ARTIST DIRECTORY
A.R.D.I.
Polish uplifting trance producer (real name Adrian Wójcik) from Lublin, with ASOT Future Favorite and FSOE Wonder of the Week wins and releases across FSOE, Subculture, WAO138?!, ASOT and Damaged.
Above & Beyond
British trio behind Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep — architects of vocal trance and the most emotionally resonant brand in the genre.
Ace Ventura
Israeli producer who, alongside Liquid Soul, defined the modern Iboga progressive-psy sound.
Activa
Welsh tech-trance producer associated with Discover Records and the Reaching Altitude / Subculture scene.
Ahmed Helmy
Egyptian DJ and producer from Alexandria — long catalogue across Armada, Black Hole, AVA, Suanda and his own Futurising Music label (founded 2022), and the Armin van Buuren collaborator on "Rhythm Inside" (2023, Armada).
Allen Watts
Dutch producer at the centre of the Pure Trance / 138 BPM movement — a Beatport top-trance regular since 2018 and an ASOT mainstage fixture.
Aly & Fila
Egyptian duo behind Future Sound of Egypt — guardians of the 138 BPM uplifting sound and one of trance's most respected institutions.
Andrew Bayer
Anjunabeats' most musically ambitious producer — In My Last Life and It Happened One Night are widely cited as the genre's recent high-water marks.
Andrew Rayel
The young Moldovan virtuoso Armin van Buuren called "the next Mozart of trance" — and the architect of Find Your Harmony.
Anyma
One half of Tale of Us turned solo project — the audiovisual auteur behind Welcome to the Opera and the modern melodic-techno aesthetic.
Armin van Buuren
Five-time DJ Mag #1, host of A State of Trance, the most-listened-to dance radio show in history.
Astral Projection
Israeli duo whose Dancing Galaxy (1997) is one of the foundational albums of Goa trance and psytrance.
Astrix
Israeli psytrance ambassador and architect of the Trust in Trance event series — one of the genre's most globally recognised faces.
ATB
German producer whose 1998 hit "9 PM (Till I Come)" introduced acoustic-guitar leads to mainstream trance.
Atmos
Polish-born, Sweden-based producer Tomasz Balicki — one of the originators of the minimal-progressive psytrance form that emerged circa 2000 alongside Vibrasphere and Human Blue.
Audrey Gallagher
Northern Irish vocalist behind "Big Sky" — voted ASOT Tune of the Year and one of the most enduring vocal-trance anthems of the late 2000s.
Ben Gold
British producer based in Amsterdam — head of Goldrush Recordings and a long-running Armada uplifting fixture with a strong vocal-collaboration catalogue.
Ben Nicky
British DJ/producer (real name Benjamin Wederell, b. 1989, Bristol) known for the Head F**k mash-up series launched 2013, and an open-format set DNA spanning trance, hard dance, and techno from 125 to 200 BPM.
Bobina
Russia's most successful trance export, host of Russian Trancemission, and a long-time Black Hole / Magik Muzik vocal-trance flagship.
Bryan Kearney
Irish 138 BPM specialist behind Kearnage Recordings — a relentless tech-uplifting force loved across the Subculture/FSOE community.
BT
American progressive innovator who patented the stutter-edit technique and helped define late-90s emotional trance.
Captain Hook
Israeli producer whose Human Design, Frozen Light, and Vertikal albums redefined what progressive psytrance can sound like.
Cathy Burton
British vocalist from rural Devon — collaborator across the Markus Schulz, Solarstone, and RNM Bundles vocal-trance ecosystem with one of the genre's longest active careers.
Christina Novelli
British vocalist, DJ, and songwriter — co-writer of "Concrete Angel" and the defining female voice of mid-2010s vocal trance.
Cold Blue
German trance producer (real name Tobias Schuh) active since 2006, breaking through with "11 Days" / "Seven Ways" on In Trance We Trust, now a Black Hole albums artist (Winter, Summer Chills, Mountain).
Cosmic Gate
German duo with a 25-year run from late-90s hard trance to modern progressive — a model of consistent reinvention.
Cristoph
Newcastle producer signed to Eric Prydz's Pryda Presents — one of the modern progressive-house scene's most respected producer's producers.
Darren Porter
British uplifting-trance producer from Seaham with 16 Beatport Trance number-one records and his own digital label Trancegression Recordings, founded in 2019.
Dash Berlin
Dutch vocal-trance project that put euphoric, sing-along anthems on the global mainstage in the late 2000s.
Davey Asprey
British uplifting/tech-trance producer from Walsall (b. 1986), best known for "The Rapture" (FSOE, 2016) and "Fallout" (Armada/ASOT, 2017), with a long-running place in Markus Schulz's Coldharbour core circle.
David Forbes
Glaswegian trance veteran whose career began in 1993 as a hardcore/gabba producer at Hanger 13, transitioned to trance via Public Domain's 2000 hit "Operation Blade," and has been signed exclusively to Armada Music since 2010.
Daxson
Manchester-based British producer on Markus Schulz's Coldharbour Recordings, working in the uplifting / tech-trance crossover register.
Dennis Sheperd
German melodic-uplifting trance producer from Essen, active since 2007, with four artist albums, In Search of Sunrise 18 co-mix credit (2022), and over 50 million Spotify streams.
DIM3NSION
Spanish DJ/producer Borja Iglesias Touceda (b. 1988, Vigo) — signed to Ferry Corsten's Flashover Recordings in 2010, later a Coldharbour core artist, and founder of his own Bemind Records.
DJ T.H.
German DJ and producer Thomas Gatzka, based in Düsseldorf, with releases across a wide spread of trance imprints including Armada, Black Hole, AVA, HeavensGate, Euphonic, Suanda, and Abora Recordings.
Driftmoon
Finnish-Slovakian uplifting trance duo working in the orchestral-cinematic end of the Abora / FSOE / Always Alive editorial direction.
Emma Hewitt
Australian vocalist whose late-2000s and early-2010s collaborations with Cosmic Gate, Dash Berlin, and Gareth Emery defined an entire era of vocal trance.
Estiva
Dutch progressive-house heavyweight — Colorize/Enhanced flagship and one of the genre's most prolific album-era melodic-progressive producers.
Factor B
Melbourne-based Australian uplifting producer ("Stratos Galaxias", 2015) associated with Pure Trance, Mythology, FSOE, and Subculture — a self-declared classic-trance revivalist with eight Beatport #1s and the 2025 album Bloom (In Loving Memory).
Ferry Corsten
The producer behind System F's "Out of the Blue" and three decades of relentless trance innovation.
Ferry Tayle
French uplifting producer and founder of Always Alive Recordings, known for orchestral-leaning concept-length albums in the Enhanced / Always Alive editorial line.
Gaia
Trance side project of Armin van Buuren and Benno de Goeij, known for "Tuvan", "Empire of Hearts", and the 2019 album "Moons of Jupiter".
Gareth Emery
British producer behind Garuda and "Concrete Angel" — a master of trance songcraft and one of the genre's sharpest minds.
Genix
Long-time Anjunabeats producer best known for the festival-scale "Stadium Four" — a defining track of the modern Anjuna sound.
Gigi D'Agostino
Italian icon whose 1999 album L'Amour Toujours and 1999 single "Bla Bla Bla" defined Mediterranean Progressive — and whose 2018 hook on Dynoro's "In My Mind" returned him to global streaming charts more than two decades after the original.
Giuseppe Ottaviani
Italian uplifting producer pioneering full live-keyboard performance through his GO Live concept and host of GO On Air.
HALIENE
American vocalist and Grammy-nominated songwriter — the defining female voice of late-2010s emotional uplifting trance and a Black Hole Recordings flagship artist.
Heatbeat
Argentinian trance project formed in 2006 by Agustin Servente and Matias Faint (Matias Chavez), signed long-term to Armada Music and operating their own Armada-affiliated imprint Aerys Records since 2017 — continuing as Matias Faint's solo project after the duo's 2018 separation.
Hernan Cattaneo
Argentina's most internationally recognised DJ, founder of Sudbeat, and the leading figure in the South American progressive-house lineage.
HI-LO
Dark techno alias of Dutch DJ/producer Oliver Heldens, releasing through his own Heldeep Records and Lyase imprints since 2016.
i_o
American producer Garrett Falls Lockhart (Richmond, Virginia, 1990–2020) — debuted the i_o moniker on mau5trap in December 2017, anchored 2019–2020 with the three-part "444" EP series (ACID 444 / NRG 444 / AM 444), and signed to Armada Music in August 2020 shortly before his death.
ilan Bluestone
British producer who became Anjunabeats' headline melodic-progressive name in the late 2010s.
Indira Paganotto
Spanish DJ/producer (b. 1992, Las Palmas, Madrid-based), daughter of a Goa-trance DJ, founder of ARTCORE Records (2022) — the editorial home of the modern psy-techno / hard techno crossover.
Infected Mushroom
Israeli duo whose 25-year catalogue has expanded psytrance into rock, electronica, and live performance — one of the most musically ambitious projects in the genre.
Jennifer Rene
American vocalist whose late-2000s collaborations with Jose Amnesia, Jonas Steur, and Above & Beyond placed her in the front rank of vocal trance for over fifteen years.
John Digweed
Long-time Sasha partner, founder of Bedrock Records, and host of the long-running Transitions radio show.
John O'Callaghan
Irish founder of Subculture and architect of "Big Sky" — one of trance's most respected technically-minded DJs.
Kate Miles
Norwegian vocalist whose work for FSOE, Subculture, and Black Hole has placed her among the most-played vocal-trance voices of the late 2010s and 2020s.
KhoMha
Colombian DJ/producer Robert Alzate (b. 1990, Medellín) — Coldharbour Recordings' first ever Artist of the Year (2011) and the label's long-running Latin-American flag-bearer through "Mind Gamer", "Hydra", and the 2022 Markus Schulz collaboration "Take Me".
Kyau & Albert
German trance duo Ralph Kyau and Steven Moebius Albert, active since 1996 and co-founders of Euphonic Records (1997). DJ Mag Top 100 ranked four consecutive years 2007–2010, with the "Anphonic" Above & Beyond collaboration (Anjunabeats, 2010) among the catalogue's most-broadcast tracks.
Laura van Dam
Amsterdam-based Dutch DJ/producer working at the progressive house / melodic techno / trance crossover edge — released through Anjunabeats, Armada, AFTR:HRS, Enhanced, and Smash Deep, and main-support DJ for Armin van Buuren and Above & Beyond.
Linnea Schössow
Swedish vocalist, producer, and Grammy-nominated songwriter — CEO of Auditory Recordings and a defining new-generation voice in vocal trance.
Liquid Soul
Swiss producer who, alongside Ace Ventura, defined Iboga Records' melodic progressive-psy sound through the 2010s.
Maddix
Dutch producer Pablo Rindt (b. 1990) signed to Hardwell's Revealed Recordings — a genre-breaking techno-rave sound infused with big room and trance influences, and co-founder of the Extatic (XTTC) imprint.
Mark Sixma
Breda-born Dutch trance producer (b. 1983), classically piano-trained, originally signed to Armada Music via his 2008 M6-alias debut "Fade 2 Black" and known for "Requiem" (2013), "Chased" with Andrew Rayel (2015) and "Panta Rhei" with Armin van Buuren (2015).
Markus Schulz
German-American storyteller behind Coldharbour Recordings and the Global DJ Broadcast — trance's great long-form set master.
MaRLo
Dutch-born Australian DJ behind Reaching Altitude — one of the most consistent tech-energy uplifting acts on the modern ASOT mainstage.
Marlon Hoffstadt
Berlin DJ/producer (b. 1994) who pivoted from deep-house origins into a hard-house / trance-revival lane under his "DJ Daddy Trance" alias — the "It's That Time" (2023, Method 808) viral catalyst was named the year's biggest dancefloor filler and made him Billboard's No. 1 Most Played DJ at ADE 2024.
Matty Ralph
Northern Irish producer (Fermanagh) leading the late-90s/early-2000s trance revival via Ben Hemsley's bebé recordings, with releases through Armada, Rave Alert, DOOF, and Dreamstate.
Mauro Picotto
Italian hard-trance icon whose "lizard sound" defined turn-of-millennium club anthems.
Mind Against
Italian brothers based in Berlin — core Afterlife act and architects of HABITAT, the label that has made them one of melodic techno's most influential forces.
Miss Monique
Ukrainian DJ-producer behind Siona Records — the most internationally booked female progressive-house artist of the 2020s and a Hï Ibiza Club Room resident.
Natalie Gioia
Kyiv-born Ukrainian vocalist (b. 1982) whose mid-2010s ASOT/Armada catalogue with Alex M.O.R.P.H., Bobina, RAM and Talla 2XLC placed her among the most active female vocalists in modern trance — "Shine" reached #6 in A State of Trance Tune of the Year 2021.
Nick Warren
Bristol veteran, half of Way Out West, and one of the most prolific contributors to the Global Underground mix-album series.
Nifra
Slovakian tech-trance producer dubbed "the Queen of Coldharbour" — Markus Schulz's flagship signing and one of the most consistent female DJ-producers on the modern global circuit.
Omnia
Ukrainian DJ/producer Evgeny Smirnov (b. 18 May 1987, Donetsk) — first Ukrainian DJ to enter the DJ Mag Top 100 (#58 in 2012, #48 in 2013), Armada and Coldharbour core artist known for "Infina", "The Fusion" (with IRA), and "The Light".
Paul van Dyk
East Berlin trance pioneer who helped define the genre, and a two-time DJ Mag #1 known for cerebral, emotional sets.
Paul Webster
Irish uplifting trance producer based in Dublin with a catalogue across Discover Records, FSOE, Garuda, Vision Records, and Armada.
Push
Antwerp-born Belgian producer (b. 1973) behind "Universal Nation" (Bonzai, 1998) — one of trance's most enduring anthems — operating across 85+ aliases including Push, M.I.K.E., M.I.K.E. Push, and Plastic Boy. Returned in March 2026 with "Back When We Believed" on Solarstone's Pure Trance NEON sub-label.
Ralphie B
Dutch trance producer (real name Ralph Barendse, also Midway and Alpha Breed) best known for the 2003 In Trance We Trust anthem "Massive" — a Tiësto-signed track Armin van Buuren played in the very first episode of ASOT.
Ranji
Israeli producer from Tel Aviv (born 1983) who emerged via the DapAnji project and the Class A duo with Ghost Rider, later moving into progressive psytrance as a solo name.
Rank 1
Dutch duo behind "Airwave" — one of the defining anthems of late-90s mainstage trance.
Richard Durand
Amsterdam-born Dutch trance veteran (b. 1976) best known for taking over the In Search of Sunrise compilation series from Tiësto for volumes 8 through 13.5 (2010-2015), and co-author of the 2026 ASOT 25 ELEVATION anthem "Always You" with Armin van Buuren & Dicosis.
Rinaly
Tokyo-based DJ and producer active since 2014, with four Beatport Top 10s including a number one for "Wave of Affection" and a 2020 Trance Podium Top 100 DJs ranking at number 70.
Robert Miles
Italian-Swiss producer whose 1995 anthem "Children" defined dream trance and sold over five million copies worldwide.
Roger Shah
German producer behind the Sunlounger project and the Magic Island radio show — the figurehead of modern Balearic trance.
Ronski Speed
German producer who has been releasing emotional vocal trance on the Euphonic label for over two decades.
Roxanne Emery
British singer-songwriter and sister of Gareth Emery — half a billion streams, a current solo career as RØRY, and one of the genre's clearest vocal-to-pop crossover trajectories.
Ruben de Ronde
Dutch producer and host of Statement! on A State of Trance Radio — a key figure in the modern Armada uplifting roster.
Sasha
Welsh DJ-producer (b. 1969, Bangor) who, with John Digweed, defined progressive house through the Northern Exposure mix-CD series (1996-1999), and whose Xpander EP, Airdrawndagger and Involver remain canonical references for the form.
Sean Tyas
American producer behind "Lift" and Tytanium Recordings — a producer's producer with a famously analytical approach to trance design.
Simon Patterson
British producer behind Open Up and "Bulldozer" — pioneer of the psy-tech crossover that has reshaped the harder trance scene.
Sneijder
Northern Irish DJ-producer behind the Afterdark label — leader of the modern tech-trance revival with roots in late-90s hard trance.
Solarstone
British progressive elder statesman behind "Seven Cities" and the Pure Trance movement — a curator of the genre's most refined sound.
Standerwick
British producer who emerged via FSOE and broke through with the Haliene-led hit "FOMO" — a hallmark of modern emotional uplifting.
Stoneface & Terminal
German DJ and production duo from Görlitz (Matthias Gierth and Henry Nix) — schoolmates since the early 2000s, founders of Electric Department Records (2004), long-running Euphonic core artists, and FSOE collaborators on "Universelab" (with Aly & Fila) and the Beatport Trance #1 "Hypogean".
Super8 & Tab
Finnish duo (Miika Eloranta and Janne Mansnerus) on Anjunabeats since 2005, credited with kickstarting the "hybrid trance" sound via "Helsinki Scorchin'" (2006).
Susana
Dutch vocalist who has been the genre's most prolific and most-collaborated-with female voice for over twenty years — a Black Hole / Armada fixture across two decades.
Symbolic
Israeli progressive-psytrance project established in 2011 by Ilan Shemi and DJ Osho, with releases on Iboga Records.
Tempo Giusto
Finnish tech-trance producer from Turku active since 2008, with twelve Beatport Top 10 trance singles and Armada / Black Hole / Ultra / Spinnin' release credits across the catalogue.
Tiësto
The Greatest DJ of All Time according to Mixmag — and the artist who took trance from clubs to stadiums and the Olympics.
Tinlicker
Dutch melodic-house duo and Anjunadeep flagship — albums-first artists whose long-form releases sit at the crossroads of progressive trance and deep techno.
Vini Vici
Israeli duo whose "Great Spirit" with Armin van Buuren introduced psytrance to a global mainstream audience.
W&W
Dutch duo Willem van Hanegem Jr. (b. 1987, Breda) & Wardt van der Harst (b. 1988, Dongen), founders of Mainstage Music (2012; rebranded Rave Culture 2018). Started in uplifting trance, peaked commercially with "Bigfoot" (2014), preserved their 138 BPM lineage via the NWYR psy-trance alias (2017–).
Will Atkinson
Scottish producer who emerged from John O'Callaghan's Subculture circle and became one of the genre's most technically gifted melodic producers.
Will Rees
Welsh uplifting & tech-trance producer ("the Welsh Wizard") with FSOE, Subculture, Kearnage, and Outburst releases, and a Beatport-charting 2025 Allen Watts collaboration "Pendulum".
XiJaro & Pitch
Dutch-Belgian uplifting trance duo (Xander van Dommelen and Anthony Reyers) active since 2014 across FSOE, Who's Afraid Of 138?!, Subculture and Grotesque.
Yotto
Finnish producer who became Anjunadeep's headline export — Hyperfall is one of the defining albums of the late-2010s melodic-house wave.
Ørjan Nilsen
Norwegian DJ/producer on Armada Music, active since the mid-2000s and a long-running ASOT family member.