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Marc Kiss x Yasmin Hutchins - I Love You Always Forever
Read more . . . →Covering Donna Lewis’s “I Love You Always Forever” as a trance record is either a war crime or a stroke of genius, and I’ve decided it’s the second one. That 1996 chorus is pure sugar and it turns out it was secretly engineered all along for a big euphoric build — Yasmin Hutchins sells the vocal with total sincerity and never once plays it as a nostalgia gag. Marc Kiss keeps the arrangement patient, holding the drop back until you’re genuinely aching for it, then falling into a clean supersaw wash that would light up any main stage on earth....
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909 RACING TEAM x DJ Melvin - L.O.I.S.
Read more . . . →“L.O.I.S.” comes screaming out of the gate at a tempo that dares you to keep up, all revving synth stabs and a kick that could pace a marathon. This is trance in its rowdiest, least tasteful mode, closer to the sweaty back corner of a festival tent than any candlelit Anjuna moment, and it’s better for that. The 909 Racing Team name is honest branding: the whole thing feels like a lap counter ticking down, tension winding tighter and tighter until the breakdown finally lets go around the two-minute mark. When it does, it’s pure serotonin, a supersaw lead so...
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XIRA - Feel (J Ribbon Remix)
J Ribbon knows exactly why Anjunabeats built an empire on XIRA's voice and keeps it front and center on this proggier, driving Feel remix.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Trance is unfashionable and the A State of Trance crowd doesn't care
Read more . . . →A week out now. A State of Trance gets its own stage at Tomorrowland because Armin van Buuren is essentially a Belgian national monument at this point. Trance has been deeply out of fashion for years and its crowd could not care less, which is honestly the most punk thing about the whole festival. Two for the faithful: 1. Armin van Buuren - Blah Blah Blah Armin trolling the purists with a big-room stomper named after exactly what the snobs say about his commercial stuff. The joke is that it goes off harder than most of the “serious” records, and...
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DAIRE x Lightforce - Join Me
Read more . . . →Big, unashamed, hands-in-the-air trance is having a real moment again, and Join Me is a fine argument for why. DAIRE and Lightforce build this on a supersaw lead that could strip paint, but the melody is genuinely good: a rising phrase that resolves exactly where your ear wants it to, which is trance’s whole trick when it’s done right. The breakdown around 2:00 goes full emotional, all reverbed vocal and held chords, before the drop slams everything back to 138 and lets the kick carry the rest. This isn’t cerebral music and it isn’t trying to be; it’s engineered for...
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ARTO - Lost in Cancún
ARTO's Lost in Cancún is sun-bleached Armada trance built for the exact second the sun comes up over a festival. I'm booking a beach trip.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Argy x Paul Oakenfold x Planet Perfecto Knights - ResuRection
Argy drags Planet Perfecto's 1999 trance anthem ResuRection into 2026 and the hair on my arms still stood up. A respectful, hypnotic update.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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Tomorrowland is 11 days out and the internet has lost its mind
Read more . . . →Tomorrowland kicks off in Boom in eleven days, and the internet has already decided it’s the greatest thing to ever happen to a Belgian field. Two weekends, sixteen stages, five hundred names, one castle-shaped mainstage that costs more than most people’s houses. You don’t need a €500 ticket to hear the tracks that’ll actually run the place, though. Here’s the pre-game: the songs the Mainstage will lean on before Guetta pretends he built them from scratch. 1. Martin Garrix - Animals The one that turned a Dutch teenager into a headliner. That three-note lead still detonates a crowd on contact,...
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Above & Beyond - Major Drop (Extended Mix)
Read more . . . →Above & Beyond have been making grown adults cry on dancefloors for two decades, and Major Drop is them doing exactly what they’re best at with zero interest in reinventing anything. This is trance in its most emotionally direct form, all swelling chords and a build engineered to put a lump in your throat right before the release. The extended mix stretches everything out, giving the breakdown room to really sit in its feelings before the drop arrives like sunrise after a long night. Some people find this stuff impossibly corny and I understand why, but when you’re in the...
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Grum - You Make Me Feel
Read more . . . →Chopped and stretched until it stops being words, the vocal on You Make Me Feel becomes pure texture, and that processing is the smartest decision on the whole track. Grum has settled so completely into the Anjunabeats sound that he’s now one of the people defining it, that gleaming melodic-house-meets-trance hybrid the label made its signature. It rides a bassline that pulses with real forward motion under a melody designed to go straight for the emotional jugular. It’s euphoric without being naive about it, the kind of build that knows exactly how to delay gratification before the release at 2:30...
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