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."