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Mauro Picotto - The Twilight Zone (V2)
Read more . . . →How many times can one producer remake his own back catalogue before it curdles into a nostalgia racket? For Mauro Picotto the answer keeps being at least once more, because The Twilight Zone (V2) has no right to hit this clean. This is him taking an old idea back into the lab and giving it a 2026 chassis, the melody still that stern, marching trance line he has been writing variations on for twenty-five years. The V2 tag is honest: it is tighter, the kick is modern and physical, the stabs cut through on a big system in a way...
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Mauro Picotto & Bryan Kearney - Proximus
Read more . . . →There is an acid line in Proximus that corkscrews downward like water leaving a sink, and it is pure, uncut 1999. Pairing Mauro Picotto with Bryan Kearney is the kind of booking that makes trance lifers sit up, two generations of the sound in one room, and Proximus plays to both their instincts at once. Picotto brings the hypnotic, riff-as-mantra approach that made Lizard and Komodo survive every fashion cycle thrown at them. Kearney brings the harder, darker edge he has spent the last decade pushing, that psy-adjacent low-end rumble under the melody. Together they land on something properly peak-time,...
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ARTY - Giving It Up
Read more . . . →If you came up on 2012-era Anjunabeats, ARTY’s name still does something to your nervous system, and Giving It Up is him reminding everyone why. This is the big, melodic progressive trance he helped define back then, updated just enough that it doesn’t sound like a time capsule. The vocal hook is enormous and openly emotional, the sort of topline engineered to be sung back by twenty thousand people with their hands in the air. ARTY has detoured into pop and lighter commercial stuff over the years, so there’s real pleasure in hearing him come home to the uplifting sound...
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Grum - Stay With Me
Read more . . . →If you have ever stood in a field at sunset while a melodic trance track did something unreasonable to your chest, you already know what Grum is for. Stay With Me is the Scottish producer operating in his comfort zone, which happens to be one of the most reliable comfort zones in dance music, big arcing melodies over a propulsive progressive pulse built to detonate on a festival stage at exactly the right golden-hour minute. The vocal is yearning without tipping into cheese, a hard line to walk, and the synth lead that answers it in the drop is the...
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ANUQRAM & Julian Nates - Driftline
Read more . . . →Three in the morning, headphones on, the ceiling doing slow laps, this is the track for that exact coordinate. Driftline is progressive trance that earns the word drift, a long, unhurried builder that is in no rush to get anywhere because the travelling is the entire point. ANUQRAM and Julian Nates layer pad on pad until the low end feels less like bass and more like weather, and a single arpeggio threads through the middle of it like a light you are following through fog. There is barely a drop in the traditional sense; the track just keeps gathering mass...
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Mauro Picotto & Luvstruck - Lizard
Mauro Picotto and Luvstruck dug up Lizard and it still slithers like it's 1999. Old-school trance menace. Respect the lizard.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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mOat & The Glimmers - Esta Si, Esta No
mOat & The Glimmers can't decide, esta si, esta no, but we decided: yes. A weird, sunny little earworm. Don't fight it. Seriously good.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Lilly Palmer x Mauro Picotto - Komodo
Lilly Palmer x Mauro Picotto unleash Komodo and it bites. Old-school menace meets a modern techno floor. Mind your ankles.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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James Marley - out of my head
James Marley is officially stuck in our heads and out of his own. Out of My Head earns the replays, whether you asked or not.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Mauro Picotto - I Feel Love (V2)
Mauro Picotto reworks Donna Summer's I Feel Love like a guy returning to the scene of a crime he helped commit. Trance history, still rude.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
