FEATURING LEGENDARY PRODUCTIONS FROM LUMINARIES INCLUDING DELERIUM, MARKUS SCHULZ, BT, JES, RABBIT IN THE MOON, SANDRA COLLINS, DEEPSKY, NEIL KOLO & CHRIS FORTIER’S FADE, CONJURE ONE & MANY OTHERS! After previous stop-offs in The Netherlands, Germany, The UK and Belgium, May 2025 finds ‘Hypnotised’ - the country-by-country-hopping history of trance music - reaching American shores . There it explores one of the genre’s lesser told yet equally fascinating tales. The fifth album in the series is again compiled by Arjan Rietveld, author of its encyclopaedic companion book, Hypnotised: A Journey Through Trance Music 1990 – 2005 . To a significant extent, the American trance scene evolved inside its own bubble. Ocean-crossing breakout acts were rare, which gave the scene space to develop a distinct sound and identity – one that was driving yet linear, progressive, more tribal, and less focused on the melodic elements that dominated the European la...
Has Paul van Dyk used Artificial Intelligence on an album that questions Artificial Intelligence’s role in our future? Well, we’ll get to that. Having album-gifted a locked-down world both ‘Guiding Light’ and ‘Escape Reality’ in 2020, ‘This World Is Ours’ is the German pioneer’s first longform foray in five years. Paul’s been in the ‘think-phase’ of his eleventh LP ever since, and few would deny that the last five rotations have given us plenty to think about. “ Very pro technology ” is how Paul van Dyk describes himself, something populated by his early adoption of new music tech at pretty much every career juncture. In the respect of AI though, he sees both a clear distinction … and a natural fork in the road. “ Artificial Intelligence isn’t music technology, or film, or entertainment, social media, military, finance or any other sector. To my mind, it is simply a new definition of ‘technolog...