ambient trance

Released in 1992, Stellar Supreme by Cosmic Baby blended a wide spectrum of contemporary electronic genres into something genuinely innovative. One of the album’s standout tracks, Heaven's Tears, was reportedly a club hit in its time. The following year, it received a remixed version by Cosmic...

Open Up Your Mind is the title track of the first and only EP by a collective featuring no fewer than five different musicians, which also included the similarly interesting Base and Trancexual. The track features a repeating female vocal urging listeners to “open up your mind to the trance”...

The birth of ambient trance can be traced back to a few key works. One of these is undoubtedly Sven Väth’s Pulsation from 1992, and another, from the same year, is Sensorium by the duo Christian Linder and Simon Ellis, released under the alias Zero Gravity. Like Pulsation, the track explores the...

Among Sven Väth’s two labels, Harthouse and Eye Q Records, it is perhaps the latter that is more familiar to trance enthusiasts. While Eye Q sought to emphasize the melodic and emotional aspects of trance, Harthouse focused more on the experimental, underground, and at times techno- or...

I'll begin with my favorite chillout album of the last... 10 years I'd say. Absolutely incredible. Above & Beyond - Flow State