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Trance

Trance uses long builds, arpeggiated synths and big melodic breakdowns. A track climbs for several minutes before the beat returns. Vocal trance and harder, faster forms both exist.

Main-sound artists
25
Festivals
2
Neighbouring sounds
6
Other sounds on the same artists

Neighbouring sounds

Full crossover chart
  1. Techno19 artists
  2. House12 artists
  3. Progressive8 artists
  4. Big room2 artists
  5. Hard techno2 artists
  6. Disco1 artist

Counted from artists tagged with both trance and the other sound.

Artists / main sound, by lineup count

Who plays it

25
  1. 01

    Tiësto

    18 lineups across 11 festivals

    AlsoBig roomHouse

    Beyond Wonderland SoCal, EDC Las Vegas, Lights All Night, Dreamstate SoCal, and 7 more

    Open on Spotify ↗Loads only when you press play · checked 2026-10-03

  2. 02

    Armin van Buuren

    14 lineups across 7 festivals

    AlsoHouseTechno

    EDC Las Vegas, Ultra Music Festival, EDC Orlando, Dreamstate SoCal, and 3 more

    Open on Spotify ↗Loads only when you press play · checked 2026-10-03

  3. 03

    Above & Beyond

    12 lineups across 11 festivals

    Dreamstate SoCal, Elements Music & Arts Festival, Seismic Dance Event, Countdown NYE, and 7 more

    Open on Spotify ↗Loads only when you press play · checked 2026-10-03

  4. 04

    Gareth Emery

    3 lineups

    AlsoProgressive

    Dreamstate SoCal, Ultra Music Festival

    Open on Spotify ↗Loads only when you press play · checked 2026-10-03

  5. 05

    Paul van Dyk

    2 lineups across 3 festivals

    Escape Halloween, Beyond Wonderland SoCal

    Open on Spotify ↗Loads only when you press play · checked 2026-10-03

  6. 06

    Ben Nicky

    2 lineups

    Boo! Seattle, Wasteland Southern California

  7. 07

    Hannah Laing

    2 lineups

    AlsoTechnoHouse

    Boo! Seattle, Freaky Deaky

  8. 08

    MALUGI

    2 lineups

    AlsoHouse

    EDC Orlando, Escape Halloween

  9. 09

    Ace Ventura

    2 lineups across 1 festival

    Dreamstate SoCal

  10. 10

    Aly & Fila

    2 lineups across 1 festival

    Dreamstate SoCal

    Open on Spotify ↗Loads only when you press play · checked 2026-10-03

  11. 11

    Andrew Bayer

    2 lineups across 1 festival

    Dreamstate SoCal

  12. 12

    Ferry Corsten

    2 lineups across 1 festival

    AlsoProgressive

    Dreamstate SoCal

    Open on Spotify ↗Loads only when you press play · checked 2026-10-03

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These artists are tagged with trance as their main sound, then ranked by how many festival lineups record them. A Spotify player is shown only when a confirmed embed already exists. Tags cover 739 artists. Names without a tag are left off this list.

Festivals / ranked by share of the lineup

Where it plays

2
  1. Dreamstate SoCal

    72%

    Long Beach, CA. Recorded genre mix. Too little of this bill is tagged to use names.

  2. EDC Las Vegas

    22%

    Las Vegas, NV. Tagged lineup, 2025. 2 of 9 tagged names play trance as a main sound.

1 of 2 rows use tagged names. A tagged share is used when at least 5 names are tagged and they cover at least 30% of the bill. The other rows use the genre mix in the festival file. Each row says which.