Markus Schulz presents Dakota - In Search of Something Better [Extended Mix]
In perfect step with its third performance at London’s SW4 Festival later this month, Markus’ summons single #3 from Dakota’s The Nine Skies project. Given its first airing in front of Mayday Dortmund’s techno-attuned crowds, ‘In Search Of Something Better’ represents one of The Nine Skies’ more…
Cosmic Gate & Eric Lumiere - Bigger Than We Are
Chapter.Two of ‘Materia’s summer-long run to release has been distinguished by weeks (numerous!), peaks (‘Tonight’ & ‘AR’s vids) and press leaks (‘No Strings Attached’ – hey, you can’t win ‘em all)! Release-date resolution though is now whisper-close and here’s the news to see you through the…
Paul van Dyk Announces Eighth Studio Album - ‘From Then On’. Out Through VANDIT Records October 20th
Out October 20th via VANDIT Records // Debuts Live Show Concept ‘AEON by Paul van Dyk’ NYC Sept 23rd PlayStation Theater Electronic music and trance pioneer Paul van Dyk today revealed he will release a new album on October 20th, From Then On - his first LP in almost three years and his eighth…
Emanuele Braveri - Destination Summer
Back in the spring, ‘Only A Dream’ - his quixotic blend of trance & house - marked an impressive first notch for Emanuele Braveri on VANDIT’s discography. Ready to do much the same for sun-season, the Veneto-based producer makes his return this week with the unequivocally titled (and oriented)…
Oliver Lieb Drops His First Official L.S.G. Album In 15 Years - ‘Double Vision'
Without question one of the foremost influences on electronic music production over the last three decades, this month marks Oliver Lieb’s return as L.S.G. Having lit the path with his remixed/re-mastered/re-released ‘Netherworld’ (“one of the most iconic trance and progressive singles in…
Cosmic Gate Release ‘AR’ With Markus Schulz, The Second Single To Come From ‘Materia Chapter.Two’
‘Materia Chapter.Two’ - Cosmic Gate’s forthcoming artist album (landing: 01.09.17), has a number of first-time production collaborations to its tracklist. None perhaps are more long awaited (and we suspect anticipated!) than its second single. A big drumroll then please for the tech-trance titan…
L.S.G. - ‘Netherworld’: Oliver Lieb Remixes His Opus For 2017
As summer 2017 mainlines, German electronic music genius Oliver Lieb gifts it with new reworks of his 1996 L.S.G. opus ‘Netherworld’. Within a year of making its first appearance (on his second studio album ‘Volume Two’), ‘Netherworld’ had firmly established itself in the high circles of both…
Paul van Dyk & Pierre Pienaar - Stronger Together
Holiday flights are airborne, Ibiza’s floors are heaving, festival season’s in high gear and the weather, well, it seems to be done disgracing itself for now. Yes indeed, summer’s well and truly upon us. Something’s still amiss though and we reckon you’ve already put your finger on what that is! A…
Alex M.O.R.P.H. - It Is Full Of Stars
Having engaged Skylex’s services for last month’s DJ Mag “8.5/10” scoring, “on fire” treatment of his & Eric Lumiere’s ‘Heart Of Life’, the one and only Alex M.O.R.P.H. gets straight back into the thick of it this July. The first new music to come out of the German’s studio, post the…
Pierre Pienaar - Higher State
Through his earlier studio days, his tougher-trance era and his Nukleuz-released works under the P.H.A.T.T. moniker, there are those who’ll have been listening to Pierre for a decade or more. Others will have discovered him more recently, through more epic productions, like the VANDIT-released…
Cosmic Gate Announce New Album Materia Chapter.Two Released 01.09.17 // First Single 'Tonight' With Emma Hewitt Available Now
As with all good stories, as one chapter closes, another opens. Such is the way in the already singles-rich chronicle of ‘Materia’ – Cosmic Gate’s episodic seventh album project. Following the considerable success of January’s “impressive” “roots return” (DJ Mag) “made for the clubs” (MIXMAG)…
Sied van Riel Presents Rielism Volume Four
Yep, it’s been longer-than-the-average since the mix-comp world received its last Rielity check. Not without noble cause though! The hands of its mixer-in-chief have been anything but idle in the interim. The release of its third edition, two + years back, coincided with the launch of Sied’s…
Lowland - The Other Side
Within the scene, Lowland is a name regularly spoken with hushed reverence. Through his ‘Classic Trancelations’ albums, he’s the man largely credited with first drawing the line between the now familiar worlds of orchestral music and trance. He’s also a composer somewhat more spoken-of than…
Markus Schulz Presents Dakota & Koen Groeneveld - Mota-Mota (Talla 2XLC And Arkham Knights Remixes)
With his performance at EDC Vegas still dominating #TheNineSkies rearview, Markus Schulz expands the program with two new adaptions of ‘Mota-Mota’. Talla 2XLC and Arkham Knights are the artists charged with taking Dakota & Koen Groeneveld’s techno leviathan further down the bunny hole. Extra…
Leroy Moreno - Cerulean (Original Mix)
In the type of quick succession born only of true passion, the last 14 months have seen Leroy Moreno serve floors with a veritable track stampede. Over the course ‘Lux’, ‘Celestia’, ‘Eternal Now’, ‘Malta’ and ‘Aurora’ have each found their way into the hearts of later night floors and more…
Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Eric Lumiere Heart Of Life (Skylex Remix)
He’s an Alex whose name has been on a considerable number of trance lips over the last 12 months. No, we’re not talking about Mr. M.O.R.P.H. on this occasion. (He’s been on everyone’s lips for 10 years and more!). It is in fact Denver’s Alex Kotliarsky, the man who behind one of last year’s…
Markus Schulz - Running Up That Hill Out Now / The Nine Skies Premieres
Seven days of intense activity for Markus Schulz has culminated in the Dreamstate-based debut of Dakota’s The Nine Skies, the release of ‘Running Up That Hill’ and the premiere of the single’s official music video. Since the project was first revealed last winter, numerous questions have been…
Roger Shah - Magic Island - Music For Balearic People Vol. 8
Musically encapsulating the summertime is something that’s held musicians’ rapt for decades. To some an art form, to others something approaching a science even, but to Roger Shah, it’s more like a calling. In his career that purpose has manifested in many forms. None have been more steadfast and…
Emanuele Braveri - Only A Dream
Trance with a distinct undertone of house is the medicine that Italian talent Emanuele Braveri’s made his name supplying. The Veneto-based producer has now been plying his inimitable brand of electronic music to ever-greater acclaim over the last five years. And in that vein, ‘Only A Dream’ - his…
Simon Templar - Balance
Simon Templar: gentleman thief, private eye, occasional police agent. Brought to the screen by Val Kilmer, Ian Ogilvy and Sir Roger Moore…. Simon Templar The Saint, right!? No. Wait. Hang on. That can’t be right! Indeed it is not, as this is the other Simon Templar (albeit a no less saintly one!).…
Project 8 pres. Shane Kinsella - Serenity
His first notch on the VANDIT discography this may be, but ‘Serenity’s far from Shane ‘Project 8’ Kinsella’s first run around the trance bloc. Registering on its radar with ever-increasing frequency over the last few years, releases like ‘Break My Fall’ (alongside Linnea Schossow), ‘Blood Drunk’…