Trance Archives

Baby Blue: The ‘techno trans-Madonna’ that killed Euphoria

September 19, 2019

Baby Blue is an emerging figurehead for trans-gender representation in the electronic underground. Heralded as the 'techno trans-Madonnna' and self-proclaimed as "one of the best DJs in the world," the radical ...

Premiere: Seofon – Prota-Rmx

Damien Cummings

September 4, 2019

Originally released on San Francisco-based Visible Records in '94, The Delph EP reminds us that there’s more to ambient house than lolling on the sofas of Heaven’s White Room. Remixed and repressed by Transmigr...

Premiere: Memphis – Child Of The ’70s

Elliot Stevens

July 23, 2019

Anti-linear poetics and new-style pataphysica from Memphis, carving a new direct channel from 1993 to our now; three dormant/unreleased tracks which find space to breathe on our beloved Mirror Zone. It’s essen...

Concept In Practice: Qnete’s ‘Past Present Future Sources’ Mix

If-Only

July 16, 2019

Marvin Uhde, AKA Qnete, has taken an unexpected stylistic turn on his next release. Coming out on London's X-Kalay, the German producer opts for a decidedly proggier approach with Devils in the Dust, drawing fr...

Unknown Mobile picks 10 tracks to pair with a bottle of natural wine

If-Only

July 3, 2019

Employing MIDI files lifted from an old GeoCities archive, the next outing from Levi Bruce, AKA Unknown Mobile, is indicative of an artist seeking to render lush and inviting music through fairly unconventional...

Premiere: PTDD & Monty – Tamboe (DJ Ungel’s Adventure Mix)

Damien Cummings

June 26, 2019

Fresh heat out of Amsterdam as Flippen Disks set out their stall with a slammer of a debut. Elements of trance and spaced-out house mark the way, but established by founder Monty, the label's modus operandi sim...

If-Only Podcast #53: Anatolian Weapons

If-Only

June 21, 2019

Originally conceived as a “world-music, house oriented moniker,” Aggelos Baltas' output as Anatolian Weapons seems to blur genre boundaries further with every passing release. Chart his musical journey from the...

Premiere: Aki Aki – Opti-Mystik Dub (feat. Rasputin)

Elliot Stevens

June 11, 2019

Candomblé don’t fuck about as they unleash their fourth record, served up with relish by executive chef Aki Aki. Hot on the heels of LSW’s weirdo wave/art-rock LP from two months ago, we return to familiar surr...

Concept In Practice: Alexis Le-Tan’s ‘Maharashtra Holi Party’ Mix

If-Only

May 15, 2019

Alexis Le-Tan is something of a cult figure on the dance music landscape. An acolyte of the Goa trance sound, he cut his teeth in the early '90s, DJing on the one-time unspoilt beaches of Western India before m...

Premiere: Radiant Aura Faculty – Mana Sadhana

Matt Blair

March 26, 2019

From the shores of Lake Ontario comes Parallel Minds, a label geared towards sharing Toronto sounds of a proggier persuasion. Brainchild of in-demand Canadian Ciel and the lesser known Daniel 58 and Yohei S., t...

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