Trance music

:This page is about trance music, for other meanings, see Trance.

Pre-trance music

Elements of what became modern trance music were explored by industrial artists in the late 1980s. Most notably, Psychic TV's 1989 album Towards The Infinite Beat, featuring drawn out and monotonous patterns with short but repeating voice samples, is considered by some to be the first trance album, but this claim is widely contested by fans citing The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" as establishing the genre at British Acid House parties. The intent was to make sound that was hypnotic to its listeners.

Related Topics:
Industrial - 1980s - Psychic TV - 1989 - Hypnotic

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These industrial artists were largely dissociated from rave culture, and their trance albums were generally experiments, not an attempt to start a new genre with an associated culture -- they remained firmly rooted culturally in industrial and avant-garde music. As trance began to take off in the rave culture, most of these artists abandoned the genre.

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In these years first complete trance tracks started to appear. In 1988 The KLF produced the trance version of their later popular song - "What Time is Love (The Original Pure Trance)" http://www.discogs.com/release/92768.

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