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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 . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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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 blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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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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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)
Armin pulled Wippenberg out of retirement at EDC Las Vegas and the crowd lost it. Peak Dutch trance from a name I hadn't heard in 15 years.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Armin van Buuren & Glockenbach - Sun Shines On Me (Rising Star Remix) [Live @ EDC Las Vegas 2026]
Armin van Buuren running his catalog at EDC Las Vegas and the Rising Star remix hits differently live than it does in the studio.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
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