Nhato & Kenji Sekiguchi – Refrain, 2018

Trance emerged as a form of electronic dance music around 1990, with the advent of music that was essentially techno or house, but had simplified percussion, extreme repetition, and other hypnotic effects such as sustained chords and long echoes. In trance's early years (1990-1992), it wasn't always clear whether a track was just "trancey" techno (or even beat-laden "ambient" or "deep" house), or was actually an example of what would later be called simply "trance". Consequently, such music might be

Tatsuya Fukumuro, born 1987, more commonly known as Nhato, is a DJ, composer, and producer from Tokyo, Japan. He is one of the recent big names in Trance music in Japan. He is best known for producing Trance but is not afraid to step out and make other genres. Many of his releases off label are outside of Trance and Progressive.
He first started arranging music under the alias "kyu" in the mid-2000s, which would later be phased out