Trance Archives

Premiere: Alpha Tracks – Golden Shot (Omformer ‘Energy Cycle’ Mix)

October 16, 2020

Trance, a term too often used as a blasé, short-hand appraisal for production sounding too cheesy, e.g. endless build ups and breakdowns generally deemed unnecessary. Done with finesse, however, and you have a ...

Premiere: Hybryds – Lust

Oliver Walkden

September 25, 2020

Belgian producer Hybryds is obsessed with rituals. His music is specifically made with them in mind: see '92s Music For Rituals, '94s Rhythm of the Ritual, '95s Ritual of the Rave and so on. Like a cyberpunk wi...

Premiere: Gacha Bakradze – Inside

Matt Blair

July 31, 2020

Is it surprising the Die Orakel back catalogue seems to breathe an all-enveloping mysticism? With a name that literally translates to "The Oracles", probably not. Unsettling dancefloors with the murky and eerie...

If-Only Podcast #71: Antoine 80

If-Only

June 30, 2020

Óneiroi, the name given to Antoine 80's recently announced LYL Radio show, belies the music featured inside. Translating to 'dreams' in Ancient Greek, he dedicated the pilot broadcast to a god typically associa...

Fortnightly Freebies #106

If-Only

June 23, 2020

Young Thug ambient edits, krautelectro, trance classics reimagined and plenty more... Iceboy Violet - Drown To Float The disruptive force that is Iceboy Violet giving Lil Baby, Young Thug, Lil Durk, Gunna and...

Premiere: Belia Winnewisser – Boreal

Oliver Walkden

June 18, 2020

The irony that SPA's output is about as far as you could get from a David Lloyd leisure centre massage, facial, hot tub and steam room experience isn't lost on us. Their latest EP from Belia Winnewisser, the im...

Premiere: Mikkel Rev – Biotope

Elliot Stevens

June 16, 2020

The state of trance is thriving and populous in 2020; different takes and shades show out the angles and intensities of sincerity. What would you like today? Dubby computer bleeps and the digital realm? Let’s h...

Marlon Hoffstadt’s top 10 emotional trance tracks for hands-in-the-air moments

If-Only

June 12, 2020

Marlon Hoffstadt's latest release pays tribute to the parties that should have been, to shared dancefloor experiences that could have been, and to anyone that might have indulged in some hands-in-the-air euphor...

Premiere: DJ Rasputin – Liquid Shrimps

Oliver Walkden

May 12, 2020

Time To Be Alive is a new EP from Candomblé, the Dusseldorf-based label and If-Only favourite named after an Afro-Brazilian religious ritual. But rather than professing to a golden era in our culture and civili...

Locked In (Isolutions): Childsplay’s Ultimate Guide 2 Surviving Lockdown (4/20 ‘Blaze It’ Edition)

If-Only

April 20, 2020

Social distancing getting you down? Feel like you're beginning to fray at the edges? 'Locked In (Isolutions)' is a week of iso-themed content, geared towards making yet another 7 days of stay-at-home mundanity ...

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