The KLF — What Time Is Love? and the roots of the rave era
What Time Is Love? appeared in multiple forms as the KLF moved through late-1980s and early-1990s dance culture. Its repeating hook and large-scale presentation point toward…
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Perspectives
Perspectives — Records that stay with us, sounds that move us, and stories from across the spectrum of trance.
Orbital — Belfast: melody before the peak
Belfast builds its atmosphere from repeating melodic figures, rhythm and a haunting vocal sample. It belongs to a broader electronic tradition that overlaps with trance without…
Read story →Underworld — Born Slippy .NUXX: a neighbouring anthem
Born Slippy .NUXX is not easily contained by the trance label, but its rolling momentum and huge emotional release made it part of the wider electronic…
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