my buddy jay found this in some history book... i thoughtppl might appreciate this...

The ultimate hybrid of slick Techno, Ambience and House was Trance, a form responsible for the re-explosion of global club culture as the twentieth century drew to a close. Put simply, Trance was an ultra smooth computer-generated music which reveled in repetition. Synthesizer and keyboard apreggios were repeated, rising in pitch until an entire track seemed to explode in a nirvana of snare drum rolls and crecendos. Its tendency to octave- leap and pitch-shift emerged from highly sophisticated sequencing software. Its penchant for four-on-the-floor beat pulsations, slight instrumental and vocal decoration, mammoth drum breaks, rising suspense and seamless mixes made it a huge global phenomenon by 1999. Primarily a German creation (ATBʼs ʽ9pm (Till I Come)ʼ sold one million copies in the UK alone), Trance had enormous input from UK Djs like Paul Oakenfold and European labels like Belgiumʼs R&S. In a nutshell Trance was responsible for the rebirth of House and the ideal of one long trip through the subtleties of electronic dance music.

The unfolding of Trance can be traced from the Hi-NRG New York dance scene of the late 1970ʼs and early 80ʼs, through the German Progressive House outcrop of the early 1990ʼs and the UKʼs Goa Trance/Epic House offshoots of the mid-1990ʼs to the neo-psychadelic sensation of Euro Trance in the Late 1990ʼs.

ratz

Then i would just point your friend to this
Ishkur's guide and it's funny too!

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I think one of the most clever things Ishkur put there was under the Dutch Trance section - listen to Human Evolution "Project Magneta", and then Pervading Call "Destiny". What do you know, it's the same breakdown, LOL.
Perrsonally though some of my alltime favorite Trance records are Dutch Trance. I can never get enough of Rank 1's "Airwave", or Scot Project's "Overdrive", which isn't Dutch Trance at all - it's hard German Trance at its best.

which book?

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The book is wrong (inaccurate), especially the part about the influences. Techno (together with acid house and new beat) is mentioned nowhere, but German Progressive House outcrop of the early 1990's is pointed out as one of the influences, although German Progressive scene of the early 90s didn't exist, since prog. house (in the early 90s) was exclusively British thing.

And what the hell is neo-psychadelic sensation of Euro Trance in the Late 1990's?

That's too colloquial to be from a history book. Most likely it came from a hastily-researched magazine article of some kind.

I think the article is nicely written but plain wrong.

There was no progressive house in Germany back in those Times, but it were germans that first drove trance into the clubs. Sven Väth was playing a lot of Trance back than.

Laurent Garnier has a nice paragraph about Trance in his "Electroshock"...can´t find it ATM but as soon as I do I will post it. He describes Trance as "The romantic and melodic approach to electronic music"

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Agenda 2009:

WinterWorld, Sporthalle Oberwerth, Koblenz
Trance Energy, Jaarbeurs Utrecht
Mayday, Westfalenhallen, Dortmund
Nature One, Pydna, Kastellaun / Hunsrück

that book is really intersting?
but is it correct?

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