Research notes
Most writing about Trance and the brain overstates what's known. Euphoria Unleashed tries not to, and this page sets out the standard it holds itself to so you can judge the book by it.
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The claims about rhythm and expectation that the research actually supports are stated as such. The claims that circulate online about particular BPM ranges or frequency combinations acting on human neurochemistry are not, because the evidence doesn't reach that far.
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Dates, records, labels and rooms are the load-bearing parts of a history, so those get sources. Colour and atmosphere don't need a footnote, and pretending otherwise just pads the page count.
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Thirty years of being in those rooms is useful, and it's also memory. Where the book draws on first-hand experience it says so, instead of dressing recollection up as documentation.
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Scenes that grew out of flyers, tapes and word of mouth have holes in the record. Where the history is genuinely uncertain or contested, the book says it's uncertain rather than picking the tidiest version.
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Anything confirmed wrong is logged in public with the original wording and the fix, then corrected in later revisions.
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