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Yomanda - Synth & Strings (Rerecorded) (LAWTON Lick)
Read more . . . →When did a 2000 trance anthem start sounding this fresh again? “Synth & Strings” was a Y2K dancefloor staple, and this rerecorded version with a LAWTON lick hauls it into 2026 without stripping out the thing that made it work in the first place. That string stab is still the star, the same one that lodged in a million heads a quarter-century ago, and hearing it cleaned up on modern production is genuinely emotional if you were around for the original run. LAWTON tightens the kick and gives the low end a contemporary punch, so it hits on a current...
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SUPERSTRINGS - Balearic Temptation
Read more . . . →There’s a guitar line in here, actual plucked strings, sitting right where you’d expect a synth arp, and it reframes the entire track. “Balearic Temptation” is SUPERSTRINGS doing exactly what the name promises, trance with one foot in the Ibiza sunset and the other on a festival mainstage. The build is patient in that classic uplifting-trance way, layering strings and a rising synth over a four-on-the-floor kick until the tension is almost too much, and then it releases into a euphoric lead that goes straight for the throat of anyone who grew up on this sound. I did, so it...
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Inner City x LOSTBOYJAY - Good Life
Read more . . . →I was on a crowded train when the vocal came in and I involuntarily smiled at a stranger, which is a lot to ask of a Tuesday commute. “Good Life” is one of the foundational records of dance music, Inner City’s 1988 Detroit anthem that basically taught house how to be joyful, and LOSTBOYJAY has taken on the nerve-wracking job of updating it. Reworking a track this sacred is a minefield, because the original is perfect and everyone over forty has a memory bolted to it. The good news is he treats it with obvious respect. Paris Grey’s original vocal,...
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Mr Sam - Lyteo (BLR Remix)
Read more . . . →BLR turning an emotional trance track into a peak-time weapon is a collision I did not know I needed until it was playing. Mr Sam’s “Lyteo” started life as pure melodic trance, and BLR’s remix keeps that soaring core but bolts it onto a harder, more percussive chassis, bigger kick and tougher bassline and a low end that belongs to techno more than to trance. The result sits in that rare sweet spot where the melody still makes your chest go tight but the groove underneath is solid enough that you can lose yourself in it for eight minutes without...
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Crashguard - For A Moment
Read more . . . →Four in the morning, the last hour of the set, and this is the track that either lands perfectly or reads as pure filler depending entirely on the room. “For A Moment” is competent uplifting trance. The build does what builds do, the supersaws stack the way supersaws stack, and the drop delivers its euphoria right on schedule. That predictability is also the problem. Crashguard hits every mark so precisely that the track never once surprises you, and you can call the next eight bars from the first eight, and being right every single time gets a little dull. The...
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BlackGummy - Euphoria (FRANK (UK) & SHAW Remix)
Read more . . . →How many times can a producer name a track “Euphoria” before the word just gives up? FRANK (UK) and SHAW make a decent case for one more go. Their remix of BlackGummy’s cut is trancey progressive house in the old hands-in-the-air sense, and it commits to that with zero irony anywhere in sight. The build runs long, maybe too long if you have no patience, stacking supersaw layers until the release finally lands and hits like the first cold drink after a genuinely brutal day. It is shameless, which is exactly why it works. The lead is bright to the...
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Martyno Dowsha feat. Junior Paes - Phrases
Read more . . . →If you miss the era when trance was allowed to be openly emotional, “Phrases” is going to hit a nerve. Martyno Dowsha teams with vocalist Junior Paes for vocal trance that doesn’t apologise for wanting to make you feel something enormous. The build is the classic one, plucked arps and a rising pad and a snare roll you can see coming from a mile off, and when the melody finally breaks open it goes straight for the euphoric jugular. Paes has a warm, slightly husky voice that keeps the whole track grounded and human. Modern trance tends to either harden...
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Armin van Buuren & SACHA - Everlasting (Rising Star Remix)
Read more . . . →Genuinely did not expect to be moved by an Armin van Buuren mainstage clip in 2026, and yet here we are. This is “Everlasting” with SACHA in Armin’s own Rising Star remix, filmed live on the Tomorrowland mainstage, and the crowd footage does half the work. Trance is all about the breakdown, and this one holds its tension right up to the edge of unbearable before the melody comes crashing back. The man could coast on his catalogue forever, so it’s a small miracle he still builds a drop like he’s got something to prove to somebody. The Rising Star...
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Lucca Saettone - Take Me Deeper
Lucca Saettone's 'Take Me Deeper' is proper uplifting trance, no irony anywhere in it. That supersaw drop is pure emotional blackmail.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Paul Oakenfold x Ferry Corsten - Metaverse
Read more . . . →Two trance legends in a studio in 2026 could have been a disaster, and “Metaverse” absolutely is not. Paul Oakenfold and Ferry Corsten have been headlining since before half the people dancing to this were born, and the shock is how current it sounds — no nostalgia lap, no dusting-off of an old sound. The kick is modern and punchy, the supersaws stacked the way they’re built now rather than the way they were in 2001, and the whole thing drives with real purpose. Underneath, though, the DNA is pure classic trance: a long, patient build, a breakdown that strips...
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