Church of Trance

From the outside looking in, ‘making it’ in the electronic music sphere always appears to be the toughest nut to crack. Mark Sherry  however  would  respectfully disagree.   ‘ S taying there’  is where the hard work begins. Famously,  Mark  did the former ,  near enough, inside his first studio trip, taking him to the top 5 of both his native UK and the international charts. He has barely paused for breath since. A testament to a professional life lived exclusively within the dance music space,  ‘TH3RTY’ s  title   denotes both his years working there and the album’s track count. Work hard and (DJ-wise) play hard is  Mark’s  ethic, and  ‘TH3RTY’ s its absolute embodiment.  Fittingly, over  ‘TH3RTY’ s thirty, its music both looks forward and reflects back. It features collaborations with rising singer-songwriters like  Adara, Brieanna Grace  and  Kate Louise Smith.  Equally, it includes p...

  /// Prefer audio or video? Enjoy this on  YouTube  or  Soundcloud ! Chris Blackburn: I'm Trance Jesus here, aka Chris Blackburn here at the Church at Trance. And we're really excited to conduct one of our first interviews, our exclusive artist interviews with an internationally renowned DJ that, and music producer for more than ten years, that was an IDMA nominee, played in over 40 countries worldwide on five different continents. In 2023, he was included for the 6th time the DJ Mag top 150 DJs in the world. I'd like to welcome Alexander Popov. Welcome! Alexander Popov: Hi, Chris Blackburn. Thanks for having me today. Chris Blackburn: Absolutely - we're excited to have you! We're excited to really talk to you about yourself, your career, and kind of where you see things going within the music industry and within trance here in 2024. So let's start off with an easy one. How about an easy question? So some of your early inspirations. Can you share with us the...

  It's that time of year again where the road to EDC begins and Insomniac starts to announce the names that will be performing at one of the biggest electronic music festival events in the world! Kicking off events before the 3 day sunset to sunrise event begins, Insomniac takes over the Vegas strip with their iconic EDC Week , hosting 60+ events at some of the most iconic pool and club venues with amazing talent and including names span all across electronic dance music. We're especially thrilled for some of our friends and well respected names that are performing as part of their trance brand Dreamstate  (highlighted in blue ) 2024 EDC WEEK TALENT ACRAZE  ADVENTURE CLUB ALCHIMYST ALESSO ANGIE VEE ARMIN VAN BUUREN ARMNHMR ATMOZFEARS BASSCON POOL PARTY BASSRUSH MASSIVE BASSRUSH POOL PARTY BLASTOYZ CALVIN HARRIS THE CHAINSMOKERS CHRIS LAKE CLAWZ DAVID GUETTA DAXSON DEADMAU5 DEATH CODE DIPLO DISCO LINES DJ SNAKE DREAMSTATE LAS VEGAS EXCISION FACTORY 93 FAIRLANE FERRY C...