Current Status
Beginning in the latter part of the 2000s, uplifting trance saw an eruption in interest amongst new and old fans and re-established itself within the trance scene, played by such leading trance artists as ATB, Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto and Above & Beyond. (A decade earlier Paul Oakenfold, Sasha & Digweed, and Paul van Dyk. had sparked interest.) Today, Uplifting has emerged as a widely popular electronic dance music subgenre with DJs and producers such as Andy Blueman, Aly & Fila, Sean Tyas, SoundLift, Arctic Moon, Super8 & Tab, Farhad Mahdavi and Ronny K focusing particularly on Uplifting Trance as their overriding genre, and others, such as Daniel Kandi, Jason van Wyk and Above & Beyond, who include Uplifting Trance as part of their broader repertoire. In addition, online radio stations such as Paris One and Afterhours.FM are significantly devoted to Uplifting Trance. In September 2009, AfterHours hosted "Uplift Day" that was exclusively dedicated to uplifting trance.
In recent years, a subgenre of Uplifting Trance — dubbed "Orchestral Uplifting" or "Uplifting Trance with Symphonic Orchestra" and pioneered by Andy Blueman, SoundLift, Arctic Moon, Ralph Barendse, Farhad Mahdavi and others — has developed, wherein the timbres and instruments used in the track are those used in symphonic orchestras, including flutes, non-lyrical choral voices, violins, pianos, horns, orchestral drums, and others, and often includes even-longer-than-usual emotional orchestral breakdowns, while still preserving the other aspects of Uplifting Trance, therefore differing from the subgenre that was called "Orchestral Trance" a decade earlier. This new style has noticeably influenced the work of many artists outside the Uplifting scene, including the Black Pearl project of Ralph Fritsch and Roger Shah, who ordinarily identifies with Balearic Trance rather than Uplifting.
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