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ANUQRAM & Anfulage - Sonderwave
ANUQRAM & Anfulage drop a trance arpeggio at 1:50 that's been stuck in my head since. Anjunabeats does it again with Sonderwave.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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KIMMIC - Where Do We Go
Read more . . . →Where do we go from a chorus this big? KIMMIC doesn’t seem to know either, and that restlessness is what makes the track worth your time. It opens like standard uplifting trance, the kind that telegraphs every move thirty seconds ahead, and then around the two-minute mark it does something I didn’t see coming with the breakdown, pulling the energy down into near-silence before rebuilding it from a single plucked melody. That patience is rare in a genre that usually sprints to the payoff. The vocal is emotive without spilling into melodrama, sitting in the sweet spot trance has always...
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Armin van Buuren & Adam Beyer - No Mercy (Live @ Coachella 2026)
Read more . . . →On paper, a trance institution and one of techno’s most respected purists sharing a Coachella stage shouldn’t work, which is exactly why No Mercy is so fascinating. Armin van Buuren and Adam Beyer come from opposite ends of dance music’s class system, and this live cut is the sound of them meeting somewhere in the middle — the relentless mechanical drive of techno fused with the unapologetic emotional sweep trance never gave up on. The live recording carries an energy a sterile studio version would have sanded right off, complete with a crowd that clearly couldn’t quite believe what it...
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TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam
Read more . . . →Some tracks are just honest about what they’re for, and Summer Jam wears its entire purpose in the title. TLM build an uplifting, sun-soaked trance record around Merely’s airy vocal, and the whole thing is engineered to make a festival field feel ten degrees warmer than the forecast. The melody is big and unguarded, the kind that would have soundtracked a main-stage sunset twenty years ago and still does the exact same job today without updating much. There’s a long tradition of trance being a little cheesy and entirely unbothered about it, and this slots happily into that lineage with...
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Tayo Ricci - WORLD CUP
Read more . . . →Second Elysian pick because the label earned it and WORLD CUP is ridiculous in the way I want trance to be ridiculous. The title is dumb and the track absolutely backs it up with a main riff that sounds like a stadium full of people who all lost their minds at once. Tayo Ricci builds the energy with zero patience, which is usually a complaint but here it’s the entire appeal. You get maybe thirty seconds before it’s already trying to peel your face off. The kick pattern is relentless and the synth stabs are tuned to that perfect uncomfortable...
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SUPERSTRINGS - NEON DUSK PROTOCOL
Read more . . . →A track called “NEON DUSK PROTOCOL” in all caps is making promises, and SUPERSTRINGS mostly keeps them. This is full-fat trance, the kind with a soaring lead that aims straight for the back of an arena and a breakdown built to make 10,000 people put their hands up at once. We’ve been light on trance lately, which is a shame, because when it hits right there’s nothing else quite like that euphoric rush. The build here is textbook in the best sense, tension stacked patiently until the release feels earned rather than cheap. SUPERSTRINGS clearly grew up on the Armada...
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Darren Styles feat. MERYLL - Miss You
Darren Styles is hard dance royalty and this one with MERYLL hits like nostalgia weaponized. You already know what it does.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogLooks like Helvetica. Sounds like a closing argument. -
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ANDROMEDA - NO PROMENADA
Read more . . . →Trance has been quietly having a moment again and tracks like NO PROMENADA are why. ANDROMEDA isn’t going for the misty-eyed Anjuna thing here. This is harder, faster, built for a dark room at 3am rather than a sunrise set. The lead synth is a laser pointed directly at the part of your brain that responds to repetition, and the track just keeps hammering that one idea until repetition becomes the whole point. There’s almost no melody in the traditional sense, which is exactly why it works. It’s hypnosis disguised as a club track. The breakdown strips everything back to...
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Paul Oakenfold x Markus Schulz x Grace - Not Over Yet
Read more . . . →Two trance institutions in one credit line. Paul Oakenfold basically helped invent the modern superstar DJ template, and Markus Schulz has been holding the global club night sound together for twenty-plus years, so a collab on “Not Over Yet” reads like a summit meeting. The Grace vocal is the giveaway about where this is aimed, pulling from that classic late-90s trance vocal lineage that still gives goosebumps to anyone who was there. It’s nostalgic without feeling like a tribute band. The production is widescreen and polished, the kind of mix that sounds enormous on a festival rig and still works...
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Kiholm & LEA KEY - Take Me Back
Read more . . . →Kiholm teaming up with LEA KEY on “Take Me Back” lands right in that sweet, nostalgic pocket of melodic dance music that pulls at something without being manipulative about it. The vocal is wistful and warm, a plea for return that the production wraps in shimmering synths and a steady, propulsive beat. There’s a real sense of yearning baked into the whole arrangement, the kind that makes a packed room go quiet for a second before the drop sends everyone moving again. Kiholm has a deft touch with these emotional builds, never rushing the payoff. The melody is the star...
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