A Journey Through Dutch and British Trance Music

  You may remember in October 2021 we posted an addition to our Portals series that highlighted some of our favorite classic Trance music in the form of a series of beatless loops, put together as one mix. (Check it out here and below) astrangelyisolatedplace · ASIP & todos - Portals Episode 10: Classic Trance Loops (Hypnotised) It came at a time when the book, and compilation ‘Hypnotised A Journey Through Trance Music’ was released, evoking many memories for me personally, as someone who grew up with the genre and helping to inspire the Portals Trance Loops mix. ‘Hypnotised: A Journey Through Trance Music (1990-2005)’ - a deep dive/encyclopedia on the classic Trance sound, that covers “its proto to seminal periods, through to its ascendance and glory years”, across “500 essential records, 75 record labels and 25 albums, with in-depth interviews with 35 influential artists and label owners”. [buy]Fast forward to today, and Black Hole Recordings (along with the compilation curator, and book author Arjan Rietveld) have returned with the second in the series, this time focused on the British side of Trance music (the Ying, to the Trance Music Yang IMO).Where the first edition covered seminal artists such as Armin van Buuren, Kamaya Painters (that’s Tiesto before everyone knew it), Vincent de Moor, System F, and Sander Kleinenberg among many others, the new compilation hits home for me (being a Brit after all) with music from UK Trance legends such as Binary Finary, Salt Tank, Pete Lazonby, Tilt, Ascension and many more…I am not here to just reminisce about my aged-old love for Trance music and post about two compilations… Instead, the label and curator have been nice enough to offer up some free Bandcamp download codes for ASIP readers, if you’re quick…. see below. If you could be so kind as to comment below with codes you have redeemed already, this might help everyone reading… Hypnotised: A Journey Through Dutch Trance Music (1994-2005) by HypnotisedHypnotised: A Journey Through British Trance Music [1993 - 2002] by Hypnotised Redeem the Bandcamp codes here. A Journey Through Dutch Trance Music Bandcamp codes:tp68-7r6nxk5t-xmq7jy6y-jtg572y3-kbnfmlkm-6hvmA Journey Through British Trance Music Bandcamp codes:ygyy-bmmd2kuy-xzycdz5z-jgnxst6z-k3qqx6gh-6v6z