Trance Family Lebanon

The biggest trance festival in the world, A State of Trance (ASOT), has reached a monumental milestone and is celebrating reaching 1000 episodes of the worldwide hit radio show.

Over the album’s passage both life’s lifts & dips are explored, always beautifully, regularly with heart-on-sleeve honesty and with an eloquence unmistakably born of intelligent music making.

Less than two weeks before the broadcast of the hotly anticipated 1000th episode of A State Of Trance on January 21, Armin van Buuren has unveiled 950 tracks of the all-time A State Of Trance Top 1000.

Gambits & chicanery, intrigue, ploys ‘n’ subterfuge – who doesn’t like a bit of the deep down ‘n’ dirty in their musical lives!!? Bang on cue the Skullduggery crew are back to provide us with precisely those types of thrills!

Giuseppe Ottaviani is a musician who has long been regarded as ‘the producer’s producer’: a man renowned for sonically superior recordings and the hit-rate to substantiate them. Simply, with Giuseppe, music comes before all.

Sneijder's ‘Buenos Aires’ and ‘Los Angeles’ compilations sent a clear signal of intent, but 2020 - as we all know - has been music-rich… but travel-poor.

Tempo & tone over type, ‘feel’ rather than genre, freeform as opposed to pigeonhole - new label EDCT is here to break us out of our echo chambers.

The place where fresh and familiar meet – ‘Reworked and Remixed’ from RAM, Darren Porter & Ciaran McAuley rides again from today.

The ‘Last King Of Scotland’ is nothing less than a masterclass in debut album deliverance. It’s released on November 6 and is now available for purchase.

Now, feeling a fresh purpose for it, Paul sensed the time was right to take ‘Guiding Light’s cause off pause, paving the way for its ultimate release.

‘Summer Chills’ you’ll quickly find is not a dip-in-and-out-of album, but one that - in its own way - begets the start-to-finish experience.

‘In Search Of Sunrise’ is on stand, waiting to transport you to the most temperate, thermal musical places and spaces imaginable. And in this summer of all summers, that can only be a good thing!

It took a shade under thirty months for Pure Progressive to rock past its one-hundredth release. That was time enough for the label to bring music from near enough every prog operator of note through its doors and onto floors. Penner, Barone, O’Glue, Saint-Jules, Schossow, Driftmoon, label honch Solarstone (naturally) – you name ‘em, they’ve all received their P.P. pin. …

The overture’s well and truly over though and it’s main event time: May 8 sees ‘Beside You’ – Somna’s first longplayer – make its big bid for 2020 glory.

Whether the three years since Craig Connelly album-debuted with ‘One Second Closer’ feels long or brief is almost academic. For Craig himself the duration’s provided the ultimate in transformative phases, seeing him punch up from promising name to major contender. With the arenas and festivals getting bigger and his music drawing evermore DJ air & set time though comes ever-greater expectation.