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Here's a brief run-down:
After the seminal works of Kraftwerk in the 70's, computer music seemed the wave of the future. However, black artists decided differently and stole a bunch of Kraftwerk's ideas to create a new style of music called tech-jungle.
It gained critical acclaim at first but soon ideas became stagnant, as computers still weren't even mainstream and no one could figure out what these Hal9000 sound-alikes were going on about. Enter Paul Oakenfold.
Seeing how popular chicks with guitars were becoming in rock music, he decided to enlist the aid of female opera singers to perhaps make this future music a little more down-to-earth. With the aid of his producing partner Charlie May, they produced what many consider the very first trance track: Dance 4 Pants - We Came Our Shorts.
It was an instant success. Soon, other producers such as Robert Miles (for a while touring with Yanni), Oliver Lieb (a pseudonym for Billy Blanx), and the famous hair grunge act Tiestin van Corstendyk began creating many new trance acts. Labels such as Hoochie June and Art House signed many up and comers.
Trance was still a niche market for most of the 90's, though, but it suddenly hit the mainstream when, along with the super house act 2 Unlimited, a guy called Darude did away with all the vocals that created trance's namesake in the firstplace with his monster hit Snadstorm.
Trance as a whole has subsided a little in recent years, though. Many say the well's run dry but there seems to be some hope on the horizon of a new group from France called The Daft Punks, whom some say will take trance to new and exciting roads!
Well, maybe not....
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Electronic Music Critic: Near-Daily Ruminations Of Music I Own, In Alphabetical Order!
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i want to thank all members to bear in advance my empty head 
