It's intelligent,powerful,INTENSE, trance. Even Deep Trance.no cheese whatsoever. Maybe their track The Fall is a bit played out (thank you Dave Seaman, and John Digweed,lol)....but still nicely remixed from that 70's song Autumn Leaves .