🇬🇧Pure Trance Events
ANNUALPure Trance is Solarstone's brand-and-event series, curated around the back-to-classics pure-trance ethos he codified through the Pure Trance Recordings label and his weekly Pure Trance radio show. The events run as recurring touring nights — UK and continental Europe primarily, with US editions — and are line-up'd around the Pure Trance roster of Solarstone, Allen Watts, Standerwick, and rotating uplifting-and-tech guests. The Pure Trance ethos rejects the EDM-adjacent compression of the genre and centres long-form mixing, classic 138 BPM tempo, and the original trance-arrangement structural template.
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