Ueberschall has announced Trance ID 2, a new Elastik Soundbank sound library focusing on trance music.
Description:
Trance ID2 incorporates the latest trends in the genre such as Neo-, Electro-, and Tech-Trance, as well as elements from Progressive and Minimal.
The construction kits on Trance ID 2—powered by the Elastik Loop Player—offer cutting-edge drum loops, synth patterns, bass [...]

Here’s something for Sasha fans/trance fans: Sasha’s announced a new CD, Invol2ver, that promises to take a visit to the same territory he explored on the Involver CD.
The CD features twelve heavily worked-over tracks, including tunes from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, synth pop stars Ladytron, indie troubadour Ray La Montagne and Telefon Tel Aviv. Limited edition [...]

Scientist have found that people who took magic mushrooms in a study looked back at the experience, up to 14 month later, as one of the top five spiritual and meaningful experiences of their lives.
“It’s one thing to have a dramatic experience you say is impressive,” says neuroscientist Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University School [...]

Multiverse is a collection of psytrance tracks from Israel’s Atomic Pulse, aka Tamir Ozana. 
It’s a dual CD collection that’s made to order for fans of psychedelic trance. The first CD is Atomic Pulse’s take on tracks by Infected Mushroom, Skazi, Astrix, Protoculture, Fatali, Shanti, G.B.U and Pop Stream. Atomic Pulse’s production is first rate, and the [...]

Oforia’s Arcadia is a double CD that offers a collection of remixes of Oforia’s greatest hits.
Oforia (Ofer Dikovsky) is a psytrance artist and a producer from Israel. I’ll admit that I’m not familiar with Oforia’s greatest hits, but the release is nevertheless a nice collection of aggressive, hard-hitting psytrance tracks.
Disc 1 offers 10 strong remixes, [...]

If you like hard goa trance, you’re going to like this video for Hallucinogen: LSD.
Check out VAC’s picks for some more trippy goa trance videos.

Goagadar Magazine’s Spring Issue is online.
Goagadar Magazine focuses on psychedelic culture - the core of the trance scene. Originally a print publication, it is now available online for free in Flash format. It’s got gorgeous photos and interviews with Juno Reactor and others.
Featured in this issue:

Interviews with Juno Reactor, Materia and Hadra organization;
The Synergy Project;
Goa, [...]

Over at BeatPortal, Industry Boy is blogging directly from Sasha & Digweed’s tour bus.
It offers an interesting view behind the scenes of a superstar DJ tour:
At the front of the bus is a lounge area with three couches, two giant Toshiba plasma screens, and an entertainment centre complete with a Marantz amp, a DVD player, [...]

March 03: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
Today we’re highlighting Atomic Cat, French techno/trance group. Atomic Cat has released a free CD of trance music, A Call From Hope.
You can preview [...]

 

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March 01: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia.
All month, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet.
We’re getting things started with a free CD of trance tracks, Trance Planet, by the French techno/trance group, NeXuS.
NeXuS has release several CDs under [...]

 

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Evil Records, a netlabel dedicado a la musica electronica, has added three new releases that are available as free MP3 downloads.
The releases include a free house EP, Manu xtc - Noches Del Sur; a psytrance EP, Aum Project - Angel Hundu; and a downtempo/breaks CD, zAnXe - Welcome.
The site is in Spanish, but is easy [...]

Nighttime Calls, and if you’re looking for straight-ahead euro dance/trance music to liven up the evening, Sylver delivers with this CD.
Sylver, made up of the vocalist Silvy De Bie and dj/producer Wout van Dessel, hit the charts in Europe a few years ago with their debut single Turn the Tide. As you might expect based [...]

Here’s a video that captures video doing a live remix of Earth Wind and Fire’s September:

Looks like this is from a NAMM session with M-Audio. Not a great set, but it gives you an idea of how he remixes in Live.

Electronica wunderkind BT has released a preview of is upcoming release, This Binary Universe.

It’s available as a download for iPods with video capability and also for web viewing:
The release will be a 2-Disc Set CD + DVD, with a standard stereo CD and the DVD playable in 5.1 or stereo. The DVD will feature widescreen [...]

Asura’s latest CD, Lost Eden, blends dance, trance, ambient and world music elements into a musical gumbo.
Asura is a French electronic group, made up of producer Charles Farewell, flutist Christopher Maze, and bassist/guitarist Alex Ackerman. There are echoes of artists like Peter Gabriel, Tangerine Dream and Banco de Gaia in Asura’s global groove style. The [...]