Trance emphasizes on brief synthesizer lines repeated endlessly throughout tracks, with only the addition of minimal rhythmic changes and occasional synthesizer atmospherics to distinguish them -- in effect creating a trance similar to Sufi and Hindu musics.
2026 note
The text contradicts itself: trance is said to emerge in the early ’90s yet to have “run its course by the mid-’90s.” Trance stayed popular well past the 1990s.