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
Trance Gemini, the hottest character on the TV show Andromeda. The show sucks, but Trance almost makes up for it. She's a weird purple alien chick, who turns golden in the later seasons of the show, for some reason.
by Bob882 October 8, 2004
Lifeless electronic music of the 4/4 variety. Wishes it were techno. Signified by aggravatingly long drum rolls, low-frequency synth stabs opposite every downbeat and positively mindless melodies that evoke no feeling in serious-minded electronic music enthusiasts. Trance music is often favoured by unsocialized "emo" teens and grown men with ambiguous sexual identities.
Synonyms: garbage, junk, soulless.
Antonyms: Techno.
Synonyms: garbage, junk, soulless.
Antonyms: Techno.
by Proton1 August 11, 2009
Techno with a march layered over the standard 4-on-the-floor drums. Beatless portions are interspersed throughout; these "ambient" sections then get an accompanying snare roll that doubles several times until the bass drums resume. Typically 130-160 BPM.
Characteristic tracks include:
Robert Miles - "The Dream"
Astral Projection - "Mahadeva"
Commander Tom - "Are Am Eye?"
Characteristic tracks include:
Robert Miles - "The Dream"
Astral Projection - "Mahadeva"
Commander Tom - "Are Am Eye?"
"When she played that trance record with the pianos and chanting in it, I suddenly started crying and dancing really hard. I couldn't stop crying or dancing."
"Trance'll do that to you."
"Trance'll do that to you."
by heikediguoren April 21, 2006