Talk:Trance music

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Drug culture

It seems odd that there is no reference to Trance culture in which MDMA/Ecstasy features heavily, to the point that some Trance music is specifically designed to heighten the drug high. At the least, should include something like "Trance music is heavily featured in Rave culture" (as that article does mention drugs). Reference could be: "Altered State: The story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House" by Matthew Colin (Serpent's Tail; 2009, but first published in 1997) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.81.65.244 (talk) 10:14, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

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If you cite the book (it's a well known book so I'm quite sure it's a valid source), remember to include the page number(s). --kingboyk (talk) 20:12, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

A friend of mine was a Trance producer. He basically said it was based on overweight people dreaming themselves away to thin, who used Qua (Speed Pills) to loose weight. A lot of the symbolism is this. "Frankie Knucles" "PLUR", "JP-8000" "God". This resulted in difficult obese idolaters. and it turned unserious, and the derivative genre is more bad taste oriented now. (Broiler, Günther etc.)

Origin of the name "Trance" and the roots of Trance music

I've read the claim that the name for this music genre, "Trance", came from "Tranceformed From Beyond" (1992), directed by Cosmic Baby and Mijk Van Dijk (https://www.discogs.com/Various-Tranceformed-From-Beyond/release/72183). However, the name "Trance" appeared in a few track titles of early Trance in the years preceding 1992.

I have to take issue, as a Trance music fan for over twenty years, with the claim in the first part of the first sentence of the article that, "Trance emerged from the British new-age music scene...". While there are Trance tracks with new-age themes, most of the early (starting about 1988) tracks were not new-age at all. This is the same even in releases later than the late eighties and into the early nineties and beyond to the present.

TechnoDanny (talk) 02:21, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Agreed, trance in lyrics and in the title of a song was used before 92. Most notably in KLF's original What Time Is Love? Also by the Belgian outfit Liaisons D/Rhythm Device (IE Frank De Wulf), in 89 and 90. Song was Heartbeat (a version of KLF's What Time Is Love?) as well as a track called Dream Trance. Musically, the Belgian outfit the Mackenzie was definitely early trance as well, especially "Freak Out" from 1990. IF a point in time must be chosen, then it must certainly be The KLF's aforementioned track, as it was called "Pure Trance 1" on the record itself!212.97.250.215 (talk) 12:21, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

"Modern Uplifting"

The phrase "modern Uplifting" appears far too many times . What does it mean exactly? 2607:FB91:1009:CB97:321E:B500:1534:11C3 (talk) 02:51, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

NOTICE — THIS ARTICLE WILL UNDERGO MAJOR REVISION

This is a fair notice I have determined this article will under major revision. We will start easy and at first.

"Trance music is typically characterized by a tempo between 120 and 150 beats per minute (BPM)"

Using the words "typically characterized" is not valid syntax. It is redundant but that is not why I came here. You can't "typically characterize" Trance melody music. It has unique melodies that should last the duration of the full song. These melodies feel different than the melodies in Yankie Doodle or Space Jam (Quad City DJs). In this song, notice the primary melody (i.e., the "trance melody") only occurs in the beginning and is essentially repeated throughout the song in different conversions.

This is why you often see and hear melodies repeating themselves, even in lyrical genres because you can still attain Trance even with verbal syntax. The general medium is electronic sound but hums and chants can also have similar melodies, for example, there are many hums and chants in media representing the distantly past time periods for it and they all share similar traits.

Wikipedia is also incorrect in forcing its users to find sourced and reputable topics before creating an encyclopedic entry. There is a third musical art I wanted to post but I do not believe constitutes under :Trance" because it is undefined." Porstal 2.

At the ending of the uniquely made video game, it displays a scene after the climax of the game where it emits audio that many DJs and world leaders/famous can attest is Trance, but unfortunately Wikipedia relies on credible and established sources that seem to require a Dictionary-like and historically-traced etymology.to suggest that the article describing Trance music and the related but failed to execute-connect article on the state of Trance itself is poorly done. The next [[counter-article]] should be "hypnosis," or "hypnosis music." At the end of Portal 2, it displays the following track. I have cut the video and only included the audio because in the context of the game and climax, you will not understand what happened.

I have uploaded it now. After reviewing the footage. I determined I did not need to cut the video to explain the scene as this only deals with sound. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtABjxTfgLM

This is hypnosis and not trance, but it feels like a trance, at first. I am going to be fundamentally rewriting the entire article and I am going to start at one step at a time.

Please issue a defense now if you disagree with why I want to change the lead about the tempo that they say is trance.

WikiStarpluck (talk) 16:52, 1 April 2025 (UTC)