YES root! There are so much energy in the trance you can get from well played percussion (of any kind)! Thats the essence of the music trance imo, that deep energy, as if found in a part of the mind that dates back to the begining of the humankind, when we all were standing dancing around a burning fire in the middle of the night in trance to rhythms of the drums
Thats the feeling I can get from any good trance inducing music, I really think it comes from that normally hidden place of our minds