It’s come a long way, baby! When the first ‘Pure Trance’ album was released in November of 2012, the genre’s landscape was a remarkably different. Nefarious hands had again been at work – cynically drip-feeding poppy-pollutants into trance’s system. Inorganic quick-hit sugar highs that...
Think you know Christina Novelli? Well, you do… but not nearly as well as you’re about to! The penultimate month of 2019 sees the release of a longplayer that dispenses with the ‘featurings’, ‘&s’ and ‘withs’ and places her work centrestage under a single-beam-spotlight....
Paul van Dyk is firmly back in album-mode, today announcing a fall tour across North America, ahead of a new album in early 2020. The iconic trance producer/DJ will be hitting 12 cities in the US and Canada throughout November, including key markets such as...
All change for RAM in July 2019, and when we say “all”, that’s precisely what we mean! The Dutch DJ, producer and electronic music impresario bids farewell to Grotesque – the Dutch institution he helped found & build over many electronic music years –...
From the moment she fell in love with dance music as a teenager while living in her home country of Slovakia, Nifra has demonstrated with fierce determination the ability to succeed and change perceptions in a once male-dominated industry. The next step in her story introduces...
A whole lot happened on Ibiza in 1999. MTV staged festivals, Dalt Villa became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, KU had morphed into Privilege and – by summer’s end – trance had done the moonshot. To this most fitting of backdrops, Paul van Dyk...
The beginning of the end…!?! Well, yes and no. ‘Landmark’ is the first track to be drawn from the tracklist of the final act in Solarstone’s epic, episodic and artistically epitomising triple-release album arc. The word on the ‘Three’ album (aka ‘. . ....
After his ‘Buenos Aires’ inaugural popped Afterdark’s mixcomp cherry last August, the spring of 2019 sees label honcho Sneijder ready for a second drop. Doubling down, the album expands to two discs and finds Afterdark bringing the sound of the underground to Los Angeles....
Appetites whetted? Anticipation built? Expectations in high orbit!? Thought so! Topping charts and dropping bass, ‘Panama’ & ‘Tranceland’ – Giuseppe Ottaviani’s 2019 album vanguards – have offered insights most enticing into what the Italian has in store with ‘Evolver’ – his fourth longplayer. And...
VANDIT NEXT GENERATION OPENS // FIRST VANDIT SUB-LABEL FOCUSES ON BREAKING & ESTABLISHING NEW TRANCE TALENT Through the launch of his own label 20 years ago Paul van Dyk blazed yet another electronic music trail. Opening VANDIT in 1999, PvD became a leading light...
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