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When these two work at writing a great melody, holy SHIT can they pull it off! There was a more 2.0 style original mix, but it's not even worth mentioning IMO. This came out the summer I graduated, so it's pretty nostalgic for me ☺️

One of the greater progressive tracks of the 00s, and almost completely unknown. I think I stumbled across it on the old forum once. Apparently the distributors messed up the titles of the remixes during the release, but Ilya Malyuev himself confirmed this is the original in a comment on the...

The PERFECT summer sunset track, and one of Anjunabeats' all time greatest releases.

I originally found this in a pirated compilation of ALL of Tiësto's remixes (of which I ended up saving about sixty of them). It's a textbook perfect Tiësto track - propulsive, melancholic, uplifting and which isn't afraid to draw itself out with three different climaxes. So I naturally thought...

In the mid-late nineties, Marc Mitchell was ON FIRE. He made numerous incredible examples of the "trance epic" - long playing tracks with clear evolving movements - under names like Sunday Club and Human Movement. This one-off is probably his most obscure (the label only existed for this one...

"Hard trance" at its BEST. I'm curious to ask any German-speakers what the phrase is that the vocalist whispers throughout the track (and then sings over the chorus). Never been able to find that in the official lyrics online, and it doesn't seem to be a German translation of the English...

This is a track that I once posted on the old forum, so I thought I'd repost it here too. Was something originally inspired by a pirated Kesha vocal stem (from which I synthesized the pad sounds), and which I sat on for about three years before I buckled down and finished it. At one point an old...

If you could organize your own club night/rave/festival/whatever, who would you pick for the lineup, in what order, and why? Any DJ, era and genre is welcome. I can’t really give a detailed answer myself right now, but I’d want to start off with some warm, maybe abstract progressive house and...

Kamil Polner is a very missed former trance artist, who carved out a sound that sat between the basic sound design of mid-later 00s uplifting trance, but with song arrangements that captured the melodic, hypnotic repetition of structured emotion that is what trance was originally about, and what...

A little-known cut from 2007, but one that goes very hard IMO. I first encountered this in high school (late 2009-early 2010) on a long-since defunct YouTube channel that posted obscure trance with space art. Many years later I made my own album art for it (using an artwork I found on...

Two tracks from a collab of Marc Mitchell (also in the group Sunday Club at the time) and Paul Mack. I first heard this in the classic segment on an episode of J00F's Global Trance Grooves some years back. Honestly, I feel like this is early gen trance music at its very peak. It sounds...

Let's come at it from more of an audiophile and production angle: post trance/dance/electronic tracks that you think are excellently and awfully mixed and mastered, regardless of how you like the music compositionally. I'll start: I consider Solar Fields' Random Friday to be one of the...

One of the most energetic melodies I've ever heard in a trance track; the climax of this just keeps going hard far longer than it needs to and I love it for that. A perfect number for raving in the dark, and I hope I can be a DJ who drops this live in just such a context one day.

Trance from the heart. There was also an ambient mix from Adrien Aubrun in 2008: And I made my own custom artwork a number of years ago:

All of this guy's stuff sounded essentially the same, but he had a great, spacey style, and in this case the melody was equally spacey. Really great tune for dancing under the stars ✨

Say what you will about this artist, but IMO the uplifting tracks released under his name that were almost certainly ghosted by Beat Service during 2010-12 were some of the best examples of trance 2.0, and of those this probably takes the cake. SO many goosebumps during that breakdown and build...

This was an exclusive on the Japanese release of his album Movement in Still Life, and was later included in his "Rare and Remixed" compilation. The above video is the only good quality rip I've been able to find of the extended mix. I think this is sort of a sequel to Flaming June and Godspeed...

It's no replacement for the original but I'm liking the vibe here. The bass has a bit of a Spintwist feel and the breakbeats in the breakdown work really well.

So in trawling the Net for production tips over the years, I kept running into the name "Vengeance", which belonged to Manuel Schleis' sample pack company that apparently had a reputation for being overused by amateurs. I didn't pay that much mind, but a while back I managed to track down a...

This is my first fully original track in almost four years, and the first I made using all four of my hardware synthesizers. My favourite music always elicits certain environments in my head, so I aimed to capture more or less the same that's in the artwork. I also went for some Jon Hopkins...