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Year on year for the last five, Solarstone's Pure Trance movement has shifted tectonically from the trance fringes to the epicentre of the scene. Once the sole preserve of its disenfranchised, it's now the place that the trance centre-ground calls home. To mark...
Giuseppe Ottaviani and Solarstone are both legends and play in their own league for years now. In 2014 they created with PureNRG a new live performance concept in addition to their single artist appearances. Their rare live sets and productions under the alias have...
Factor B a.k.a. Brendan Blatt hails from Melbourne, Australia, which is where Rich Solarstone picked the track up immediately upon being played it at a pre-Pure-Trance-gig dinner table. Solarstone, Bryan Kearney, John O’Callaghan and Neptune Project have all been...
Rewind, just 5 short years, and the expression ‘Pure Trance’ was no more than one artist’s encapsulation of his own output. Over the course of the following 12 months that solidified into his mission statement, before he catalysed it into a scene-wide, ‘brighter day’...
Over the last 12 months PureNRG has been one biggest headline-grabbing arrivals to seize the trance scene. With perfect synergy, it has brought together the respective musical perspectives of Solarstone & Giuseppe Ottaviani. Rich & Giuseppe are now primed to...
A State Of Trance 686... This weeks #ASOT686 with Armin van Buuren comes along not with one, not with two, but with three (!!!) album specials... expect music by the forthcoming new Heatbeat LP "Global Monster", Solarstones new "Pure Trance 3" mix-compilation and...
In its third year, the evermore-established origin-trance series "Pure Trance" marshals–up for its regular end-of-Oct release spot! Following co-mix tenures by Orkidea, and last year Giuseppe Ottaviani, in 2014 it’s younger-gun Bryan Kearney who joins Solarstone at...
Live audiences expect more nowadays… and make no mistake, they’re about to get it! Pure NRG is artist union, mission statement and live-on-stage concept concert all wrapped up into one. Pure NRG is what happens when two forces of trance nature meet kinetically to...
Our Tune Of The Week in calendar week 19 2014... Future Disciple - Kwiwakurra! Already one of our highlights on Solarstone's highly acclaimed 'Pure Trance 2' compilation and a a fixed component in his sets, 'Kwiwakurra' has finally found our long awaited...
Our Tune Of The Week in calendar week 13 2014... IKO - Heart Of Stone (Solarstone Pure Mix)! We heared it first when Rich (Solarstone) played the track as opener at his set at "A State Of Trance 650" in Almaty. We didn't know the original (sorry but we are no...