its all a matter of perception. i happen to really enjoy minimal. and i personaly find it more powerful more energetic and more psychadelic than a lot of melodic trance. i cant tell you how boring i think astral is, but hey if you love them...listen to them.
i also agree that there is a lot of minimal thats just plain bad. i dont like minimal where theres just some lame loop going on forever, but most minimal is not like that. it does have a great deal of change in it...its just more subtle. i still listen to and love melodic (hehe going to see infected tonight actualy) but i prefer minimal. do i want the melodic acts to stop making music or to start producing minimal...hell no. i want them both.
i do think its a shame though how people are so caught up on thier preconcieved ideas about what "goa" should sound like. for a music genre thats all about patterns and how they change and evolve...a lot of people sure seem to want the music style as a whole to remain stagnant.
patterns and change
chaos theory
the sepant eats its tail to regenerate.
cycles of life.
life means chage, if youre not changing....youre dead.
