Euro-Trance

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Euro-Trance is a hybrid of Hard Trance and Eurodance music incorporating Hardstyle bass drums and trance elements. It is made with a much more commercial sound, using lots of major chords and generally very happy sounding melodies. The trance synths at times sound like techno hoovers with trancey effects and strings backing it up, and more recent Euro Trance has also developed a synth sound of its own. The vocals are often pitched up for the most part, but sometimes they can be heard in normal pitch range. This is often confused with vocal trance because of its use of vocals. The lyrical content is usually simple, containing an introduction to the song with usually no or little drums, and sometimes includes renderings of classic Happy Hardcore anthems or melodies.

[edit] Euro-Trance Artists

A list of some main euro-trance producers:

  • ALX (Alex Ross)
  • Alex Megane (Axel Jäger)
  • Baracuda (Axel Konrad, Ole Wierk, DJ Toby-Sky/Matthias Reim, Suny)
  • Bass-T (Sebastian Göckede)
  • Caater (Kalle Kukk & Markku Tidmaa)
  • Cascada (Manuel Reuter, Yann Pfeifer and Natalie Horler)
  • Deepforces (Christian Blecha)
  • Deep Spirit (Dominik Cydlik, Bernhard Hochrainer & Roland Binder)
  • DJ Dean (Martin Schmidt)
  • DJ Manian (Manuel Reuter)
  • DJ Toxic (Philipp Braccini)
  • Future Trance United (Baracuda, Megara vs. DJ Lee, Pulsedriver, Rocco vs. Bass-T & Special D.)
  • Floorfilla (Gabriele Cerlini & Momo Bale)
  • Groove Coverage (Axel Konrad, DJ Novus/Markus Schafferzyk, Mell, Verena)
  • Jan Wayne (Jan Christiansen)
  • Mario Lopez (Thomas Schatz)
  • Neo Cortex (Lars Böge, Jan Miesner & Heiko Lempio)
  • Pulsedriver (Slobodan Petrovic Jr.)
  • Rob Mayth (Robin Brandes)
  • Rocco (Sven Gruhnwald)
  • Special D. (Dennis Horstmann)
  • Starsplash (Charly Lownoise & Franky Tunes)
  • Sven-R-G (Sven Gruhnwald)
  • Tune Up! (Manuel Reuter & Yann Pfeiffer)
  • Verano (Marco Stork, Stefan Richly and Dennis Nicholls)

[edit] Euro-Trance Stations

  • Moodance.com - Internet radio station playing euro-trance, vocal trance, dance.]
  • PulsRadio - Non-Stop Dance Music


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