Trance music is a type of electronic dance music that today's teenagers love, being, after all, not much older than them, as one born in 1993 in Germany and widely played in discos by 1995. As any other form of music, it is a combination of previous genres, but most of the latter are relatively recent, too. Teenagers like it, presumably, for its acid sound and trance-like states it may lead to. This might be an old effect, if we think just of Velvet Underground, but the novelty is that this sound is modern, being created by synthesizers and effects pedals, reverberating and delaying it with the result of a sense of wandering in a vast, cosmic space. Or, teenagers, who always mean to be free, may feel that this music opens the way to that dreamed free world, without any boundaries.

Moreover, trance is not just any electronic music that you could listen to comfortably in your armchair, like ambient music. If teenagers like it that much it's because it is more dynamic than other forms of electronic music, being perfectly danceable, appealing not only to the soul but also to the body. Or no music could be a better combination for teenagers, with their indecision between innocence and desire, purity and the need for experience.

As far as dancing is concerned, there are surely wilder rhythms or gayer melodies. But, unlike them, trance music is both more melodic and more harmonic. It has what other forms of dance music miss, that is, that wave-like rhythm, ensured by the repetition of synthesizer phrases, which is certainly fitter for romance than energetic bass and drum beats, requiring you to move like hell and so close to utter noise.

And its internal construction is not the only reason why teenagers like trance music. In practical terms, they can easily acquire it from any of the innumerable legal downloading sites around. Or, this is by no means unimportant for a category not exactly full of money. Besides, teenagers spend a lot of time on the internet for socializing or reading, so the fact trance music is so popular on the internet makes it even more attractive to them. This is the venue that has brought it global popularity.

This doesn't mean that its physical venues don't count. You can frequently hear it in nightclubs, bars and discos, DJs liking its manageability, given its intros and outros, or you can go to one of the numerous electronic dance music festivals around the world, bringing together impressive crowds of fans. And teenagers are definitely interested in sharing their passions. Synthesizers may be expensive, but if you are the owner of a more affordable instrument, you can go to Sounds Great Music, in order to try some effect units to see how they can transfigure sounds.