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I had 19th live broadcast of “Pops
Lounge” yesterday in TBN Ulsan Traffic Broadcasting Network’s “Studio1041”. The
topic of yesterday's broadcast was “Electronic music", the genres
of popular music which were popular in America in the 1980s.
I uploaded content of yesterday's
broadcast on YouTube, and please enjoy the below link.
This week's
lecture is “Trance music”, the 8th topic of “New Age Music”, which is a summary
of the contents of “81. New Age Music: 8. Trance music” introduced on April 1st,
2017.
Trance
music is a genre of electronic music that emerged from the British new-age
music scene and the early 1990s German techno and hardcore scenes.
This music
is a musical form that clearly builds tension and elements throughout a track
often culminating in one or two peaks or drops, with a tempo between 135 and
150 beats per minute and repeating melodies. Although a unique genre, this
music liberally influences different music styles such as techno, house, pop,
chill-out, classical music, ambient and film music. Trance music generally has
a long playing time and may include vocals, but is mostly instrumental.
One of the
pioneers of Trance music is a German electronic music pioneer, composer and
musician Klaus Schulze, and especially his 1988 album "En=Trance"
stands out this genre.
En=Trance, Klaus Schulze (1988)
Another
album that is considered as a pioneer of Trance music is "Humate-Love Stimulation"
in 1993 by Paul van Dyk.
Humate-Love Stimulation, Paul van Dyk (1993)
The
representative musicians in Trance music are Kraftwerk, a German band formed in
1970, and considered as an innovator and pioneer of electronic music as well as
one of the first successful musicians to popularize electronic music; ATB, a
German DJ, musician, and producer of Trance music; and Giorgio Moroder, an
Italian composer and record producer and a pioneer of euro disco and electronic
dance music.
