He remembers listening to an Essential Mix by Gatecrasher’s Scott Bond in 1999 and being “totally in love with it”. Like Leary, his enjoyment of trance goes back to his early years. “Everything I’ve done has trance elements in it I get a buzz from making music so euphoric,” he explains. Another producer whose sound owes much to trance is his Warp labelmate Rustie, whose new album, released two weeks ago, is drenched in arpeggiated synths. While most music-makers might stop there, Leary has also collaborated with artist David Rudnick for an installation at London’s ICA dubbed The Trance War. These nights feature artists such as Björk collaborator Arca and US DJs Total Freedom and Venus X, and mix trance with its high-energy cousins happy hardcore, rave, rap and diva house into a propulsive, original whole. Even America turned on to the sound (eventually), led by its own cast of excellent DJs, including Christopher Lawrence and Kimball Collins. For the past few years he’s been organising a series of confetti cannon-firing events called Trance Party, including a UK tour last month. By 1998, most of the countrys best-known DJs - Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Tony De Vit, Danny Rampling, Sasha, Judge Jules - were playing trance in Britains superclubs. But most recently his childhood love of trance has been his focus.
Christ (AKA Josh Leary) is an electronic hip-hop producer with credits on Kanye West’s Yeezus.
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