Dream trance

Dream trance
Dream trance
Stylistic origins House, Trance
Cultural origins Early 1990s, Switzerland
Typical instruments Synthesizer - Sequencer - Keyboard - Sampler
Mainstream popularity Large in 1995—97 Europe, United States, and Canada.
Derivative forms Progressive
Subgenres
Piano dream house, Synth dream house, Vocal dream house

Dream trance is the earliest subgenre of trance music that peaked prominently on the international dance scene between 1995 and 1997 (colliding with the first time for trance to reach mainstream). The "dream" term has been known to largely influence house music in general, and therefore the subgenre is also known as dream house or dream dance on some occasions.

The key element of dream trance resides in catchy and deep melodies of such tracks, typically played on an analog instrument (piano, violin, saxophone, etc.) that are mastered and then sampled onto electronic beat structure. The melodies are considered "dreamy", i.e. tending to alter the listener's mind, hence the name.

Today dream trance is considered to be the first and the most primitive derivative of progressive electronic movement that started around 1992. Many psytrance producers emergent at the time (notably Infected Mushroom) were also influenced by it.

Structure

Dream trance uses dance beats similar to those of eurodance and dance-pop genres rather than genuine trance beats mixed into a 4-to-4 bass patterns with particularly repetitive sound. The rhythm structure is also very simple, however, as stated before, all the importance is accented in instrumental strings that derive on various notes and shape the songs. Therefore, the style is very similar to trance in its general consistence, with the only differences being slower tempo (around 130 BPM) and constant, house-like progression.

Popular dream house tracks

The track that launched dream trance to popularity was "Children" by Robert Miles, its debut album Dreamland was also an iconic Dream trance record [1],. Among the most popular dream trance tracks were:

  • "Children", "Fable", "Fantasya", "One & One" by Robert Miles
  • "Celebrate the love", "Dreamer" by Zhi-Vago
  • "Pyramid", "Das boot", "Crockett's theme" by Dreamhouse Orkestra
  • "Sky Plus" by Nylon Moon
  • "Atlantis" by Imperio
  • "I'm Flying Away" by Dj Crashmaster feat. Cybertrancer
  • "In Africa" by Piano Negro
  • "Metropolis", "The Legend of Babel", "X-Files" by DJ Dado[2]
  • "Pyramids of Giza" by W. P. Alex Remark
  • "Moon's Waterfalls" by Roland Brant
  • "Rain" by BC Dance
  • "Dreamer" by Antico[disambiguation needed ]
  • "Forever Young" by DJ Panda
  • "Space Ocean" by Daniele Gas
  • "Seven Days and One Week" by B.B.E.
  • "NCIS Theme" by Numeriklab

References

  1. ^ "EuroDance hits Robert Miles Biography". Eurodancehits.com. http://www.eurodancehits.com/miles-biography.html. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
  2. ^ "DJ Dado Page". Eurodancehits.com. 1996-12-29. http://www.eurodancehits.com/djdado.html. Retrieved 2011-06-21. 
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