Roger Shah & Kristina Sky ft. Emma Shaffer – Take Me Back, 2020

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 tagged as (for example) both Trance and Techno. Example artists in this category and time period include The Shamen, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, The Irresistible Force, and Speedy J. From the New Beat scene, Age of Love's 1990 self-titled hit single is sometimes pointed to as the earliest "pure" trance track.

Similarly, some tracks from the Acid House era,

(Roger-Pierre Shah) - German DJ, producer, artist and composer known for his Balearic & Melodic Trance, Orchestral Music Score and Trailer Music, Ambient-Chillout and Deep House. Co-founder of the label Shah-Music with his brother Patrick Shah and owner of Magic Island Records.