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Eelke Kleijn - Tonco Liveset (Armada Invites)
Read more . . . →Sometimes you don’t want a three-minute hit, you want to disappear into a full set, and Eelke Kleijn’s Armada Invites session at Tonco is built for exactly that. This is melodic, progressive, deeply-patient house and trance from a guy who has been doing it long enough to have nothing left to prove. The setting helps: gorgeous location, golden-hour light, the kind of crowd that came to listen rather than film. Kleijn reads a room better than almost anyone, layering tracks so smoothly you stop noticing the transitions and just let the thing carry you. Put this on while you work,...
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Yomanda - Sunshine (MDDLTN Re-Edit)
Read more . . . →Yomanda’s “Sunshine” has been quietly iconic in UK trance circles since the late 90s, and MDDLTN’s re-edit does exactly what a good re-edit should — it makes you hear the original differently without touching what made it work in the first place. The production update modernizes the sound without scrubbing the soul out of it, which is a line a lot of re-edits badly fail to walk. The bassline gets a bit more presence, the arrangement breathes differently, and the hook still absolutely slaps. This is the kind of trance that has genuine emotional weight rather than just the obligatory...
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THEMBA x DJ Kent x David Morales - Alegria
Read more . . . →Three legends converging on one track is either peak collab or peak ego, and THEMBA x DJ Kent x David Morales’s “Alegria” thankfully lands in the former category. Armada got this one and it feels right — there’s a warmth and a lift to it that matches the label’s energy. The afro-house influence THEMBA always brings meshes surprisingly well with Morales’s classic house DNA, and DJ Kent holds the whole thing together without anyone stepping on anyone else. “Alegria” means joy in several languages and the track earns that name honestly — it doesn’t just claim to be uplifting, it...
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Atlantis - Fiji (Oliver Smith Remix)
Read more . . . →Oliver Smith remixing anything guarantees a certain quality ceiling and this one hits it. The original Fiji has been doing rounds in trance circles for a while, and Oliver Smith takes it somewhere more propulsive without stripping what made it worth remixing in the first place. Anjunabeats as a home for this makes sense — they have a specific taste in how melodic trance should be structured and this fits. The breakdown is where the remix earns its keep: about three minutes in everything opens up into something that sounds genuinely vast before the beat comes back and grounds it....
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Armin van Buuren & Argy feat. Marlo Rex - Like A Child (Live @ EDC Las Vegas 2026)
Read more . . . →Armin at EDC Las Vegas is always going to be Armin at EDC Las Vegas. The Argy collab adds some texture to what would otherwise be predictable trance territory. The crowd reaction says everything you need to know. More like this Armin van Buuren & ARGY feat. Marlo Rex - Like A Child (Live from Ultra Miami 2026) Armin van Buuren x Hannah Laing x Wippenberg - U Got 2 Know (Live @ EDC Las Vegas 2026) Armin van Buuren x Alle Farben feat. ROSY - Lost In Time (Live at Tomorrowland Brasil 2026)
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Above & Beyond - 1001 (Live From ABGT200 at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam)
Read more . . . →ABGT200 at Ziggo Dome was the kind of night that people still talk about, and this live version of 1001 is the reason. Above & Beyond playing trance to 15,000 people in Amsterdam hits different when you can see the crowd losing it in real time. More like this Above & Beyond and Justine Suissa - When I Look In Your Eyes (Extended Mix) Above & Beyond and Zoë Johnston - Carry Me Home (Kloset Extended Mix) Above & Beyond and Zoë Johnston - Carry Me Home (KOVEN Remix)
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Guz & Mischa Daniels - Take Me Higher
Read more . . . →Three trance tracks from Armada in one batch — the label clearly had a productive week. Guz & Mischa Daniels’s “Take Me Higher” is the most straightforward of the three, which is not a knock. Sometimes a track that simply does the job cleanly is the most valuable thing in the pile. The melody is big without being overwrought, the drop lands with the kind of satisfying inevitability that good trance is built on, and nothing overstays its welcome. Guz has been consistent in this lane for years and Mischa Daniels brings the right energy to a collaboration that could’ve...
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Armin van Buuren & Olive Anguz - Vem Comigo (Live @ ASOT 2026)
Armin van Buuren at ASOT 2026 with Olive Anguz. Vem Comigo means come with me in Portuguese — the most trance track name possible. It works.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Ferry Corsten & Marsh - Attraction (Ferry's Mix)
Ferry Corsten is old enough to have his own mix of someone else's track and young enough that it bangs harder than the original. Anjunabeats.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Taiki Nulight & Scott Garcia feat. MC DT - It's A London Thing
Read more . . . →Scott Garcia made “It’s A London Thing” in 1997 and it became one of the defining tracks of the UK garage era. Taiki Nulight doing a 2025 take on it was always going to be a moment. The original had that specific bouncy shuffle that’s impossible to replicate without it sounding like parody, and somehow this version navigates that without embarrassing itself. MC DT is on here which makes sense — you need that MC energy for a track with this much history attached to it. Whether this is technically trance or garage or something in between depends on who...
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