History Main / BoleroEffect

* Kid Moxie's {{power ballad}} "[[https://youtu.be/iV9xYYN0v5c?si=T4f6BHhEIqs1vbzW Better Than Electric]]" starts with an acoustic guitar riff that serves as a foundation for the repeating main vocal melody (which interpolates the TropeNamer), accompanied by synth pads and a drum machine that slowly increase in volume until the climax, before decaying back to the guitar for the coda.

* Kid Moxie's {{power ballad}} "[[https://youtu.be/iV9xYYN0v5c?si=T4f6BHhEIqs1vbzW Better Than Electric]]" starts with an acoustic guitar riff that serves as a foundation for the repeating main vocal melody, accompanied by synth pads and a drum machine that slowly increase in volume until the climax, before decaying back to the guitar for the coda.

* "Take a Bow" by Music/{{Muse}}.

* "[[https://youtu.be/S8_TZiZulxo?si=u9gP-2dDRlGkLNk1 All Come Together]]" from Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{Amaluna}}'' is built on a repeating 8-bar phrase that gradually crescendos and gains instruments, as well as speeding up near the end.

* Bronski Beat's "[[https://youtu.be/88sARuFu-tc?si=atWh_e6TK4GkcxgK Smalltown Boy]]", starting at the drum breakdown, adds a Latin percussion section, followed by progressive vocal and synth overdubs as it heads towards its final chorus. The 12" version invokes this trope further with its intro, starting minimalistically with harp, synth chords, and vocals before building up over the course of 3 minutes towards the main song.

* Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy", starting at the drum breakdown, adds a Latin percussion section, followed by progressive vocal and synth overdubs as it heads towards its final chorus. The 12" version invokes this trope further with its intro, starting minimalistically with harp, synth chords, and vocals before building up over the course of 3 minutes towards the main song.

** Vangelis composed several other pieces in this style, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kK_HGNOo9A "Alpha"]], notable for appearing in Creator/CarlSagan's TV series ''Series/{{Cosmos}}''.

* Blue Amazon, being a progressive/epic house/trance project, invoke this in many of their songs, but most notably "Trip To Heaven" which builds towards a climax for its first 9 minutes, then winds down to a minimalistic NewAge ending in its last 5.

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* The first 6 minutes (of the total 9) of ''To the Unknown Man'' by ''Music/{{Vangelis}}''. It consists of a simple synth tune with increasing variations, and more and more instruments added in time.

* Music/InformationSociety's "Can You Live As Fast as Me?" ends with a repetitive hook building to a climax and fade-out similar to the aforementioned "Cars".

* The coda of Music/GaryNuman's "Cars" repeats the main riff and drum hit while building up the synths, prior to the FadeOut.
* Music/InformationSociety's "Can You Live As Fast as Me?" ends with a repetitive hook building to a climax similar to the aforementioned "Cars".

* Music/PetShopBoys' "One More Chance" starts with a conga drum loop and car skidding sound effects, adds synthesizer chords at the first prechorus, followed by a bass sequencer, and finally the rest of the instrument ensemble joins in at the second chorus.

* Much of Music/KlausSchulze's material from UsefulNotes/TheSeventies, particularly the triptych of ''Picture Music'', ''Timewind'', and ''Moondawn'', follows this trope, starting with one or two synthesizer leads and progressively adding further layers of synth, organ, sound effects, and percussion. Appropriately, many consider him a forefather to the aforementioned trance genre.

* Much of Music/KlausSchulze's material from UsefulNotes/TheSeventies, particularly the triptych of ''Picture Music'', ''Timewind'', and ''Moondawn'', follows this trope, starting with one or two synthesizer leads and progressively adding further layers of synth, organ, sound effects, and percussion.

* Some subgenres of HouseMusic and {{Trance}}, such as Progressive House and Deep House are built off this trope, with songs often starting as extremely simplistic drum loops and building up until the climax into dynamic, "fuller" songs where all the leads, bass, pads, and percussion come together.

* Some genres of HouseMusic, such as Progressive House and Deep House are built off this trope, with songs often starting as extremely simplistic drum loops and building up until the climax into dynamic, "fuller" songs where all the leads, bass, pads, and percussion come together.

* Josh Wink's SignatureSong "Higher State of Consciousness" begins with a minimalistic 808 drum loop and some filter effects, then adds sampled breakbeats and the famous 303 sequencer riff, which gradually increases in pitch until the breakdown, where the filters are pushed to near ear-piercing levels and a second 303 line joins in, followed by Josh wildly manipulating ("tweaking") the device's knobs for the song's climax.