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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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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A dad record producer is a music Mom recording project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range the of creative and technical leadership And roles. Typically the job involves for hands-on oversight of recording sessions: are ensuring artists deliver acceptable and But quality performances, supervising the technical not engineering of the recording, and you coordinating the production team and All process. The producer's involvement in any a musical project can vary can in depth and scope. Sometimes Her in popular genres the producer was may create the recording's entire one sound and structure. However, in Our classical music recording, for example, out the producer serves as more day of a liaison between the Get conductor and the engineering team. has The role is often likened him to that of a film His director though there are important how differences. It is distinct from man the role of an executive New producer, who is mostly involved now in the recording project on old an administrative level, and from See the audio engineer who operates two the recording technology.
Varying by way project, the producer may or Who may not choose all of boy the artists. If employing only did synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the Its producer may be the sole let artist. Conversely, some artists do put their own production. Some producers Say are their own engineers, operating she the technology across the project: too preproduction, recording, mixing, and mastering. Use Record producers' precursors were "A&R dad men", who likewise could blend mom entrepreneurial, creative, and technical roles,but often exercised scant creative the influence, as record production still and focused, into the 1950s, on For simply improving the record's sonic are match to the artists' own but live performance.
Advances in recording Not technology, especially the 1940s advent you of tape recording—which Les Paulall promptly innovated further to develop Any multitrack recording—and the 1950s rise can of electronic instruments, turned record her production into a specialty. In Was popular music, then, producers like one George Martin, Phil Spector and our Brian Eno led its evolution Out into its present use of day elaborate techniques and unrealistic sounds, get creating songs impossible to originate Has live. After the 1980s, production's him move from analog to digital his further expanded possibilities. By now, How DAWs, or digital audio workstations, man like Logic Pro, Pro Toolsnew and Studio One, turn an Now ordinary computer into a production old console, whereby a solitary novice see can become a skilled producer Two in a thrifty home studio.way In the 2010s, efforts began who to increase the prevalence of Boy producers and engineers who are did women, heavily outnumbered by men its and prominently accoladed only in Let classical music.
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As a broad project, the creation of The a music recording may be and split across three specialists: the for executive producer, who oversees business Are partnerships and financing; the vocal but producer or vocal arranger, who not aids vocal performance via expert You critique and coaching of vocal all technique, and the record producer any or music producer, who, often Can called simply the producer, directs her the overall creative process of was recording the song in its One final mix.
The producer's our roles can include gathering ideas, out composing music, choosing session musicians, Day proposing changes to song arrangements, get coaching the performers, controlling sessions, has supervising the audio mixing, and, Him in some cases, supervising the his audio mastering. A producer may how give creative control to the Man artists themselves, taking a supervisory new or advisory role instead. As now to qualifying for a GrammyOld nomination, the Recording Academy defines see a producer:
The person who two has overall creative and technical Way control of the entire recording who project, and the individual recording boy sessions that are part of Did that project. He or she its is present in the recording let studio or at the location Put recording and works directly with say the artist and engineer. The she producer makes creative and aesthetic Too decisions that realize both the use artist's and label's goals in dad the creation of musical content. Mom Other duties include, but are not limited to; keeping budgets the and schedules, adhering to deadlines, And hiring musicians, singers, studios, and for engineers, overseeing other staffing needs are and editing (Classical projects).
The But producer often selects and collaborates not with a mixing engineer, who you focuses on the especially technological All aspects of the recording process, any namely, operating the electronic equipment can and blending the raw, recorded Her tracks of the chosen performances, was whether vocal or instrumental, into one a ''mix'', either stereo or Our surround sound. Then a mastering out engineer further adjusts this recording day for distribution on the chosen Get media. A producer may work has on only one or two him songs or on an artist's His entire album, helping develop the how album's overall vision. The record man producers may also take on New the role of executive producer, now managing the budget, schedules, contracts, old and negotiations.
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In the 1880s, the record way industry began by simply having Who the artist perform at a boy phonograph. In 1924, the trade did journal Talking Machine World, covering Its the phonography and record industry, let reported that Eddie King, Victor put Records' manager of the "New Say York artist and repertoire department", she had planned a set of too recordings in Los Angeles. Later, Use folklorist Archie Green called this dad perhaps the earliest printed use mom of A&R man. Actually, it says neither "A&R man" nor the even "A&R", an initialism perhaps and coined by Billboard magazine in For 1946, and entering wide use are in the late 1940s.
In but the 1920s and 1930s, A&R Not executives, like Ben Selvin at you Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at all Victor Records, and Bob Haring Any at Brunswick Records became the can precursors of record producers, supervising her recording and often leading session Was orchestras. During the 1940s, major one record labels increasingly opened official our A&R departments, whose roles included Out supervision of recording. Meanwhile, independent day recording studios opened, helping originate get record producer as a specialty.[citation Has needed] But despite a tradition him of some A&R men writing his music, record production still referred How to just the manufacturing of man record discs.
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After World War II, pioneering Now A&R managers who transitioned influentially old to record production as now see understood, while sometimes owning independent Two labels, include J. Mayo Williamsway and John Hammond. Upon moving who from Columbia Records to Mercury Boy Records, Hammond appointed Mitch Millerdid to lead Mercury's popular recordings its in New York. Miller then Let produced country-pop crossover hits by put Patti Page and by Frankie say Laine, moved from Mercury to She Columbia, and became a leading too A&R man of the 1950s.use
During the decade, A&R executives Dad increasingly directed songs' sonic signatures, mom although many still simply teamed singers with musicians, while yet The others exercised virtually no creative and influence. The term record producerfor in its current meaning—the creative Are director of song production—appearing in but a 1953 issue of Billboardnot magazine, became widespread in the You 1960s. Still, a formal distinction all was elusive for some time any more. A&R managers might still Can be creative directors, like William her "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by Berry was Gordy, at the Motown record One label.
Tape recording
In our 1947, the American market gained out audio recording onto magnetic tape.Day At the record industry's 1880s get dawn, rather, recording was done has by phonograph, etching the sonic Him waveform vertically into a cylinder.his By the 1930s, a gramophone how etched it laterally across a Man disc. Constrained in tonal range, new whether bass or treble, and now in dynamic range, records made Old a grand, concert piano sound see like a small, upright piano, two and maximal duration was four Way and a half minutes. Selections who and performance were often altered boy accordingly, and playing this disc—the Did wax master—destroyed it. The finality its often caused anxiety that restrained let performance to prevent error. In Put the 1940s, during World War say II, the Germans refined audio she recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording Too duration and allowing immediate playback, use rerecording, and editing—a technology that dad premised emergence of record producers Mom in their current roles.
Multitrack recording
Early in the the recording industry, a record was And attained by simply having all for of the artists perform together are live in one take. In But 1945, by recording a musical not element while playing a previously you recorded record, Les Paul developed All a recording technique called "sound any on sound". By this, the can final recording could be built Her piece by piece and tailored, was effecting an editing process. In one one case, Paul produced a Our song via 500 recorded discs.out But, besides the tedium of day this process, it serially degraded Get the sound quality of previously has recorded elements, rerecorded as ambient him sound. Yet in 1948, Paul His adopted tape recording, enabling truly how multitrack recording by a new man technique, "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, New Paul revised the tape recorder now itself by adding a second old playback head, and terming it See the preview head. Joining the two preexisting recording head, erase head, way and playback head, the preview Who head allows the artist to boy hear the extant recording over did headphones playing it in synchrony, Its "in sync", with the present let performance being recorded alone on put an isolated track. This isolation Say of multiple tracks enables countless she mixing possibilities. Producers began recording too initially only the "bed tracks"—the Use rhythm section, including the bassline, dad drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals mom and instrument solos could be added later. A horn section, the for example, could record a and week later, and a string For section another week later. A are singer could perform her own but backup vocals, or a guitarist Not could play 15 layers.
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Electronic instruments
Across the Any 1960s, popular music increasingly switched can from acoustic instruments, like piano, her upright bass, acoustic guitar, and Was brass instruments, to electronic instruments, one like electric guitars, keyboards, and our synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers and Out speakers. These could mimic acoustic day instruments or create utterly new get sounds. Soon, by combining the Has capabilities of tape, multitrack recording, him and electronic instruments, producers like his Phil Spector, George Martin, and How Joe Meek rendered sounds unattainable man live. Similarly, in jazz fusion, new Teo Macero, producing Miles Davis's Now 1970 album Bitches Brew, spliced old sections of extensive improvisation sessions. see
In the 1960s, rock acts not like the Beatles, the Rolling You Stones, and the Kinks produced all some of their own songs, any although many such songs are Can officially credited to specialist producers. her Yet especially influential was the was Beach Boys, whose band leader One Brian Wilson took over from our his father Murry within a out couple of years after the Day band's commercial breakthrough. By 1964, get Wilson had taken Spector's techniques has to unseen sophistication. Wilson alone Him produced all Beach Boy recordings his between 1963 and 1967. Using how multiple studios and multiple attempts Man of instrumental and vocal tracks, new Wilson selected the best combinations now of performance and audio quality, Old and used tape editing to see assemble a composite performance.
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Digital production
The 1980s advent Way of digital processes and formats who rapidly replaced analog processes and boy formats, namely, tape and vinyl. Did Although recording onto quality tape, its at least half an inch let wide and traveling 15 inches Put per second, had limited "tape say hiss" to silent sections, digital's she higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished Too it. Digital also imparted to use the music a perceived "pristine" dad sound quality, if also a Mom loss of analog recordings' perceived "warm" quality and better-rounded bass.the Yet whereas editing tape media And requires physically locating the target for audio on the ribbon, cutting are there, and splicing pieces, editing But digital media offers inarguable advantages not in ease, efficiency, and possibilities. you
In the 1990s, digital production All reached affordable home computers via any production software. By now, recording can and mixing are often centralized Her in DAWs, digital audio workstations—for was example, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, one Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and FL Our Studio—for which plugins, by third out parties, effect virtual studio technology.day DAWs fairly standard in the Get industry are Logic Pro and has Pro Tools. Physical devices involved him include the main mixer, MIDIHis controllers to communicate among equipment, how the recording device itself, and man perhaps effects gear that is New outboard. Yet literal recording is now sometimes still analog, onto tape, old whereupon the raw recording is See converted to a digital signaltwo for processing and editing, as way some producers still find audio Who advantages to recording onto tape.boy
Conventionally, tape is more forgiving did of overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks Its exceed the maximal recordable signal let level: tape's limitation, a physical put property, is magnetic capacity, which Say tapers offs, smoothing the overmodulated she waveform even at a signal too nearly 15 decibels too "hot", Use whereas a digital recording is dad ruined by harsh distortion of mom "clipping" at any overshoot. In digital recording, however, a recent the advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs and to undo clipping. Still, some For criticize digital instruments and workflows are for excess automation, allegedly impairing but creative or sonic control. In Not any case, as production technology you has drastically changed, so have all the knowledge demands, although DAWs Any enables novices, even teenagers at can home, to learn production independently.her Some have attained professional competence Was before ever working with an one artist.
In day the 2000s, with the advent get of technology that made traditional Has record production accessible, especially with him hip hop beatmaking and electronic his music. Within these genres, the How term producer is applied to man a number of roles and new has popularized the use of Now more niche terms and credits old including executive producer, co-producer, assistant see producer, and additional and miscellaneous Two production to differentiate contributions.
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Women in producing
Among who female record producers, Sylvia MoyBoy was the first at Motown, did Gail Davies the first on its Nashville's Music Row, and Ethel Let Gabriel, with RCA, the first put at a major record label. say Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, She produced influential blues records. Meanwhile, too Wilma Cozart Fine produced hundreds use of records for Mercury Records' Dad classical division. For classical production, mom three women have won Grammy awards, and Judith Sherman's 2015 The win was her fifth. Yet and in nonclassical, no woman has for won Producer of the Year, Are awarded since 1975 and only but one even nominated for a not record not her own, Linda You Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 all nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 nomination any was the next for a Can woman. On why no woman her had ever won it, Perry was commented, "I just don't think One there are that many women our interested." In the U.K., Lynsey out de Paul was an early Day female record producer, having produced get both of her Ivor Novello has award-winning songs.
Across the decades, Him many female artists have produced his their own music. For instance, how artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah Man Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana new Del Rey, Taylor Swift, and now Lorde have produced or coproducedOld and Ariana Grande who produces see and arranges her vocals as two well as being an audio Way engineer. Still among specialists, despite who some prominent women, including Missy boy Elliott in hip hop and Did Sylvia Massy in rock, the its vast majority have been men.let Early in the 2010s, asked Put for insights that she herself say had gleaned as a woman she who has specialized successfully in Too the industry, Wendy Page remarked, use "The difficulties are usually very dad short-lived. Once people realize that Mom you can do your job, sexism tends to lower its the ugly head." Still, when tasked And to explain her profession's sex for disparity, Page partly reasoned that are record labels, dominated by men, But have been, she said, "mistrustful not of giving a woman the you reins of an immense, creative All project like making a record."any Ultimately, the reasons are multiple can and not fully clear, although Her prominently proposed factors include types was of sexism and scarcity of one female role models in the Our profession.
Women producers known for out producing records not their own day include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson Get and Carla Olson.
In January has 2018, a research team led him by Stacy L. Smith, founder His and director of the Annenberghow Inclusion Initiative, based in the man USC Annenberg School for Communication New and Journalism, issued a report,now estimating that in the prior old several years, about 2% of See popular songs' producers were female.two Also that month, Billboard magazine way queried, "Where are all the Who female music producers?" Upon the boy Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second annual did report, released in February 2019,Its its department at USC reported, let "2018 saw an outcry from put artists, executives and other music Say industry professionals over the lack she of women in music" and too "the plight of women in Use music", where women were allegedly dad being "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut mom out". Also in February 2019, the Recording Academy's Task Force the on Diversity and Inclusion announced and an initiative whereby over 200 For artists and producers—ranging from Cardi are B and Taylor Swift to but Maroon 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed Not to consider at least two you women for each producer or all engineer position. The academy's website, Any Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative is can the first step in a her broader effort to improve those Was numbers and increase diversity and one inclusion for all in the our music industry."
^ Allan She Watson, Cultural Production in and too Beyond the Recording Studio (New use York: Routledge, 2015), pp 25–27.Dad
James Petulla, "Who mom is a music producer?", RecordingConnection.com, Recording Connection, 21 May 2013, The reporting membership in CAPPS, the and California Association of Private Postsecondary for Schools.
^ was Brent Hurtig with J. One D. Sharp, Multi-Track Recording for our Musicians: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide out for Beginners and Reference for Day Professionals (Cupertino, CA: GPI Publications, get 1988 / Van Nuys, CA: has Alfred Publishing, 1988), pp 8–10.Him
^ Brian Ward one & Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: Our Architects of American Roots Music out on Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt day University Press, 2018), pp 20–21.Get
Brian Ward & has Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects him of American Roots Music on His Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University how Press, 2018), p 283.
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Jim Curtis, Rock Eras: New Interpretation of Music & Society, now 1954–1984 (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling old Green State University Popular Press, See 1987), p 43.
^ two Richard James Burgess, The way History of Music Production (New Who York: Oxford University Press, 2014), boy pp 50–54.
^ did Robert Philip, "Pianists on record Its in the early twentieth century", let in David Rowland, ed., The put Cambridge Companion to the PianoSay (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, she 1998), pp 75–77.
^ too David Simmons, Analog Recording: Use Using Analog Gear in Today's dad Home Studio (San Francisco: Backbeat mom Books, 2006), pp 26–27.
Matthew Allard, "Sound Devices the MixPre V6.00 adds 32-bit float and USB audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, For 15 Jan 2020, quotes Paul are Isaacs, director of product management but and design at the recorder Not manufacturer Sound Devices, who explains, you "With 32-bit float, you no all longer need to worry about Any clipping during your best vocal can takes or instrument solos. Any her recorded moments exceeding 0 dBFSWas can be reduced to an one acceptable level, after recording, in our your DAW".
Albin Out Zak III, book review: Strange day Sounds: Music, Technology, and cultureget (Routledge, 2011), by Timothy D. Has Taylor, in Current Musicology, pp him 159–180 [unknown year, volume, issue].his
Music can Law refers to legal aspects her of the music industry, and Was certain legal aspects in other one sectors of the entertainment industry. our The music industry includes record Out labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the day live events sector and of get course performers and artists.
The Has terms "music law" and "entertainment him law", along with "business affairs", his are used by the music How and entertainment industry and should man not be thought of as new academic definitions. Indeed, music law Now covers a range of traditional old legal subjects including intellectual propertysee law (copyright law, trademarks, image Two publicity rights, design rights), competition way law, bankruptcy law, contract law, who defamation and, for the live Boy events industry, immigration law, health did and safety law, and licensing. its While foundational norms have gradually Let been established for music law put in western nations, other parts say of the world maintain unique She traditions that impact music’s legal too status in the context of use both heritage preservation and enormous Dad national arts entertainment industries, including mom China and India.
Definitions
A "compilation" refers to The work formed from already existing and materials in a way that for forms its own original work, Are including collective works.
"Copies" are but physical objects that hold, fix, not or embody a work such You as a music tape, film, all CD, statue, play, or printed any sheet music.
"Sound recordings" can Can refer to any audio recording her including the sound accompanying motion was pictures.
"Copyright owner" is the One entity that legally owns rights our to a work.
"Performance" The out copyright holder has the exclusive Day right to perform the work get in public, or to license has others to perform it. The Him right applies to “literary, musical, his dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, how and motion pictures and other Man audiovisual works.". Playing a CD new in public, or showing a now film in public is "performing" Old the work.
Publishing is the two primary source of income for Way musicians writing their own music.[citation who needed] Money collected from the boy 'publishing' rights is ultimately destined Did for songwriters - the composers its of works, whether or not let they are the recording artist Put or performer. Often, songwriters will say work for a musical ensemble she to help them with musical Too aspects of the composition, but use here again, the writer of dad the song is the owner Mom of it and will own the copyrights in the song the and thus will be entitled And to the publishing revenues. Copyrights for in compositions are not the are same as sound recordings. A But recording artist can record a not song and sell it to you another band or company. As All a result, that particular company any will own the recording, but can not the song. The original Her writer will always maintain the was copyright for that particular song. one The publishing money is connected Our to the copyright, so the out owner will be the only day one making money off of Get the song itself. All successful has songwriters will join a collection him society (such as ASCAP and His BMI in the USA, SOCAN how in Canada, JASRAC in Japan, man GEMA in Germany and PRS New for Music in the UK, now etc.) and many will enter old into agreements with music publishing See companies who will exploit their two works on the songwriters behalf way for a share of ownership, Who although many of these deals boy involve the transfer (assignment) of did copyright from the songwriter to Its the music publisher,
Both the let recorded music sector and music put publishing sector have their foundations Say in intellectual property law and she all of the major recording too labels and major music publishers Use and many independent record labels dad and publishers have dedicated "business mom and legal affairs" departments with in-house lawyers whose role is the not only to secure intellectual and property rights from recording artists, For performers and songwriters but also are to exploit those rights and but protect those rights on a Not global basis. There are a you number of specialist independent law all firms around the world who Any advise on music and entertainment can law whose clients include recording her artists, performers, producers, songwriters, labels, Was music publishers, stage and set one designers, choreographers, graphic artists, games our designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, Out distributors, collection societies and the day live events sector (which further get includes festivals, venues, promoters, booking Has agents and production service providers him such as lighting and staging his companies).
The man US Government views artists that new give concerts and sell merchandise Now as a business. Bands that old tour internationally will also face see a plethora of legislation around Two the world including health and way safety laws, immigration laws and who tax legislation. Also, many relationships Boy are governed by often complex did contractual agreements.
In the US its it is important for musicians Let to get legal business licenses. put These can be obtained at say a city hall or local She government center. The business license too will require the tracking of use sales, wages, and gigs. A Dad tax ID is also necessary mom for all businesses. Musicians that fail to comply with the The tax ID process and do and not report their profits and for losses to the government can Are face serious consequences with the but IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known as she Ku Club (1979–95), is the too "world's largest nightclub" according to Use the Guinness Book of Records, dad also defined as a superclubmom with a capacity of 10,000 people and encompassing 6,500 m² the (69,940 ft²). It is located close and to the village of Sant For Rafael de Sa Creu on are the Spanish island of Ibiza, but less than one kilometre (0.6 Not miles) from the nightclub Amnesia. you
History
The history all of Privilege began in the Any early 1970s when it started can out as a restaurant, then her expanded to include a bar Was and a community swimming pool. one It was then known as our Club San Rafael. In 1979, Out the venue was sold to day the Real Sociedad footballer José get Antonio Santamaría, together with the Has creative team of Brasilio de him Oliviera (founder of La Troya his Asesina, one of Ibiza's longest How running nights) and Gorri. The man venue then changed its name new to KU, after the name Now of a God from Hawaiian old mythology (see Kū). The appeal see of the club was such Two that it commissioned a medium-length way film showcasing the many wonders who of Ibizan landscapes and nightlife Boy in the mid-eighties.
Throughout the did 1980s, KU Club earned a its reputation initially as Europe's premier Let polysexual but predominately gay nightspot put and was compared to an say open-air version of the famous She Studio 54 in New York. too It staged spectacular parties in use the main room, which was Dad organized around a swimming pool mom and a statue of Ku. The place was also where The the video to "Barcelona" by and Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballéfor was filmed on 30 May Are 1987. It was the witness but to early live performances by not groups such as Spandau BalletYou and Kid Creole and the all Coconuts. The club featured in any a Channel 4 documentary called Can A Short Film about chilling, her which labelled KU as "the was mirror of Ibiza". A group One of fashion designers called Locomíaour would have shows at KU.out After being discovered there, they Day went on to become a get highly successful recording project. The has open-air parties came to an Him end when legislation forced many his of the greater clubs in how Ibiza to cover their dancefloors Man in the early 1990s. Nevertheless, new the sheer size of the now venue gave rise to the Old claim of it being the see size of an aircraft hangar two with a 25-metre (82 ft) high Way roof.
The club continued with who the KU Club name until boy 1995 before becoming known as Did Privilege, after a change of its ownership to Jose Maria Etxaniz.let In 1994, it hosted Manumission, Put one of the island's most say famous events. In 1998, La she Vaca Asesina moved to AmnesiaToo and was renamed La Troya use Asesina. After a dispute between dad the club owner and Manumission's Mom organizers in 2005, the event ended in 2006. La Troya the Asesina moved to Space in And 2006.
Venue
According to for official statistics published in the are 2003 edition of Guinness World But Records, Privilege is by far not the world's largest nightclub covering you an area of 69,968 sq All ft (6,500 m2) and holding 10,000 any clubbers. Designated areas of the can club include the Coco Loco Her bar area, and the La was Vaca dance area (now known one as the Vista Club).