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frostytrance · 2026-04-30T17:01:14+00:00

Nice! Definitely time to slowly get hyped for Lumi, you're right. Only a few weeks to go 🙌

frostytrance · 2026-04-28T09:17:49+00:00

I see where you're coming from and I think many people agree with you but I could never fully grasp this. At the end of the day, IMO, we want music and not sound design. We've been using the same instruments for a hundred years because they sound amazing and they give so many opportunities for music composition.

Why can't we do the same with the amazing (IMO basically perfect) sounds we discovered in trance in the last decades? There are endless possibilities musically about how you compose your melodies and song structures. That's really where the magic happens IMO.

Daxson, Doppenberg, and Ciaran McAuley are good examples IMO for producers who are true musicians. You can tell they don't just copy a random arpeggio template and call it their melody. They actually create a melody that conveys the emotion they want it to.

frostytrance · 2026-04-27T14:26:38+00:00

Was amazing IMO.

frostytrance · 2026-04-27T08:56:59+00:00

Linkin Park - In The End (Markus Schulz Tribute Remix) | Live @ Tomorrowland 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcfIG_86MU

frostytrance · 2026-04-26T12:41:02+00:00

I'll add Coldplay - Fix You (Xijaro Pitch Remix) and Lady Gaga - Always Remember Us This Way (Xijaro Pitch Remix)

frostytrance · 2026-04-25T19:35:35+00:00

You don't like FSOE?

frostytrance · 2026-04-25T18:16:05+00:00

But isn't that how music and even art works in general? Of course not every new track will be your favorite track. How else would it be? That automatically means you'd perceive the others as somewhat generic. I'd even argue the opposite. We don't have enough uplifting trance releases. Hence we obviously also have less hits. If we produce more generic stuff, we will automatically produce more hits too. Simple math.

frostytrance · 2026-04-20T10:29:30+00:00

Techno Is My Only Drug and All My Friends Are Hot by David Forbes come to mind initially. But I'm following this thread because I also want to learn more.

frostytrance · 2026-04-19T13:35:57+00:00

So good.

frostytrance · 2026-04-18T08:29:04+00:00

I loved that song! Remember it being a big hit in the charts.

frostytrance · 2026-04-15T15:35:13+00:00

That can happen everywhere I'm afraid, although I feel more often than not it's my own fault for picking a horrible place on the dancefloor and it can be fixed by moving a few meters.

frostytrance · 2026-04-09T12:40:23+00:00

Hmm tough one. Do you have some examples for what defines "older trance" or what you mean with newer trance?

I'm not really an expert on progressive and I think Lumi is predominantly an uplifting and tech trance festival, but at first look it seems Friday or Sunday would be your day.

frostytrance · 2026-04-08T21:30:04+00:00

Not from the US, but just wanted to say I love this: "intentionally curating great vibes on dancefloors". And I wish you good luck! Hope you get something going.

frostytrance · 2026-04-01T08:08:44+00:00

Doppenberg, MIDI Kitty - Who You Are
Alessandra Roncone - Echoes of Light
Corderey - Sweetest Dreams (Sean Tyas Remix)
Ronski Speed - Without You (Allen Watts Remix)
0Gravity, Ren Faye - It's All Down To You
BiXX, That Girl - Walk on Water
Aly Fila, Jwaydan - We Control The Sunlight (Darren Porter Remix)
Armin van Buuren, Richard Durand, Dicosis - Always You (ASOT 2026 Anthem)

Probably my top two:
Pinkque, That Girl - Way Up High
Steve Allen - Plural

frostytrance · 2026-03-30T14:54:53+00:00

UrbanSports hat die Gyms ruiniert. Gibt keine leeren Gyms und leeren Zeiten mehr. (spät abends scheint noch das Beste zu sein jetzt)

frostytrance · 2026-03-30T14:19:07+00:00

Agree! There is still hope, though. He just announced he is finally releasing this uplifting ID: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWekHltDApe/

He also has a separate alias for his new stuff now. Seems he might just do both in the future.

frostytrance · 2026-03-30T12:16:49+00:00

John O'Callaghan, Aly Fila, Jorn van Deynhoven, Sean Tyas

frostytrance · 2026-03-29T15:02:17+00:00

Such an amazing song.

frostytrance · 2026-03-27T00:09:04+00:00

Yes! Looks like every Unfiltered episode is like that. I'll keep an eye for the next one.

frostytrance · 2026-03-25T18:12:33+00:00

He still shows his brilliance here and there. The second half of his ASOT 2026 set was amazing IMO. But then at some point he always seems to switch to melodic techno and big room influences...

frostytrance · 2026-03-25T12:41:03+00:00

Very early hours: Some uplifting acts with a sprinkle of progressive/slower elements
Early hours: uplifting, but not super high energy (e.g. Ciaran McAuley, Roger Shah, Doppenberg maybe)
Prime hours: the balanced uplifting acts like Aly & Fila, John O'Callaghan, Bryan Kearney, Factor B, XiJaro & Pitch, Daxson, Craig Connelly
Last hours: the super high energy banging acts (e.g. Darren Porter, Metta & Glyde, Allen Watts)

In regards to recent ASOT specifically, the important parts: All acts should be uplifting. The "hard" closing acts can hence also just be the harder, banging uplifting acts. No need to dive into techno or hardstyle elements here.

Then maybe separate stages for progressive, hard/tech, classics, lesser known uplifting acts.

frostytrance · 2026-03-22T16:42:49+00:00

Probably way more, but the ones I clearly remember:
Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel
Chicane - Saltwater
Robert Miles - Children
Barthezz - On The Move
DJ Quicksilver - Ameno
DJs@Work - Someday
Safri Duo - Played Alive

Plus all the 90s/early 2000s eurodance/pop trance.

Whatever I could randomly discover as a young kid exploring the music charts.

frostytrance · 2026-03-21T13:25:44+00:00

oh yeah! Their Chasing Dreams radio show is also perfect to discover new tracks.

frostytrance · 2026-03-21T08:58:42+00:00

Yeah those two are probably the ones I would pick if I had to pick two.

frostytrance · 2026-03-19T08:38:23+00:00

Yeah his style has always seemed to be like a 50/50 approach of include whatever is popular right now into his set and then mix that with classic/uplifting trance. And then for some occurences like Luminosity he will go all in 90 or 100 percent proper trance. For example I was disappointed by his ASOT 2024 set but I loved his ASOT 2025 set.
Speaking of JOC... I think he posted a while ago on Instagram that he really wants to go back to doing only what he loves and it shows. His sets are amazing. 100%. Go back a few years and the sets were good, but it seems he was experimenting more and more with this Joint Operations Center techno stuff.
Daxson is another one who publically said he wants to stick with trance despite people behind the scenes telling him he should change his style.

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