Germany is said to be the country where it all started back in the 90s. Arrival of trance, a refreshing new genre of electronic music was the birth of a new music culture that instantly hit the right chords with music lovers.

Klaus Schulze (aka Richard Wahnfried), a popular German electronic music composer was believed to be the architect of this exhilarating genre of music. The term ‘trance’ is accredited by some people to the fourteenth album of Schulze titled ‘Trancefer’ which was a symphony between percussion and chords played by Schulze on his Yamaha synthesizer.

Some of the salient features of trance songs include:

• Trance is typically characterized by a tempo of anywhere between 125 and 150 beats per minute (bpm).
• It is a musical format that builds up and breaks down throughout the duration of the track and makes extensive use of melodic synthesizer phrases.
• Synth melodies are at the crux of trance songs.
• One central melody runs through the entire length of the track.
• Subtle use of arpeggiated (succession of cord tones) and gated synthesizer riffs is quite common in trance music.

The Internet is undoubtedly the best medium to satisfy your hunger for trance songs. There are plenty of websites offering legal trance music downloads. You can now with the click of a mouse download some of the fantastic tracks by acclaimed artists such as Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Gareth Emery, Ferry Corsten, Paul Oakenfold, Dash Berlin and Armin van Buuren. It is a little known fact that the most voted best DJs in the world are celebrated trance DJs.

Whether you are a DJ or a student of this exciting format of music, a list of top trance tracks can come in quite handy. Here we have done an honest attempt to compile Top 25 trance songs of all time (in alphabetic order):

1. Acperience -Hardfloor

2. Amphetamine – Drax Ltd.

3. Calling Earth – Yves Deruyter

4. Chicane – Saltwater

5. Choice – Acid Eiffel

6. We Came in Peace – Dance 2 Trance

7. Hello San Francisco – Dance 2 Trance

8. Café Del Mar – Energy 52

9. For You – Envio

10. For An Angel – Angel in Heaven

11. Papua New Guinea – Future Sound of London

12. Love Stimulation – Humate

13. Stella – Jam and Spoon

14. Beachball – Nalin and Kane

15. No Fate – Zyon

16. Not Over Yet – Grace

17. L’Esperanza – Airscape

18. Loops and Tings – Jens

19. Paraglide – Paragliders

20. Xpander – Sasha

21. Salt Tank – Eugina

22. The Age of Love – The Age of Love

23. The Orange Theme – Cygnus X

24. The PQM – You Are Sleeping

25. Born Slippy – Underworld

We hope you like this compilation and it helps take your love for trance songs and music to all new heights. All the best!