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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