Berlin School Tangerine Dream from Phaedra 1974, Rubycon 1975, Ricochet 1975,
is the GrandDaddy of commercial Trance, Trance from Paul Van Dyk, ATB, BT, Armin Van Buren.
Klaus Schulze named it Trance in his 1981 Album Trancefer, then again 1988 En=Trance.
Various Cosmic Trance, Psy Trance from 1995-2020 sounds similar to A Few Minutes After Trancefer track.
Manuel Gottsching 1981 E2-E4 album is the Father of Ibiza Balearic Trance.
However the first Trance genre track as recognised by those in the know
was in
October 1988 by KLF.
A remix : What Time is Love? Pure Trance 1.
This was also the first time this genre would be named Trance.
This uses 1973 Jesus Christ Superstar Overture guitar riff (3min05sec)
composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice then synthesises this riff.
Nevertheless listen to the Sequence style and sounds of the sequence in this first Trance from KLF.
Now listen to the two months earlier August 1988 Revolution sequence style and sounds of sequence.
It is pretty clear where KLF got their inspiration.
Before Revolution, KLF had a HipHop sound as The Jam's : Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
1987 album What the f is Going On
and House, Pop on
1988 Who Killed the Jam's.
1988 Burn The Bastards their first single as KLF is House.