Edmonson - Vanarama Bar my breaks TOTY
David August - Workout IV my producer to watch OTY
David August - Workout II
Canblaster - Jouska my fav breaks producer OTY
Canblaster - HIGHER
Canblaster - TRANSMISSION
Canblaster - RISER
Christopher Ledger - Unpleasant Surprise
Soul Code - Replica
Matt Klear - You and I (FACTORe X SCHROEDS Remix)
Michael Manahan feat. Olivia De La Cruz - Trestle Ripple (Hacobb Remix) Hacobb always deliver class
Baraka - Psycho
Force Mass Motion - From Fire To Light
Tats K - Ash (Ranj Kaler Remix)
Rick Tedesco - Black Lace (Fretwell Remix)
Dharma - Mirror
Lewy C - Blissful Ignorance (Esso Remix)
Evl Tom - Rebels of the neon god
Evl Tom - The heathers
Airwave - The awakening
DJ Deep Heat - Age Of Aquarius (Manami Remix)
If slower, downtempo counts too
trickpony - Room To Breathe
Four Tet - Skater
Edmonson - Vanarama Bar my breaks TOTY
David August - Workout IV my producer to watch OTY
David August - Workout II
Canblaster - Jouska my fav breaks producer OTY
Canblaster - HIGHER
Canblaster - TRANSMISSION
Canblaster - RISER
Christopher Ledger - Unpleasant Surprise
Soul Code - Replica
Matt Klear - You and I (FACTORe X SCHROEDS Remix)
Michael Manahan feat. Olivia De La Cruz - Trestle Ripple (Hacobb Remix) Hacobb always deliver class
Baraka - Psycho
Force Mass Motion - From Fire To Light
Tats K - Ash (Ranj Kaler Remix)
Rick Tedesco - Black Lace (Fretwell Remix)
Dharma - Mirror
Lewy C - Blissful Ignorance (Esso Remix)
Evl Tom - Rebels of the neon god
Evl Tom - The heathers
Airwave - The awakening
DJ Deep Heat - Age Of Aquarius (Manami Remix)
If slower, downtempo counts too
trickpony - Room To Breathe
Four Tet - Skater
It was pretty hard finding trance tracks I liked this year. Scrolled through 25 pages on the release forum but did not manage to find 10 tracks. I guess techno tracks with trance influences are more interesting to me, which explains my top two tracks. The third track has the best breakdown I have heard in a long while. It is perhaps actually the best trance track, if you look at my top 10.
1. Introversion - Hopeless Dreaming
2. Introversion - Evergreen Terrace
3. Horizons - Pokhara@Dawn (Narel Remix)
4. Enigma State - S-Bahn
5. Daryl Wilson - Upstream
6. Enigma State - Echoes of Silence
7. Silva City - The Journey
8. Coredata - Membrane
9. Slipstream & Sonic Element - Forgiven
10. Breakfast - Miracle Day
11. Underworld X KETTAMA - Fen Violet
I am looking forward to the album of @EnigmaState in 2025. There are bound to be tracks on that album that will appear in my top 10.
Long time visitor, first time voter here. Half the music I found was here on your forum, and the rest in Soundcloud mixes. I like the new generation of trance and prog music, so here’s the list of 20 that hit me the most this year.
I've been putting it off for a while. I am only going to do a top 3 since I actually haven't been listening a lot of trance this year. I always had a thing for Balearic Trance and will focus on it since it looks like its making a return.
1. Aerium pres. Avalon 62 - Eneabba
2. Tom Bro - Balearic Islands
3. Yaroslav Kulikov - Breath of Autumn
Yeah I was actually looking into that. I can't believe 2024 moved so fast, to be honest was a real shit year for me and i focused on my own music mostly just to get through it. Still the song is up there amongst some of my favourite Balerics like Blue Tente's Balearic mix and some ATB, York songs.
Overall a pretty solid year for the type of trance I am digging these days. Seeing more great stuff from the mainstream leaning side of the scene, and continuing to love the releases off TF.R (which got my label vote this go around). My top 10 is below. I also included my top 125 below that (culled from 550). While I normally can get down to a top 100 pretty easily, I wasn't able to easily cull this stack of good tunes and just gave up. Quite a few here not on @Hensmon's list, perhaps it will be useful to some of you! While I have mixed feelings about the direction of the underground scene, there was still enough goodies to get over 100 in my top list this year. Still, I do wonder where the scene is headed. Thanks for TF for another fun year of sharing and enjoying tunes from all walks. Cheers.
1.) Narel - Cut My Dreams - The track I keep coming back to. Such a good piece of music. Love the way the new melody comes in with the break and carries through. Dynamic even though the core elements are consistent. Beautiful. Glad TF.R brought this one forth. Thanks @Narel
2.) Eletania - Papillon (Avalon 62 Remix) - My fav off the recent forum EP02, which is also my top V/A of the year. Love this way this one launches at 3:50 and builds up. Again, this track is simplicity at its core while also not following the basic track structure I hear in mainstream typically. While not even that similar, this track gives me the feels like Motomix '05. Thank you @Jetflag!
3.) Atikka - Look up at the Emerald Canopy!- Amazing piece of breaksy trancey lush atmosphere. Just listen.
4.) Ija - When We Dream (first mix) - Such a nice piece of music written who knows when. The mastering could be a little better but this one rips. The way it builds through the break. Hnnnng.
5.) Oprofessionell - Longing (Heavenly Bongo Mix) - When this EP was posted this one was not track I saw mentioned much, but it was by far my fav. It appears subtle if you skip around but it's a morphing journey. Love this one.
6.) LostLegend - Liminal Spaces - This whole EP is class, but this one stood out for me. Like a midnight dream in Ibiza, walking in the rain, high AF. @LostLegend
7.) Quietman - Dust2Water - It was pretty hard to pick a Quietman track, who deserves prob half of this list. While I made an edit to cut down some of the samples in this track, overall it's easily a top fav this year.
8.) Equator, Gabriola, Bliss Inc - Lux - This artist album is pretty solid, though I think reviews are mixed on here. Lux in particular is a proggy journey, and sounds even better for me slowed down a bit. Reminds me of Rambal Cochet a bit.
9.) Quaid - Lushmix - This album was #2 behind Quietman's release. This was my favorite off the album. A super unique breaks track from way back when, lost to time and released this year.
10.) Rambal Cochet - Kto Ya? - Dark, gritty, love this one. Copped so many tracks from him this year, this one was my fav. @rambalcochet
* Coredata - Fractal Reconfiguration - Coredata had so many good tracks this year but this one on JOOF's label really stood out.
* Niko S - Choughacid - Trance-housey earworm that has a great build and melody. Love this one.
* Introversion - Sea of Life - Dreamy trance, yes.
* Clint - Exosphere (Main Mix) - Feels weird to leave this one out of the top 10. Such a good track. Would be right in place 20 years ago.
1.) Acid Synthesis - Hafna 303s
2.) Activa - Dark Matter (Extended Mix)
3.) Activa - Velika (Coredata Extended Remix)
4.) Advanced Civilizations - Regener8
5.) Aerium & Bobby Summa - The Internal Screen
6.) AK-One - Surging
7.) AK-One - Dark Matter
8.) Alpha Tracks - January (Oprofessionell's In Orbit Mix)
9.) Alpha Tracks - May (Transki's Movement Mix)
10.) Alpha Tracks - October (DJ Reiz Remix)
11.) Asa Tate - Goa Is The Message
11.) Atikka - Look up at the Emerald Canopy!
12.) August Tange - Fagerli
13.) Body Clinic, Wigs - Nebula
14.) Boudi, Boy Boogie - Passage of Time
15.) Breeder - The Chain (Zstimer & Wru Remix)
16.) Breeder - Twilo Thunder (Lee Jordan's Twisted 909 Remix)
17.) Changer - Type 2 (Frank Heise Binary Mix)
18.) Christopher Ledger - Be Right Back
19.) Clint - Exosphere (Main Mix)
20.) Clint - Exosphere (Oceania Mix)
21.) Coredata - Dissolution
22.) Coredata - Membrane (Extended Mix)
23.) Coredata - Strangelove
24.) Coredata - Fractal Reconfiguration
25.) Cybernet - New Era (M-Ocean Mix)
26.) Cybernet - Green Hill Xon3
27.) Cybernet - Oxysonic (Y2K Mix)
28.) Darklines - Fractal Transe
29.) Digitalis - Loup Garou ('98 Unreleased Break Mix)
30.) Digitalis - Genetics ('93 Unreleased)
31.) DJ Teeth - Fatal (Fuego Lento)
32.) DJ Teeth - Mi Acid Su Acid (La Abuela Mix)
33.) Eletania - Papillon (Avalon 62 Remix)
34.) Equator, Gabriola, Bliss Inc - Lux
35.) Fader Cap - Blue Pool
36.) Gabriola - Inner Engineering
37.) Gearmaster - Sunchaser
38.) Gearmaster - Parabola
39.) Gearmaster - Sunchaser (Dzc. Remix)
40.) Gearmaster - Parabola (Tadan Remix)
41.) Glen S - Hautbois
42.) Glen S - Uh!
43.) Grevnik - Satellite Convo (Kyra Khaldi's Deep Club Mix)
44.) Hannd - Cobblestones
45.) Ija - Interstella (1997)
46.) Ija - When We Dream (first mix)
47.) Intro - Utopia (The MFA '94 On The Floor Remix)
48.) Intro - Utopia (Brassica 'Psytalo Remix)
49.) Introversion - Sea Of Life
50.) Introversion - Hopeless Dreaming
51.) Intuition - Arcana 17
52.) Jeena - Love Is ResistanceÂ
53.) Jormungandr - Root Mender
54.) KI/KI - 5 Mins Of Acid
55.) KI/KI - Don't Stop (Emotional Mix)
56.) Ktrsx - April Is The Cruelest Month
57.) Laars - Ascendance
58.) Lange - Vita Et Mors (with DJL)
59.) Lisene - Gnosis (Original)
60.) Lisene - Nova Prospekt (Original)
61.) LostLegend - Liminal Spaces
62.) Lucas Boston - Turkish De'Tribe
63.) Mac & Monday - People Can Fly (Extended Mix)
64.) Martinou - Expanding
65.) Martinou - Reality Bends
66.) Match Box - Gaboon
67.) Mikkel Rev - Ocean X
68.) Mikkel Rev - Whorl
69.) Mikkel Rev - Tension
70.) Mixolydian - Off That
71.) Mixolydian - Runway
72.) Monophonik & Kohra - Rava Fry
73.) mpeg - Botanist (Bliss Inc. Remix)
74.) Narel - Cut My Dreams
75.) Niko S. - Choughacid
76.) Okravan - Space Tribal Trouble
77.) Olmec Heads - Sacrifice (Unreleased Remix Dub)
78.) Oprofessionell - Longing (Heavenly Bongo Mix)
79.) Oprofessionell - Salva (My Mind Mix)
80.) Priori - Tropeware
81.) Pulser, Olmec Heads, Insigma - Nothing To Lose
82.) Pulser, Olmec Heads, Insigma - Cloudwalking (Pulser's Trance Renaissance Mix)
83.) Quaid - Lushmix
84.) Quietman - Requiem (Original Draft)
85.) Quietman - Under Their Gaze
86.) Quietman - Ellen's Pink Fur Coat
87.) Quietman - After the Fire
88.) Quietman - Dust2Water
89.) Quietman - Full Throttle Dreamtime Mix
90.) Quietman - Linde
91.) Quietman - Oráculo
92.) Rambal Cochet - Kto Ya?
93.) Rambal Cochet - Catalyst Powder
94.) Rambal Cochet - Hertza Haeon
95.) Rayme - Jellyfish
96.) REV - On A Starless Night, Demons Come
97.) RIGSON - Ariel 94
98.) Ryan Clover - Total Concentration Acid
99.) Sarah Wild - 7AM Love (Miguel de Bois Trascendental Remix)
100.) Seo John - Renegade
101.) Sevda - Short Story Long
102.) shjva - Metazone
103.) shjva - X-Side
104.) shjva - Upper Limit
105.) shjva - Cloudhopping
106.) shjva - Chrysalis
107.) Silicodisco & Bias - Bunery (Zaratustra Remix)
108.) Sound Synthesis - 303 Sunrises
109.) Sound Synthesis - Be Humble
110.) Sound Synthesis - Unification of Harmony
111.) Sound Synthesis - Dear Ballacid
112.) SpockNinja - In The Skies Of Jaburo, I Saw The Sea
113.) Tourman - Ayahuasca
114.) Tourman - Skynet Machines
115.) Tourman - Laser Ensemble
116.) Tourman - P6000
117.) Under Black Helmet - Cyberdreams
118.) Vhyce - Birdsong In Woodland
119.) Vhyce - Your Breakthrough Is Near
120.) Vhyce - Intensity Is Your Gift (Port Manteau remix)
121.) Vridian - Shadow Palace
122.) Younger Than Me - Raver's Heart is a Mess (w/ Brame & Hamo)
123.) Younger Than Me - Memory is a Clock
124.) Younger Than Me - Music Will Never Stop, Party Will Never End
125.) zwyrg - flux