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LAWTON, Trancemaster Krause & Caroline Roxy - Believe In
Read more . . . →Put this on at the gym and ended up doing an extra set I hadn’t scheduled. Believe In is unapologetic uplifting trance, the genre everyone insists died in 2008 and that keeps selling out arenas anyway. Caroline Roxy delivers exactly the soaring, slightly corny vocal this music demands, and the moment the supersaw lead kicks in you either surrender or you were never the right audience for it. There’s a breakdown that strips right back to piano and voice for a long stretch, long enough that you start to miss the kick, and then it returns like a wave you...
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Eynka - Flamingo
Read more . . . →Flamingo is the kind of trance that reminds you why grown adults still cry at festivals. Eynka lands on Armada with a track built for the hands-aloft moment, all soaring leads and a build engineered to detonate a field of people at once. Trance gets a bad rap from people chasing whatever’s darker this year, and they’re missing one of dance music’s purest hits of serotonin. The lead melody is simple and enormous, the sort of line a crowd can hum back after a single pass, and the breakdown drops to a whisper before the payoff so the release actually...
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ARTY - Love To Forget
ARTY comes home to melodic trance on Love To Forget after years chasing festival-pop, and that liquid arp is unmistakably him.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Hyper Go Go x Summer Is Calling - Never Let Go
Read more . . . →Someone at the party put this on at exactly the right moment and I had to go find out what it was. “Never Let Go” resurrects the Hyper Go Go name, a piece of early-90s UK rave history, and drops that euphoric piano-house energy into a modern trance frame. The piano riff is pure 1992 nostalgia, hands-in-the-air stuff that predates most of the people who’ll dance to it, and the update hands it a cleaner low end and a bigger, more festival-scaled drop. It’s unapologetic feel-good music, the kind of track that only works if you commit to it completely....
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Timmy Trumpet - Not A Place (feat. Oaks) [MaRLo Remix]
MaRLo's remix of Timmy Trumpet's Not A Place is festival-gloss and nothing else. Loud, shiny, gone from my head by tomorrow.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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DJ Rob Fabrie - Make Some Noise (weirdtechnogirlfriend & PAUL LE BÁY Remake)
Read more . . . →The remake keeps the original’s air-raid-siren lead and drops it into a harder, faster chassis that hits like a caffeine overdose. This is “Make Some Noise” rebuilt by weirdtechnogirlfriend and PAUL LE BÁY, and it lives in that hyperactive zone where trance, techno and rave nostalgia all crash into each other around 150 BPM. The kick is enormous and dry, the kind that physically shoves air, and over it that siren synth just screams. There’s a rave whistle in the breakdown that’s either genius or a war crime and I genuinely cannot decide which, which is exactly the right reaction...
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York - On The Beach (Magic Marc's Radiomix)
Read more . . . →Is there a more summer-holiday trance record than York’s “On The Beach”? Serious question. The original dropped in 2000, built around that instantly recognizable Chris Rea guitar line, and it’s been soundtracking sunburns and cheap package holidays for a quarter century now. This Magic Marc’s Radiomix polishes it up for modern systems without gutting what made it work, which is the whole risk with touching a track this beloved. The Chris Rea sample is still front and center, that wistful little guitar phrase that somehow sounds like the last day of a trip before you’ve even left. Around 1:40 the...
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Eelke Kleijn feat. Therese - Shed My Skin
Eelke Kleijn and Therese make Shed My Skin a slow-burning, seven-minute melodic house cut built for the 4am comedown crowd.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Scorz - Ritus
Read more . . . →This one crept up on me. “Ritus” opens as fairly standard driving trance, the sort Armada puts out by the crate, and I nearly tabbed away before the breakdown reached in and grabbed me by the collar. Scorz strips it back to a single held pad and a ticking arp, lets it hang there long enough to feel uncomfortable, then rebuilds with this ceremonial, almost liturgical melody that earns the track its Latin title. The kick underneath is relentless in the good way, a straight four-on-the-floor that stops being something you notice and turns into something you’re standing inside. Trance...
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mOat & ALAY - What U Waitin 4
Read more . . . →Somewhere in a festival crowd right now, someone is losing their entire mind to a track exactly like this and having the best night of their year. “What U Waitin 4” is unashamed main-stage trance, the sort Armada exports by the shipping container, and I mean that with more affection than the description probably carries. mOat & ALAY build it around a vocal hook chopped into an urgent little question, then hang the whole thing off a rolling bassline that never once lets your pulse drop below jogging speed. The breakdown is pure setup, a soft-focus melodic pad and a...
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