Electronic music began in earnest in Taiwan around 1996 with the emergence of the disco revolution. Subsequently between 1996 and 2003 a new brand of electronic dance music began to germinate from these early roots and quickly sprouted up in clubs and parties all over the island, although maintaining a distinctive underground flavor, separate from the mainstream, yet still hugely popular. In time the influences of Euro-trance began to lend a more psychedelic element to the nations psy trance scene and after 2002 trance music in Taiwan began to morph and change, as influences from hip-hop and pop music began to shape the direction of things to come. Once again the psy trance scene in Taiwan stands on the precipice of change. Fast forward to today and you will see that the dichotomy between the polar opposites of the various musical influences has created a vortex incorporating both happier, melodic Full-on manifestations and the twisted dark anarchic sounds and high energy psychotic rel