What is trance series: Trance is a state of mind

This article is an ongoing paper on trance music. Sourced from self and the net, it deals with history and personal opinion of which neither can really be seen in any manner except fiction or deluded nonfiction this article is intended for entertainment purposes only and well anything you use it for. Also included is a brief attempt at defining trances’ subgenres and finally the beginning of a trance media timeline. Anyone with information they would like to see added to this article please send the information to w_ashley@sympatico.ca.

It is still somewhat at an informal level any grammar or logical usages can be sent as well, note this is a mix us/canadian English spell check. Trance as a mainstream musical genre is reported to emerge in the early to mid 90’s gaining more focus by the mid to late 90’s to the point of club esprit de corps at various focal points of the electronic dance community and all around the world supported by local dj’s and music avant gardests. (Heh). The origins of trance music can be traced back to source like all other musical genres tribalism nature, and evolving musical notions religious roots emanating from a spiritual state of mind reminiscent of shamanism and elements of Buddhism to the classical renaissance and moving into the industrial era. In the early 1900’s electroaccoustics began to emerge. It seems that genred or popular or mass following oh electroaccoustics have been invoking interest all the while however in the 60 and 70’s the technology was sufficiently available and the environment seemed to be brewing. Drug culture and electronic culture always seems to be tied together however just listening to electroaccoustics and classic acoustic pieces of craft you gain natural states of emotive responsiveness which become even more drastic in a chemically altered state. There are many names identified with early electronic music the pioneers, the list seems to be classed by the godfathers of genres and those who were steadfast in creating or rather being the focal point of definition and emulation Bellow is an overview of what others have said about the history of trance.

From god to if so evolution in a classical mindset up Luigi Russolo inspiration to the Dada artistic movement of Balle, Tzara, Janco & Huelsenbeck to therimin, moog hop scotching to many others such as Moroder the hotspots seems to be scattered all around the world with cross breedings of thoughts and ideas of many different cultures technology seemed to advance mindedly right up into the electronic revolution and free love. Like djing it has been an evolving art form from beeps and clicks and other oddities of artist such as kraftwerk and jarre and even pink Floyd which may be more focused on the birth of electronic music into the mainstream identification each of the early artists biographies seem to shed some light on the forces that seem to springboard the electronic music into a post industrial era..

A party scene began to develop on the beautiful beaches of Goa, during in the 1960s, embracing music, psychedelics, beaches, and the freedom of life in general. These beaches saw artists like The Doors, Pink Floyd, and Grateful Dead; a handful of DJs and performers in Goa began spread to Europe. Electronic Body Music (ebm) pioneered by Front 242, DAF and Nitzer Ebb, was a wonderful resource of new material. Inspiration was also drawn from DJs around the world that brought their own unique cultural music to Goa. And, without a doubt, a huge influence on the party scene was the traditional music style of India.

More important than the musical styles, however, was the unity of the people and the sharing of cultures and art. A huge part of the Goa scene was and is based around the sharing of these things, and is intricate to keeping the scene pure and away from classification, hype, and abuse. Two of Goa's pioneering DJs, Goa Gil and Fred Disko, were heavily involved in this activity and their performances are legendary in the Goa scene. Still, after a time of this musical montage, a particular style began to surface, and in preparation for Goa parties, certain sounds and vibes were selected to enhance the experience for everyone present. The style that emerged is what was referred to as "Trance Dance," but that we now refer to as Goa Trance

There are quite a few roots cited to trance one such is “For the origins of trance, you want to go back to Throbbing Gristle's "20 Jazz-Funk Greats" and the track 'Hot on the heels of love' in particular. TG is at the root of most forms of modern electronic music. Two of the members of TG, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti later released an instrumental album called "Trance" as Chris & Cosey in 1982 and basically set the ball rolling for the style to develop. “ Another rumour has it that in 1986 young Mexican girls from east Los Angeles created a new musical style called "tantra" which was later called "trans" then "trance”, with positive idyllic groundings as an alternative to hiphop sounds of their boyfriends.

In the late 80's trance was emerging via new wave/industrial music, techno disco of Detroit; and psychedelic music of the seventies. Elements of what would become trance music were being explored by industrial artists in the late 1980s. Psychic TV's 1989 album Towards Thee Infinite Beat, featuring drawn out and monotonous patterns with short but repeating voice samples, is considered by some to be the first trance album for others The Master Musicians of Joujouka have been claimed by many to be modern founders of what became trance music in a recorded format.

DJs from places such as England and America began to take note of the intensity and unity of Goa Trance parties. After some time, Goa parties began to grow to enormous sizes, and the events became stuff of legend. Since those glory days of the late 80s/early 90s, the Goa scene has moved to other areas of the world, most importantly England and Israel, the latter being the "second home" for the movement, still thriving on positive vibes and energy 1988 Goa Trance was made with TB 303.

A melodic, more-or-less freeform style of music derived from a combination of techno and house which was popular at the time in Europe actually today what is euro is what could be considered trance in the early 90’s. Industrial artists made trancey albums that were generally experiments as trance became to take off in the rave culture, most of these artists abandoned the genre; Coil's 1991 album Love's Secret Domain is probably the last major trance album by an industrial artist.

The Orb and other early dance pioneers were mixing ambient records with current club-oriented sounds, many producers and DJs in the UK and Germany began taking notice. As early as 1990, Cosmic Baby was experimenting with classical piano and synthesizer melodies contrasted against techno rhythms, and in 1993 released one of the most popular trance songs of all time, "Cafe del Mar" (under the pseudonym Energy 52) which is still being remixed today. Sven Väth discovered this track and released it on his newly-founded Eye-Q imprint. Sven Väth himself went on to release one of the seminal records in Ambient Trance: "An Accident in Paradise", which merged extensive ambient textures with the harder trance sounds gaining popularity in Europe. Also released around this time Cygnus X- the orange theme

Having "anthemic" qualities a track could then be described as being comprised of a particular melodic and/or vocal hook which is given presence over an uncomplicated bassline, a simple drum pattern (which often includes snare and/or kick drum rolls to mark "big moments"), and perhaps one or two other semi-quantified aural elements to provide texture and enhance the rhythm. Trance also usually features more complicated chord progressions and melodies than were found in the music at the time, including 4 chord progressions symptomatic of 80's new wave. Another definition states it as uptempo, uplifting and often euphoric energetic synthesized sounds pumped by a 4/4 beat and massive hooks, often with long breakdowns building slowly to create a tension and expectancy on the dancefloor. Often with driving off-the-beat basslines and utilizing major and minor chords in sequence, trance tracks can take a central "epic" form or the form of one of several sub-genres including Goa trance with its acid-like dreamscapes, Psytrance with its repetitive hallucinogenic properties and Hard trance with its beat-driven, 303 like overtones.

"The 'soul' of the machines has always been a part of our music. Trance always belongs to repetition, and everybody is looking for trance in life... in sex, in the emotional, in pleasure, in anything... so, the machines produce an absolutely perfect trance."

--Ralf Hütter, 1991, quoted in Kraftwerk: Man Machine and Music, Pascal Bussy

The repetitive nature of much of the early trance tracks provided club-goers with the ideal chance to immerse themselves in a new style of music after a period of relative quiet on what had been termed the "dance" scene. Talla2xl a German club founded in 1984 was one of the first techno “clubs” in Germany which seems to be one of the staging points to techno’s evolution to trance, by the 90’s German clubs seems to be a major source to the sound. Sven Väth's club at the time, Das Omen was a hot spot in the 90s for amazing trance and techno. Paul van Dyk, one of Das Omen's regular guests, was another essential figure in these early times, recording with Cosmic Baby as Visions of Shiva and providing an amazing trance mix for the very first X-Mix video. Oliver Lieb recording under the aliases Paragliders, The Ambush, Spicelab and LSG remixed almost every trance producer of note during the 90s and continues to do so today. His albums spanned entire genres, tribal, fusion, trance to techno Paul van Dyk, Lieb were two of the early figureheads of trance music.

As the style morphed and more mainstream DJs picked up on the sound of trance and definition became more diverse often relegating the traditional trance styles into background sub-genres. One of the popular myths or the spring board for the popular usage is that the name derived in 1991 from a project of Dag Lerner (DJ Dag) and Rolf Ellmer (Jam El Mar) called Dance2Trance. Their song "We Came In Peace" also set the original definition of trance music, a drawn out and monotonous pattern with a short but repeating voice sample. The sound was meant to work hypnotic to the listeners. A fusion of techno and house, early trance shared much with techno in terms of the tempo and rhythmic structures but also added more melodic overtones which were appropriated from the style of house popular in Europe's club scene at that time. (Interestingly enough, that style of house was referred to as "club" or "Euro.") However, the melodies in trance differed from Euro/club in that although they tended to be emotional and uplifting, they did not "bounce around" in the same way that house did. This early trance tended to be characterized by the anthemic qualities described above, and typically involved a break-down portion of the song in which the beat was dropped for a few bars to focus on the melody before bringing the beat back with a renewed intensity.

Classically made by analog synthesizers or more recently digital analog synths, with lush "strings" providing the basis for the melodies and pads, while similar analog equipment used to produce basic bass notes and the regimented "four-on-the-floor" drum loops. With the widespread use of computers there are various software programs/sequencers that now enable music creation abilities such as reason2, cubase, fl studio and many others. Of course all the while technology has been improving as well with many new techno toys and with it an expansion of the possibilities of sound creation/manipulation.

Immensely popular by the mid-1990s, trance had emerged commercially as one of the dominant genres of dance. Trance became synonymous with progressive house as "progressive." BT, PvD, Ferry Corsten, Art Of Trance and Underworld came to the forefront as premier producers and remixers, In 1996, the UK became the core of the new trance phenomenon taking trance to new heights in UK clubs and out to the clubber's island of Ibiza. DJs like Paul Oakenfold, Sasha and Digweed started to open the eyes of the clubbing population to what would probably be best now described as euro-trance: epic winding tracks with monumental breakdowns and uplifting lead lines culminating in the ATB and Delirium sounds of 2000. Assisted by well-known producers like Robert Miles, Sash and BT, these tunes struck to the hearts of an audience looking for new energy and excitement in their music.

To some people trance culture is heavily intertwined with drugs; personally drugs alone have an effect where as the good music alone has an effect the combination of chemical alterers and good music is even more so pronounced. For trance with frequent breakdowns, melodies and fast tempos identification with ecstasy as both trance and ecstasy can stimulate serotonin and other endorphins as too does good emotive music through psychological stimulation (psychoacoustics). Note that MDMA also known as methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine is just one drug and the various subgenres may be more identifiable with other drugs such as acid or mushrooms or well how many drugs are there. Emotions like drugs are largely what you are looking for and each individual can have different personality responses to chemical alternations and combinations of drugs that is a whole other article though. The art of drug use and drug use with music is like fashion and will not be contained in this article.

Trance has spread all around the world having followings in Europe, North America Asia Africa South America and Australia. There are many venues promotions labels artist clubs. Earthdance is an event that is international rendezvous that goes on in over 40 countries all over the world at the same time including Bolivia. There are many others. Some of the most notable dj’s have residences at massive super clubs one well know club that has well known trance dj’s is Cream which has a few locations the original if I’m not mistaken being Liverpool(however I could be mistaken). I won’t go into detail on the structure and magnitude of international promotions companies distributors or labels here although at the bottom of the article is a list of well known labels and artists of trance. Trance around the world like most scenes has some names more recognizable then others and some “superstar” dj’s and producers. For instance in South Africa people may recognize the names Ans and Regan, Tsyoshi and Alien Safari' where as in New York it may be a totally different story.

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Below is a personalized and perhaps of the factual track with a few added snippets of definitions of trance subgenres, note I’ve only had limited exposure to the sound. Popularized in Europe and spreading very quickly around the world and beyond. Trance is considered to have many sub-genres such as:

Melodic heavily melody centered elements of progressive trance although more melodic prescience and more upfront sound grounding of ukclub on a more simplistic side with a cross over of tectrance and hardtrance although the base structure seems to be less predominant and under a blanket of melody.

Dream trance- I’m not sure what to say about this except perhaps a more phatness yet still cinematic quality a mix between euro and progressive trance with slight goa prescience although not so much goa structure also melodic elements seem to be in effect

goa, is more wild sound its hard to really put my finger on it has more of a techno feel or basing to it however it creates a house feeling however its not house groove rather its swaying of the air the mixture of the tec and house elements create a more ambient form of progressive trance or progressive house Goa Trance has grown to mean many things. Some clichés that have remained are huge basses, deep kicks, and 16th or 32nd note melodies. Since the main drug of choice in India was L.S.D., Goa producers took full advantage of this and crafted their tracks to weave and twist and carry the listener away on washes of analog effects and sounds. A Goa Trance track typically ranges from 8 to 10 minutes, its length acting as a direct relation to the idea of a journey: for the first few minutes, the music builds and intensifies until the climax at around the 5 or 6 minute mark. After this climax, there is a long period of time for the DJ to decide whether to let this journey continue, or to jump to something new and different.

Psytrance, mind invoking psychedelic/ mental stimulatory often creating a grip around the mind and more. To me Psytrance is more acidized hardtrance or tectrance with more acidic based elements it differs from goa in the level of mind goa is more up wild mind where psy is more grounded and flowing.

Trance has many forms and shapes and caters for styles across the board but psy-trans' as it is also known is very 'tribal: As the name suggests, it is just that ...a psychedelic Trance. With origins that extend out from the shores of Cape Town, Goa, India and Israel. Psy-trance contains many emotive elements, enchanting percussion, haunting electronics, somewhat muted fast and repetitive baselines and a deep rooted, and womb? State bass. Psychedelic Trance with its unequalled philosophical and `spiritual' obsession is generally associated with new agers, hippies, freaks, underground cult travelers and alternative snobbery. It must be said though, that people from across the spectrum love it. Cape Town has a thriving outdoor Trance culture.

minimalist trance, no clue. Does this genre exist? My guess is that it is some form of ambient.

progressive trance seems a precursor to ukclub and closely knit to progressive house although progressive house seems more housey where as progressive trance is more techy the two meet into the mass of breakbeat industrial techno trance somehow oddly they seem an inversion that creates groups such as prodigy and faithless its like a hole like it fell back but with all the other relative genres. Note progressive trance could be seen as a scaled down version of nu-nrg although having the eurotrance structure however with a more sculptured soundscape. More thin fatness more layers or graining but small small smoothness. It’s in a larger place a smaller sound with a larger prescience.

nu-nrg, fast driving seems an inbetween of progressive techno happyhardcore and tectrance with some hardtrance although the melody seems more involved throughout the track in a more intertwining way perhaps like goa but not in so much of a psychedelic way rather more linear then loose.

tectrance, an inbetween of hardtrance acidtechno/acidtrance and ukclub with more of a progressive techno feel then progressive house to it more built then acidtechno acid trance although seemingly more built then hardtrance or atleast parallel although hardtrance seems more drum drive centered where as tectrance seems more melody drive centered its not tribal or breaky enough to be ukclub trance style

some tracks classified as rave/purerave and quite possibly to me this is a mix of progressive house, in some cases hardcore and tectrance which can often approach happyhardcore although is generally not as happy in a pure happy way but rather has some mindedness to it more acid then happyhardcore and more linear then ukclubtrance but less linear then tectrance

hardhouse where progressive house meets progressive and hardacid techno sounds acid house seems to come into play to some extremes cross bread with hardcore to create faster paced more in your face sounds.

and to a lesser degree acidtec/acidtrance where acid turns into acid techno acidtechno turns into acidtrance built acid trance then minimalized seems to create the groundings of tectrance and perhaps hardtrance to some degree as progressive techno seems to mix with the acidtechno to create the acidtrance where acidtrance and progressive techno meet house it is more hardhouse sounding the acidtrance progressive house and techno into hardhouse this could arguably be more techno then trance however after it leaves the low riding hardacidtechno realm it become trance because it is so alternating with melody.

euro/eurotrance, = more thin, lighter although has an intensity and often uses sectional builds that are often implemented after melody or vocal breakdowns a more tech sound with house bangingness but not deep techno or minimal rather more simplistic tribal i.e. not really tribal or drumy where euro meets pop in dance you have lyrics euro approaches progressive house however where euro is more techy progressive house is more housey and phater and thicker. And heavier.

ukclubtrance also called “urban” trance, and going to the fringe one of my personal favorites more so then others although I’m not so sure of that, usually has nice drum and occasional tribalness to it really nice melodies near hardtrance or tectrance although it usually has really nice techno elements and acid elements looped in occasional breaks or melodic breakdowns and build ups heavy use of synths melodies occasional vocal overlays lyrics seems for me to be between acidtechno and hardhouse oddly since you would think that acidtechno and hardhouse would be completely separate however where acidtechno turns into progressive through acidhouse then it seems progressive house which is the forefront to progressive trance and progressive house where as progressive trance is more tectrance then it is house trance house trance then evolves into hardhouse as the pitch gets booted up and tech trance gets more intricate with breaks as a breading of the breakbeat culture that comes into influence as perhaps a opposition to the progressive i.e. progressive vs. breaks however progressive and breaks gets jammed in together 96 97(very possibly before that)although I would say that techno influences are much more influential then house influences. So I would say ukclubtrance is not progressive house where for me the north American trance sound outside of rave hardtrance and tectrance is progressive house and to a lesser degree euro which is oddly to me more inbetween progressive house and ukclub although in an odd way with the acid and techno elements reduced or removed although the houseyness to euro is more techno then house is. `Urban Trance' has taken the urban dance industry by storm. Characterized by a composition of powerful bagatelles, melodies and vocals, which are introduced as orchestrated `Build-Ups'. A `Build-Up', is a section within a track, where the beat and baseline are taken away and a soothing melody or vocal introduced. Various elements of percussion and sound effects are then arranged together in an uplifting manner, taking the listener up and up. The Beat and Baseline are reintroduced, combining melody and percussion to create an `Explosiv' effect. This style of Trance is more progressive by nature but still has more of a mainstream appeal than Psychedelic Trance.

Rottertrance rotterdamn with trance syncopation whatever that means trance melodies etc with the rotter base.

or maybe even some happy hardcore, more upbeat uplifting fast and furious often has melodic interludes keeps a fast energy some eurotrance may seem to approach happyhardcore happy hardcore is generally seen as perhaps where the split of trance and dance may have seen the trance split go the opposite direction as happyhardcore, happyhardcore being more hard.. core and .. happy. Faster.. its more peaked trance tends to build happyhardcore is … hmm high energy more up trance is more mind centric happy hardcore is more euphoric where trance may be nostalgia and impact happy hardcore is more buzzyness and impact although happy hardcore seems faster. Ok.. Oh and maybe a little more bouncy then deepstyle trance although some club and euro and hardhouse.. deep or bounce deep and bounce both seem to be trance capable. Acid seems to be the inbetween.

Hardtrance, somewhat like tectrance except it is more simplistic sounding quite driving predominant kick more drum heavy then tectrance tectrance seems more melodic the two are quite similar. Hard Trance, as the title suggests, blends tradional trance sounds and structure with harder elements more reminiscent of Acid and Techno. The tempo is generally increased to between 145 and 150 and the kick drum and bass is usually a focus for a clubbing audience.

Trancecore, apparently hardcore and trance mixed together this must some how between rottertrance and happyhardcore as euro is like ambient techno and house?

Industrial has more of a techno metallic feel but not like minimal or tribal more straight forward drive with light variance and nice drum machine often with natural drum kit type drive has a spaceyness to it and the melodies are quite interesting sometimes guitar or other instrumentation and the vocals seem predominate sometimes repetition other times actual lyrics as a singing song most industrial that seems trancey to me has a drum drive to it,

Ambient Trance a precursor to Progressive Trance is a dreamy, hypnotic and intelligent style of trance, mostly German, that utilizes atmospheric pads, epic melodic progressions and occasionally symphonic arrangements. At times borrowing elements from the earlier acid movement, such as rezzy 303 leads and minimal percussion, but based more on the spiritual experience that Goa Trance has since trademarked, Ambient Trance is an often-forgotten but extremely influential style that took rave music to a higher and more profound level. Sometimes called "Oldschool Trance" because it has since been left behind for the harder styles popular today.

. Really like all categorization it depends on the definition.. The exact definitions of the genre or subgenres are as definitive as a definition that it is being matched to. Perhaps just a no-man`s-land between Hardcore & Ambient. Note at this time I will not go into length to define the subgenres. Ah heck why not

Progressive house/euro? 'Trance House' has had a major impact on the club scene in recent years. This style of trance is the most commonly played in clubs in South Africa. This style of Trance is not for the `Undergrounders', it's happy, uplifting and appeals to clubbers on a huge scale. Trance House is easy listening Party music, but retains certain elements of Trance, but with a `Housey' bounce and 'up' vocals. Many people love to hate this music, but as far as the roots of House Music go, making the crowd `happy' without darkness and depression was one of the first intentions, thus it is still hugely popular.

A ROUGH MEDIA TIME LINE OF TRANCE (really though an old person should make this heheh) my earliest memories that I can conjure are in the 80s

Evolution

ORIGIN POINT OF TRANCE

Roughly 18484839392020 bc: god gets board and makes the universe.

Roughly 18484839392019 bc: god tired of looking at three coloured lines in a void alters spacetime

Dinosaurs roam the earth and trademark the fattest kick bassdrum sound early tribal influences the splishspash of bacterial cultures and protozoids.

Tribal cultures to entertain themselves and or invoke the spirits of nature knock stuff together which latter evolves in the club scene.

Drugs are found by early experimentalists a favorite being the popyseed early drug dealers create fanatical cults to insure their supremacy latter turning into various world religions.

Instruments get more detailed and fine tuned to characteristic emotive units that are standardized scales etc.. the Egyptians Greeks and other classic Eurocentric musical roots

Melodies become more various as copyright issues create possible lawsuits oh hold on that isn’t until the 1900’s..

Significant euphoric melodies come about as the classical era unfold many classical masterpieces are forged and the church and lords are big backers which once again undoubtedly has evolved into the current scene. At the same time there are Middle Eastern composers who are oddly in some instances mathematicians as well musical chord progression seems to favor landscapes emotive aura.

People become “sane” as actual barely flawed logic is introduced as empirical thought starts to bloom soon afterwards the elemental forces of nature are harnessed two big names in early science macaroni’s radio waves Benjamin Franklin's fascination with electrocuting himself with a kite which seems to be one of the keys of harnessing the idea of electricity and countless others such as bell and Elisha Grey and all those other inventors up into that Russian therimin guy Robert moog Yamaha up into Roland and countless others along the way.

Universities start to offer experimental and electronic music courses one person of note to partake in an early experimental music course is Jean Michele. Other groundings in many ways grounded in the early “birth era” could be cited with experimentalism of another sort.

As cross breeding of early electronic experimentation and rock came about in some ways perhaps overshadowed by “heavy metal” which through industrial seems to be another loop that hits back into the idea by the late 80’s. Various groups one notably depeche mode is an example of a cross bread group. Techno seems to grow more and more so goa being the earliest mentioned widespread birthing of what is trance although once again many early mainstream electronic music artists can be seen as early examples of ambient and trance and techno pieces, for instance JMJ equinox has symphonic pieces with synth overlay and even what seems to be early examples of techno. Note early techno as compared to newer techno could be seen as a little odd and is reminiscent of rock drums in many cases. Although disco and funk seem to be other grounding foundations to the groove and energy that birthed house which seemed in some way instrumental in the founding of euro and progressive house/trance. Rock as a springboard to trance could also be seen as part of Paul Oakenfold life as he was a dj for a well known rock band he also was involved with the acidhouse birth which introduced and spread some of the deeper elements of trance. Acid itself and its ambient loopy characteristics lay the foundation of the idea of what trance is although the emotions that are invoked through melodic structuring are one of the variances. Techno and tribal with funk to the point of house and in some instances the emergence of breaks via hiphop laid the drum foundation. The two then come together to create the baseness of the instrumentation. On the vocal side of trance there are many layers of used vocals. Both voice modeling and lyrics as well as electronic mutation of the instrumentation create the vocal characteristics. More so even psychoacoustic modeling can enter the picture to magnify the potentials. Vocal history seems very length as well, recently it would seem that early dance captured the lyrical structures of rock which in many cases aided with tricks and technology has become an artform in its own right the vox.

1988: Sven Väth opens the Das Omen club in Frankfurt

1991: Sven founds Eye-Q records

1992: Cosmic Baby releases "Stellar Supreme"

1993: Energy 52 - "Cafe del Mar" becomes international success

1993: Humate's "Love Stimulation" hits the heart strings of the dance world

1993: Sven Väth releases "An Accident in Paradise"

1994: The second installment in the Trance Europe Express comps compiles some of the best producers during this time

More timeline points will be added and the article most likely restructured a little….. however for now this will be the first draft

Noted names godfathers and stalwarts

**** Perhaps Brian Eno, Giorgio Morroder, Jean Michele Jarre and Mike

Oldfileld with his " Tubular Bells" 're the pioneers of trance music ? **** Artists like Brian Transeau (BT), Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten Art Of Trance and Underworld came to the forefront as premier producers and remixers, bringing with them the emotional, "epic" feel of the style. Meanwhile, DJs like Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, and John Digweed , Tïesto and ATB, Sander Kleinenberg and Steve Lawler. Cosmic Baby, Oliver Lieb (The Ambush, Paragliders, Spicelab), Robert Miles, System F, Matt Darey Cosmic Baby, Astralasia, Resistance D, Brainchild, Vapourspace, Microglobe, Humate, Virtual Symmetry, Salt Tank, Sven Väth (old), Man With No Name, Kox Box, Hallucinogen, Prana, Kuro, Psygone, Colorbox, Infected Mushroom International Pioneers: Tsyoshi Suzuki DJ Dream Creation / DJ Kuma / Yumade. Anthony Pappa, Nick Warren Darren Emerson, Parks and Wilson George Acosta… I gotto add a few too that weren’t on the list.. Mark EG, Commander Tom, John 00Flemming, Judge Jules, and I dare say two others that are maybe not so much trance however Racheal Auburn and John Truelove, orbital, robert Armani, and once again maybe not so much trance but tony devit. AND LOTS OF OTHERS! Note that people like many lable head/artists deserve mention too. This list could get very large try dj international or another promotion company for a larger list, then check a discographies for the last 20 or 30 years of trance, then find out the people connected with that.. a very long list. And most of all SOURCE.

Specific to south africa

South Africa: Dhya, Ans, Regan, Starspine, Mickey Dread, Psynomad, Ob1 Speedy, Dizzy, Dave Skinz, Lance Solms, Don, Mika, Spiro, Detzky, Surge, Roger Goode

Some tracks/compliations

Prana: Geomantixx Original Release Date: February 24, 1997

Hallucinogen: Lone Derange Original Release Date: September 1, 1997

Man With No Name: Teleportation

Infected Mushroom: Classical Mushroom

Release Date: 2000

Five Years of Eye-Q Music

Trance Europe Express 2

Cosmic Baby: Thinking About Myself

Sven Väth: An Accident in Paradise

Resistance D: The Best of Resistance D

Vapourspace: Themes from Vapourspace

Paul van Dyk: 45 RPM

Cosmic Baby - The Space Track, Cosmikk

Trigger 1, Sweet Dreams for Kaa - My Love

Cygnus X - Superstring, The Orange Theme, Positron

Sven Väth - L'esperanza, Ritual of Life, Ballet: Fusion

Microglobe - High On Hope

Paul van Dyk - Today (Trance Ambient Mix)

Paul Van Dyk's 'Out There and Back'

Astralasia - The Seven Pointed Star

Humate - Love Stimulation

Paragliders - Baghdad (Humate Remix)

LSG - Blueprint v.2, Hearts

Salt Tank - Dreams

Dave Angel - Life's Little Pleasures

Brainchild - Symmetry C, Synfonica

'Tranceport', 'United States of Trance', 'The Politics of Dancing' and 'Summerbreeze'

'MDMA, Vol. 3'

'Release: PM Edition'. Finally, Webster Hall's New York Collections(combination of Trance, Techno, and Drum' N Bass and EVEN some House Style Vocals & Sounds), 'Tranzformed' and 'Tranzworld 4'.

Some Links:

www.shangri-la-la.co.uk

www.goa.de

www.uber.org.uk

www.SouthAfrica2000.com

http://www.globalunderground.co.uk "Nubreed" sub-series

Tranceport/Perfecto Presents... series,

Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure mixes, Renaissance series.

Some Lables: 3Beat, Bedrock, Devolution, Fluid, Fragrant, Hooj Choons (http://www.hoojchoons.co.uk/), Hook, Perfecto, Positiva, and

Yoshi Toshi (http://www.yoshitoshi.com).

Platipus, Kinetic, Ministry of Sound, Dragonfly, K-tel (!) – yup, they did the epic Euphoria series, Perfecto (Oakenfold's label), Man With No Name, Jon The Dentist

pioneering trance labels like Dragonfly the sound started to take on a slightly more mainstream appeal during the early 90's through what are now sub-genres of the theme, Goa and Psytrance.

labels such as Blue Room Released, Dragonfly, Phantasm, TIP, etc. Artists such as The Infinity Project, Juno Reactor, Mindfield, & Youth play a major role in reviving the ideologies of the late 60`s & early 70`s, but this time within a technological age. Ambient Trance Labels

Eye-Q, MFS, Hypnotic, Magick Eye

Hard Trance Labels

Nukleuz, 5050Records, Tidy Trax

(more info can be added abouit each lable but they will prolly have their own sites.. try www.”labelname”.com or do a google search

Limbo =techno trance

And many others!

Note to self I find it funny that young Mexican girls are the source of trance lol ariba.

(NOTE: Goa and psy-trance are arguably older, with their characteristic sounds purportedly emerging in Israel as far back as 1991.)