Around Spring 2024, after some years of playing trance, I came to realize that many of my favourite artists have a habit of releasing ambient productions from time to time. So I started collecting such works and putting them together in mixes. The idea was to gather all the emotional facets and colourful soundscapes of trance, but without the usual percussion. A somewhat experimental side quest at first, this soon accounted for at least half of my gigs and mixes. The more ambient sets I played, the more I understood and appreciated how ambient floors allow for different connections to music and to people. In August 2025, I got the chance to play an extended three-hour ambient set at Schwing & Stampf Festival in Switzerland, surrounded by beautiful mountainous nature. The set I played was the result of more than a year of searching for ambient works by trance producers. Almost all the tracks selected originated from the trance world in one way or another. Since I liked the idea of having a single summary of this ambient trance quest, in addition to separate shorter mixes along the way, I decided to reproduce the set as played on 29 August 2025. Here it is.

Artwork by my brother: Jan Reimann / Studio Fuser (https://studio-fuser.ch)
Photo source: ETH Zürich Photo Archive, Albert Krebs, Cichorium intybus

TRACKLIST:
AWHM – Kaveneys Rd
Repulsive Force – Until When
Alpha Tracks – August/01
Omformer – Live At Munch Museum
DINA – Cadre Part II
Mikkel Rev – Leave (Outro)
nthng – Some Clouds Are Destined To Break
Alpha Tracks – L'Amore Innocente
Courtesy – Night Journeys IIII
Courtesy – Night Journeys I
Europa – Plain Fields
Omformer – Eclipse (Memoir Version)
Tristan – Lost Voyage
HLLW – Metamorphosis
Launaea – Del Mar
Nthr1 – The Long Goodbye (Unspoken)
szoliver – Eredet
Courtesy – AW23
Nthr1 – Belonging To The Night (Unspoken)
Alan Backdrop – Dying Certainty
Alpha Tracks – May/2025
nthng – Encounters At The End Of The World
Eyerate – Fusing My Kneecaps To My Forehead
Mikkel Rev – Evolution Blue
Owl – Lavender Sky
Schacke – The End Of Ecstacy
nthng – Unfinished
Europa – V
Above & Beyond – Tri-State
Patrick Tomala – Sun Energy
Mikkel Rev – Dissolve To Evolve
nthng – Shine
Omformer – Spheroid
HLLW – Norwegian Hood
Alpha Tracks – La Donna Del Lago
Rune Bagge – C27
DINA – I Dream Of You
Mikkel Rev – Nothing So Hidden
Komet99 – Voyager ('Lost On A Beach' Mix)

Three Hours of Ambient from the Trance World

Trance and ambient, at the very least

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