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EDM / Dance
Trance
- Era
- 1990–present
- Origin
- Frankfurt · Rotterdam
- Student playlists
- None yet
About this supergenre
High-BPM dance music built on long melodic builds, breakdowns, and euphoric drops. Emerged from Germany and the Netherlands in the early 90s; the festival main-stage sound of the late 90s onward.
Canonical reference: musicmap.info / tra
Inside trance · 8 subgenre s on a mini-timeline
Each subgenre at its emergence year, oldest at top. This is what students curate playlists for — the granular level. Click any subgenre chip from the main map and you land on its row here.
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- 2030s
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Acid Trance
1992
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Goa Trance
1993
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Psytrance
1994
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Progressive Trance
1994
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Hard Trance
1995
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Vocal Trance
1997
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Uplifting Trance
1998
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Neo-Trance
2010
Connective tissue · 3 link s
How trance relates to the rest of the map. Click any genre to follow the line.
Primary lineage
Direct parents and direct children — the main line.
Other influences
Cousin genres and indirect influences that shaped this supergenre.
Student curations
No playlists for trance yet.
This supergenre is waiting for a curator. If you're in MUSA 266 or MUSA 220 and this is your assignment, build a 5–10 track YouTube playlist and submit it through the course form.