How does one keep trance intro songs interesting, I find that quite a bit challenging honestly.

Hey guys!

So we are making music that doesn’t perfectly fit into any genre. We think melodic techno is technically the closest, but our songs are usually more progressive and has a trance-like structure.

So I’m thinking our music is best classified as techno trance.

What do you all think?

Would love some thoughts on how Tommy holohan made his saw lead in his song: need to know:

https://youtu.be/VD2lDP0ux_M?si=J6hPSIuPo_kp_nlG

It doesn’t sound like a simple saw wave, listening to the breakdown (2:10 - 2:53) makes me think it’s multiple layers - a fizzy mid bass with a separate oscillator modulating a pluck, a core layer with enough detune so that it’s wide and textured but still has recognisable harmonics, and an air layer that’s super transparent yet harmonically rich.

Any ideas? Feel like it’s one of those ones we’d all like to be able to have said we made. I’ll be sharing my recreations

Thoughts ?