Trance Music - Page 2 - Classical Music Forums

peterpoesantos · #16 (**permalink**) Nov-20-2008, 06:45

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Originally Posted by Edward Elgar

Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 BPM, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. It often features crescendos and breakdowns. Sometimes vocals are also utilized.

Trance music is basically electronic dance music. Robert Miles is a good example of a trance artist

Weston · #17 (**permalink**) Nov-23-2008, 16:43

I don't mean to necropost here, but it looks like the most appropriate place.

I really enjoy the idea of electronica - not surprising given my avatar image, but I don't understand why it evolved almost exclusively into dance music that goes "Oomph teh - Oomph teh - Oomph teh - Oomph teh - Oomph teh - " rapidly over and over until your synapses implode. I know there are a lot of genres out there and they all sound like the above to me with a few exceptions.

Starting with Tangerine Dream I later found Roger Powell who did a marvelous album called Cosmic Furnace in the 70's and just recently put out a second album of similar non-Oomph-teh electronica, Fossil Poets. I also like Autechre who do not sound like dance music to my ears, or not strictly dance.

These three seem to be a happy medium between the full throttle repetitive dance genres and the almost non rhythmic ambient genres, both of which extremes tend to bore me quickly. I've tried IDM. I've tried DnB, trance, techno, house, downtempo. None of these seem to exactly fit what I'm after.

Is there a genre name for experimental electronic music in the realm of Tangereine Dream or Autechre? I maybe just looking for IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) and the pieces I've sampled were just inflated with the IDM tag. Maybe I should keep trying.

Herzeleide · #18 (**permalink**) Nov-24-2008, 17:15

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Originally Posted by Edward Elgar

Opinions anyone?

Trance is primitive crap.

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Originally Posted by Edward Elgar

Applying the techniques in Trance to the production of classical music may be useful!

Try electroacoustic or spectral music.