Guilty Conscience Music Blog

A synth string intro gives way to a piano melody as the different elements of the rhythm section are introduced. A piano part in trance never hurt Robert Miles, so this track in good company. As a melody, I’ve tried leaving it out of the breakdown but here it’s left in so decide for yourself. After the build up, the piano stops and the synth pads take over driving a hand-in-the-air moment 2 minutes in

Trance relies on a lot of automation to keep thing moving and the subject track of this post - Europhile is no different. It involves gates and all sorts of other business that most people are (quite rightly) bored by. The important result is a moving melody that pulses, along with the harmony; combining rhythm and tonality.