In last month's episode predicting the coming year in pop, one of the team's predictions was that trance music – the ethereal, dreamy subgenre of electronic music popular around the turn of the century – would make a comeback on the charts in 2025. And even though we're less than two months into the year, we're already seeing the tides of nostalgia bring this club-oriented music come back into fashion. This episode of Switched On Pop, Nate, Charlie, and Reanna take a look at trance music: where it came from, what it sounds like, and if we can hear it in two of the year's most anticipated records: The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow and FKA Twigs's EUSEXUA. Does it trance?

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Songs Discussed

• KLF "What Time is Love? (Pure Trance Mix)"


• Sven Väth "L'Esperanza"


• Robert Miles "Children"


• Paul van Dyk "For an Angel"


• Ian Van Dahl "Castles in the Sky"


• Tiësto "Adagio for Strings"


• Darude "Sandstorm"


• Charlotte De Witte "Universal Consciousness"


• FKA twigs "Two Weeks"


• FKA twigs "Cellophane"


• FKA twigs "Tears in the Club" feat. The Weeknd


• FKA twigs "EUSEXUA"


• FKA twigs "Drums of Death"


• FKA twigs "Perfect Stranger"


• FKA twigs "Room of Fools"


• FKA twigs "Childlike Things"


• The Weeknd "Wake Me Up" feat. Justice


• The Weeknd "Open Hearts"


• The Weeknd "The Abyss" feat. Lana Del Rey


• The Weeknd "Timeless" feat. Playboi Carti


• The Weeknd "Give Me Mercy"


• The Weeknd "Red Terror"


• The Weeknd "Sao Paulo" feat. Anitta


• The Weeknd "Reflections" feat. Travis Scott & Florence + The Machine


• The Weeknd "Enjoy the Show"


• The Weeknd "I Can't Wait to Get There"


• The Weeknd "Hurry Up Tomorrow"


• The Weeknd "Blinding Lights"


• The Weeknd "Save Your Tears"


• The Weeknd "Until I Bleed Out"


• The Weeknd "Take My Breath"


• The Weeknd "Out of Time"

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