Resources
Where to go after the last page.
A short list rather than a long one. These are the archives, forums, shows and schools worth your time once the book sends you looking. It's a list I recheck now and then, not a live directory, so treat anything time-sensitive as a starting point rather than the last word.
Every entry has a note on what it's actually good for, because a bare list of links helps nobody. Anything I couldn't verify stays unlinked rather than guessed at. If you're working through the chronological companion playlist, the genre maps below are a quick way to hear how the subgenres split apart, and the community and radio entries are where a lot of the ongoing conversation about Trance happens. The trance glossary covers any term below you haven't met yet, and the trance history timeline puts each strand in the decade it came from.
Current pulse /
What the platforms are showing right now.
This is a snapshot, not a trend claim. Through July and August 2026, the Beatport Trance (Main Floor) chart has been carrying a mix of classic reinterpretations and faster main-floor material. Space 92's remix of Oxia's Domino, Binary Finary with Paul Oakenfold and Marie Vaunt on 1998, Ilan Bluestone's remix of Darude's Feel The Beat and KI/KI's Going Existential In The Rave all sat in that range, alongside plenty of 140 to 148 BPM releases. That's sales data from one store, so treat it as evidence of what's selling there, not a verdict on the genre.
On the editorial side, Beatportal has been running pieces like 10 Timeless Dance and Trance Tracks Finding New Life in Today's DJ Sets, plus a June 2026 refresh of Enhanced Progressive and coverage of newer progressive and trance artists including dj try and yerbby. Put next to the charts, what that suggests is older forms getting recontextualised alongside current progressive and harder club production, not that Trance has suddenly come back from anywhere.
Beatport's own category structure now separates Trance (Main Floor) from Trance (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic), too. Platform taxonomy follows commerce rather than history, but a store splitting the genre in two is at least evidence that contemporary Trance gets presented across a wider range than one label covers. The subgenre field guide explains why those boundaries have always been argued over, and the canon page tracks how catalog programming keeps older records in circulation.
Listening and genre maps
Start here if you want to hear how the sound splits and where it came from.
- Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
An opinionated map of the subgenres with audio attached to each one. Good for hearing the difference between acid trance and progressive instead of reading about it.
- Beatportal Trance
Beatport's editorial arm, filtered to Trance. News, interviews, curated selections and production and DJ coverage, updated on their schedule rather than mine.
- Beatport Trance Top 100
A snapshot of what's selling on one store right now. Useful for finding current releases, but chart position is commerce and platform data, not a judgement about the music.
- 1001Tracklists
Tracklists for DJ sets, radio shows and festival broadcasts, plus a place to chase down IDs. Coverage is user-submitted, so it's thorough in places and patchy in others.
- The Euphoria Unleashed companion playlist
Eight eras in order, following the book. It's linked from the playlist page.
Radio and podcasts
Weekly shows are still how most of this music gets found.
- A State of Trance
Armin van Buuren's long-running weekly show, and one of the widest distribution points a new Trance record can get.
- Group Therapy Radio
Above & Beyond's weekly show, and the way plenty of people found the melodic side of the genre. The link goes to their own listening page.
- Pure Trance Radio
Solarstone's show, hosted on the Pure Trance site. Leans toward the uplifting and classics-adjacent end of the genre.
- Resonation Radio
Ferry Corsten's radio show. I don't have a stable official listening page to point at, so check his own channels for where current episodes land.
Festivals and events
Rooms where the music still gets tested at full scale.
- A State of Trance Festival
The annual event built around the radio show, and one of the larger Trance-focused dates on the calendar.
- Dreamstate
The North American Trance-focused festival.
- Luminosity
Dutch beach and festival events with a classics-heavy programme.
- Transmission
Arena production built around a single narrative each year.
- Tomorrowland
Not a Trance festival, but its stages have carried a lot of this music to people who'd never have gone looking.
- Indian Spirit
A German psytrance festival with a long history and a loyal crowd.
Production and DJing
If reading the book makes you want to make some of this yourself.
- Sonic Academy
Track-from-scratch tutorials, with plenty of Trance among them.
- Point Blank Music School
Structured courses in production and sound design.
- DJ TechTools
Gear coverage, technique and controller mapping, aimed at people who play out.
Know something that belongs here? Send it over through the contact page. If you want to know how anything in the book gets checked before it's printed, the research notes spell that out, and the source library shows which of these sources can settle which kind of claim.