italo trance

Android, produced by fellow Italians Gianluca Cavicchi and Max Ricci, was picked up and reworked by several local DJs and producers in the same year of its release, resulting in the Space Remix and Positive Remix. But it was only Gigi D’Agostino’s interpretation that ultimately managed to...

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...

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...

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...