Church of Trance

There’s a spectrum of reasons why artists create albums. ZOYA however never set out to make one in the first place. It began with what is now  ‘Eternity’ s penultimate track, ‘ When Heaven Calls ’ , a piece she wrote in the aftermath of the most tragic of circumstances three years ago. ‘Heaven’ became the first in a track series, which then bloomed organically into what we’re looking at here today: the young Bulgarian producer and DJ’s debut LP. ZOYA goes on to explain: “ In 2021, I lost my mother to Covid. It happened very suddenly, and it brought into perspective just how short and transient everything is. My grief was so great that nothing made sense anymore. I found solace only in music - it saved me! I created the first track of the following series, titling it ‘When Heaven Calls’, which is dedicated to mom. My inspiration grew from that piece of music into a full album. Each track on it carries its own story and individual emotional thread, creating a tapest...

So here we are … and here it is. 25 years after the first took the mix comp scene by storm and set a new high bar in the process, we’ve arrived at  the twentieth ‘In Search Of Sunrise’ . For a landmark occasion this momentous, an exceptional edition was required, and with a six-mix/disc/DJ odyssey, that’s exactly what series guardians Black Hole Recordings have delivered. Before all that though, a little history! With the millennium on the then horizon, October the 10 th  1999 saw DJ  Tiësto’s  first ‘In Search Of Sunrise’ touch down into a glowing comp climate. Already trailing heat through his previous series ( ‘Magik’ ), anticipation was way high. However, its reception outmatched even Tiësto and Black Hole’s expectations, with the Dutchman mixing seven in total, before parting creative ways with the series. ISOS returned in 2010 under the stewardship of one-time Tiësto protegee  Richard Durand , who delivered six editions and introduced co-mixing to its...