The ‘FE/AR’ factor is real with this one when master arena manipulator Marco V starts winding up another one of his legendary tech-programmed bangers. The urge is there to blast the place into tiny pieces; however, once he’s fired a synth riff the size of a super collider into the night, the track takes on…

Marco V will find you, but he’ll never take it slowly; the legendary producer revels in the thrill of the chase with his latest supercharged widescreen accelerator leading the tech house pack. ‘Run & Hide’ adapts an instantly recognisable vocal from one of the biggest bands on the planet, blearily taking its time and flexing…

The search for UFO activity finds Marco V, Orbital-style headset on blast, sending pounding beats into the wild and low-slung rhythms past the speed limit, with a top line of skittering, scurrying keys belonging to something tentacled, rhythmically digging into the track’s surface. This ‘ALI/ENS’ race is an intelligent one, The Netherlands superstar teasing a potentially…

If you take ‘HY/BRID’ as one part high voltage to set the night alight and one part brute force diesel power, you’re not far off this Holy Trinity employing slamming beats and pulsating riffs with a slight holographic quality to them. It’s a simple, blood pumping formula rich in dancefloor devastation, Robert Gitleman aligning with…

On the highway to the danger zone, Polish piledriver Tulamor follows ‘Night Rider’ and ‘Venom’ into the realm of do-or-die trance, testing the speed limit with dark tones and high intensity. Dramatic key changes in the main melody of ‘Route 88’ will have you fastening your seatbelt, loosened by an ambient breakdown installing a temporary…

The definition of dancefloor voyage of discovery, Ivan Moser thrives in the theatre of a tech-trance battlefield, riding rough as twisted synth aftershocks tangle with combative beats. The producer finds a moment of clarity on the breakdown while keeping the spectacle dynamic, before ploughing directly into the eye of the storm as fire breathes all…

Rafael Osmo has been relentless in recent years, a workrate running into collaborations with Marco V (see, feel and fear their genre-spanning sledgehammer ‘UNR/ATED’) and Paul Van Dyk, and the In Charge release ‘Underbeat’. Tel-Aviv’s trance totem and Progline main man leads you down dark alleys, growling with an intense stare, then falling into a…

A seismic joining of scene leaders Rafael Osmo and Marco V, ‘Unrated’ is tech-trance-house manning up for judgment day, spearheaded by a synth propeller best described as the flapping of wings belonging to a giant treble-heavy insect. On two monstrous breakdowns the duo bring their symphony-conducting creation to tower above civilisation like the ultimate end…

Marco V has been in scintillating form all year and shows no signs of letting up, breaking down rough-edged trance to the very last ‘BE/AT’. Those with front row seats need to hold on tight as the veteran runs a gauntlet of dark eruptions lit up by astral crossfire, pressure building where power surges and…