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What is love (pure trance) Realesed
This is the earlist refrence to“trance” a british group The KLF on their 1988 “What Time Is Love” track which on record sleeve is 'Pure Trance'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28w2LVzxVkU -
Trance music Starting to gain promancence in europe and uk.
The first forms of trance music emerged in the early 1990s as the dance phonomenon took hold the UK Europe. House music had already taken hold, and techno had also become popular in Europe by this time.
Most of the dance music being produced at the start of the decade was sampler-based sampling technology was quite new at the time. -
Dance 2 trance realease first single
This song was essentially a breakbeat techno track but featuring uplifting atmospheric pad sounds commanly used in trance, rather than the rave stabs or piano riff samples common at the time. -
Hardfloor realese- Hardtrance Acperience
A big acid house song but with a greater focus on melody than traditional acid house. -
Jam and spoon realese stella
Jam and Spoon from Germany, released Stella in 1992 and remixed Age Of Love the same year, which are widely regarded as the first trance tracks. -
Quench releases Dreams
In 1993, a track called Dreams was released by Quench, becoming an underground club hit which also received airplay on Pete Tong's UK Radio 1 show. This was a very early example of a trance track combining atmospheric pads, and the filtered saw-wave synthesizer riffs ,filter sweeps repeated lead riff over gradually building synth pads and a bassline which changes key,
The techniques were defined and mastered by trance producers in later years to create the trademark feel of the genre. -
Dreams
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Hardfloor realseses "into the nature and fish and chips"
This concerntrating on the melodic sound was taken even further on hardfloors' 1994 tracks "Into The Nature and Fish and Chips." -
Tiesto
Tiesto signed to Basic Beat where he met Arny Bink. He realeased sevral tracks over the next few years. -
Mark'Oh-Tears Don't Lie
This track began to take on the stuttering, gated synthesizer chords later associated with trance.
Gradually, this sound came in to a genre in its own right, and underground trance steered away from the toytown-style major key riffs while retaining its melody-driven feel. -
Dj's taking sound in new direction
This is esscencially where Dj’s were starting to take their sounds in a new direction this led to the reappearance of the synthesizer which, despite being heavily used in the early 1980s had been overlooked since the sample-based dance music revolution. -
Robert miles realeses children
Italian producer Robert Miles released Children in 1995, featuring classical style piano and strings alongside the gated trance pads and helping to start a subgenre known as "dream house". -
Commercial Trance
By 1996, trance music was becoming a major force on the European club circuit and also making an impression on the UK club scene. -
Leaving basic beat
Tiësto and Arny decided to leave Basic Beat and create their own label, Black Hole Recordings. Tiesto also started the "magik series" a trance mix-compilation series.. The series, which has had seven installments starting in 1997 and ending in 2001 -
The peak of trance
Many trance tunes had started life as dancefloor fillers but then became UK top 40 chart hits. By 2000 trance was at its commercial peak, with tracks such as Protect Your Mind by DJ Sakin and Friends reaching both the UK and German Top 5 singles chart. -
Hard trance
Hard trance developed during the period 2001 - 2003 through the fusion of hard house and trance music.
During 2000 and 2001, some hard house DJs and labels started to push a more trance sound and At the same time some trance producers, sensing that trance was becoming more commercial, started to push a harder, more minimal sound. These came together and by 2003, hard trance had become one of the most exciting sounds on the dancefloor. -
Backlash
Although trance was still popular in clubs and commercially right into the first decade of the 2000's. There was abit of a backlash starting between 2002-2007. Most of the trance music in the charts had become more commerical and was not reflective of the music being played in underground trance clubs. -
Progressive trance
progressive trance came around a similar time to hard trance. Progressive trance, however, slowed down rather than sped up the genre. its a fusion of deep house with basic trance elements such as gated synths, delays and heavy reverb, progressive trance generally had more subtle melodies than its commercial opponient. -
Tiesto first ever dj to hold a solo concert in a stadium
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Backlash continued.
During this "backlash" with a surge in indie rock and guitar pop taking place and electronic music returning back underground. Trance evolved into several distinct styles: hard trance, progressive trance and tech trance, and later had an influence on the electro house and EDM styles which would push dance music back into the mainstream. -
Tech trance
pioneered by producers such as Tiesto, Marco V and Marcel Woods tech trance became a new interesting, hard hitting sound that takes trance to the next level. The defining features of tech-trance are complex, electronic rhythms, heavily quantised and driven by a loud kick drum, with filtered, or slightly distorted hi-hat sounds harder synth sounds, usually with a
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Trance influenced and helped develop Electro House, Swedish House and EDM
They started to develop around the same time as tech trance. Electro house was the new development underground while dance music was still struggling in the mainstream. Electro house took factors from a range of genres including trance and progressive house. Electro house simplified the rhythms and used more compression and volume. During this time production also became more high quality and refined as many DJs moved from vinyl to digital, this allowed for a greater high frequency response. -
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Electro house took some of the supersaw sounds from trance while trance music especially tech-trance took elements from electro house. This helped lead to “swedish house” featuring trance-style supersaw stabs over a simple, electro-house beat and simple bassline -
dance music pushing back to mainstream
During the 2009 - 2011 Dance music pushed its way back into the mainstream with the explosion of Electro house and Swedish house. Trance also enjoyed a revival during this period by the renewed interest in dance music.
