Why is trance music so good

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Email Address:. Trance Music Talk Little talks — Trying to cover what i can about my music and general trance. Not always, but is usually.

Sometimes vocals are dropped and chopped, which provide another kind of sensation, what I mean by that is vocals are used as an instrument, an awesome track that provides the means of that is Tuvan — Gaia, an awesome track! These effects combined will make you feel that the music is shifting, the instruments are alive, you are away, in another dimension. They lasers provide a sense of greatness, and aid very much in the Spatial effects mentioned above, especially when they are manned by pros, some djs even control their visuals while djing, which I think is a little bit hard, but the results are superb, since the dj, knows the song and the breaks and stuff.

Rate this:. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Takek Jumah : Nice Blog! Anonymous :. Mck : No need for drugs, no need for speakers. Wearsir : Bring on the ravers, reach for the lazers. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email Address never made public. And anticipating it and finally receiving it — or not — will create a sense of pleasure and reward. So what might these findings mean for a producer wishing to create the next uplifting trance anthem?

Which is pretty amazing if you think about it. However, not everyone is convinced. I remain sceptical until proved otherwise. The other question of course is, if scientists are now working out exactly which chord progressions work best for uplifting trance, can these findings be applied to other music too? I do believe that there would be variations in the amount and speed of repetition such that they are more tuned to a particular genre.

And to return to the original question So why does trance work? Well, the science has shown that musical expectancy and specific levels of musical complexity have a great deal to do with it, but this is of course only one aspect of why we engage with a particular type of music. The most successful and memorable pieces combine all three of these factors. The continued growth of AI in music is a subject that raises concerns around the potential loss of musical authenticity and about the continued erosion of job roles within the industry.

However, there are plenty of keen early adopters too and as ever, the real picture is more nuanced than a simple the-robots-are-taking-over narrative. This kind of research is opening up and examining the exact mechanisms by which music triggers our emotions — which in turn could potentially open up entirely new ways to compose and experience music.

Want more? Check out Simon Doherty's feature on how the word 'rave' has lost all meaning. Harold Heath is a freelance journalist. Follow him on Twitter here. Written by Joe Muggs. Trance feels like a natural feature in the dance world: a mountain or canyon, huge, unchanging, always there. We think of huge arenas, lasers, whooshing breakdowns building up to enormous earworm synth riffs, unchanging, uncool, removed from the currents of fad and hipsterism.

Its main formulae, even its stars will admit, have not changed significantly in the 20 years since it first reached peak success at the height of the first wave of superstar DJ culture.

Ciel performs at Movement Electronic Music Festival. Read Story. But it has a melody, a lot of melody. So it leans closer to classical music than to some kind of tribal rhythm. But of course nothing exists in a vacuum, nothing comes out of nowhere and club culture is nothing if not voracious.

So trance, like every other form, is always interacting and interbreeding with other styles. It has deep roots and multiple branches. It can be swanky and jet-setting or gritty and aggressively proletarian and it seeps in everywhere. Its distinctive tonal and melodic qualities have found their way at various times into dubstep, grime, hip hop and far more techno than that genre's snobs would care to admit. In the past half decade especially, those sounds have been adopted with varying levels by a whole new generation of experimentalists.

Most recently, these new flavours of deconstructed trance and club music are finding themselves mashed together with dancehall and other vernacular soundsystem styles in the global South to create vivid and radical new hybrids that are spreading rapidly round the world.

Meanwhile, others still are returning to trance's own first principles and turning it super hypnotic and cosmic again, with artists like Ciel herself, Fantastic Twins and K-X-P making some of this year's most glorious records from its core components. Trance's roots go back a long way.