Also, EDM is fantastic to play when you're driving. High BPM = speed rush like whoa. So people automatically link it to cars.

Initial D is kool but no1 said anything
about Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune thats my game

i played it all the time in FL
that was the S#!t (IMG:http://www.glowsticking.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

i agree, it was either initial d, or one of original japanese racing games that first introduced the pairing of trance/ techno music with racing. after that it just caught on.

i think the trend really caught on in the late 90's, early 2000s when the rave scene first became "popular". tons of AzNs with spiky hair and long bangs and baggy pants started going around with tricked out cars, playing trance, going to raves, and obsessing over import models.

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but the nature of EDM is hypnotic and pulsating. pretty much the same experience you wanna get from a sleek car. it's like a mind high; you're zooming along at lightspeed (mentally and figuratively( but your body is still). one of my guy friends who looves trance and used to race said that trance is like being in 2 places at once, being still yet also moving. that's kinda the abstraction of the experience of driving along a dark road with passing lights at night.