Trance radio online plays the long builds, big breakdowns and melodic leads of uplifting, progressive and vocal trance, from the Dutch and German scenes that made it global. The stations below come from the open Radio Browser directory, ordered by listener votes — Dance Wave!, TranceBase.FM at 256kbps, DiscoverTranceRadio, 1.FM Amsterdam Trance Radio and Trance Athena at 320kbps are among the most-voted. Everything plays in your browser, 15 minutes a day free, with no account and no download.
Among the most-voted in the directory are Dance Wave!, TranceBase.FM, DiscoverTranceRadio, 1.FM Amsterdam Trance Radio and Trance Athena.
Yes — Trance Athena streams at 320kbps and TranceBase.FM and 1.FM Amsterdam Trance Radio at 256kbps.
It grew out of German and Dutch dance music in the early 1990s; the Netherlands in particular produced many of its best-known DJs.
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Trance is the most architecturally deliberate of the major electronic genres: a piece of trance music is designed to take you somewhere specific, and the journey — the build, the breakdown, the emotional release of the drop — is as much the point as any individual sound. It emerged in early 1990s Germany, was refined by British and Dutch producers, and became one of the dominant sounds of the decade through long DJ mixes, radio shows, and a global community that knew exactly what it wanted from its music. This guide goes deeper than our electronic radio stations overview: it maps the genre from Frankfurt to Goa to Ibiza, sub-genre by sub-genre.
Read the full guide: Trance Radio Online: Euphoria, Builds and Drops