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Define "trance".  |
What is trance? Trance is the name given to any state of mind where that person has a narrow focus of attention.
(http://www.deep-trance.com)
Minimal Trance:
i.Trance with a strong beat, but a very minimal synth line. Stuff like much of Legion of Green Men's stuff.
ii.Trance with not much beat, washy synths which develop slowly, like the rest of Legion of Green Men's stuff that isn't Dub.
Goa Trance: Psychedelic Trance, almost the same thing as Psytrance, but tends to have a more spiritual feeling. Adds an even more trippy psychedelic feel to trance, plus some middle-eastern and south-asian influences. Name comes from Goa, a resort town on the west coast of India, a popular attraction for European tourists, where it was popularized; most of the music itself comes from the UK. Goa Trance is most often distributed on DAT or MP3; this tradition is supposed to have started because vinyl would melt in the hot temperatures in Goa. Goa tends to make use of a more diverse range of beats than other styles of trance, and tends to frequently forgoe any sense of melody, favouring instead a more cacophonous feeling. This last part also applies somewhat to psytrance. There are Goa DJs and Psytrance DJs who will swear to the ends of the earth that Goa and Psytrance are exactly the same thing, and there are others who spin either or both who maintain with equal fervour that any fool who's never heard electronic music before could tell the two apart.
Psytrance: Another name for Goa Trance, to some, or something slightly different from Goa to others.
Progressive Trance: Kinda soft, commercial trance. This is what Paul Oakenfold spins primarily.
Hard Trance: Like hard house, but faster and darker. Like Rotterdam, but slower.
Hard House: Faster, pounding boom boom beat. Like Happy Hardcore but slower.
Happy Hardcore: Upbeat, happy 4-beat hardcore. Emerged from Hard House, and uses a lot of house samples. Traditionally, a heavy use of piano lines, although popular material usually avoids this. Contemporary happy hardcore usually consists of a cheesy 80s pop-rock song, usually something particularly sappy, sped up, with a hardcore 4-4 beat added over top, and a synth line thrown in, typical of Dutch hardcore anthems.
Rotterdam: Dark 4-beat, emerged from Hard Trance. Pounding distorted bass kick. About 180-220bpm. There are only a few places in the world that actually differentiate between Rotterdam and Gabba, mainly Toronto, some places in California, and a few places in Europe. Nowadays, the term Rotterdam refers more to something sort of across between happy hardcore and gabber.
Acid Trance: 303-type synth over a Trance beat, frequently with harsh vocal samples. This is typical of much of the trance produced lately, since the development of ReBirth by Steinberg software
Hard Acid Trance: 303-type raspy synth over a Hard Trance beat.
...gonna get me some lunch now and a bag of M&M's 
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These green M&M's....I don't know...there is something about them....
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I have about 42 gig on MP3's...
