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Trance music

Trance is an electronic dance music genre formed in early 1990s Germany, marked by 4-on-the-floor beats, melodic synth repetition, and 125–150 BPM tempos, with a parallel Goa, India branch that spawned psytrance and a 2020s revival led by Armin van Buuren and KI/KI.

Trance Wax

Trance Wax is the trance alias of Belfast producer Garry McCartney, also known as Ejeca, who began anonymously reworking classic trance on vinyl in the mid-2010s.

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is Arctic Monkeys' sixth studio album, released 11 May 2018 on Domino. A piano-led concept album about a hotel on a moon colony, it reached No. 1 in the UK and was Grammy-nominated.

Tranquilizer (album)

Tranquilizer (album), eleventh studio album by Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin), released November 21, 2025 on Warp Records; 15 tracks, 58 minutes, built from 1990s commercial sample CDs found on the Internet Archive, following Again (2023), Metacritic 80.

Trans-Canada Highwaymen

The Trans-Canada Highwaymen are a Canadian rock supergroup formed in 2017, made up of Moe Berg, Chris Murphy, Craig Northey, and Steven Page, who play each other's hits.

Trans-Europe Express (album)

Trans-Europe Express (Trans Europa Express) is Kraftwerk's sixth studio album, released March 1977. Recorded at their Kling Klang Studio, Düsseldorf; issued in separate German and English versions; sampled for Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO), American symphonic rock project formed 1996 in Tampa by Paul O'Neill with Jon Oliva and Robert Kinkel, known for Christmas rock operas and Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24.

Transa (ИƧA) (compilation album)

Transa is a 2024 concept compilation album released by the Red Hot Organization, gathering more than 100 transgender and non-binary artists across 46 tracks in eight chapters.

Transatlanticism

Transatlanticism is Death Cab for Cutie's fourth studio album, released October 7, 2003 on Barsuk Records; recorded on 24-track tape with new drummer Jason McGerr and producer Chris Walla, and reissued for its 10th and 20th anniversaries.

Transformer (Lou Reed album)

Transformer (1972) is Lou Reed's second solo album, produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson for RCA; its hit "Walk on the Wild Side" (UK No. 10, US No. 16) made it a glam rock landmark distinct from Reed's Velvet Underground work.

Transition from Classical to Romantic music

Transition from Classical to Romantic music: the gradual 19th-century shift from clarity, balance and formal elegance (c. 1750–1820) to emotional expression, chromaticism, virtuosity and nationalism (c. 1820–1900), with transitional figures such as Czerny.

Transmat

Transmat is an American techno record label founded in Detroit in 1986 by Derrick May, one of the city's first techno labels alongside Metroplex and KMS.

Transmission (festival)

Transmission (festival) mainly names the Prague-based trance event founded in 2006 by United Music, held at the O2 Arena with themed arena shows; also Transmissions Festival, Ravenna's experimental music festival by Bronson Produzioni.

Transmission Records discography

Transmission Records was a Dutch record label founded in 1995 in Maassluis, specializing in progressive and symphonic metal, with releases by Ayreon, After Forever, and Epica.

Transplants (band)

Transplants: American punk rock band formed 1999 in Los Angeles by Tim Armstrong (Rancid), Rob Aston, and Travis Barker (blink-182); albums Transplants (2002), Haunted Cities (2005), In a Warzone (2013); punk-hip-hop-reggae mix.

Transposition (music)

Musical transposition is the notation or performance of music at a pitch different from the original, by raising or lowering every note by the same interval.

Transvision Vamp

Transvision Vamp, English new wave pop-rock band formed in London in 1986 by Wendy James and Nick Christian Sayer; Velveteen (1989) hit UK No. 1 and Baby I Don't Care No. 3. Reunited in 2026 by James and Dave Parsons with a planned 2028 album.

Trap Dickey

Trap Dickey (Travis Dickey), rapper from Hartsville, South Carolina; broke through with 2023's "Blue Devils", signed to TDE in 2026 as its first South Carolina artist, released The Ville in May 2026.

Trap metal

Trap metal is a fusion sub-scene of hip hop, emerging in the mid-2010s, that combines trap production with the vocals and instrumentation of heavy metal, with Scarlxrd and Ghostemane as its best-known exponents.

Trap music

Trap music, Southern hip hop subgenre from 1990s Atlanta, also called trap rap or EDM trap (distinct festival offshoot). Defined by TR-808 drums, sub-bass, triplet hi-hats, drug-trade lyricism; pioneered by T.I., Jeezy, Gucci Mane.

Trap Nation

Trap Nation is a YouTube music curation channel created in 2012 by 15-year-old Andre Benz, now YouTube's most popular electronic-music curation channel with 30 million subscribers.

Trap Queen

Trap Queen is Fetty Wap's 2014 debut single, an Auto-Tuned trap love song about a girlfriend in his drug operation. Peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, RIAA Diamond certified, two 2016 Grammy nominations, 617 million streams in 2015.

Trapp Family

Trapp Family (von Trapp family): Austrian singing family of Baron Georg von Trapp and Maria Augusta von Trapp; fled Nazi Austria 1938, toured as Trapp Family Singers, settled Stowe, Vermont; inspired The Sound of Music.

Trapped in the Closet

Trapped in the Closet: R. Kelly's 2005 serialized hip-hopera, 16-minute five-chapter song on TP.3 Reloaded grown to 33 sung video soap-opera chapters about Sylvester's adultery, later pulled from YouTube after Kelly's 2021 conviction.

Trapsoul

Trapsoul, also trap soul, is an R&B style blending trap production (808s, hi-hats) with soulful R&B melodies at 60-90 BPM. Named by a fan on SoundCloud, it is best known through Bryson Tiller's 2015 album T R A P S O U L and his Trapsoul/RCA label.

Trapt

Trapt is an American hard rock band formed in 1995 in Los Gatos, California, best known for the 2002 platinum hit single "Headstrong" from their Warner Bros. debut album; later albums include Someone in Control (2005), DNA (2016), and Shadow Work (2020).

Trash (Alice Cooper album)

Trash (1989) is Alice Cooper's eighteenth studio album, his Epic Records debut produced by Desmond Child. The glam metal comeback featuring "Poison" sold over two million copies, peaked at number 2 in the UK, and remains his biggest-selling album.

Trash Boat

Trash Boat is an English pop-punk band from St Albans, Hertfordshire, formed in 2014 and fronted by vocalist Tobi Duncan, with four studio albums on Hopeless Records from 2016 to 2024.

Trashcan Sinatras

Trashcan Sinatras (The Trash Can Sinatras) are a Scottish indie pop band formed in Irvine in 1986, known for Cake (1990), Obscurity Knocks, jangly guitars, wordplay, and seven albums including Ever the Optimist (2026).

Trauffer

Trauffer is the stage name of Marc A. Trauffer, a Swiss Mundart-pop singer from the Bernese Oberland who has topped the Swiss album charts since 2014.