Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that rose in the 1990s ; generally characterized by a tempo of between 120 and 145 bpm, short repetitive melodic synthesist phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down within a track. It is a compounding of many forms of music such as industrial, techno, and house. It is more melodic than Techno, and usually has harder beats than House. The blood of the term is uncertain, with some proposing that the term is derived from the Klaus Schulze album Trancefer (1981) or the initially trance act Dance 2 Trance.  Whatever the case, the name is perhaps linked to the ability of music to induce an altered state of consciousness known as a trance. The effect of some trance music has been likened to the trance-inducing music created by ancient Pagan shamanists during long full stops of drumming .
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