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Thanks everyone. I hope you’ll find some new favourites. Personally, I regularly revisit about a third of the tracks mentioned in my article. Melt - Radioactivity The Martian - Star Dancer A Split Second - Flesh (Remix) Techno Bert - Neue Dimensionen Age Of Chance - Time's Up (Timeless)...

I believe you, though I would even go two steps further. First of all, the overwhelming majority of trance tracks produced before 1996 are completely unknown not just to the general trance audience, but even to the hardcore fanbase. I checked around 27 thousand tracks so far (that have a trance...

To complete the pairing of Touch Me and Blue Planet, this dream/italo trance track also deserves mention. Considerably more melancholic than its companions, it likewise features a vocal sample similar to Touch Me, though here it is far more elusive — subtly woven into the melodic texture and...

Touch Me is by far the most widely known entry in this small trio of closely related tracks I just posted about, which also includes Blue Planet and Planetarium. For me, an additional point of interest lies in the fact that a fellow countryman — Hungarian producer Lajos Mészáros — was involved...

This track flows within the same musical current as Robert Miles’ Children, and notably originates from the very same year. The gentle, warm, swirling synthetizers, create a meditative and hypnotic atmosphere. Naturally, 1995 saw the release of many similar works — such as Blue Ocean’s Touch Me...

The German duo Dance 2 Trance played a significant role in shaping trance during the early 1990s, and in my view, their experimental trajectory arguably reached its finest expression in their remix of Do You See The Light. Beyond being one of the earliest trance tracks to prominently feature...

German producer Pete Kuhlmann was present in the trance world from its very beginnings. Many know him under the aliases Pete Namlook or 4 Voice — the latter being the name under which he released Eternal Spirit in 1992, widely regarded as one of the most important trance tracks of the early...

Some additional context from Simon Ellis: The sound at the beginning is coming from a Roland MC202 (the cut-off filters are being altered up and down as the tune develops) A Roland D50 was used for the pads All other sounds were made using a Roland S550 sampler

The track's uncut version (14:15) has only ever released in lossless format on a CD in Spain. All the other releases are around 11 or 8 minutes and destroy the track's pacing. I've spent a lot of time trying to track it down, but luckily I have the track now in proper quality. :D

Kenny Sharp first made a name for himself in the early 1990s as a DJ within the Northern English rave scene. He later transitioned into producing his own tracks, with his first notable attempt being Missing You (1996), which received an outstanding remix the following year. The emotional core of...

Can you share your top 10? I'm curious.

As famously stated in Star Trek, space is the final frontier, the realm where no human has gone before. One of the defining works of Detroit techno’s second wave, The Final Frontier was released by the Underground Resistance collective, with this particular track produced by Mike Banks. True to...

In my previous post about Northern Lights as a discovery of the month, I somehow completely overlooked Psichometria, even though it just as rightfully competes for that title in my eyes. By 1995, the dream/Italo-trance wave was clearly accelerating, although the lack of precise release dates...

This track has been my biggest discovery of January 2026. Released in 1995 in the UK, Northern Lights balances on the border between progressive and tech-leaning trance. As I move forward chronologically through the years, more and more trance tracks with a tech-oriented architecture begin to...

Yeah, I think there are certain tracks where bold stylistic choices — especially the use of voice or speech samples — can either enhance the atmosphere or come across as incredibly annoying, depending on the listener. A similar example would be Andromeda – Trip to Space, with its constant...

2025 has come and gone, and my personal musical discovery of the year was undoubtedly a deep dive into the Italian wave of trance that emerged and peaked in the mid-1990s. This movement is commonly referred to as Dream Trance, Italo Trance, Mediterranian Progressive, Italian Progressive, Dream...

Pretty much all other similar lists/votings boil down to: "select one track you like the most", which will ultimately distort the results, so it's great to see a proper, mathematically logical rating system like this that gives a chance for more (deserving) tracks to appear.

This is one of those few tracks from 1993 that I don't particularly like but respect. It's a pretty unique sounding record for its time (Transparent Mix), it's just sadly also feels so weightless, there's none of the suspense and tension in the chord progression I associate with trance. Someone...

Bootleg and pirate copies get the "Unoffical" tag on Discogs. This, on the other hand, is an official CD, released under the Transmission Recordings Ltd. parent label that is still active today.

I'm looking for Roland Brant's Mastermind from 1994 in lossless format. Kinda bonkers that such as popular track is nowhere to be found in good quality. This CD has the full uncut version, maybe there are more releases that have this version too.