Trance Dance
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. For the genre of music called trance, see trance musicTrance musicTrance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
. Trance Dance were a SwedishSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
pop groupPop musicPop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
who had a number of hits in the late 1980s. The group were somewhat rockRock musicRock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
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s and other instruments not fully characteristic of a late 1980s pop group. Despite their name, their music did not resemble tranceTrance musicTrance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...
at all.
Trance Dance were formed in Sweden in 1985 as a seven-piece group consisting of Ben Marlene (vocals), Pelle Hökengren (guitar), P.J. Widestrand (keyboards), John Stark (bass), Sören Johanssen (drums) and the sisters Susanne and Yvonne Holmström (additional vocals). Ben Marlene had previously been in the Finnish group French Kiss, who existed between 1982 and 1984 and made two albums. Marlene and the Holmström sisters are swedish speaking Finns.
Albums
The group's first album, A-Ho-Ho, was released in Sweden in late 1986 and in USA in February 1987, making number 19 on the Swedish album chart. The albums spawned the two singles "Do The Dance" and "Hoodoo Wanna Voodoo", and despite receiving a fair amount of airplay in clubs, they failed to chart in their native Sweden.Despite this, their first hit came in October of that year, with "Don't Say Go" making number 2 in the singles chart. The follow-up single, "You're Gonna Get It", also reached number 2 in early 1988. "You're Gonna Get It" would prove to be their most successful single.
Their second album Dancing in the Shadows charted in March 1988, reaching number 4. Their third single "Joy Toy" would only reach number 13 in the singles chart, however, and the quickly-released (in November 1988) third album Off the Record would flop by only reaching number 27. Their final charting single, "Push", reached number 15 in May 1989.
With their popularity declining, Trance Dance fell out of the spotlight, charting for the final time with a greatest hits
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1. The album, released in February 1990, peaked at a lowly number 50 in the album chart.
Singles
- Come Play With Me (7"/12", 1985)
- Don't Walk Away (7"/12", 1986)
- Do The Dance (7"/12", 1986)
- Hoodoo Wanna Voodoo (7"/12", 1986)
- River Of Love (7"/12", 1987)
- Don't Say Go (7"/12", 1987)
- You're Gonna Get It (7"/12", 1988)
- Joy Toy (7"/12", 1988)
- Dancing In The Shadows (7"/12", 1988)
- Push (7"/12"/CD5, 1989)
- High Tide Of Love (7"/12"/CD3, 1989)
- Wildlife (7"/12"/CD3, 1990)
- Is It Love (7"/12"/CD5, 1990)
- Another Perfect Day (7"/12"/CD5, 1990)
- A Glass Of Champagne (7"/12"/CD5, 1990)
- Do You Close Your Eyes (7"/12"/CD5, 1991)
- Do The Trance (CD5)
Albums
- A Ho Ho (LP/CD, 1986)
- A Ho Ho (American version with different artwork, LP, 1987)
- Dancing In The Shadows (LP/CD, 1988)
- Off The Record - The Remix Album (LP/CD, 1988)
- Wildlife (unreleased album, 1989/1990)
- Greatest Hits Volume 1 (LP/CD, 1990)
- Twang (LP/CD, 1990)