Category archives: trance

Masterclass: Sander van Doorn on Career, Production & Artist Development Tips

We’re back with another masterclass, this time with the legendary producer and DJ Sander van Doorn, to talk all things career and production-focused. In addition to highlighting some important milestones from his musical journey, the Dutch artist drops some hot tips for upcoming musicians. If you’d like to learn more about music production, sound engineering […]

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Track Breakdown: Ferry Corsten & Trance Unity – ‘Free’ + Interview

Last year, we were joined once again by the Godfather of trance, Ferry Corsten, for a breakdown of his track ‘Free’ with Trance Unity, as well as an exclusive interview. During the video, Ferry Corsten discusses his UNITY project, which was initially designed to spark collaborations between himself, other DJs and producers. What began two […]

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Watch Gammer Breakdown His Epic Track ‘Out With The Old’

In our latest track breakdown Monstercat wonderboy Gammer is back to show us how he created his epic club track, ‘Out With The Old’. The “spiritual followup” to his previous hit, ‘The Drop’, ‘Out With The Old’ continues to embrace the producer and DJ’s trance roots and packs one hell of a punch. Crammed with euphoric strings, […]

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Jordan Suckley – C.Y.M Track Breakdown (Who’s Afraid of 138?!)

For our latest track breakdown and masterclass, we invited Jordan Suckley to chat through his latest track ‘C.Y.M’, out on the Armada sublabel Who’s Afraid Of 138?! and inspired by Armin van Buuren. The label’s title became something of a mantra and mission statement for the harder, beat-driven side of trance music, in which Jordan Suckley […]

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Watch a Masterclass on Making a Synth Lead in Sylenth1 with Stonebank (Monstercat)

Welcome back to another of our guest masterclasses. Following on from our recent session with Gammer, we’ve hit up another Monstercat artist in Stonebank, who covers pretty much all angles of the label’s output with Happy Hardcore, Electro and Dubstep all likely to emerge from the lab. Here, he describes how to make a lead […]

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Watch a Masterclass on Making a Synth Lead in Sylenth1 with Stonebank (Monstercat)

Welcome back to another of our guest masterclasses. Following on from our recent session with Gammer, we’ve hit up another Monstercat artist in Stonebank, who covers pretty much all angles of the label’s output with Happy Hardcore, Electro and Dubstep all likely to emerge from the lab. Here, he describes how to make a lead […]

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Join us for a Guest Masterclass w/ Trance Legend Ferry Corsten (Flashover, Ministry of Sound)

Sitting at the midpoint of summer, the finest in memory in Britain (and everywhere else likely just fine as usual), making plans can feel a touch melancholic with the end in sight. Well, we’ve organised a super special masterclass on 24 August to allay those late-summer blues, with Ferry Corsten. It’s no exaggeration to say […]

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Meet the winner of Anjunabeats’ Beats In School Competition: Joel Freck

Announcing the winner of our latest Beats In School competition with Anjuna Beats: Joel Freck. Joel is the second winner of the production competition after last year’s winner Taya, winning a Complete Online Mixing and Mastering course from Point Blank, along with gear and mentorship supplied by various top industry brands. He’s a Canadian Producer/DJ […]

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