The historical reconstruction of a few certain facts is based, when the direct testimony does not exist, in an exercise of papers. That is what here we propose. From the study of diverse sources, our experience in the world of the music and conversations with the people got in this world, we have prepared this brief history of the music of dance known as Trance.It turns out to be difficult to date the birth of a genre as the situation and more complicated it still proves to plan all his genealogy, as well as his different derivations.

Nevertheless, if it is necessary to grant a parenthood to the genre, this one relapses into Sven Vath and the club The Omen, which they place to the city of Frankfurt as the central nucleus of birth and diffusion of the genre, towards beginning of the 90s.

In fact, previously to The Omen, proper Sven Vath had already governed the meetings of Dorian Grey, a club placed in the same airport of the city, along with Torsten Fenslau and It carves 2XLC.The name answers to the state in which the music labeled as situation produces in his listeners, an alteration of the mind produced by the developed tones, which allow the subjects to tackle a spiritual trip, in many occasions helped by the use of stimulant substances.

The Trance is fundamentally a derivation of the techno, and in him we can find elements belonging to the new Belgian beat and to the teutonic beats, basically two parallel derivations of the EBM patented by Front 242, as well as aspects either preluded by pioneers of the electronics as Jean-Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis or Brian Eno.In fact, the first topics that appeared in albumes under the name of situation have more similarities, seen in perspective, with what nowadays we consider techno that with the sound Trance to which we are used.In any case, the accent of the Trance is clearly Germanic.

Beyond his concrete location in the city of Frankfurt, the first important producers have his base in Germany: Jam and Spoon, Dances 2 Situation, Oliver Lieb, Paul van Dyk or Cosmic Baby.

The record props of this new genre were ensigns as the Berlin MFS, hearth of Mijk van Dijk, Humate, Paul van Dyk, Cosmic Baby or the common project of these two last ones, Visions Of Shiva, or Harthouse and Eye Q created by proper Sven Vath, who received also the people as Hardfloor, Arpegiators, Marco Zaffarano, and where the emperor of the Trance published a fundamental album as An Accident In Paradise (Eye Q, 1992), where a basic single was to understand the genre, L´Esperanza.Other anthems of this period are Jam and Spoon - Stella and maxi who was containing it, Such From A Danceographic Ocean (R*S, 1992), Humate - Love Stimulation (MFS, 1993), Cosmic Baby - The Space Track (MFS, 1992) or Energy 52 - Coffee of Mar (Eye Q, 1993).The phenomenon extends.

The attraction of a new and fresh sound as the situation the goa was so strong that a pioneer of the scene acid house Englishwoman, Paul Oakenfold, embraced the genre from his most oriental slope, that is to say. Of step it would create Perfectly Records, where there sheltered an authentic guru of the goa as Man With Not yam, stage name of Martin Freeland, whose Teleport (Dragonfly Records) had caused an enormous impact in 1994.The goa was born in the raves celebrated in the beaches of the Indian region of the same name, an ancient Portuguese colony in which western many had sheltered from the decade of the 60. His original sound, basically the progressive rock, was influenced by the explosion acid house and it started incorporating sounds electronic of the hand of dj's as Goa Gil.

This genre was characterized by his acidic touches and the use of exotic samples in dense and basically instrumental topics, as those who are in the productions of Prana or Juno Reactor. This hypnotic sound, surely the most prepared of the galaxy situation, was allowing the public to "travel", creating atmospheric sensations that were wrapping the persons and were placing it in tuning with his environment.Not in vain, Goa had been one of the favorite destinations of Sven Vath and they helped to form his acidic vision and lisergica of the electronics.Another genre, of rapid ascent and fulminating disappearance, was the dream personified in the figure of the Italian producer Roberto Concina, more known by his stage name of Robert Miles. With his album Dreamland (Deconstruction, 1996), in which there were included pieces as Fable and One and One but, fundamentally, Children, it managed to strike not only the scene situation but all the electronics. A fresh and melodic sound, of epic dyes, which rapidly found the favor of the public and other authors ready to continue the pronounced way, as Nylon Moon or Zhi-vagrant.

The majority of them were groups of only one hit, since the lode did not give any more of yes. His stamp, nevertheless, can follow in the later evolution of the most melodic Trance, as the deep or the productions of Chicane simultaneously that one must to him consider situation to be an integral part of the sound known as gnu - nrg, base for the later development of the uplifting today predominantly in Europe,Point of inflection In 1996, Paul van Dyk published Seven Ways (MFS), fundamental album in his career and in the evolution of the situation towards the widespread favor of the public in Europe. In him topics were included today already considered classic as Beautiful Place, Forbidden Fruit or Words, that along with his previous length, 45RPM, that For An was including Angel, marked the rule of big part of the production later situation along with the referential productions of Emmanuel Top y Kosmo Records and,from Great Britain, stamps as Platipus and artists as the proper proprietor of this stamp, Simon Berry, known by his aliases Art Of Trance and Union Jack.

But if a movement is predominant in the middle of the decade this is the hardtrance. It is a question of another subgenre of Germanic root, which adds up to the traditional location of Frankfurt, where producers as Pete Namlook and Pascal F.E.O.S stand out., the entry in scene of Hamburg, where a basic prop is as Tunnel Records. This was the stamp that edited the first works of X-Dream, fundamental bridge between the situation of club and the incipient scene goa with his acidic hardtrance.

Tunnel turned, along with EDM and Fog Area and with permission of Noom Records, in the principal reference of the hardest brother of the situation, who would elevate artists as Commander Tom and his essential one Plow Am Eye (Noom Records, 1995), Cocooma, DJ Dean or Gary D, all of them strongly influenced by the most powerful scene techno Belgian and, fundamentally, the new beat, of whom directly the people went out as Marco Bailey and the whole offspring of the stamp Bonzai.Fundamental topics to understand this genre are Jones and Stephenson - The First Rebirth (Bonzai, 1993), Legend B - Lost In Love (Sub Terranean, 1994) or Nexus 6 - Three Chic ones (Noom Records, 1994).

The hardtrance dominated the whole scene in the period that from 1995 to 1998 goes. From then the slope in the quality of the productions is clear, which provokes the practical disappearance of the genre, which splits into two. On the one hand, the line that derives towards the uplifting Trance; for other, the hardest sector, which causes the movement hardstyle, nearer to the hardcore and to the family of what later would be baptized as hard danced than to the proper

Trance.From Frankfurt to Amsterdam.The hegemony of the set of the scene on a global scale relapses from 1999 into the nourished group of producers and dj's Dutches, with Tiesto, Ferry Corsten and Marco V to the head. All of them come from the almighty hardcore orange that developed from Rotterdam and radiated the whole Europe at the beginning of the 90. Topics as System F - Out Of The Blue, Veracocha - Carte Blanche or Gouryella - Gouryella there were the keystone that formed the first sound uplifting, that is the most paradigmatic of the whole genre.

The summer of 99 was important because these dj's and others as Armin van Buuren triumphed in the tracks of Ibiza, happening over some of selectors better established, basically British, as Judge Jules, John '00' Fleming or Paul Oakenfold.On the other hand, the sound goa that Oakenfold had discovered for a big number of clubbers evolved towards the psychedelic situation, two big currents being established. One, the full on situation - called this way for being a hard, forceful style, which fills all the frequencies of the sound-, centred on the Israeli producers, as Astral Projection or Infected Mushroom. Other one, the progressive (psychedelic) Trance located in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, with figures as Vibrasphere or or It is Kite. Other important foci of the Psy-Trance in the continent are Portugal and Greece, where there are celebrated two of the biggest festivals of the genre, Boom Festival and Samothraki respectively.

In any case, the scene goa has always been supported in the underground, preferring, surely for his deep connection with the nature, the big open spaces in which the raves are realized to the urban clubes in which there was developing in parallel the uplifting, the deep or the hardtrance.