I also listen to Psychedelic Trance which is not to be confused with that cr*p that is shoveled by the likes of Ministry of Sound or the Ibiza scene, they are just using the name Trance to their advantage.
If you ever watch the film "The Beach"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163978/ it contains some good examples of just what REAL trance is. Problem is the word has become associated with hand bag, hard house which used to be referred to as Uplifting House.
Believe it or not, Trance has been around for a very very very very long time, whilst studying sound engineering, my assignment was on the history of synthesizers and I was gob smacked to find out that the synthesizer was not invented by Elisha Gray as it is billed in most American web sites but it actually goes to Jean-Baptiste de Laborde a French man in between 1759 & 1761! People always think that Elisha Gray was the first or Bob Moog.
It sort of puts ambient and trance in to the category some of the oldest genres next to classical music.
