Dance 2 Trance (Rolf Ellmer - classically trained composer, and Dag Lerner - a DJ) has been credited as being one of the first trance acts. Their song "We Came In Peace" from 1990 (Vinyl Release) is said to be the first trance song. Rolf Ellmer (aka Jam El Mar) left the group in 1995, took all the talent and creativity along with him, and focused his artistic wit on composing for his main project, Jam & Spoon - the finest act in trance genre. Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. ... This article is about the year. ...
Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown.
Trance is said to have begun as an off-shoot of techno in German clubs during the very early 1990s.
By the mid-1990s, trance, specifically progressive trance, which emerged from acid trance much as progressive house had emerged from acid house, had emerged commercially as one of the dominant genres of dance music.