A Trance Database Arrived: Browse by Year with Ease

An almost complete Trance Database has recently arrived, free to browse anywhere, anytime

The Trance Database is free, contains 150,000 classic trance tracks, and is available without registration. The DB is a spreadsheet that can be opened almost anywhere, anytime, on any device.

The database was created with the “goal to compile all trance (and proto-trance) tracks made between 1988 and 2009.”. For the construction, vinyl releases were used as a reference. The DB provides various details about each track, such as the artist’s name, song title, length, and style. And under the song names are links directly to YouTube, where the tune can be listened to. And whose work is this? This is the work of Koncz Dávid, aka TheTranceHistorian, a Hungarian man with a passion for trance. Interestingly, the Hungarian community seems to be very active in projects lately, just think of Tamás Borján’s LEGO Pioneer CDJ 2000.

Around 2022, Dávid was working on a similar list for his book, also about Trance. The main focus of this was the history of the genre’s origin, but he soon realized that it would be a great opportunity to create a nearly complete database. He made the exciting announcement on the Trancefix forum that the “mostly finished” database had arrived.

“My original intent with [the database] was to aid my research for the book and make processing large amounts of data (and also the writing) faster. But then I quickly realized that it could be a useful and valuable source of information for all Trance lovers out there, hence, I decided to make it available to everyone“, added Dávid.

According to the author, most of the information was obtained by accessing the open database/API of discogs.com. The almost 150,000 records from 1988 to 2009 are almost 90% accurate, according to Dávid. In addition to the forgotten masterpieces, it includes such hit tracks as “Take Me Away” by 4 Strings, Robert Miles’ “Children” or Tiësto’s “Traffic”, and many more.

The database is available here on Google Sheets, completely free of charge and without registration. The initial page will be an information page, but for speed, there are tabs at the bottom of the screen to jump between years.