Trance music

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

Trance begins as a genre

Trance is said to have begun as an off-shoot of techno in German clubs during the very early 1990s. Early labels were established (Platipus, Harthouse, MFS, NOOM) which released characteristically trance music. Arguably 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.

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Techno - German - 1990s - Harthouse - MFS - House - Tempo - Rhythmic - Melodic

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This early trance tended to be characterized by hypnotic and melodic qualities described above, and typically involved repeating rhythmic patterns added over an appropriate length of time as a track progressed. Before long, subgenres such as Progressive, Dream, and Hard Trance were spawned.

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At about the same period in time in the early 90's, a musical revolution was happening in Goa, India. Electronic body music (EBM) bands like Cabaret Voltaire and Front 242 came to Goa and began influencing the first Goa trance artists. Artists like Goa Gil, Eat Static, Doof, and Man With No Name came to Goa, heard the psychedelic elements of EBM, and expanded on them minus the vocals and guitars, and fusing them with middle eastern vibes/sounds, creating Goa trance.

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Goa - India - Electronic body music - Cabaret Voltaire - Front 242 - Goa trance - Goa Gil - Eat Static - Doof - Man With No Name

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