Trance Pop

Trance pop, also called pop trance or commercial trance, is the song-based, vocal form of trance music that dominated European charts around the turn of the millennium. Producers kept trance's euphoric synth arpeggios, supersaw chords and long builds but compressed them into radio-length songs with verses, choruses and guest vocalists, at tempos around 130–140 bpm. The style broke through with *ATB*'s chart-topping "9 PM (Till I Come)" (1999) and was carried by acts including *Alice Deejay*, *Fragma*, *Ian Van Dahl*, *Lasgo* and *Robert Miles*, whose "Children" was its instrumental prototype.