Trance
Melodic / Progressive House
This is a subgenre of house music and emerged in the 1990s in the U.K.'s popular club scenes. Depending on the group, the subgenre's emergence was supposed to either give fans an alternative to rock music or elevate rock music's value by introducing other features, hence the term progressive. The term progressive was used with a marketing connotation and the primary aim of differentiating the new rave house from traditional American house music. Stylistically, progressive house music is a "mishmash" of numerous other genres. It borrows heavily from Eurodance, Italo house, deep house, and dub music. It can be differentiated from other genres that emerged later largely due to its lack of anthemic choruses. Additionally, it also lacks crescendos and drum rolling. Its intensity varies throughout the song, with phrases being a product of two bars and often starting with a different melody or rhythm.