If you would’ve asked me this question a decade or two decades ago, I would’ve had an different answer. Trance should evoke deep emotive states. It can be light or dark, Soft or hard, fast or slow. Melody is the essential ingredient in my opinion; A good base is important too. It has taken me many years and lots and lots of digging, with help from this website, and it’s members, to have a much better understanding of the genre from top to bottom.
Here is an example of what I would categorize as deep, dark trance.
From 1993, produced by Torsten Stenzel
Here is an example of what I would call light trance with a lovely melody. It is one of my all time favorites.
From 1994 produced by Russell Hancorne.
Jan-19-2021 10:56
Trance-M
Since 1994 tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Limburg, Netherlands
The classic trance group I'm moderating has a cut off at the year 1997 and sometimes with pain in my heart I have to delete a 1998 beauty.
This beauty seems to be very rare as according to Discogs it only got released on a Japanese compilation:
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Jan-23-2021 10:00
Lews
Platipus And Prog Addict
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Hugging Whales And Saving Trees
That's Takeshi Isogai, one of the Japanese trance artists, although amusingly that compilation labelled itself as 'Epic House.'
