A Year In Sound. A Journey In Motion.
Every year leaves its own fingerprint on the electronic music landscape – and 2025 was one of those rare chapters where boundaries blurred, scenes collided. Trance once again demonstrated its timeless adaptability. With our Best Of 2025 Flashback Mix, we look back on a year that connected generations, styles, and emotions into one continuous journey.
This mix is not meant to be a simple “greatest hits” collection. It’s a curated story that reflects how trance and its neighboring genres evolved throughout the year: from melodic, progressive openings, through emotional vocal moments, peak-time energy, and finally into raw, driving late-night territory. Just like a long night on the dancefloor, it builds patiently, escalates with purpose, and ends in pure release.
2025 was defined by cross-genre confidence. Progressive house met trance again without hesitation. Invisible lines no longer separate tech-trance, melodic techno, and classic influences. Artists embraced their roots while pushing forward – sometimes subtly, sometimes explosively. You’ll hear that evolution throughout this mix: warm and cinematic beginnings, modern club power in the middle, and uncompromising energy towards the end.
Another defining theme of the year was identity. Established names returned to their core sound with conviction, while newer and alternative projects brought fresh perspectives into the scene. Remixes, reconstructions, and mashups weren’t just tools for DJs – they became statements, re-imagining classics and current releases alike with respect and boldness. This flashback celebrates exactly that spirit: familiar emotions, reshaped for the present.
44 tracks. One continuous journey…
The Best Of 2025 Flashback Mix is designed for immersive listening. Whether you experience it as a complete, uninterrupted journey on Mixcloud or revisit individual moments on TranceAttack.net, it captures what this year felt like: hopeful, energetic, emotional, and fearless. It’s a soundtrack for late-night drives, headphone sessions, and memories of dancefloors both real and imagined. From melodic beginnings to raw late-night energy – this is our perspective on the sound of trance in 2025.
Thank you for being part of the TranceAttack community, for sharing music, memories, opinions, and passion throughout the year. This mix is dedicated to everyone who still believes in the power of a long build-up, a perfectly timed breakdown, and that one track that makes time stand still.
Tracklist “Best Of 2025”:
- Sultan + Shepard with Colyn – 1973 (D-Vine Inc.’s Intro Reconstruction)
- Klur – Sequoia
- Jack Willard – Your Eyes
- Kölsch & CamelPhat – Waste My Time
- Yotto with Eli & Fur – Somebody To Love
- Rebel Of Sleep with Jack Willard – The Things We Found
- Coastlines with Jack Willard – For You
- Estiva – No Echoes (Mees Salomee Remix)
- Tiësto & David Puentez – M83 (Tiësto Birthday Treatment Remix)
- Markus Schulz & Matt Fax – The New World
- Above & Beyond with Zoȅ Johnston – Quicksand (Don’t Go)
- Matt Fax – Ascend
- OTTAGON – Find You
- Matt Fax – To The Ground (Matt Fax’s Doppelgänger Mix)
- Tiësto & FORS – Bring Me To Life
- Markus Schulz x BLR – Ten Seconds Before Sunrise
- OTTAGON ft. SGNLS – Right Now
- Armin van Buuren & JAI RYU – Let It Be For Love
- Tiësto & Mathame – Everlight
- Anyma & Argy vs. Tiësto – Voices In My Head vs. Lethal Industry (Argy Tomorrowland Mashup)
- The Drill x Alex Sonata & TheRio – The Drill
- Elektrochemie LK & Thomas Schumacher – Schall (Revisited)
- Maor Levi & Ilan Bluestone feat. Giuseppe de Luca – Ignite
- Above & Beyond with Justine Suissa – Bigger Than All Of Us (Club Mix)
- Armin van Buuren – In And Out Of Love vs. Fathers and Sons (OTTAGON Remix) (Armin van Buuren MashUp | D-Vine Inc. Reconstruction)
- Gouryella feat. Saskia Lie Atjam – Marama (Moon & Stars)
- Ferry Corsten x Kosheen – Catch
- Armin van Buuren & Ben Hemsley feat. Lucy Pullin – Is It Beautiful?
- Daxson – Perpetuity
- Ferry Corsten – Drum’s A Weapon (Giuseppe Ottaviani Reprint)
- Torsten Stenzel, Mauro Picotto & DJ Nano – Falling From The Earth
- Andrew Bayer – I Don’t Want You
- Armin van Buuren & SACHA – Set Me Free (Rising Star Remix)
- Richard Durand & Nicholas Gunn feat. Alina Renae – For You
- KI/KI – Time To Party
- Armin van Buuren – Sonic Samba (Rising Star Remix)
- KI/KI – What’s A Girl To Do in ’25
- Amelie Lens – Young Forever
- Lightforce x KSN – Join Me (Schranz Rework)
- MilleniumKid & JBS x Faithless x Restricted & Nikster – Vielleicht Insomnia (Jerome Mashup)
- Giuseppe Ottaviani & Nifra – Unified
- Storm – Storm (David Forbes Remix)
- AKKI – Midnight
- Onlynumbers – Euphoric Night (RYX Schranz Rework)
