Definitions

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  • adjective informal Trancelike.
  • adjective informal, music Resembling or pertaining to trance music, i.e. immersively melodic with a strong electronic dance beat.

Etymologies

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trance +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Magnetic Man have already had success in the form of their first single, "I Need Air", a trancey incursion about the breathlessness of attraction which cracked the top 10 last summer.

    Magnetic Man by Magnetic Man – review Kitty Empire 2010

  • The duo Stay+ take the hipster house idea and run with it, adding trancey, stadium synths to the mix.

    Tim Jonze On Shuffle … House 2011

  • It leads you under the tarmac and distracts you from the long wait on the moving sidewalk by essentially placing you inside one of those "Light Show" air fresheners and soothing your furious flying nerves with some Enya-ish, trancey music.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Presents 2009

  • It leads you under the tarmac and distracts you from the long wait on the moving sidewalk by essentially placing you inside one of those "Light Show" air fresheners and soothing your furious flying nerves with some Enya-ish, trancey music.

    Christmas, Etc. Presents 2009

  • You probably remember their incredibly catchy "Kernkraft 400" song - big room trancey-techno with robot voices and a C64 melody - it was popular with pretty much everyone, both under - and over-ground, but got played to death.

    Aaaaaaa Zombies! Run! (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • "Pop" is emphatically a U2 album: underneath the trancey drum loops and fat synthesizers the band is still writing big rock songs, and the Edge's guitar sound is as distinctive as ever.

    Mirror-Ball Madness 2008

  • This party, at the home of Geffen Records honcho Jimmy Iovine, is being thrown in her honor, and the funky, trancey music is from her new album, "Love & Life."

    MUCH OBLIGED 2008

  • On more than one occasion, I've been implored to buy some $3 12 single I've never heard of by another music lover for whom the track was magic/meaningful note this happens a lot with instrumental/trancey stuff; I have not been disappointed with these recommendations yet, and some have caused me to hunt down other releases by the before-then-unknown-to-me artist.

    Things said and unsaid in a record store. Ann Althouse 2008

  • I always used to think of L. A.-based Tejada as a super-cheesy trancey techno guy, but I was wrong.

    Alone with Help (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • This is seriously heavy, almost trancey stuff, especially for BPitch - a label best known (in my opinion anyway) for their electro-influenced take on techno music - but a lot of folks have been working in this vein lately, with smart, innovative producers making what you could call "big-room" tracks.

    Music (For Robots): October 2005 Archives 2005

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