Euro-Trance

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Euro-Trance is a hybrid of Eurodance and Hard Trance 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. Most Euro-Trance music has a tempo of around 140 Beats per minute. 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.

In Europe it is more commonly referred to as 'Handz Up,' due to the happy and uplifting atmosphere it creates when played live, which impels ravers to "throw their hands in air." There are several record labels that specialize in this style of music, most notably Mental Madness Records and Zooland Records, of Germany, as well as Expanded Music of Italy.

This style is not always necessarily one centered around a trance sound; some recent producers have explored using a more hardstyle basis for their productions (Deepforces a notable example, as well as Mikesh), and others lean more toward a purer trance sound, while retaining elements of the hard, energetic sound, as in the case of producers like K-System, and H2K.

[edit] Euro-Trance Artists

A list of some main euro-trance producers:

ALX (Alex Ross)
Alex Megane (Axel Jäger)
Bass-T (Sebastian Göckede)
Basshunter (Jonas Erik Altberg)
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)
Floorfilla (Gabriele Cerlini & Momo Bale)
Groove Coverage (Axel Konrad, DJ Novus/Markus Schafferzyk, Mell, Verena)
Jan Wayne (Jan Christiansen)
Mario Lopez (Thomas Schatz)
Mark'Oh (Marko Albrecht)
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)
Tune Up! (Manuel Reuter & Yann Pfeiffer)
Verano (Marco Stork, Stefan Richly and Dennis Nicholls)

[edit] Euro-Trance Stations

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