Trance

The combination of a DJ with ten years experience (Ernesto van der Meij) and a equally experienced producer (Edwin Koelewijn) resulted in 2001 in the Dutch duo Ernesto vs. Bastian. Their style is trance and progressive and even a bit of pop. Their sound is influenced by everyone from Depeche […]

Gouryella is a solo trance project of Dutch musician Ferry Corsten. Gouryella was originally a Dutch production team, comprising Corsten and Tiësto, who later left in 2001. The word itself means “heaven” in the Australian aboriginal language. In 1998, Dutch musicians Ferry Corsten and Tiësto collaborated to create Gouryella. In time there were twenty separate album releases of the first four Gouryella tracks from […]

Ali Wilson who’s real name is Alistair Wilson is a Tech Trance producer from Sidcup, England, UK and owner of Tekelec Recordings. Picking up ‘best new producer’ from the UK’s biggest club forum Harderfaster.net and DJMag honouring him as the ‘one to watch’ , this was just beginning for the young […]

Samuel Bouriah (born 19 October 1969), better known by his stage name DJ Sammy, is a Spanish DJ and record producer. He has released five albums and has had five top-10 hits, including a cover of Bryan Adams’ “Heaven”, which reached number one in the UK in 2002. His career started with ex-wife Marie-José van […]

B.B.E. was a French-based trance music act, originally composed of Italian record producers Bruno Sanchioni and Bruno Quartier, and French producer Emmanuel Top. They had two Top 5 hits in the UK: “Seven Days and One Week” and “Flash”. They followed these up with two Top 20 hits: “Desire” and “Deeper Love (Symphonic Paradise)”; and a 1998 album entitled Games. Later in the band’s […]

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is a British musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success and propelled him to worldwide fame. Though primarily a guitarist, Oldfield is known for playing a range of instruments, which includes keyboards […]

Gaia is a music group started initially as an alias of Armin van Buuren, which is known for the songs like “Tuvan”, “Stellar” and “Empire of Hearts”. The current members of Gaia are Armin van Buuren and Benno de Goeij, hence when a Gaia set is performed live, Armin and Benno both take the […]

H.O.T. real names are Jörg Ritzinger and Stefan Benz. “House Of Trance” featured in Judge Jules mixes in 2005.

Hi-Gate is the dance music pairing of BBC Radio 1 DJ Judge Jules, and Paul Masterson. In 1998, Masterson sent Jules a copy of a track he had just finished, which would later become known as ‘Yomanda – Synth and Strings’. Jules noted that the phone number on the track had the same area code on it […]

16c+ are André Strässer and Sharam Jey. Sharam Nickjey Khososi is an Iranian DJ and producer who lives in Germany. Sharam Jey’s foray into House music began in the early 90s when he began clubbing at the Warehouse in Köln (Cologne), the city’s biggest club and home to what was the […]