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The Black Edition is the most interesting detour Yellow Sunshine Explosion has allowed itself — a label long associated with goa and psychedelic trance compilations. The series launched in August 2025 as a "fusion of progressive trance and...
Nineteen different labels across twenty tracks: the clearest sign that raw, deep and hypnotic trance in 2026 has no headquarters, only a network. Belters 4U is the sole repeat here —Pablo Bozzi's remix of CLOSE PROXIMITY's 'Open Up...
Twenty-five tracks make up 'Trance Infinity, Vol. 08', but its story can be told in four. The first is the opener itself: 'NIGHTSHADE' by KAEL and BLOOD MAGICK, one of only three raw/hypnotic passages on the record, 5:21 at 138...
The speed ceiling of this volume arrives on track two: P4sc4l's 'Breath Of Life' runs at 141 BPM and none of the twenty-three cuts that follow ever reach it again. It's an unorthodox sequencing call —the tempo peak burns off...
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The mission begins before the peak The detail that organises Mission Underground appears at the start: Paul Oakenfold’s “Continuous DJ Mix” runs for 56:04 at 130 BPM in A minor. It is more than a prologue; it establishes a continuous frame before...
Between track 1 and track 51 sits an 87 BPM chasm. 'Serendipity', Armin van Buuren's collaboration with Andrew Bayer, is listed at 68; 'Bounce Ritual', 'Batida Viva' and 'Vem Comigo' hit the ceiling at...
A psytrance compilation closing with a track called 'Anything Goes' at 90 BPM is a statement of intent. Psygressive reaches its nineteenth volume working as a census of the Iono Music catalogue: eighteen cuts stretching from the 66 BPM of...
From the abyss to the light: Sole Dosi's 'The Abyss Blooms' opens at 146 BPM in E minor and, twenty-one cuts later, everything resolves into Julie Desire's 'Lumière', 138 BPM in G major. That a selection tagged raw,...
When a compilation series lands a name like Nitrous Oxide, it is worth paying attention. Polish producer Krzysztof Prętkiewicz was an essential part of the Anjunabeats sound in the late 2000s, released his 'Dreamcatcher' album there in...
One number defines the architecture of 'Do You Feel Alive' before anything else: at the heart of the record, 'Twin Particles' plunges to 67 BPM — exactly half the 134 of the title track — and holds that suspension for 8:29. On an...
There is a quick way to gauge how serious this raw, deep and hypnotic trance selection is: look at which names repeat. JOOF Recordings, the label British producer John '00' Fleming founded in 1998, lands four of the 46 cuts: Tristan...
To make sense of this 31-track selection you have to read the credits: it is an exercise in proper names spanning three generations of trance. The opener sets the bar: 'You & I' pairs Aly & Fila with Emma Hewitt's voice in the...
On paper, this selection reads like a faulty ECG: 37 cuts leaping from 65 to 164 BPM with no warning. The key sits in Tywi's double entry: 'Reality Checkpoint' shows up twice, the original clocked at 138 and the Maruwa remix at 70....
Belocca Drops His Moneypulated Top 15 Chart: A Snapshot of Peak-Time Techno Belocca —producer, DJ and driving force behind Mainground Music— unveils his Moneypulated Top 15 Chart, a selection that stretches well beyond fifteen entries and reads as a...
Stoked - Buck A Shank: 16 techno cuts crossing from driving to the rawer side Stoked's chart is the widest of the batch: sixteen cuts moving between peak time / driving techno and the raw / deep / hypnotic side, with a couple of nods to trance,...