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Four-on-the-floor church for people who pray with their hands in the air.
means A half-conscious, dazed state in which you're absorbed away from your surroundings — and also a genre of electronic dance music built to put you there.
from From Old French 'transe,' meaning fear or, more literally, a passage — the moment of crossing over. That ties back to Latin 'transire,' 'to go across' (trans-, 'across,' + ire, 'to go'), the same root that gives us 'transit.' The original 'transe' described the dread of passing from life to death; over time the sense softened from that fatal crossing into any state where the mind slips somewhere else. The music genre borrowed the name much later, in the late 20th century, for tracks designed to carry listeners off.
- BPM range
- Lives between 125 and 150 beats per minute
- The build
- Engineered tension that detonates as the drop
- Goa roots
- Born on Indian beaches among hippie ravers
- Brain effect
- Repetition can induce genuine hypnotic states
- Trademark
- Soaring synth riffs over euphoric breakdowns
paul oakenfold — dj and producer who pioneered uplifting trance in the 1990s, resident at goa nightclubs
trance energy festival — annual electronic dance music festival in the netherlands since 1997