Editing Trance music (section)

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[[File:Trance Energy Utrecht 2002.jpg|thumbnail|left|Trance Energy Festival at [[Utrecht]]]]
[[File:Psychedelic trance culture of Kazantip (2006-08-134) (329954412).jpg|thumb|right|Psychedelic trance culture of [[KaZantip]] in 2006, with decorations commonplace at trance parties]]

[[The KLF]]'s "[[What Time is Love?]] (Pure Trance)" was released in the UK in 1988.  The earliest years of Trance were defined by Frankfurt labels such as [[Eye Q (record label)|Eye Q]], [[Harthouse]], [[FAX +49-69/450464|Fax +49-69/450464]], Force Inc., and others. Producers such as [[Pete Namlook]], [[Oliver Lieb]], and [[Rolf Ellmer]] created noteworthy tracks such as "Eternal Spirit" by 4Voice, "Hearts" by [[L.S.G.]], and "We Came in Peace" by [[Dance 2 Trance]].<ref name="Beat1">{{cite web |date=30 November 2021 |title=Beatport's Definitive History of Trance |url=https://www.beatportal.com/features/trance-history-beatport/ |access-date=6 June 2023 |website=Beatportal }}</ref><ref name="Story2">{{Cite web |title=The Story of Trance - In-Depth Review of the History of Trance |url=https://undergroundtrance.com/trance-history/ |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=Underground Trance |language=en-US}}</ref>

Much of the development of trance can be traced to Sven Väth, who was heavily influenced by his experiences traveling to [[Goa]] where DJs were using psychedelic rock and other sounds to induce a trance state at beach parties.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kaushik |first=Rohit |date=9 January 2020 |title=Sven Väth Shares His Thoughts On The Indian Electronic Music Scene & More |url=https://edmli.com/2020/01/09/sven-vath-shares-his-thoughts-on-indian-electronic-music-scene-more/ |access-date=6 June 2023 |website=EDMLI }}</ref> [[Sven Väth|Väth]], Dag Lerner, and [[Torsten Fenslau]] had an affection for hypnotic dance sounds and the music at [[Dorian Gray (club)|Dorian Gray]] and Omen began to reflect this.<ref name="Story2"/>

Väth launched Eye Q with Heinz Roth and Matthias Hoffman in 1991, followed by Harthouse in 1992, releasing some of the most well-known trance tracks of the era. Eye Q took a softer approach to trance with records such as [[Cygnus X (music group)|Cygnus X]]'s "The Orange Theme", Brainchild's "Symmetry" and Vernon's "Wonderer". Harthouse focused on a harder trance sound with tracks such as "Quicksand" by [[Oliver Lieb|Spicelab]], "Spectrum" by Metal Master, "Human" by Resistance D, and "Acperience" by [[Hardfloor]].<ref name="Beat1"/><ref name="Story2"/> The sound of Frankfurt was the sound of trance. DJ Dag Lerner, one half of Dance to Trance has stated that he was the first to call his music trance and "gave the child his name."<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=http://www.djdag.com/about.html |access-date=7 June 2023 |website=DJ DAG }}</ref> The genre got its name from the trance-like state the music attempted to emulate in the 1990s before the genre's focus changed.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=PhD |first=Kathryn A. Becker-Blease |date=13 July 2004 |title=Dissociative States Through New Age and Electronic Trance Music |journal=Journal of Trauma & Dissociation |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=89–100 |doi=10.1300/J229v05n02_05 |issn=1529-9732 |s2cid=143859546}}</ref>

In a 2006 interview with Resident Advisor, Sven Väth acknowledged the role of his labels Eye Q and Harthouse in helping to create what people know as trance music today, going on to say that "people are getting a wrong interpretation of what trance music is all about" and differentiating his own form from modern forms, saying, "They are following a format -- always producing the same structure. It's a pop format for trance."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hunt |first1=Trance |title=Sven Väth: I play trance |url=https://ra.co/features/721 |website=Resident Advisor |access-date=22 November 2023}}</ref>

As German trance made its way back to Goa, a new subgenre emerged that was more organic in sound with an oriental aesthetic in its melodies, often with references to Eastern philosophy. [[Goa trance]] would go on to spawn many sub-genres of its own, including psytrance, psybreaks, and others.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sokolovskiy |first=Daniel |title=Psytrance Guide |url=https://psytranceguide.com/ |access-date=20 August 2023 |website=psytranceguide.com }}</ref>

In 1991 in Berlin, [[MFS (label)|MFS Records]] began to gain a trance profile, signing Mijk van Dijk, Cosmic Baby, and Paul van Dyk, soon releasing some of the most well-known early trance tracks such as "Love Stimulation" by Humate and "Perfect Day" by Visions of Shiva, as well as perhaps the first ever trance compilation, ''Tranceformed From Beyond''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Label history • MFS Berlin |url=https://mfsberlin.com/label-history/ |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=MFS Berlin |language=en-GB}}</ref> While writer Bom Coen traces the roots of trance to [[Paul van Dyk]]'s 1993 remix of Humate's "Love Stimulation",<ref name="arminbiography" /> there is little evidence to support this contention. In fact, van Dyk's own trance roots can be traced further back to his work with Visions of Shiva, van Dyk's trance project with [[Harald Blüchel|Cosmic Baby]] coming earlier.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dancefm.com/programs/paul-van-dyk/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427204556/http://www.dancefm.com/programs/paul-van-dyk/|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 April 2017|title=Paul Van Dyk – Dance FM|date=27 April 2017|access-date=22 November 2019}}</ref> Early on, Paul van Dyk had been relatively sidelined on the scene, but his collaboration with Cosmic Baby quickly led him into the heart of the scene.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Denk |first1=Felix |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16MZBQAAQBAJ&dq=techno+posse+omen&pg=PA249 |title=Der Klang der Familie: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall |last2=Thülen |first2=Sven von |date=27 October 2014 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7386-0429-0 }}</ref>

In the UK, the British approach to trance music and house music was similar: progressive chord structures, crescendos, longer breakdowns, and more organic instruments.<ref>{{cite web |title=Story of Trance, Part 2 |url=https://undergroundtrance.com/trance-history/part-2/ |access-date=20 August 2023 |website=Underground Trance }}</ref> In 1993 [[Platipus Records]] was launched by [[Simon Berry]] as an outlet for Barry's various projects, including [[Union Jack (band)|Union Jack]], Clanger, Art of Trance. Platipus would become one of the most consequential progressive trance labels. Another influential label of progressive trance was [[Hooj Choons]] with notable trance releases from artists [[Tilt (British band)|Tilt]], [[Oliver Lieb]], [[Solarstone]], as well as the well-known Three N' One remix of [[Café del Mar (song)|Cafe Del Mar]] by [[Energy 52]].

In Australia, Christopher J. Dolan from [[Melbourne]], who performs as [[Quench (musician)|Quench]] produced one of the most iconic trance anthems of the 90s, "Dreams" in 1993. It was re-released in 1994 and was nominated for the [[ARIA Award for Best Dance Release]] at the [[ARIA Music Awards of 1995]]. It peaked at No. 9 on the [[Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|French singles chart]], and No. 75 on the [[UK Singles Chart|United Kingdom Singles Chart]]. By October 2000 it had sold over a million copies worldwide. Dreams is widely considered pioneering in the sounds of trance and has influenced DJs and Trance Producers for decades.

In Germany, a harder sub-genre of trance emerged. With a faster tempo and gated pads, hard trance introduced the breakdown-build-anthem template that would become nearly ubiquitous in later trance sub-genres. Hard trance would inspire [[UK hard house|hardhouse]], hard uplifting, [[jumpstyle]], NRG, and [[hardstyle]]. Perhaps the best known label for this subgenre of trance was [[Bonzai Records]], a sublabel of Lightning Records with notable tracks including [[Jones & Stephenson]]'s "The First Rebirth", Cherry Moon Trax's "The House of House",<ref>{{citation |title=Cherry Moon Trax - The House Of House / Let There Be House |date=23 October 2020 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/16065039-Cherry-Moon-Trax-The-House-Of-House-Let-There-Be-House |access-date=20 August 2023 }}</ref> and Blue Alphabet's "Cybertrance".<ref>{{citation |title=Blue Alphabet - Cybertrance |date=1994 |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/2485-Blue-Alphabet-Cybertrance |access-date=20 August 2023 }}</ref>

[[File:Aly_&_Fila_au_Beachclub_--_4.jpg|alt=Aly & Fila au Beachclub -- 4|thumb|[[Aly & Fila]], Egyptian trance music band performing]]

By the late 1990s, uplifting took over the scene with its fast tempo, characteristic builds, long breakdowns and big drops.<ref name="armadamusic.com">{{cite web |title=What Is Trance Music - The Full Story |url=https://www.armadamusic.com/news/trance-music |access-date=18 July 2023 |website=Armada Music }}</ref>  In the early 2000s, pop-style vocals began being added into the music.<ref name="tranceexperience" /> The development of another subgenre, epic trance, finds some of its origins in classical music,<ref name="tranceexperience" /> with film music also being influential.<ref name="djskillsguide" /> Trance was arguably at its commercial peak in the second part of 1990s and early 2000s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clubglow.com/dj-news/is-trance-dead/|title=Is Trance Dead?|date=May 2012 |access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk/articles/trance.html|title=A history of trance music|first=John|last=M.|access-date=22 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121226184520/http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk/articles/trance.html|archive-date=26 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

From the late 2000s to the mid 2010s, popular trance music providers such as [[Armin van Buuren]]'s ''[[A State of Trance]]'', [[Paul van Dyk]], and [[Above & Beyond (band)|Above & Beyond]] remained popular, while lesser known DJs changed to other sounds.<ref name="McGraw" /> In 2017 a new wave of underground DJs such as [[Nina Kraviz]] began incorporating trance music into their sets.<ref name="McGraw">{{cite news |last1=McGraw |first1=David |title=Trance reborn: The sound is back and big as ever |url=https://mixmag.net/feature/trance-reborn-the-sound-is-back-and-big-as-ever |access-date=28 September 2021 |work=Mixmag |date=24 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=MacNeill |first1=Kyle |title=Laser-guided melodies: Why trance is back in the ascendant in 2017 |url=https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/trance-back-artists-labels-djs-club-nights |website=Red Bull |access-date=28 September 2021 |date=1 November 2018}}</ref>

In 2023, an effort by [[John Fleming (DJ)|John 00 Fleming]] and others led [[Beatport]] to split their trance genre category into two: Trance (Main Floor) and Trance (Raw/Deep/Hypnotic). The latter was designed for the underground side of the genre.<ref>{{cite web |date=23 May 2023 |title=Beatport Adds a New Genre: Trance (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) |url=https://www.beatportal.com/news/beatport-new-genre-trance-raw-deep-hypnotic/ |access-date=18 July 2023 |website=Beatportal }}</ref>