Church of Trance

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...

Chapter 1 - In the Beginning Hi! My name is Brando, and I make cool things awesome! I like to do various things with computers, and I love Trance Music. Currently I live in a town called Bon Temps in the beautiful southern state of Louisiana, just down I-20 from Shreveport. Unfortunately for me, Louisiana doesn’t have Trance, and that has been the source of much sadness in my life. To remedy that emptiness, I found my refuge in Cyberspace. YouTube and Twitch were places where Trance was thriving, and I was able to meet wonderful humans from everywhere around the world. I have made so many real friends that I’ve never even met IRL. It’s so great. I could travel the globe and never have to get a hotel room since I know enough good people whose couches I could sleep on. The internet is simply miraculous. What a time to be alive! So… I did the online DJ thing a bit, and I also made what I like to call Trance Movies. Those are DJ sets with dope visuals added to each song to create a full Au...