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You get thrown beyond imaginative boundaries, feel helpless as every progression drives you to a state of euphoria. Your body is forming a rhythm but you don't know how to convert it into energy. The result, you get your hands up and dive into the nothingness of the moment. Your mind is coming up with visuals but you fail to figure out what they are. The music is almighty and the bass is piercing your ears, you enjoy the moment, you can't contain your emotions, you are overwhelmed, you forget the good and the bad. You are filled with positive energy, you are entranced.Trance music is powerful, lighting up a brighter side of life. It's almost amazing how the electronic tempos control our emotions. Each beat, each synth, each tune has a tremendous control over our minds and nerves. The power is both mentally and physically felt and the impact is barely resisted. As a result there is ecstatic release from a pleasurable audio liberation forming in our minds.There is another aspect to trance music, people get highly stimulated by the bass line, bass to be precise. We say the louder the woofers punch, the better it feels. The more our heart thumps and the cup on the table shivers, it's a state of bliss and might. Sometimes it is only bass that matters to us. There is no universal definition of trance, it is best understood from a personal perspective.Trance music emerged in the early 90's when German clubs played techno and house music. Their combination produced a more refined genre of EDM, trance. A conventional trance track would have 130-150 BPM (beats per minute) faster than house music and slower than psychedelic. The loops, beats, snares, synths are repetitively placed in a gratifying manner and henceforth the music production occurs.The most important facet of trance is the number of breakdowns in it. There may be one, two or even three breakdowns in a trance track. A breakdown is fading in of first phase of music sequence and fading out with additional tunes to it. A breakdown is probably the most awaited moment while listening to trance, it has a humongous aural impact on the listener.Trance music has evolved in the last 6 years, the music pattern has changed. Where classics would have repetitive and mono sounds, trance music today is more refined and crisp, thanks to the technology. No wonders we are getting to see new sub-genres of trance music like Tech and Rocktronic. A lot of known DJ/Producers are hooked to synthesizers and producing music via electronic medium these days. DJs are switching on from vinyl plays to CD-Rs for set stability. With new synthesizers coming up it is possible for the DJs to generate exact sounds they want and produce a quality track. There are some vital peaks and tempo frequencies set to produce a track that sounds like trance but today we are getting to hear much more than that. Of course trance music is going places adapting to changes, the right and sought after changes we say.Since Trance music is always up with budding producers, it is confusions galore for any listener. Where to start with, what track is going to suit our mood, these are the questions orbiting our mind.Constant technological advancements in production and DJ equipments have changed the production techniques. Yes, that new synth, those rumbling beats, the fabricated voice reworks and many perplexing new tunes we just can't stop listening to. Infact, Trance has come up with so many sub genres, it is difficult to identify whether the track is progressive or uplifting. But hold! These two are the most commonly listened genres unlike tech trance, the latest craze among trance listeners.Unfortunately, there has been lot of low grade techno music that is mistaken for trance music. A trance track may not necessarily have fast beats and loud tempos. It takes off the impression from the Trance greats like Paul van Dyk, Tiësto or BT. When artists like them produce an album, the sounds may go offbeat in two or three tracks but the album works because of the trancy feel they put in the tracks. As they say, your ear is the best judge while listening, if you are interested in Trance then do listen to it, for the music revolution Trance is bringing globally.Last but not the least, if someone thinks that Trance is anyway related to drugs then he/she is partially wrong, because substance intake has been associated with Psychedelic Trance, another powerful sub-genre of Trance which is building it's own dissident image. Trance Hub suggests to follow the music and not correlate drugs with Trance, specially Progressive Trance that we majorly discuss on this website. People make excuses that they do drugs to 'escape reality' or 'hallucinate' but it is all irrational. Music can never be rooted with drugs, because it is everyone's right to enjoy music responsibly.
