A Sub-Genre of Techno/Electronica.
Usually incorporates pianos, melodic Riffs, hypnotic vocals, and/or a relaxing/upbeat tune.
Although not as popular in the United States, Trance continues to thrive and flourish in Europe, especially in Germany and the UK.
(If you want a good example of Trance, get D1 Amara - Pulse)
Usually incorporates pianos, melodic Riffs, hypnotic vocals, and/or a relaxing/upbeat tune.
Although not as popular in the United States, Trance continues to thrive and flourish in Europe, especially in Germany and the UK.
(If you want a good example of Trance, get D1 Amara - Pulse)
Raver A:There was this awesome DJ playing some heavy trance last night...
Raver B:Nice... Who was it?
Raver A:Nick Bracegirdle dude!
Raver B:HOLY SH*T YOU MEAN CHICANE?!
Raver B:Nice... Who was it?
Raver A:Nick Bracegirdle dude!
Raver B:HOLY SH*T YOU MEAN CHICANE?!
by Keiichi May 5, 2003
trance is a definition for one of the best music types in the world. there are different types of trance music such as; progressive, psychedelic, and goa.
by el turco July 11, 2008
98/99 was trance's downfall from a production and creative level. The cheap gimmick of the build-breakdown-anthem was what allowed it to become so commercial and so successful.
Pure trance is very repetitive, unresponsive, hypnotic, and is an acquired taste.....the exact antithesis to the music that dominated the club scene in 98/99.
Thing is......people are stupid. They have neither the intelligence nor the patience nor the introspection to appreciate something like trance, so they virtually ignored it for most of its existence until trance developed these singalong melodies and flighty, ethereal orchestral chords.
Only when trance brought itself down to the level of the lowest-common denominator of music listeners did it become wildly popular on an unprecedented level. And like anything, it created a theme. A gimmick, in the form of shallow breakdowns and trite, limp anthems. And like any gimmick, it needed to be exploited, milked dry, chewed up and spat out. Trance producers became addicted to the insta-fame the new Anthem Trance gave them. A lot of them started making a very comfortable living, and they refused to go back........they refused to take risks, refused to innovate, refused to produce, succeed, and excel in music. They grew lazy and complacent. It was far easier, after all, to simply replicate the same song over and over again with the same template, with a few minor key changes. They churned out, instead, Pulp Trance, manufactured assembly line McTrance, commercial schlock intended for mass consumption.
The music, like breads and circuses, distracted the ignorant peons from what trance was supposed to be doing to them. They ate it all, of course. Like greedy little consumers, they swallowed the tra(sh)nce whole and asked for more, never thinking about the care or quality of the culture that once fostered it. Like a seed passing undigested through the body of a bird, they drifted in and out of the rave scene, devouring the products of trance but never thinking to enrich and strengthen the community; like parasites, they became docile spectators, free to engorge themselves on the superscene they're told to worship; never to participate, never to involve, never to self-actualize.
And then they proceeded to think that they were (and still are) somehow more cultured and evolved than the rest of society because they listen to this bumping underground trance music, unaware that trance is utilizing essentially the exact same tricks, techniques and sacharine schmaltz that they so loathed about the pop music world. Trance became instrumental pop music in 1998. That's why it became so popular.
Nothing "beautiful" or "magical" about that.
Pure trance is very repetitive, unresponsive, hypnotic, and is an acquired taste.....the exact antithesis to the music that dominated the club scene in 98/99.
Thing is......people are stupid. They have neither the intelligence nor the patience nor the introspection to appreciate something like trance, so they virtually ignored it for most of its existence until trance developed these singalong melodies and flighty, ethereal orchestral chords.
Only when trance brought itself down to the level of the lowest-common denominator of music listeners did it become wildly popular on an unprecedented level. And like anything, it created a theme. A gimmick, in the form of shallow breakdowns and trite, limp anthems. And like any gimmick, it needed to be exploited, milked dry, chewed up and spat out. Trance producers became addicted to the insta-fame the new Anthem Trance gave them. A lot of them started making a very comfortable living, and they refused to go back........they refused to take risks, refused to innovate, refused to produce, succeed, and excel in music. They grew lazy and complacent. It was far easier, after all, to simply replicate the same song over and over again with the same template, with a few minor key changes. They churned out, instead, Pulp Trance, manufactured assembly line McTrance, commercial schlock intended for mass consumption.
The music, like breads and circuses, distracted the ignorant peons from what trance was supposed to be doing to them. They ate it all, of course. Like greedy little consumers, they swallowed the tra(sh)nce whole and asked for more, never thinking about the care or quality of the culture that once fostered it. Like a seed passing undigested through the body of a bird, they drifted in and out of the rave scene, devouring the products of trance but never thinking to enrich and strengthen the community; like parasites, they became docile spectators, free to engorge themselves on the superscene they're told to worship; never to participate, never to involve, never to self-actualize.
And then they proceeded to think that they were (and still are) somehow more cultured and evolved than the rest of society because they listen to this bumping underground trance music, unaware that trance is utilizing essentially the exact same tricks, techniques and sacharine schmaltz that they so loathed about the pop music world. Trance became instrumental pop music in 1998. That's why it became so popular.
Nothing "beautiful" or "magical" about that.
by pseudonym November 9, 2004
An extinct form of electronic dance music (EDM for short) that has been wiped out of superiority by way of popularization and commercialization.
Trance used to be good throughout the 90s and early 2000s when it actually contained a beat you could dance to and a melody that could almost literally put you in a trance (hence the name of the genre). Now it's all a bunch of shoddy "HousePop" made by primitive DJs that are trying their absolute hardest to stay in the picture and make money as a result of their chosen career.
by blaqueplague November 14, 2013
person 1: hey do you like paul van dyks song castles in the sky?
person 2: yeaaah one of the best songs of trance!
person 2: yeaaah one of the best songs of trance!
by __blonde October 15, 2006
Music that comes out from evolution of techno, new wave, psychodelia, hindi music and others. Just allowed to people who like good music. It means not allowed to brains who consider rap majestic. Enjoy the silence..
Would you compare Michellangelo and Picasso? The Doors and Pavarotti? In trance there is some music (especially european) but there's also a lot of rubbish. Just sort them out
by Jg July 28, 2003
trance is sad
it's a tear
it's the cry of the memories
the music of lost feelings
of the love that hurts
or if you're lucky enough, is the music of recapture...
the music of two people
that cry
again
holding eachother
maybe from happiness
or perhaps because of the things that hurts to much to be like they were somethimes...
but in the same time trance is an attempt to forget
a prison-breaking
an escape
to sublime...
it's a tear
it's the cry of the memories
the music of lost feelings
of the love that hurts
or if you're lucky enough, is the music of recapture...
the music of two people
that cry
again
holding eachother
maybe from happiness
or perhaps because of the things that hurts to much to be like they were somethimes...
but in the same time trance is an attempt to forget
a prison-breaking
an escape
to sublime...
by !LL4armin August 11, 2005