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James Poole, JAYC & Kim Payton - Story Of My Life
Read more . . . →Trance with proper vocals, which is rarer than it should be. So much of the genre treats the singer as set dressing, a pretty noise to fill space before the big synth payoff. Not here. Kim Payton carries the whole thing. It’s the kind of voice you’d build a track around, and that’s exactly what James Poole and JAYC did. When the breakdown clears out and it’s just her sitting on top of a single pad, you stop waiting for the drop and just listen. Then the drop comes anyway and you remember why you pressed play. This landed on...
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J Ribbon - Man On Fire
Read more . . . →Anjunabeats finding another one. J Ribbon’s “Man On Fire” builds like it’s got somewhere to be. Classic Above & Beyond label energy — emotional dance music that doesn’t apologize for being emotional. Anjunabeats has a type, and the type is exactly this: a melodic progressive house producer who treats a drop like a payoff you have to earn rather than something you bolt on every 32 bars. J Ribbon fits it cleanly. He came up through the double A-side “Redemption / Lights On,” the one that got picked up by people like Dom Dolla and Joris Voorn out in the...
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Giuseppe Ottaviani, Gabry Ponte & Crooked Bangs - Astra
Read more . . . →Giuseppe Ottaviani and Gabry Ponte on the same track is the kind of Italian name-on-name pairing that should not need a third producer, and yet here’s Crooked Bangs making the case for one. “Astra” goes exactly where you think it’s going, and I mean that as a compliment. Ottaviani has spent years being the guy who keeps proper uplifting trance alive while everyone else chased festival drops, and Ponte is, well, Ponte, the man who has been writing big obvious Italo hooks since before half the Tomorrowland crowd was born. Put them together and you get a track with zero...
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Armin van Buuren x Hannah Laing x Wippenberg - U Got 2 Know (Live @ EDC Las Vegas 2026)
Read more . . . →Armin playing at EDC with Wippenberg, a name I haven’t heard in maybe 15 years. “U Got 2 Know” is peak Dutch trance and the crowd clearly loses it. Good to see Wippenberg back. Buy / stream this track → More like this Armin van Buuren & Glockenbach - Sun Shines On Me (Rising Star Remix) [Live @ EDC Las Vegas 2026] Armin van Buuren & Skytech - She A Freak (Live at Ultra Miami 2026) Armin van Buuren feat. SACHA - Set Me Free (Rising Star Remix) (Live @ UMF 2026)
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Armin van Buuren & Glockenbach - Sun Shines On Me (Rising Star Remix) [Live @ EDC Las Vegas 2026]
Read more . . . →Two Armin tracks from the same EDC set. Fair enough — when you have that catalog, you run it. The Rising Star remix hits differently in a live context than the studio version. Buy / stream this track → More like this Armin van Buuren feat. SACHA - Set Me Free (Rising Star Remix) (Live @ UMF 2026) Armin van Buuren x Alle Farben feat. ROSY - Lost In Time (Live at Tomorrowland Brasil 2026) Armin van Buuren & Argy feat. Marlo Rex - Like A Child (Live @ EDC Las Vegas 2026)
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Old Jim x ARTY x Alexandra Stan x CERES - In My Head (Baby I'm Sorry)
ARTY and Alexandra Stan on the same trance record was not on my bingo card. Four acts, one track, and it actually works.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Grum & Genix - The Light (Live From ABGT450 at The Drumsheds, London)
Grum and Genix playing The Light live at ABGT450 in The Drumsheds, London. You can hear the entire room in this one.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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GAIA - Tuvan (BLR Remix)
Armin van Buuren's darker GAIA alias getting the BLR treatment on Tuvan — already a massive track and BLR found even more to work with.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Darren Tate & Genix - Taking Us Higher
Darren Tate has 20+ years of trance pedigree and this Genix collab sounds every bit as good as that suggests. Anjunabeats delivers again.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Mark Eteson, midah & Henlow feat. Øverlake - Sweet the Sound
Øverlake's vocal makes Sweet the Sound worth staying for. Mark Eteson, midah, and Henlow built the architecture — she built the feeling.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
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