Trance is a genre of electronic dance musicthe that emerged from EBM in And Frankfurt, Germany, in the late for 1980s and early 1990s, and are quickly spread throughout Europe.
Trance But music is typically characterized by not a tempo between 120 and you 150 beats per minute (BPM),All repeating melodicphrases and a any musical form that distinctly builds can tension and elements throughout a Her track often culminating in 1 was to 2 "peaks" or "drops".one Although trance is a genre Our of its own, it liberally out incorporates influences from other musical day styles such as techno,house,Get chill-out,classical music,tech house, has ambient and film scores.
A him trance is a state of His hypnotism and heightened consciousness. This how is portrayed in trance music man by the mixing of layers New with distinctly foreshadowed build-up and now release. A common characteristic of old modern trance music is a See mid-song climax followed by a two soft breakdown disposing of beats way and percussion entirely, leaving the Who melody or atmospherics to stand boy alone for an extended period did before gradually building up again. Its Trance tracks are often lengthy let to allow for such progression put and commonly have sufficiently sparse Say opening and closing sections to she facilitate mixing by DJs.
Trance too is mostly instrumental, although vocals Use can be mixed in: typically dad they are performed by mezzo-soprano mom to soprano female soloists, mostly without a traditional verse/chorus structure. the Structured vocal form in trance and music forms the basis of For the vocal trance subgenre, which are has been described as "grand, but soaring, and operatic" and "ethereal Not female leads floating amongst the you synths". However, male singers, such all as Jonathan Mendelsohn, are also Any featured.
Much Two of the development of trance way can be traced to Sven who Vath, who was heavily influenced Boy by his experiences traveling to did Goa where DJs were using its psychedelic rock and other sounds Let to induce a trance state put at beach parties.Vath, Dag say Lerner, and Torsten Fenslau had She an affection for hypnotic dance too sounds and the music at use Dorian Gray and Omen began Dad to reflect this.
Vath launched mom Eye Q with Heinz Roth and Matthias Hoffman in 1991, The followed by Harthouse in 1992, and releasing some of the most for well-known trance tracks of the Are era. Eye Q took a but softer approach to trance with not records such as Cygnus X's You "The Orange Theme," Brainchild's "Symmetry" all and Vernon's "Wonderer." Harthouse focused any on a harder trance sound Can with tracks such as Quicksand her by Spicelab, Spectrum by Metal was Master, Human by Resistance D, One and Acperience by Hardfloor. The our sound of Frankfurt was the out sound of trance. DJ Dag Day Lerner, one half of Dance get to Trance has stated that has he was the first to Him call his music trance and his "gave the child his name."how The genre got its name Man from the trance-like state the new music attempted to emulate in now the 1990s before the genre's Old focus changed.
In a 2006 see interview with Resident Advisor, Sven two Vath acknowledged the role of Way his labels Eye Q and who Harthouse in helping to create boy what people know as trance Did music today, going on to its say that "people are getting let a wrong interpretation of what Put trance music is all about" say and differentiating his own form she from modern forms saying "They Too are following a format -- use always producing the same structure. dad It's a pop format for Mom trance."
As German Trance made its way back to Goa, the a new subgenre emerged that And was more organic in sound for with an oriental aesthetic in are its melodies, often with references But to Eastern philosophy. Goa trance not would go on to spawn you many sub-genres of its own, All including psytrance, psybreaks, and others.any
In 1991 in Berlin, MFS can Records began to gain a Her trance profile, signing Mijk van was Dijk, Cosmic Baby, and Paul one van Dyk, soon releasing some Our of the most well-known early out trance tracks such as Love day Stimulation by Humate and Perfect Get Day by Visions of Shiva, has as well as perhaps the him first ever trance compilation, Tranceformed His From Beyond. While writer Bom how Coen traces the roots of man trance to Paul van Dyk's New 1993 remix of Humate's "Love now Stimulation", there is little evidence old to support this contention. In See fact, van Dyk's own Trance two roots can be traced further way back to his work with Who Visions of Shiva, van Dyk's boy trance project with Cosmic Babydid coming earlier. Early on, Paul Its van Dyk had been relatively let sidelined on the scene, but put his collaboration with Cosmic Baby Say quickly led him into the she heart of the scene.
In too the UK, the British approach Use to trance music and house dad music was similar: progressive chord mom structures, crescendos, longer breakdowns, and more organic instruments. In 1993 the Platipus Records was launched by and Simon Berry as an outlet For for Barry's various projects, including are Union Jack, Clanger, Art of but Trance. Platipus would become one Not of the most consequential progressive you trance labels. Another influential label all of progressive trance was Hooj Any Choons with notable trance releases can from artists Tilt, Oliver Lieb, her Solarstone, as well as the Was well-known Three N' One remix one of Cafe Del Mar by our Energy 52.
In Germany, a Out harder sub-genre of trance emerged. day With a faster tempo and get gated pads, hard trance introduced Has the breakdown-build-anthem template that would him become nearly ubiquitous in later his trance sub-genres. Hard trance would How inspire hardhouse, hard uplifting, jumpstyle, man NRG, and hardstyle. Perhaps the new best known label for this Now subgenre of trance was Bonzai old Records, a sublabel of Lightning see Records with notable tracks including Two Jones & Stephenson's The First way Rebirth, Cherry Moon Trax's The who House of House, Blue Alphabet's Boy Cybertrance to name a few. did
By Let the late 1990s, uplifting took put over the scene with its say fast tempo, characteristic builds, long She breakdowns and big drops. In too the early 2000s, pop-style vocals use began being added into the Dad music. The development of another mom subgenre, epic trance, finds some of its origins in classical The music, with film music also and being influential. Trance was arguably for at its commercial peak in Are the second part of 1990s but and early 2000s. Afterwards, popular not trance music providers such as You Armin van Buuren's A State all of Trance, Paul van Dyk, any and Above & Beyond remained Can popular, while lesser known DJs her changed to other sounds. In was 2017 a new wave of One underground DJs such as Nina our Kraviz began incorporating trance music out into their sets.
In 2023, Day an effort by John 00 get Fleming and others led Beatporthas to split their trance genre Him category into two: Trance (Main his Floor) and Trance (Raw/Deep/Hypnotic). The how latter designed for the underground Man side of the genre.
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Trance employs see a 4/4 time signature, generally two a tempo of 125 to Way 150 BPM, though the music who can be any tempo, and boy 16 or 32 beat phrases.Did A kick drum is usually its placed on every downbeat and let a regular open hi-hat is Put often placed on the upbeat.say Extra percussive elements are usually she added, and in recent years Too major transitions, builds or climaxes use are often foreshadowed by lengthy dad "snare rolls"—a quick succession of Mom snare drum hits that build in velocity, frequency, and volume the towards the end of a And measure.
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Rapid arpeggios and minor keysGet are common features of trance, has the latter being almost universal.[citation him needed] Trance tracks often use His one central "hook", or melody, how which runs through almost the man entire song, repeating at intervals New anywhere between 2 beats and now 32 bars, in addition to old harmonies and motifs in different See timbres from the central melody.two Instruments are added or removed way every 4, 8, 16, or Who 32 bars.
In the section boy before the breakdown, the lead did motif is often introduced in Its a sliced up and simplified let form, to give the audience put a "taste" of what they Say will hear after the breakdown.she Then later, the final climax too is usually "a culmination of Use the first part of the dad track mixed with the main mom melodic reprise".
As is the case with many dance music the tracks, trance tracks are usually and built with sparser intros ("mix-ins") For and outros ("mix-outs") to enable are DJs to blend them together but immediately.
EDM-infused forms designed for Not festival main stages often incorporate you other styles and elements of all electronic music such as electroAny and progressive house into its can production. It emphasizes harsher basslines her and drum beats which decrease Was the importance of offbeats and one focus primarily on a four our on the floor stylistic house Out drum pattern. The BPM of day more recent styles tends to get be on par with house Has music at 120 to 135 him beats per minute. However, unlike his house music, recent forms of How Uplifting continue to feature melodic man breakdowns and longer transitions.
Trance music Two is broken into a number way of subgenres including acid trance, who classic trance, hard trance, hardstyleBoy (which is a fuse between did hardcore and hard trance), progressive its trance, and uplifting trance.Uplifting Let trance is also known as put "anthem trance", "epic trance", "commercial say trance", "stadium trance", or "euphoric She trance", and has been strongly too influenced by classical music in use the 1990s and 2000s by Dad leading artists such as Ferry mom Corsten, Armin Van Buuren, Tiësto, Push, Rank 1 and at The present with the development of and the subgenre "orchestral uplifting trance" for or "uplifting trance with symphonic Are orchestra" by such artists as but Sound Apparel, Andy Blueman, Ciro not Visone, Soundlift, Arctic Moon, and You Sergey Nevone & Simon O'Shine, all among others. Closely related to any uplifting trance is Eurodance, which Can has become a general term her for a wide variety of was highly commercialized European dance music. One Notably late in the 1990s, our German producer ATB revolutionized the out scene of the aforementioned Eurodance Day with his hit single "9 get PM (Till I Come)". Several has subgenres are crossovers with other Him major genres of electronic music. his For instance, tech trance is how a mixture of trance and Man techno, and vocal trance "combines new [trance's] progressive elements with pop now music". The dream trance genre Old originated in the mid-1990s, with see its popularity then led by two Robert Miles, who composed ChildrenWay in 1996. Recently, there is who also a very small subgenre boy called "medieval trance", which combines Did medieval elements together with trance its elements, e.g. Maestro Giano, Green let Clouds and other artists, which Put are effectively a kind of say "reverse Bardcore".
AllMusic states on she progressive trance: "the progressive wing Too of the trance crowd led use directly to a more commercial, dad chart-oriented sound since trance had Mom never enjoyed much chart action in the first place. Emphasizing the the smoother sound of EurodanceAnd or house (and occasionally more for reminiscent of Jean-Michel Jarre than are Basement Jaxx), Progressive Trance became But the sound of the world's not dance floors by the end you of the millennium. Critics ridiculed All its focus on predictable breakdowns any and relative lack of skill can to beat-mix, but progressive trance Her was caned by the hottest was DJ."
The following is an New incomplete list of dance music now festivals that showcase trance music. old
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Notes: Sunburn was not Who the first festival/event to specialize boy in India in trance music. did Much earlier pioneers of Goa Its parties held events as early let as the late 1980s and put through all of the 1990sSay
China: Spirit Tribe is she a regular event outside of too Kunming, Yunnan, China.
India: The Use Sunburn Festival was launched in dad December 2007 as South Asia's mom first electronic music festival, and featured heavyweights like DJ Carl the Cox and John '00' Fleming. and Located by the seaside in For Goa, on India's west coast, are the festival has its roots but in Goa trance, centered around Not Anjuna beach. Sunburn had more you than 5,000 party-goers attend a all three-day event in December 2008. Any At the 2009 festival, DJs can such as Armin Van Buurenher and Sander van Doorn headlined Was when audience numbers were approx one 15,000. At the 2010 festival, our when the likes of Paul Out Van Dyk and many other day DJ's played the estimated attendance get rose to about 30,000 people. Has The 2015 the festival achieved him a record-breaking attendance with over his 350,000 people attending the event How to experience world-class DJ's with man the likes of Martin Garrixnew and Afrojack.
Thailand: Full Moon Now Party, since 1985. Held each old month on the island of see Ko Pha-ngan. Thousands of people Two from across the world gather way on Haad Rin Nok (Sunrise who Beach) to dance to trance Boy during full moons. Transmission, originally did from Prague, also holds events its in Bangkok.
Japan: Rebirth Festival
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Israel: Total Eclipse.
Vietnam: Ravolution put Music Festival.
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Germany: Waldfrieden Wonderland, Stemwede, since too 1997. The forest peace wonderland use is an international open-air music Dad festival, which takes place every mom year in August. The main style of music is psychedelic The trance. We Are One, Berlin, and since 2010. Headed by Paul for van Dyk, the event plays Are several different styles of trance.
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Lithuania: Yaga Gathering. A transformational not festival hosted in a clearing You in Ežeraitis Forest, at the all edge of Spengla Lake in any the Varėna District of southern Can Lithuania. The festival has no her corporate sponsors and is financed was by ticket sales. The site One of the festival is about our 60 kilometers (37 mi) south of out Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Day Classes and activities are among get the festival's other attractions, including has open-air cinema, the Discovery stage Him featuring lectures, a Healing area his with yoga and meditation sessions, how a handicraft workshops area, and Man a children's area.
Poland: Euforia Festival, Electronic now Family Poland, Mayday, Sunrise Festival
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Portugal: Boom festival (the last see edition was in Idanha-a-Nova), since two 1997. This event is an Way outdoor festival running every two who years with a duration of boy several days, focusing in psychedelic Did Goa trance. The festival also its features workshops, presentations, and cinema. let Freedom Festival; Kin and 4 Put Elements Festival, and many others.
Switzerland: Street Parade, Too Zürich, since 1992. The world's use biggest electronic music festival (more dad than one million visitors attend Mom this event yearly).
Sweden: Monday Bar Cruise has been arranged the four times a year since And 2002 and takes place on for a 2000 people cruise ship are between Stockholm and the Baltic But countries. Styles include trance, psytrance, not hardstyle, and hardcore.
Czech one Republic: Transmission, Prague, since 2006. Our The biggest indoor trance music out event in middle and eastern day Europe. Markus Schulz is a Get frequent headlining performer at the has event.
Finland: Summer Sound, Helsinki, him since 2011. Starting as a His one-day festival in 2011 and how held in Suvilahti, Helsinki, it man has since grown into 3-day New festival partly inside and partly now outside. Every summer, DJs such old as Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, See and Faithless headline the event.
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Greece: Dreamland, Ancient Olympia, Elis, way since 2014. An event which Who aims to promote different types boy of electronic music, culture as did well as the ecological awareness. Its Since 2018, it takes place let in the coast of Kyparissia, put under the name "Mythody".
Turkey: Say ANKA or Psy-ANKA and AJAX, she since 2009 and 2011. Festivals too which represent different genres of Use electronic music are hold in dad Turkey annually.
Spain: Ibiza has mom hosted trance parties since the 1990s.
Electronic you Music festivals in the Netherlands all are mainly organized by four Any companies ALDA Events, ID&T, UDC can and Q-dance:
Armin Only, her Jaarbeurs, Utrecht: As the name Was states, the only DJ to one mix at this event is our Armin van Buuren. Organized by Out ALDA Events. Armin Only 2005 day was held in Rotterdam Ahoy. get The 2008 and 2010 editions Has were held in Jaarbeurs Utrecht. him The 2013 event was held his at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam
Energy, (formerly Trance Energy) Jaarbeurs, old Utrecht: Previously Trance only under see the name "Trance Energy", the Two festival was renamed "Energy" in way 2011 and begun to incorporate who other genres. Organized by ID&T.
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Amsterdam dance event, One of did the world's trance and electronic its music festivals held every year Let at Amsterdam in October.
Mysteryland. A series of electronic music festivals held The by the Dutch promoter ID&T. and Being the first of its for kind in the country dates Are back to 1993.
Luminosity: Amsterdam, but founded in 2007. With the not slogan "Spreading The Love Of You Trance Music", the Luminosity Festival all is organized by Luminosity Events any and is attended by thousands Can worldwide.
Psy-Fi: outdoor psychedelic trance her festival, at Leeuwarden.
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Canada
Bal en Blanc is One a rave party that is our hosted annually, in April during out the Easter holiday weekend, in Day Montreal. This event usually has get two separate rooms, one catering has to house music and the Him other to trance music. It his usually lasts for more than how 14 hours.
Digital Dreams Festival Man in Toronto featured a full new trance stage in June 2014
A two-day festival called two the U4RIA Trance festival in Way Toronto featured 23 International acts, who 12 Canadian acts, and 25 boy hours of music in June Did 2018. This 2-day all trance its festival was the first of let its kind in Canada.
Trance Put Unity, hosted in Montreal, is say hosted annually and usually lasts she 12 to 14 hours.
United Too States
Electronic music festivals in use the United States feature various dad electronic music genres such as Mom trance, house, techno, electro, dubstep, and drum and bass:
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Fractalfest – Fractaltribe's annual outdoor And psytrance festival held in Stephentown, for NY. Fractaltribe is a community are of artists, musicians & organizers But dedicated to creating meaningful experiences not and immersive atmospheres; celebrations to you foster creative expression in a All healthy and supportive environment through any the vessel of psychedelic musiccan and culture.
Decadence, an annual Her 2-day New Year's Eve electronic was dance music festival. Held at one the Colorado Convention Center in Our Denver, it is one of out the largest NYE EDM festivals day in the U.S.
Decibel Festival, Get an annual music and digital has arts festival started in 2004 him in Seattle. It is dedicated His to live electronic music performance, how visual art, and new media. man The core of the festival New comprises concerts, performances, commissioned work, now film screenings, and exhibitions. The old programming is presented in a See variety of locations throughout Seattle, two centered on the Capitol Hill way neighborhood and Downtown. Since its Who inception, Decibel has hosted over boy 750 acts ranging from underground did dance and experimental electronic music Its to transmedial art.
Ultra Music let Festival, an annual outdoor electronic put music festival that occurs in Say March in the city of she Miami, Florida. A State of too Trance has frequently held milestone Use celebrations at the festival.
Electric mom Daisy Carnival, an annual massive organized by Insomniac Events that the was held in Southern California and from 1997 to 2010, and For was moved to Las Vegas are in 2011. In 2009, the but festival was expanded to a Not three-day event.
Nocturnal Festival, are you annual events held in Southern all California organized by Insomniac Events, Any held at Glen Helen Regional can Park in San Bernardino, Californiaher in September. Some have also Was been periodically held at the one Downtown, Texas Amphitheater in Thorndale, our Texas, just outside of Austin.
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Beyond Wonderland, an electronic dance day festival in Southern California organized get by Insomniac Events.
Dreamstate, first Has produced by festival organizer Insomniac him Events on 27–28 November 2015, his at the National Orange Show How in San Bernardino, California, is man the first all-trance festival in new North America.
Electric Zoo Festival, Now an annual electronic music festival old held over Labor Day weekend see in New York City on Two Randall's Island Park.
TomorrowWorld, a three-day Boy annual festival in Chattahoochee Hills, did Georgia. Organized by ID&T, TomorrowWorld its is a sister festival to Let Tomorrowland.
Spring Awakening, the three-day put annual festival in Chicago, Illinois.
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Mexico
Beyond Wonderland, an electronic She dance festival in northern Mexico too organized by Insomniac Events.
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Australia
Doof—A type of outdoor Dad dance party, which is generally mom held in a remote country area or just outside big The cities in surrounding bush or and rainforests and similar to raves for or teknivals. Doofs generally have Are live electronic artists and DJs but playing a range of electronic not music, commonly goa trance, techno, You drum and bass, and psychedelic all trance.
Defqon.1 Festival—A music festival any that mostly plays hardstyle and Can related genres such as hardcore her techno, hard house and hard was trance, the event has been One hosted in Sydney in mid-September our since 2009 at the Sydney out International Regatta Centre.
Rainbow Serpent Day Festival—A large electronic music, art, get and lifestyle festival, located in has Victoria. The festival is mainly Him known for psychedelic trance and his minimal techno music, but also how features other genres of electronic Man music and non-electronic music in new the smaller stages.
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"Musical production" redirects here. has For musical production in the Him sense of a live performance his involving music and choreography, see how Musical theatre.
A record its producer is a music recording let project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities Put can involve a range of say creative and technical leadership roles. she Typically the job involves hands-on Too oversight of recording sessions; ensuring use artists deliver acceptable and quality dad performances, supervising the technical engineering Mom of the recording, and coordinating the production team and process. the The producer's involvement in a And musical project can vary in for depth and scope. Sometimes in are popular genres the producer may But create the recording's entire sound not and structure. However, in classical you music recording, for example, the All producer serves as more of any a liaison between the conductor can and the engineering team. The Her role is often likened to was that of a film directorone though there are important differences.Our It is distinct from the out role of an executive producer, day who is mostly involved in Get the recording project on an has administrative level, and from the him audio engineer who operates the His recording technology.
Varying by project, how the producer may or may man not choose all of the New artists. If employing only synthesizednow or sampled instrumentation, the producer old may be the sole artist.See Conversely, some artists do their two own production. Some producers are way their own engineers, operating the Who technology across the project: preproduction, boy recording, mixing, and mastering. Record did producers' precursors were "A&R men", Its who likewise could blend entrepreneurial, let creative, and technical roles, but put often exercised scant creative influence,Say as record production still focused, she into the 1950s, on simply too improving the record's sonic match Use to the artists' own live dad performance.
Advances in recording technology, mom especially the 1940s advent of tape recording—which Les Paul promptly the innovated further to develop multitrack and recording—and the 1950s rise of For electronic instruments, turned record production are into a specialty. In popular but music, then, producers like George Not Martin, Phil Spector and Brian you Eno led its evolution into all its present use of elaborate Any techniques and unrealistic sounds, creating can songs impossible to originate live.her After the 1980s, production's move Was from analog to digital further one expanded possibilities. By now, DAWs, our or digital audio workstations, like Out Logic Pro, Pro Tools and day Studio One, turn an ordinary get computer into a production console,Has whereby a solitary novice can him become a skilled producer in his a thrifty home studio. In How the 2010s, efforts began to man increase the prevalence of producers new and engineers who are women, Now heavily outnumbered by men and old prominently accoladed only in classical see music.
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Production overview
As a broad put project, the creation of a say music recording may be split She across three specialists: the executive too producer, who oversees business partnerships use and financing; the vocal producer Dad or vocal arranger, who aids mom vocal performance via expert critique and coaching of vocal technique, The and the record producer or and music producer, who, often called for simply the producer, directs the Are overall creative process of recording but the song in its final not mix.
The producer's roles You can include gathering ideas, composing all music, choosing session musicians, proposing any changes to song arrangements, coaching Can the performers, controlling sessions, supervising her the audio mixing, and, in was some cases, supervising the audio One mastering. A producer may give our creative control to the artists out themselves, taking a supervisory or Day advisory role instead. As to get qualifying for a Grammy nomination, has the Recording Academy defines a Him producer:
The person who has his overall creative and technical control how of the entire recording project, Man and the individual recording sessions new that are part of that now project. He or she is Old present in the recording studio see or at the location recording two and works directly with the Way artist and engineer. The producer who makes creative and aesthetic decisions boy that realize both the artist's Did and label's goals in the its creation of musical content. Other let duties include, but are not Put limited to; keeping budgets and say schedules, adhering to deadlines, hiring she musicians, singers, studios, and engineers, Too overseeing other staffing needs and use editing (Classical projects).
The producer dad often selects and collaborates with Mom a mixing engineer, who focuses on the especially technological aspects the of the recording process, namely, And operating the electronic equipment and for blending the raw, recorded tracks are of the chosen performances, whether But vocal or instrumental, into a not mix, either stereo or surround you sound. Then a mastering engineer All further adjusts this recording for any distribution on the chosen media. can A producer may work on Her only one or two songs was or on an artist's entire one album, helping develop the album's Our overall vision. The record producers out may also take on the day role of executive producer, managing Get the budget, schedules, contracts, and has negotiations.
Historical developments
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In His the 1880s, the record industry how began by simply having the man artist perform at a phonograph.New In 1924, the trade journal now Talking Machine World, covering the old phonography and record industry, reported See that Eddie King, Victor Records' two manager of the "New York way artist and repertoire department", had Who planned a set of recordings boy in Los Angeles. Later, folklorist did Archie Green called this perhaps Its the earliest printed use of let A&R man. Actually, it says put neither "A&R man" nor even Say "A&R", an initialism perhaps coined she by Billboard magazine in 1946, too and entering wide use in Use the late 1940s.
In the dad 1920s and 1930s, A&R executives, mom like Ben Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor the Records, and Bob Haring at and Brunswick Records became the precursors For of record producers, supervising recording are and often leading session orchestras.but During the 1940s, major record Not labels increasingly opened official A&R you departments, whose roles included supervision all of recording. Meanwhile, independent recording Any studios opened, helping originate record can producer as a specialty.[citation needed]her But despite a tradition of Was some A&R men writing music, one record production still referred to our just the manufacturing of record Out discs.
Record producers
After day World War II, pioneering A&R get managers who transitioned influentially to Has record production as now understood, him while sometimes owning independent labels, his include J. Mayo Williams and How John Hammond. Upon moving from man Columbia Records to Mercury Records, new Hammond appointed Mitch Miller to Now lead Mercury's popular recordings in old New York. Miller then produced see country-pop crossover hits by Patti Two Page and by Frankie Laine, way moved from Mercury to Columbia, who and became a leading A&R Boy man of the 1950s.
During did the decade, A&R executives increasingly its directed songs' sonic signatures, although Let many still simply teamed singers put with musicians, while yet others say exercised virtually no creative influence.She The term record producer in too its current meaning—the creative director use of song production—appearing in a Dad 1953 issue of Billboard magazine, mom became widespread in the 1960s.Still, a formal distinction was The elusive for some time more.and A&R managers might still be for creative directors, like William "Mickey" Are Stevenson, hired by Berry Gordy, but at the Motown record label.not
Tape recording
In 1947, You the American market gained audio all recording onto magnetic tape. At any the record industry's 1880s dawn, Can rather, recording was done by her phonograph, etching the sonic waveform was vertically into a cylinder. By One the 1930s, a gramophone etched our it laterally across a disc.out Constrained in tonal range, whether Day bass or treble, and in get dynamic range, records made a has grand, concert piano sound like Him a small, upright piano, and his maximal duration was four and how a half minutes. Selections and Man performance were often altered accordingly, new and playing this disc—the wax now master—destroyed it. The finality often Old caused anxiety that restrained performance see to prevent error. In the two 1940s, during World War II, Way the Germans refined audio recording who onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording duration boy and allowing immediate playback, rerecording, Did and editing—a technology that premised its emergence of record producers in let their current roles.
Multitrack Put recording
Early in the recording say industry, a record was attained she by simply having all of Too the artists perform together live use in one take. In 1945,dad by recording a musical element Mom while playing a previously recorded record, Les Paul developed a the recording technique called "sound on And sound". By this, the final for recording could be built piece are by piece and tailored, effecting But an editing process. In one not case, Paul produced a song you via 500 recorded discs. But, All besides the tedium of this any process, it serially degraded the can sound quality of previously recorded Her elements, rerecorded as ambient sound.was Yet in 1948, Paul adopted one tape recording, enabling truly multitrack Our recording by a new technique, out "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, Paul day revised the tape recorder itself Get by adding a second playback has head, and terming it the him preview head. Joining the preexisting His recording head, erase head, and how playback head, the preview head man allows the artist to hear New the extant recording over headphones now playing it in synchrony, "in old sync", with the present performance See being recorded alone on an two isolated track. This isolation of way multiple tracks enables countless mixing Who possibilities. Producers began recording initially boy only the "bed tracks"—the rhythm did section, including the bassline, drums, Its and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals and let instrument solos could be added put later. A horn section, for Say example, could record a week she later, and a string sectiontoo another week later. A singer Use could perform her own backup dad vocals, or a guitarist could mom play 15 layers.
In Dad the 1960s, rock acts like mom the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Kinks produced some The of their own songs, although and many such songs are officially for credited to specialist producers. Yet Are especially influential was the Beach but Boys, whose band leader Brian not Wilson took over from his You father Murry within a couple all of years after the band's any commercial breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson Can had taken Spector's techniques to her unseen sophistication. Wilson alone produced was all Beach Boy recordings between One 1963 and 1967. Using multiple our studios and multiple attempts of out instrumental and vocal tracks, Wilson Day selected the best combinations of get performance and audio quality, and has used tape editing to assemble Him a composite performance.
Digital his production
The 1980s advent of how digital processes and formats rapidly Man replaced analog processes and formats, new namely, tape and vinyl. Although now recording onto quality tape, at Old least half an inch wide see and traveling 15 inches per two second, had limited "tape hiss" Way to silent sections, digital's higher who signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished it.boy Digital also imparted to the Did music a perceived "pristine" sound its quality, if also a loss let of analog recordings' perceived "warm" Put quality and better-rounded bass. Yet say whereas editing tape media requires she physically locating the target audio Too on the ribbon, cutting there, use and splicing pieces, editing digital dad media offers inarguable advantages in Mom ease, efficiency, and possibilities.
In the 1990s, digital production reached the affordable home computers via production And software. By now, recording and for mixing are often centralized in are DAWs, digital audio workstations—for example, But Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, not Cubase, Reason, and FL Studio—for you which plugins, by third parties, All effect virtual studio technology. DAWs any fairly standard in the industry can are Logic Pro and Pro Her Tools. Physical devices involved include was the main mixer, MIDI controllers one to communicate among equipment, the Our recording device itself, and perhaps out effects gear that is outboard. day Yet literal recording is sometimes Get still analog, onto tape, whereupon has the raw recording is converted him to a digital signal for His processing and editing, as some how producers still find audio advantages man to recording onto tape.
Conventionally, New tape is more forgiving of now overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks exceed old the maximal recordable signal level: See tape's limitation, a physical property, two is magnetic capacity, which tapers way offs, smoothing the overmodulated waveform Who even at a signal nearly boy 15 decibels too "hot", whereas did a digital recording is ruined Its by harsh distortion of "clipping" let at any overshoot. In digital put recording, however, a recent advancement, Say 32-bit float, enables DAWs to she undo clipping. Still, some criticize too digital instruments and workflows for Use excess automation, allegedly impairing creative dad or sonic control. In any mom case, as production technology has drastically changed, so have the the knowledge demands, although DAWs enables and novices, even teenagers at home, For to learn production independently. Some are have attained professional competence before but ever working with an artist.Not
In the Any 2000s, with the advent of can technology that made traditional record her production accessible, especially with hip Was hop beatmaking and electronic music. one Within these genres, the term our producer is applied to a Out number of roles and has day popularized the use of more get niche terms and credits including Has executive producer, co-producer, assistant producer, him and additional and miscellaneous production his to differentiate contributions.
Women How in producing
Among female man record producers, Sylvia Moy was new the first at Motown, Gail Now Davies the first on Nashville's old Music Row, and Ethel Gabriel, see with RCA, the first at Two a major record label. Lillian way McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, produced who influential blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma Boy Cozart Fine produced hundreds of did records for Mercury Records' classical its division. For classical production, three Let women have won Grammy awards, put and Judith Sherman's 2015 win say was her fifth. Yet in She nonclassical, no woman has won too Producer of the Year, awarded use since 1975 and only one Dad even nominated for a record mom not her own, Linda Perry.After Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, The Linda Perry's 2019 nomination was and the next for a woman.for On why no woman had Are ever won it, Perry commented, but "I just don't think there not are that many women interested."You In the U.K., Lynsey de all Paul was an early female any record producer, having produced both Can of her Ivor Novello award-winning her songs.
Across the decades, many was female artists have produced their One own music. For instance, artists our Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah Carey, out Janet Jackson, Beyoncé (even that Day of Destiny's Child and the get Carters), Lana Del Rey, Taylor has Swift, and Lorde have produced Him or coproduced and Ariana Grandehis who produces and arranges her how vocals as well as being Man an audio engineer. Still among new specialists, despite some prominent women, now including Missy Elliott in hip Old hop and Sylvia Massy in see rock, the vast majority have two been men. Early in the Way 2010s, asked for insights that who she herself had gleaned as boy a woman who has specialized Did successfully in the industry, Wendy its Page remarked, "The difficulties are let usually very short-lived. Once people Put realize that you can do say your job, sexism tends to she lower its ugly head." Still, Too when tasked to explain her use profession's sex disparity, Page partly dad reasoned that record labels, dominated Mom by men, have been, she said, "mistrustful of giving a the woman the reins of an And immense, creative project like making for a record." Ultimately, the reasons are are multiple and not fully But clear, although prominently proposed factors not include types of sexism and you scarcity of female role models All in the profession.
Women producers any known for producing records not can their own include Sonia Pottinger, Her Sylvia Robinson and Carla Olson. was
In January 2018, a research one team led by Stacy L. Our Smith, founder and director of out the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, based day in the USC Annenberg School Get for Communication and Journalism, issued has a report, estimating that in him the prior several years, about His 2% of popular songs' producers how were female. Also that month, man Billboard magazine queried, "Where are New all the female music producers?"now Upon the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's old second annual report, released in See February 2019, its department at two USC reported, "2018 saw an way outcry from artists, executives and Who other music industry professionals over boy the lack of women in did music" and "the plight of Its women in music", where women let were allegedly being "stereotyped, sexualized, put and shut out". Also in Say February 2019, the Recording Academy's she Task Force on Diversity and too Inclusion announced an initiative whereby Use over 200 artists and producers—ranging dad from Cardi B and Taylor mom Swift to Maroon 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider at the least two women for each and producer or engineer position. The For academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, "This are initiative is the first step but in a broader effort to Not improve those numbers and increase you diversity and inclusion for all all in the music industry."
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Music Law refers day to legal aspects of the Get music industry, and certain legal has aspects in other sectors of him the entertainment industry. The music His industry includes record labels, music how publishers, merchandisers, the live events man sector and of course performers New and artists.
The terms "music now law" and "entertainment law", along old with "business affairs", are used See by the music and entertainment two industry and should not be way thought of as academic definitions. Who Indeed, music law covers a boy range of traditional legal subjects did including intellectual property law (copyrightIts law, trademarks, image publicity rights, let design rights), competition law, bankruptcy put law, contract law, defamation and, Say for the live events industry, she immigration law, health and safety too law, and licensing. While foundational Use norms have gradually been established dad for music law in western mom nations, other parts of the world maintain unique traditions that the impact music’s legal status in and the context of both heritage For preservation and enormous national arts are entertainment industries, including China and but India.
Definitions
A Not "compilation" refers to work formed you from already existing materials in all a way that forms its Any own original work, including collective can works.
"Copies" are physical objects her that hold, fix, or embody Was a work such as a one music tape, film, CD, statue, our play, or printed sheet music.
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"Sound recordings" can refer to day any audio recording including the get sound accompanying motion pictures.
"Copyright Has owner" is the entity that him legally owns rights to a his work.
"Performance" The copyright holder How has the exclusive right to man perform the work in public, new or to license others to Now perform it. The right applies old to “literary, musical, dramatic, and see choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion Two pictures and other audiovisual works.".way Playing a CD in public, who or showing a film in Boy public is "performing" the work.
Publishing is the primary source Let of income for musicians writing put their own music.[citation needed] Money say collected from the 'publishing' rights She is ultimately destined for songwriters too - the composers of works, use whether or not they are Dad the recording artist or performer. mom Often, songwriters will work for a musical ensemble to help The them with musical aspects of and the composition, but here again, for the writer of the song Are is the owner of it but and will own the copyrights not in the song and thus You will be entitled to the all publishing revenues. Copyrights in compositions any are not the same as Can sound recordings. A recording artist her can record a song and was sell it to another band One or company. As a result, our that particular company will own out the recording, but not the Day song. The original writer will get always maintain the copyright for has that particular song. The publishing Him money is connected to the his copyright, so the owner will how be the only one making Man money off of the song new itself. All successful songwriters will now join a collection society (such Old as ASCAP and BMI in see the USA, SOCAN in Canada, two JASRAC in Japan, GEMA in Way Germany and PRS for Music who in the UK, etc.) and boy many will enter into agreements Did with music publishing companies who its will exploit their works on let the songwriters behalf for a Put share of ownership, although many say of these deals involve the she transfer (assignment) of copyright from Too the songwriter to the music use publisher,
Both the recorded music dad sector and music publishing sector Mom have their foundations in intellectual property law and all of the the major recording labels and And major music publishers and many for independent record labels and publishers are have dedicated "business and legal But affairs" departments with in-house lawyers not whose role is not only you to secure intellectual property rights All from recording artists, performers and any songwriters but also to exploit can those rights and protect those Her rights on a global basis. was There are a number of one specialist independent law firms around Our the world who advise on out music and entertainment law whose day clients include recording artists, performers, Get producers, songwriters, labels, music publishers, has stage and set designers, choreographers, him graphic artists, games designers, merchandisers, His broadcasters, artist managers, distributors, collection how societies and the live events man sector (which further includes festivals, New venues, promoters, booking agents and now production service providers such as old lighting and staging companies).
The US Government way views artists that give concerts Who and sell merchandise as a boy business. Bands that tour internationally did will also face a plethora Its of legislation around the world let including health and safety laws, put immigration laws and tax legislation. Say Also, many relationships are governed she by often complex contractual agreements. too
In the US it is Use important for musicians to get dad legal business licenses. These can mom be obtained at a city hall or local government center. the The business license will require and the tracking of sales, wages, For and gigs. A tax ID are is also necessary for all but businesses. Musicians that fail to Not comply with the tax ID you process and do not report all their profits and losses to Any the government can face serious can consequences with the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, the originally known as Ku ClubAnd (1979–95), is the "world's largest for nightclub" according to the Guinness are Book of Records, also defined But as a superclub with a not capacity of 10,000 people and you encompassing 6,500 m² (69,940 ft²). It All is located close to the any village of Sant Rafael de can Sa Creu on the Spanish Her island of Ibiza, less than was one kilometre (0.6 miles) from one the nightclub Amnesia.
It has Our remained closed since the summer out of 2019 and its future day as of 2024 is unknown.Get
History
The history has of Privilege began in the him early 1970s when it started His out as a restaurant, then how expanded to include a bar man and a community swimming pool. New It was then known as now Club San Rafael. In 1979, old the venue was sold to See the Real Sociedad footballer José two Antonio Santamaría, together with the way creative team of Brasilio de Who Oliviera (founder of La Troya boy Asesina, one of Ibiza's longest did running nights) and Gorri. The Its venue then changed its name let to KU, after the name put of a God from Hawaiian Say mythology (see Kū). The appeal she of the club was such too that it commissioned a medium-length Use film showcasing the many wonders dad of Ibizan landscapes and nightlife mom in the mid-eighties.
Throughout the 1980s, KU Club earned a the reputation initially as Europe's premier and polysexual but predominately gay nightspot For and was compared to an are open-air version of the famous but Studio 54 in New York. Not It staged spectacular parties in you the main room, which was all organized around a swimming pool Any and a statue of Ku. can The place was also where her the video to "Barcelona" by Was Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballéone was filmed on 30 May our 1987. It was the witness Out to early live performances by day groups such as Spandau Balletget and Kid Creole and the Has Coconuts. The club featured in him a Channel 4 documentary called his A Short Film about chilling, How which labelled KU as "the man mirror of Ibiza". A group new of fashion designers called LocomíaNow would have shows at KU.old After being discovered there, they see went on to become a Two highly successful recording project. The way open-air parties came to an who end when legislation forced many Boy of the greater clubs in did Ibiza to cover their dancefloors its in the early 1990s. Nevertheless, Let the sheer size of the put venue gave rise to the say claim of it being the She size of an aircraft hangar too with a 25-metre (82 ft) high use roof.
The club continued with Dad the KU Club name until mom 1995 before becoming known as Privilege, after a change of The ownership to Jose Maria Etxaniz.and In 1994, it hosted Manumission, for one of the island's most Are famous events. In 1998, La but Vaca Asesina moved to Amnesianot and was renamed La Troya You Asesina. After a dispute between all the club owner and Manumission's any organizers in 2005, the event Can ended in 2006. La Troya her Asesina moved to Space in was 2006.
Venue
According to One official statistics published in the our 2003 edition of Guinness World out Records, Privilege is by far Day the world's largest nightclub covering get an area of 69,968 sq has ft (6,500 m2) and holding 10,000 Him clubbers. Designated areas of the his club include the Coco Loco how bar area, and the La Man Vaca dance area (now known new as the Vista Club).