Trance is a genre that doesn’t hold back when it comes to dialing up the emotional levels to 11. There are many elements that can elevate a trance tune to higher realms, such as driving percussion, ...

As the yearly festival circuit grows bigger and bigger, A-list DJs like Nina Kraviz, Ellen Allien and Gerd Janson have started to reach for ’90s anthems, which have been, for better or worse, frowned ...

1. Learn the rules of trance - and then forget about them. On the face of it, it seems easy: if you follow the usual kick/ arpeggiation/sweeping synth/breakdown formula, you'll have a massive trance ...

It’s such a modest thing, that little plastic circle with its mirror backside and printed labels. Yet, these shiny compact discs, with its limits to 78 minutes of sound, were the backing track to many ...