Losing interest in prog

Oh, I still love the old stuff; it is just that new developments leave me cold . One reason for that may also be my own music, which I don't think would fall under "prog" but which interests me a lot more.

I've been a bit bored with prog myself lately, but this often happens with my musical tastes. I'm listening to more jazz than anything else at the moment, but there are still occasional Zeuhl and RIO gems to stimulate my jaded palate.

I've been sick of prog for years. Whenever I found this site, I was excited and listened to everything that was listed on this site and I could get my hands on. Now, after a few years, I've listened to each genre extensively and found the artists that I enjoy versus the artists that I think are kind of lame, and now I'm less interested in prog and have moved onto my next phase: dance music and nu-jazz.

I must say I lose interest in prog. It just does not interest me anymore what new albums come out, with the odd exception. Jazz and classical music  are much more interesting, in my opinion.. There is so much music to discover which expands my mind more than prog; why, completely exploring the works of Johann Sebastian Bach lone seems to be a task that would take a lifetime but would be much more fulfilling than wasting my time with so-called "new" prog albums which are more or less just an endless repetition of what has already been said.

What's more: I hate the way albums are being produced these days; they all sound extremely sterile. Each instrument clearly separated from the other. Some audio freaks may rejoice about that, but that is not what music sounds like when it is being played live. The instruments all mingle then; there are multiple reverberations and fractions of sound, and this is what makes music sound "alive"; so much nicer for my ears.

I know many of you will disagree and come up with examples of what I absolutely "have" to hear. And I know equally well that I will listen to it, shrug and say "so what?"