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Our next deep dive for the Portals series sees a revisit to a genre of music that heavily influenced ASIP growing up. Yes, cheese-and-chords in their full glory; classic Trance music, but with a twist, of course. More info, download and full tracklist: Love it or hate it, I embrace classic Trance music for its brilliance of the time, and the impact it had on me (and indeed electronic music) growing up. I’ve mentioned before how the chill-out side of Trance music was one of the many avenues to open me up to more electronic ambient music. But this isn’t the path we ended up taking for this Portals feature… This mix doesn’t come about by chance, or due to the fact that Trance is back in style. It’s a mix I have considered making for a long time, where I could make use of my shelves full of Trance vinyl. But over the past year or so, I have been in conversation with Arjan Rietveld who has recently published an entire book called ‘Hypnotised: A Journey Through Trance Music (
