Tom Ewing: How trance has matured in modern pop

Trance music once provided the very definition of cheese, but producers use it intelligently now to play with the idea of scaleEveryone who reads, writes or talks about music much comes to dislike particular words. The gulf between the glorious variety of music and the relative laziness of common language means words such as "soulful" or "ethereal" or "raw" become sketchy markers for huge clouds of effects and feelings. My personal bugbear is "cheesy" – that catch-all for any music that's a li...

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