From Rodney Perkins Sent Sun, Nov 29th 1998, 22:22
As I was glancing through the Sunday Times, I came across this: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/artleisure/trance-music.html Here is a sample: "Where early trance was generally harsh, minimal and coldly cosmic, more recent strains of the genre emphasize melody, recognizably human emotions and a warmly devotional aura. All this makes trance a populist, accessible alternative to the experimental abstraction of hip rave styles like techno and drum-and-bass."