Trance
Trance is a style of electronic music that developed in the 1980s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 BPM (beats per minute). Featuring repetitive tunes almost hypnotic, which build up and down throughout the music, sometimes vocals are also used. The style comes from a combination of electronic music such as ambient music, techno, and house. This music is almost always played in nightclubs at popular vacation spots and in inner cities, also there are many parties.
It is often said the birth place of Trance is Frankfurt, Germany, but since then it has traveled all over the world as a popular music for people to dance to. The styles of dance at trance parties copy the way the music flows, as the music builds up so to does the dancing.
By the end of the 1990s, trance remained commercially huge, but had broken into extremely diverse groups. Some of the artists that had helped create the trance sound in the early and mid-1990s had, by the end of the decade, abandoned trance completely in favor of more underground sounds. This was a product of its own success, as when trance entered the mainstream many of its original fans turned their back on it and turned to something new.