trance

This summer, Push returns to the album format with ‘Known Universe’ – the eighth longplayer in his eminent career. That ‘known universe’ specifically is the hardware-driven studio world that shaped his earliest work. The one that Mike Dierlickx painstakingly reassembled in order to reconnect with the tools, challenges and workflows...

At their core, ‘Pure Trance’ albums has always had an ethos – something seeded in them from the very start. However, that culture Rich felt was: “achievable, but not yet fully achieved”. Specifically, it’s that of creating the albums the ‘Global Underground’ way or by following the ‘Northern Exposure’ trail. A commitment...

The first of those three creative avenues manifests with Somna’s contemporary spin on the melodic bass aesthetic. Early in the tracklist, the rapacious ‘Touch The Sky’ (alongside Alan Fullmer and RUNN) radiates effortlessly, while his achingly beautiful and melancholically suspended SABAI collaboration ‘I Miss You’ leans into a more cinematically...

Ironically perhaps, ‘Finding Me’ owes its existence to a period of profound creative doubt on Ciaran McAuley’s behalf. After years of forward momentum, the Irish artist found himself questioning not only his own direction, but his relationship with music itself. At that crossroads, rather than forcing (what now only had the appearance...

After the reception their first assembly received (on 2023’s ‘Lost & Found’ for Pretty Pink’s ‘Born Digital’ album), Christian Burns and Anne Karolczak needed little convincing to reconvene. This time around it’s the lead-out single to Burn’s 2026-forthcoming longplayer and recapturing that chemistry for ‘Fall To You’ looks as effortlessly alchemic as...

What happens when two producers — bound by a shared history, yet also significantly parted for fragments of it — rediscover the musical language that first brought them together? And then further, seal it with a 20-track first album as a two-piece? For Driftmoon’s Juraj Klička, and Miikka Leinonen, who...

“I have believed that artist albums need a purpose” says Johan Gielen, “and that purpose can’t simply be feeding the industry machine or the bi-annual expectations of a fanbase”. Nonetheless, it’s been nigh on twenty years since ‘Revelations’ appeared, making ‘Etherflow’ less of a ‘return’ to the Johan Gielen longplayer,...

For more than two decades, ‘In Search of Sunrise’ has been the portal through which dance music’s most immersive states of mind have been explored. A series that’s always thrived on the magic of transition, forever tuned to the shift between memory and motion. With the 21st edition of the series,...

“The Awakening set the stage, but Nirvana is where the music fully consumes you. It’s that moment when the dancefloor becomes timeless – when the melodies and emotions carry you into another dimension. For me, this is the beating heart of ISOS 21.” Where the first chapter whispered with dawn’s...

An emotional expedition toward tomorrow, unfolding in three chapters across the summer of 2025. It’s not just a compilation. It’s a reimagination. For over two decades, In Search of Sunrise has been more than a series, it’s been a sanctuary for sonic wanderers; a space where emotion, beauty, and transcendence...

“Good music demands that you push yourself, and the best of it also forces you to take risks … ” says Rich Mowatt, “and I’m more than aware that ‘innermost’ inherently carries some of the latter. In its native form, this is not a club album, but then I didn’t see 2020’s‘...

What might it have sounded like if Bach, Haydn, Chopin or any composer closely associated with one of history’s most enduring musical styles … had written a piece in the electronic era?   Well, in truth, not as farfetched as it might sound! A longtime admirer of the style, Solarstone assessed...

To a significant extent, the American trance scene evolved inside its own bubble. Ocean-crossing breakout acts were rare, which gave the scene space to develop a distinct sound and identity – one that was driving yet linear, progressive, more tribal, and less focused on the melodic elements that dominated the...

Armin van Buuren has experienced countless unforgettable moments throughout his storied career, but few compare to when legendary American rockstar Jon Bon Jovi joined him on stage at Ultra Music Festival in 2024 to unveil an unreleased rework of Bon Jovi’s ‘Keep The Faith’. Now, the track is finally here, revealing an...

This could be the final chapter for John Askew, one of the most influential figures in electronic music. His new album, “A Room Full of Pros & Cons,” signals a bold departure while potentially closing a significant era in his career. Released nearly twenty years after his iconic “Z List...

Dennis Sheperd’s been on a journey, and it’s been one he’s documented album-by-album each step of the way. Through title and theme, ‘A Tribute To Life’, ‘Fight Your Fears’, ‘Find The Sunrise’ and 2022’s ‘Onwards // Upwards’ have all touched on, alluded to or out-and-out addressed the area of mental...

In Search Of Sunrise, the legendary compilation series, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a monumental 20th edition, featuring six exclusive mixes by some of the biggest names in electronic music. From its groundbreaking debut in 1999, when DJ Tiësto first brought this series to life, In Search Of Sunrise quickly...

Much has changed in the electronic music sphere since Cosmic Gate last minted a ‘Wake Your Mind Sessions’. It’s time in which Nic & Bossi jumped wholeheartedly into the livestreaming space, embracing the medium with a succession of visually captivating sundown shows from rooftops around Miami, NYC, Mexico, Bali and...