This October marks twenty years since the 1999 release of the Finnish DJ Darude’s “Sandstorm,” one of the most culturally significant electronic dance singles of all time. A monster crossover hit of ...

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. In 2001, nearly ten years before Femi Adeyemi’s taste-making internet-radio network NTS (alongside outlets like Rinse.fm and Red Bull ...

Trance music queen Emma Hewitt chatted about her new solo single “Into Your Arms” and the Markus Schulz remix. How did “Into Your Arms” come about? “Into My Arms” kind of came through in sections at ...

Trance music kind of gets a bad rap. The genre, which gets its name from the repetitive rhythms, psychedelic elements, and atmospheric melodies that create what listeners describe as a “trance-like” ...

American Bandstand and the Johnny Otis show, and loved Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Miller, Ray Charles, Link Ray, and so on. I had an older brother who brought all those 45 rpm ...

For better or worse, contemporary electronic music culture is unlike its underground and occasionally illegal origins. The original superstars were DJs brilliantly mixing vinyl records on a pair of ...

The producer got his start in the 2010s connecting underground electronic sounds and hip-hop. His first album, “Revanchist,” embraces a long-derided genre of dance music. By Isabelia Herrera It was ...

Trance is not cool. Trance doesn’t dabble in irony or metaphor. Trance is extremely cheesy, therefore easily dismissable. Trance asks you to believe that the glass is half-full; that this melody is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. German music producer Paul van Dyk is one of the most renowned names in trance music, ...

The unit of the Armada dance music label founded by Armin van Buuren and CEO Maykel Piron has also renewed its exclusive songwriter agreement with Da Beatfreakz. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor ...

Sonoma County’s nightlife is expanding with the launch of “Trance Goats,” a new monthly event focused entirely on trance music. The event’s creator, local DJ and promoter Mo Babiker, presenting Fayad ...