The Steady Decline of Trance

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The nineties were filled with throbbing beats and out of control clubs. Ecstasy was the drug of choice and groups like the Crystal Method, DJ Tiesto, and 1200 Micrograms were pretty big. However, that time passed. Unlike disco, it didn't die overnight, it faded away in America. Spending time in Europe, you still can here the elements of trance in most of the pop music here. However, as Lady Gaga's "Edge of Glory" has shown, America's music scene is slowly looking backwards on the heydays of pop in the 1980s, glossing over the Haddaways and Dirty Vegas of the 1990s. Music, like fashion, is cyclical. With the infusion of electronica and psych music in the Indie scene (see Yeasayer and Hooray for the Earth), perhaps trance is due for a resurgence in about a decade or so. We shall see.