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Listen to Paul Oakenfold’s Exclusive Playlist of Trance Classics Ahead of Dreamstate 2022
Iconic dance music producer Paul Oakenfold has curated an exclusive playlist ahead of his performance at Dreamstate 2022. Ahead of this weekend’s return of the SoCal trance music festival, Oakenfold, one of the genre’s pioneering figures, is sharing a number of his favorite classics. The playlist features an array of festival-ready anthems from BT, Schiller and Chakra, among others, as well as cuts from Oakenfold’s influential Perfecto label. Check out the full playlist and its uplifting soundscapes below. Earlier this year Oakenfold released his 17-track album, Shine On, wherein he collaborated with ZHU, Aloe Blacc, Luis Fonsi, Benny Benassi, Cee Lo Green and more. The album took four years to complete. He just finished up his North American tour, which include...
How It All Started: Dance Music’s Most Influential Labels Reflect On Their First-Ever Release
Dance music wasn’t always this popular. In fact, the sights and sounds we now associate with the genre were once considered taboo. They were the emblems of a counterculture forced to blossom not out in the open, but in the safe confines of arcane nightclubs and warehouse raves. So how did electronic music break through the glass ceiling? Before the songs of Above & Beyond, Roger Sanchez, Armin van Buuren, and other legendary producers rattled the world’s biggest festival stages, they were auditory ugly ducklings on a quest to reach their full potential. The music always had the potential to fly, but without the help of the gutsy independent record labels willing to back it, its wings would forever remain clipped. And after all these years, those indies have proven...
