- Acid trance
Acid trance is a style of
trance music that emerged in the late '80s early '90s focusing on utilising the acid sound. The trademark sound of "acid" is produced with a RolandTB-303 by playing a sequenced melody while altering the instrument's filter cutoff frequency, resonance, envelope modulation, and accent controls. This real-time tone adjustment was not part of the instrument's original intended operation. Acid trance is the best known form of trance music inBelgium . The form was first showcased at the popularAntwerp Rave 24 in Belgium, and has created four national number one singles in the country since.Acid trance may be considered a descendant of
acid house , since the genre of trance had not yet been invented during the advent of acid house (or acidhouse).The first volumes of
Trancemaster compilations contains a few tracks in acid trance style, just asclassic trance tracks. The difference is, while acid trance tracks focus more on the changing TB-303 lines, classic trance (e.g.Dance 2 Trance ,Cosmic Baby ,Age of Love &Jam & Spoon ) tracks are more atmospheric, they use "softer" synth-lines, often stings and otherambient music elements. The line between these two styles is quite blurred, they also emerged about the same time.Acid Trance artists are often confused with their psychedelic, classical, and Goa counterparts. It is not uncommon to see many of the first Acid Trance artists featured on Goa Trance compilation albums. However, many of these artists never considered themselves part of the Goa or Psychedelic scene and these compilation albums were often done by their record labels who published Acid Trance alongside Goa artists.
Notable artists
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Art of Trance
*Atomic Babies
*Hardfloor
*Union Jack
*Eternal Basement
*Laurent Garnier
*Emmanuel Top (early works)
*Electric Skychurch
*Solar Quest
*Re-Pitcher
*Phobia
*Kai Tracid Labels
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Attack Records
*Dance Opera
*Eurovision Soundcarriers
*Harthouse
*Labworks
*Le Petit Prince
*Moonshine Music
*Platipus
*Rising High Records
*Tarot
*Two Thumbs
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