trance

A form of electronic music that has spiralled out from other forms such as techno and house. Essentially, trance combines a powerful "4-to-the-floor" (or occasionally breakbeat) drumtrack with a strong melodic hookline.

Trance is indisputably one of the most emotional genres that actually exists, because it is all self-interpretation. There are no instrumental or musical limits to trance, and rather than listening to some random guy screaming about his life, associating with a trance progression or hookline is much more deep, and much more personal.

Like other genres, trance has many subgenres, some of which have become very commercialised to the extent where the musical merit of some tracks must be questioned (eg. Flip'n'Fill, Scooter etc.)

At the higher end of the more uplifting, melodic (and relatively popular) styles of trance are DJs such as Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, and Ferry Corsten. These DJs in particular can make beautifully structured mixes their own music, and the music of others, building it into a euphoric collage which spans multiple energy levels, in order to provide the listener with peak/trough feelings, and carry them through numerous emotions and mental states.

The creation and spread of trance music is mainly down to machinery such as the Roland JP-8000 (providing the prominently manipulated supersaw wave), and experimental DJs such as Sasha & John Digweed.

I want to listen to a melodic, energetic form of music that emotionally affects my state of mind. Therefore, I will listen to trance.

by Col April 20, 2004

Hard Trance

Like a 3 and a half minute orgasm of music.

People commonly mistake hard trance for hardstyle...There aren't that many hard trance composers :/

by mkifyousayso August 10, 2010

youtube trance

Spending hours on end on youtube, going from one related video to the next, in a kind of trance-like state. Similar to a wiki-binge.

Ricardo Rafiel Johnson: Dawg, how long have you been on that computer?

Timothy Jared Schwartz: About five hours.

Ricardo Rafiel Johnson: Dude, you need to snap out of that youtube trance.

by NOTMYNECK2 July 27, 2009

Trance Energy

A large event held annually at the Jaarbeurs convention center in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is an event in which (unsurprisingly) trance music is played. Trance Energy features many of the world's top DJ's, as well as crowds up to 30,000 coming from around the world.

Person #1: Trance Energy is awesome! When did you get into this sort of thing?
Person #2: I played DDR! Check out these moves! *begins stamping on floor in four different directions*
Person #1: *walks away*

by Purple Circles April 24, 2009

Trancension

This is the movement from being a nerd to being awesome. From geek to sheek. From fool to cool.

Jason has completed the Trancension into awesomness.

by Funnyjelo December 21, 2009

Swimmer's trance

(n.) A condition of daydreaming while swimming laps for competitive competition/practice. The tendency of someone to have such a condition while swimming generally reflects their vulnerability of daydreaming and can impair their memory such as not being able to recall how long of a distance they are swimming, what stroke they may be swimming and how long they may need to swim it for. This phenomenon generally occurs more frequently during a longer swim for swimmers at a swimming distance rate of x/y=1/1.5 where x, equal to one, is the average length of the swam distance per a workout or meet and where y, equal to 1.5, is the added distance in which a swimmer may have higher chances of being subject to swimmer's trance. Therefore, if the average distance swam by a swimmer was 200 meters during his/her workout or competition per each time he/she swam again in their workout then swimmer's trance would likely occur more frequently at distances of 300 meters or more. For this reason many long-distance events in a swim meet now have counters in which another person flips a sign with rotating board windows to indicate the number of laps already swum. Usually a solid red square or rectangle is used to indicate that upon reaching the next wall after this flip turn that they should stop swimming and almost eliminates the chances of swimmer's trance affecting a swimmer's time in competition.

Mike suffered from such a bad case of swimmer's trance that he couldn't lead off his lane for practice with concerns that he would forget what they were supposed to be swimming.

by Ohh Baracuda! February 15, 2007

trancerall

The feeling you get when you listen to trance music while studying, similar to the effects of adderall.

"I was zoned in for five hours on trancerall, and no smurf boogers!"

by peckerle May 2, 2010