And if you are an active listener of this magical genre then trust us, you don’t need any drugs or alcohol to get high, music itself will give you goosebumps.
Today we are trying to take you to a magical journey of those nostalgic memories and days when there was no Martin Garrix, Hardwell, Afrojack , in fact no pen drives and no latest gadgets / equipments but only musical legends like Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Ralphie B, Rank1 and many many more with vinyl and their powerful and banging music.
So, lets go through the musical journey of 20 of the good trance tracks to rock your socks off.
Please note, this list of top 20 is not based on any rating, its just our personal likings and preferences.
1) Yahel – Voyage.
A timeless classic, recently Aly & Fila are playing the ID remix of this in their every set whether it was Tomorrowland or Street Parade in Zurich.
2) Art of Trance – Madagascar(Ferry Corsten Remix).
A pure genius remix by Mr Ferry and was released in 1999.
3) Ralpie B – Massive.
4) M.I.K.E aka M.I.K.E Push aka Plastic Boy along with Armin van Buuren, track is titled as Intruder.
5) Randy Katana – Play It Louder.
Was played by Armin van Buuren during his Armin Only shows way back in 2005 and was also a part of a short mashup during this year A State of Trance 750 in Utrecht.
6) Schiller – Das Glockenspiel (Humate remix).
Taken from Tiesto’s magical series compilation called Magik 7.
7) Ayla – Ayla
8) World Clique – Don’t Do It.
This track is very close to our hearts and will like to share something about this. From this track only one of our team mate felt in love with this genre way back in the days of 2007 and his love is getting bigger and better day by day through this journey of 9 years and its still counting. Taken from Tiesto’s In Search of Sunrise 3
9) Rank1 – Airwave.
Any classic set is incomplete without this track.
Do you know Rank1 is a dutch trance duo project comprising Benno de Goeij & Piet Bervoets and Benno is also associated with one of the famous duo with Armin van Buuren, yes you guessed it right “Gaia”.
10) Darren Tate & Jono Grant – Let The Light Shine In.
Yes he is the same Jono who is 1/3 of that respectful and legendary british trio “Above & Beyond”.
11) P.O.S – Remember.
Do you know who is P.O.S?? Another gem from “Above & Beyond”, yes none other than Paavo Siljamaki.
12) Filterheadz – Yimanya.
13) Matt Darey pres Lost Tribe – Gamemaster.
Yes the same Matt Darey behind the recent project “Urban Astronauts” and the same track was played in many festivals and by many artists like Paul van Dyk during Global Gathering 2007 in UK.
14) GTR – Mistral.
GTR?? We better know him today as Mr Garuda / Mr Gareth Emery. Taken from Tiesto’s compilation Nyana. Have you heard track titled as “Sansa” from his latest album called “100 Reasons To Live” ?? If yes then you can figure out the intro of Sansa is taken from this.
15) Solarstone vs Scott Bond – 3rd Earth.
Recently Mr Solarstone aka Richard Mowatt is also in a joint project with Mr. Go On Air “Giuseppe Ottaviani” called “Nu Nrg” and playing beautiful sets at venues like Tomorrowland.
16) System F – Out Of The Blue.
Mr Ferry Corsten used to produce tracks on his alias System F in his earlier days and this is one of the gem.
17) Armin van Buuren – Blue Fear.
With success of this track in 1996, Armin became very popular artist, his fame and passion grew with such a extent that we all know today.
18) Three Drives – Sunset On Ibiza.
19) Delerium – Silence(Tiesto’s In Search of Sunrise Remix).
This track and artist needs no introduction, even today also Tiesto plays this track in middle of his set and every single time it works.
20) Paul van Dyk – For An Angel.
A timeless classic by Sir van Dyk and in fact this track inspired many of today’s producers being as a DJ / Producer.
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