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Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1980s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 BPM, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. It often features crescendos and breakdowns. Sometimes vocals are also utilized. The style is arguably derived from a combination of largely electronic music such as ambient music, techno, and house. The origin of the term is ambiguous with suggestions that the term is derived from the Klaus Schulze album Trancefer or the early trance act Dance 2 Trance though it is likely that both these uses are linked to the perceived ability of a drum beat to induce altered states of consciousness, aka a trance. As this music is almost always played in nightclubs at popular vacation spots and in inner cities, trance can be understood as a form of club music.

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September 2008
Saturday 13 September 2008
Nocturnal Festival at NOS Events Center Digitalism, Infected Mushroom, Junkie XL, Above & Beyond, Kaskade, Cosmic Gate, Richie Hawtin, Dubfire	NOS Events Center Los Angeles, United States	69 people attending 23 shouts
Nocturnal Wonderland at NOS EVENTS CENTER / San Bernardino Infected Mushroom	NOS EVENTS CENTER / San Bernardino Los Angeles, United States	2 people attending Add shout
John Digweed	Vanguard Los Angeles, United States	2 people attending Add shout
Sander Kleinenberg	Avalon Hollywood Los Angeles, United States	Add shout
Nocturnal Festival at NOS Events Center DJ Craze, Infected Mushroom, Deep Dish, Digitalism, Junkie XL, Above & Beyond, Cosmic Gate, Richie Hawtin	NOS Events Center Los Angeles, United States	1 person attending Add shout
Wednesday 17 September 2008
Delerium Elsiane, Morgan Page, Sarah Fimm	El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, United States	1 person attending Add shout

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jim1111 wrote:
Saturday afternoon

To me clubbing is a microsomal part of the anti-thesis of civilization. I mean, these people.... they are animals, they are disgusting, sweaty, savages prancing around to the dull synthetic beat of whatever shit modern music has thrown up recently. There is something quite pig-like about them, one is reminded upon looking at these neanderthals of the soma fuelled mindlessness of Huxley's dystopian brave new world. And what's worse about these odious cretins is that they have succeeded in persuading popular culture that the nightclub is *the* social medium of our generation. Everything else is secondary, 'oh, lets go out and eat and THEN go to a nightclub'. Barbarians.... Your filthy habits should be punishable by the state.

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Jatup wrote:
Friday evening

He doesn't have that many "trance" tags as I would expect noobs to give him. But the Top Artists list for this tag is a joke. Cascada and Scooter in the top 10? Sad.

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mompof wrote:
Friday afternoon

aphex twin... trance???..... never

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PsyCho1975 wrote:
Thursday evening

Immer wieder Hammer!!!

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Jatup wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Take your fanboyism to his shoutbox. He does not rule.

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ginogigiki wrote:
7 days ago

Armin rules!!!

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toxrn wrote:
last month

¿Acaso a las mujeres no les gusta la electrónica?

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muserock7997 wrote:
last month

whoever tagged Aphex Twin as trance deserves to die

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DZIBALUEJ wrote:
last month

A das is dajebis

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Yseber9 wrote:
last month

Exelente

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medusawithglass wrote:
last month

I love Tiësto

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Jatup wrote:
July 2008

Haha, ok you don't have to, I will.

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LilTheater wrote:
July 2008

"Add Armin to that list" - No

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HOONKINGTON wrote:
July 2008

TRANCE, YEAH, TRANCE, IS REALLY............................

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Jatup wrote:
July 2008

Add Armin to that list

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LilTheater wrote:
July 2008

far better genre than people give it credit for.. thanks for doing your part Tijs, Cascada, Ministry of Sound.. cunts

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TheJunner wrote:
July 2008

Euro trance is not trance; it's not even music.

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HiffySpamster wrote:
July 2008

you are just faggots

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