Church of Trance

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...

One of the biggest lineups I've ever had the opportunity to experience in what will be my 10th Groove Cruise and 7th time performing as Trance Jesus launched last week and broke the internet! Groove Cruise has adopted several exciting brands to represent popular genres, with Abyss and Embark celebrating over a decade since their inception in 2011, Siren's Echo and Taking Back Emo seeing their brands being created during the pandemic, and Rising Tides being introduced on Miami 2023 It's exciting to compare last year's line to see there are 54 artists retrning from the #GCMIA24 with several of them moving to the main lineup (shoutout to our friend 22 Weeks along with talented ladies like my lovely wife Jen Blackburn , Brookie , and Kyliente ).  For #GCMIA25 we're seeing 48 new names on the lineup - such as the LONG sought and most requested Eric Prydz and the technical genius James Hype - and return artists who haven't graced the roster is several years, suc...