Weekly picks

This week in trance

Five tracks every week, each with what to listen for and the trick worth stealing for your own productions. Newest first.

This week in trance · 28 October 2026

This week in trance

  1. 01

    Super8 & Tab feat. Julie Thompson My Enemy (CVMRN Remix)

    Anjunabeats

    This is a really nice easy-listening track with great vocals. The progressive sounds make this track the perfect choice for both a focus and a relaxing playlist.

  2. 02

    Lilly Palmer x Mauro Picotto Komodo

    Armada Music

    This is a great track. Mauro Picotto kept the elements of the original track, while combining it with Lilly Palmer’s driven, hard techno bassline.

  3. 03

    Mauro Picotto I Feel Love (V2)

    Armada Music

    This is an outstanding rework of the original track, released in 2000 by Mauro Picotto’s alias CRW. This rework is also very similar to the DJ JamX and DeLeon (a.k.a DuMonde) mix.

  4. 04

    Wavetraxx & HKL Chains Will Break

    Black Hole Recordings

    Great uplifting track with some rather nostalgic sounds. The track is constructed quite well, whereby every element fits into the next quite nicely.

  5. 05

    Cloudhunter Particles

    Future Sound Of Egypt

    Another great release from Future Sound of Egypt! This track is equipped with everything needed to make the perfect uplifting track and is sure to make listeners feel a certain way, as uplifting tracks do.

This week in trance · 30 October 2026

Five trance classics to start

The first one: five records every trance producer should know, and the trick from each worth stealing.

  1. 01

    Paul van Dyk For An Angel

    A rolling arp and a pad sharing the same four chords. Build one in the Arp Generator and hear how little it takes.

  2. 02

    ATB 9 PM (Till I Come)

    One guitar riff carries the whole track. Proof that a simple, repeated hook beats a busy one.

  3. 03

    Chicane Saltwater

    Slow, wide pads and a breakdown that takes its time. Listen to how long it waits before the drop, then read the trance breakdown.

  4. 04

    Energy 52 Café Del Mar

    An off-kilter synth hook over a hypnotic groove: trance that works without a big supersaw.

  5. 05

    Darude Sandstorm

    Hard, driving and instantly recognisable. Notice how the lead's rhythm does more work than its notes: try it in the Lead Melody Generator.