That KI/KI's 'Going Existential In The Rave' opens the selection at 148 BPM while Above & Beyond sit at the bottom of the range with 'Feel The Vibe' at 128 says more than any press note: no single label runs this chart — seventeen of them coexist, and each one speaks in its own tempo. Dutch artist Kiki Wesselo founded slash in 2022 as a platform crossing old-school trance tropes with new-school structures, and her cut sounds exactly like that premise: rave with existential vertigo in A major. On the opposite shore, Anjunabeats — born in 2000 as a university project by Jono Grant and Paavo Siljamäki at Westminster, named after a beach in Goa — places both of its cuts on the floor of the record: Oliver Smith's remix of Atlantis' 'Fiji' at 130 and the duo themselves at 128.
Every label in its lane
Between those poles, the old guard holds the middle. Coldharbour — founded by Markus Schulz in 2005 and named after Coldharbour Lane, the London street where he once lived — brings Nemke's 'Maia' at 134; FSOE places Transaphonic at 138, VANDIT drops FKN and Jahala's respray at 134, and A State of Trance dips to 128 with Omnia. This is the record's melodic band, the one that thinks in anthems rather than pistons.
The upper stretch belongs to a different breed of platforms:
- Warehouse Project Records pushes THELMA's 'The Last Dance' to 145, club logic over festival logic.
- Galactica Music signs the ceiling: Andrea Scopsi's 'Ritmo' at 155, brushing the hard trance the chart itself lists among its genres.
- Musical Freedom shows up twice with cuts at 142-143, including 'I Need A Miracle' by CoCo Star and Mike Momburg.
Read this way, the selection is a power map of 2026 trance: the historic labels guard the melody in the lower range while the younger imprints pull the needle upward. That both worlds share a main floor without visible friction is the thought that lingers as the final cut — Lostly, on his own label — turns out the lights at 140.
Sources: Wikipedia · Wikipedia (KI/KI) · Markus Schulz
