The global community of trance fans — a self-aware identity built around shared emotional connection to the music.
Definition
"Trance Family" is the term that the global community of trance fans uses to describe itself. The phrase captures the genre's distinctive emotional intensity and the strong sense of identity many fans feel: the same names, faces, and flags appear at trance events around the world, often travelling internationally to attend ASOT, FSOE, Group Therapy, or Luminosity. Online, #trancefamily is a longstanding hashtag on social media, and trance-focused subreddits, Discord servers, and Facebook groups maintain active community life between events. The term has been embraced by major DJs — Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, and others regularly address audiences as "the trance family" — and is one of the most distinctive features of trance culture relative to other electronic genres.