Trance

M-Factor aka 187 Lockdown was a British speed garage act, comprising Danny Harrison and Julian Jonah. The duo produced one album, with four singles released from it, and remixed many songs towards the end of the 1990s. The duo also recorded under a number of other aliases, such as Gant, Ground Control, Nu-Birth and M-Factor. Of these, M-Factor was the most commercially successful, notching up a UK […]

Karin De Ponti is an Italian DJ, producer and actress. She started out as a music producer and songwriter in dance music, releasing records in Italy, the UK and Germany. Judge Jules played “Hypnobounce” on a number of occasions in his Radio 1 live mixes in 2000 including Gatecrasher, Homelands and Naught […]

Lustral is a British electronic music project, incorporating the production duo of Richard Louis Simmonds (Ricky Simmons) and Stephen Christopher Jones (Steve Jones). They were also billed as The Space Brothers and Chakra. In addition, the twosome released records under a variety of other pseudonyms, such as Ascension, Essence, Lamai, and Ultra High. In 1997, they appropriated Pfizer’s trademark name Lustral under which they released […]

Watergate is a German trance act consisting of members David Haid, Orhan Terzi (DJ Quicksilver) and Tommaso De Donatis. “Heart Of Asia” is a cover version of the 1983 single by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence”. In 2001 the title was expanded to “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Heart Of […]

Sunbeam is a German electronic music project. The band consists of Florian Preis (born 1972 in Bensheim) and Michael Gerlach (born 1973 in Tehran). Since 1992 they have made progressive dance/trance-productions and remixes. Their biggest hit “Outside World” (1994) is a hard trance track containing two vocal samples from the anime film Akira (“You know we aren’t meant […]

Rank 1 is a Dutch trance group, formed in the Netherlands in 1997. Widely regarded as one of the originators of the Dutch trance sound, the group have produced a number of dancefloor hits since their conception. Although the two members of the group (Benno de Goeij and Piet Bervoets) had worked together before, Rank 1 […]

Marcel Woods, pseudonym of Marcel Scheffers, is a Dutch DJ and producer from Eindhoven. Woods started spinning in 1990, including in MDC Hollywood (Eindhoven), Afterclub the Limit (Hilvarenbeek) and Afterclub Zino (Tilburg). More recently he has played on Dance Valley , Defqon.1 , Innercity , Sensation and Trance Energy . In 2006 Woods had a big hit with Advanced, which became popular thanks to fellow DJ Tiësto and became an anthem for Trance Energy in 2006 . He also produced a number of singles under the […]

Lightforce was formed up in the late 90ties by Andreas Dohmeyer, Alexander Kaiser and Matthias Wagner. Their first single release was “Take Your Time”.

From a very early age Mirco de Govia (real name Mirko Zettl) was interested in electronic music and its sounds. He loved the music of tangerine dream and Kraftwerk. At this time he built his first tone generator and he started to make music with an Atari computer, which followed […]

Global Trance Mission are (DJ) Laurent David and Frédéric de Backer aka Fred Baker from Belgium. Fred Baker is the artist behind a plethora of productions over the past decade, from GrooveZone Eisbaer, Y-Traxx Mystery Land and many more. Fred Baker’s career began in 1996 when he produced the Ibiza […]