Over the past 20 years, trance has maintained one of the most loyal fan bases in dance music. Trance mainstay Ferry Corsten, new-school producer Ciel and more talk about the sound’s enduring appeal.

Trance is not cool. Trance doesn’t dabble in irony or metaphor. Trance is extremely cheesy, therefore easily dismissable. Trance asks you to believe that the glass is half-full; that this melody is ...

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. In 2001, nearly ten years before Femi Adeyemi’s taste-making internet-radio network NTS (alongside outlets like Rinse.fm and Red Bull ...

Like just about every other category of electronic dance music, “trance” means vastly different things to different people. You’ve got your psy-trance and your Goa, your uplifting trance, your ...

The producer got his start in the 2010s connecting underground electronic sounds and hip-hop. His first album, “Revanchist,” embraces a long-derided genre of dance music. By Isabelia Herrera It was ...

Remember trance? In Miami, the 128-plus-bpm-flavored dance genre thrived in the ’90s and early 2000s with George Acosta at Shadow Lounge. Then TiÁ«sto betrayed it, the big-room invasion happened, and ...

Trance music kind of gets a bad rap. The genre, which gets its name from the repetitive rhythms, psychedelic elements, and atmospheric melodies that create what listeners describe as a “trance-like” ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Love it or despise it, trance has been part of our collective consciousness like the hickey you ...