Paul Oakenfold, Gareth Emery, Cosmic Gate, More to Perform at Dreamstate Las Vegas

Insomniac has unveiled that Dreamstate will be returning to Las Vegas for the festival’s largest standalone event to date.  Gareth Emery, Cosmic Gate, Gabriel & Dresden, Paul Oakenfold, HALIENE, and Jerome Isma-Ae will take the stage at Downtown Las Vegas Events Center on Friday, May 28th, 2021. Considering the fact that trance fans have only …

LINK’s “Turbo EP” Fuses Classic Rave Sounds With Forward-Thinking Production

Last summer, famed bass music producer LAXX announced the launch of a brand new alias called LINK. Since then, LINK has released a multitude of original tracks and remixes that pay tribute to the classic rave sounds of hard house, trance, and techno, including “Age Of Love,” “I Can’t Take It,” and a remix of Habstrakt’s …

“So Much Bigger Than Trance”: Jeffrey Sutorius on Mental Health and Post-Dash Berlin Future

There’s something to be said about memorable trance records. The records with the soaring melodies that lift your spirit to the heavens only to break your fall with each impassioned lyric. The records that gush your memory banks with rapture, reconnecting flashbacks with a blissful serotonin rush. Presiding over some of the most monumental trance …

Dash Berlin Are Searching for a New Frontman

In search of a new frontman after the ouster of Jeffrey Sutorius, iconic trance outfit Dash Berlin have opened the auditions to the public.  The group split up back in 2018 after an ugly legal dispute, with former frontman Sutorius citing “mismanagement” and “neglect” at the hands of his Dash Berlin bandmates, Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan Molijn. What …

EDMsauce.com Q&A Session with JonJo Drake: Trance, Acid, Energy

Next Up in our EDMSauce.com Exclusive Interview Series, Jonjo Drake: DJ and Producer Jonjo Drake, who is 20 from Merseyside is known for his passion for dark driving percussion and massive synth lines and is bringing us his insider knowledge on the make-up of his brand-new tunes ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Mercy’. He demonstrates his aptitude for …

Cosmic Gate Release New Single, Announce New Album, “Mosaiik”

Revered as leaders in the trance music scene for over two decades, German trance duo Cosmic Gate have seamlessly adapted to the evolving landscape of the genre. From the defining pulsating beats of 90s hard trance to the more subdued progressive tones of the mid-2000s, Nic Chagall and Bossi emerged out of each era with …

Armin van Buuren supplies vintage trance mix of ‘Leave A Little Love’ – Dancing Astronaut Armin van Buuren supplies vintage trance mix of ‘Leave A Little Love’

by: Ross Goldenberg Mar 14, 2021 Alesso and Armin van Buuren stunned just about everyone with the revelation of “Leave A Little Love” during February’s final days, but they aren’t walking away from it entirely. To satiate pleas from those searching for a more energetic reading of the single, the two dance music Goliaths have …

New Study Finds Trance Music Listeners to Be Among the Happiest

We’ve learned that techno was found to be the least relaxing form of music, but a recent study has now uncovered what genres tend to inspire the happiest listeners.  The findings arrive from an independently conducted survey hosted by the OnBuy online marketplace. The in-depth language study analyzed over two million Reddit comments from 27 of …

Super8 & Tab’s inaugural ‘Scorchin’ Sessions’ set the trance and progressive standard

by: Jessica Mao Mar 1, 2021 Super8 & Tab have long reigned as powerhouses of the trance epoch, wielding synonymity with esteemed labels like Anjunabeats and Armada Music. Inevitably, the launch of their Black Hole Recordings-partnered imprint Scorchin’ Records and its subsequent offshoot Scorchin’ Progressive, have held up as a salient progression for the Finnish …

First Look: ANTDUAN teases visual for trance deep house feeler ‘Rain Drops’ featuring Alexandra Badoi – Dancing Astronaut

by: Chris Stack Feb 26, 2021 After initially releasing the “Rain Drops” instrumental in June of 2020, on March 12, Israeli producer ANTDUAN will debut a vocal version of the single featuring Romanian vocalist Alexandra Badoi, along with an accompanying visual. The upcoming single can be pre-saved here. ANTDUAN told Dancing Astronaut of the release, …