Trance (1989): Trance emerged in Frankfurt at the very start of the 1990s, at the crossing of techno and Germany's cosmic musical heritage: a music of repetition and build,…
Acid Trance (1992): Acid trance puts the TB-303 to work in the service of ecstasy rather than grime: long acid lines, resonance rising with the track, straight kicks and…
Balearic Trance (1991): Trance music with its eyes on the sea: languid guitars, open piano chords, and held-back tempos carrying the spirit of Ibiza over rave song structures.…
Dream Trance (1993): Italy between 1995 and 1997 turned trance into a stadium lullaby: a melancholic piano carries the hook, a house trance rhythm section does the rest. Children…
Ibiza Trance (1993): Trance filtered through Ibiza in the late 1990s: sunny melodies, balearic guitars, and wide, open production sitting somewhere between the club and a…
Progressive Trance (1994): Trance learning the patience of progressive house: fewer shouted choruses, more long trajectories, rolling basslines and layers that assemble themselves over…
Tech Trance (1998): Tech trance is the hard zone between techno and trance: the massive kicks of the former, the arpeggios and tension of the latter, and very little melodic…
Uplifting Trance (1998): Uplifting trance is the genre at its emotional peak: enormous breakdowns, major-key melodies climbing in steps, and resolution as euphoric release. Formalized…
Vocal Trance (1997): Vocal trance is trance turned into song: a female voice floats over the arpeggios, the breakdown carries the verse, and the drop stands in for the chorus.…
Euro Trance (1998): Euro trance is the commercial dancefloor version of trance from the turn of the 2000s: simple choruses, pitched-up vocals, pumping kicks, three minutes…
Anthem Trance (1997): Anthem trance is the trance of the turn of the millennium's anthems: a simple, enormous theme, repeated until it becomes unforgettable. Greece 2000 in 1998,…
Orchestral Trance (2002): Trance written like a score: sampled strings, classical harmonic progressions, breakdowns that unfold like a symphonic movement. Tiesto carried it to stadiums…
German Trance (1992): German trance is the historic heart of the genre, made in Frankfurt and Berlin between 1992 and 1996 when trance was still an exploratory music. Labels like…
Hard Trance (1997): Hard trance is trance on steroids, born in German and Dutch raves: hardened kicks flirting with the nascent hardstyle sound, hoover leads, abrupt build-ups…
