The latest techno variant; danceable cousin to ambient. What ambient is to your ears, trance is to your feet. 1992 Jam & Spoon's "Stella" on R&S scores big worldwide with its slower laid back groove, and becomes the trance song of reference. * Jam Elmar's Dance 2 Trance with "Power of American Natives". Other standouts: include: "Pacific Symphony" by Transformer 2 and artists like Frank De Wulf, Supertronic Co., Aphex Twin, The Orb, CJ Bolland, plus a ton of tracks based on Moby's "Go"! 1993 Sven Väth and Harthouse (Germany) score with "Barbarella" and "Mental Master Vol. 1". Other Harthouse artists also do well, including Hardfloor and Spicelab. * Rising High (UK) becomes the label to watch with compilations like The Secret Life Of Trance. * UK labels Cowboy, Limbo, Guerrilla, Sabres Of Paradise and Infonet add trancey touches to many of their house tracks. * German labels Fax and Space Teddy take the sound one step further, and Cosmic Baby becomes a leader in the German market. * France's fnac also adds a trancey flavor to many of their records. 1994 Leading labels come from all over: Bonzai (Belgium) with "First Rebirth" by Jones & Stephenson (a megahit); DJax (Holland) with acid trance; Superstition (Germany) with acts including LSG, Marmion and Paragliders; Labworks (Germany), mixing hard trance and acid; Important (Germany), a "real" label; Delirium (Germany), with trippy hardtrance; Plus 8 (Canada), Hardkiss (US), Experimental (US), Direct Drive (US), Probe (Canada), Overdrive (Germany) and Le Petit Prince (Belgium). These are the leaders of the sound as trance progresses. |