How Trance Got To Number 1
Dorian Lynskey, Q, October 1999
Music invented by Jean Michel Jarre and already declared passé twice in the last 10 years is all over the charts, packing out clubs and prompting teenagers to dress like twats. "Trance hasn't come from nowhere," learns Dorian Lynskey.
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