Trance Awards

My Trance Story

Sophie Sugar

Where did you discover trance?

I was in Ibiza on one of my first holidays abroad with friends and heard BBE's Seven Days and One Week in Es Paradis. I was completely blown away by it! I asked someone in the club the name of the track and started listening to trance from that moment onwards!

Who has been your biggest influence?

It's impossible for me to name one person! My influences come from many different genres. I am a huge fan of film scores and in particular the composer Thomas Newman who has written incredible scores for films such as Road to Perdition, American Beauty and The Shawshank Redemption. I also love classical music from composers such as Vivaldi. Within trance itself, Agnelli and Nelson, Armin Van Buuren and Robert Nickson have all been big influences.

What moment would you live again if you could?

From a music/djing point of view, it would have to be my first ever gig at the Escape Club in Brighton. Nothing had prepared me for how incredible playing to a crowd was actually going to be - I have never forgotten that feeling - I was on a high for weeks afterwards!

Where in the world is trance-central?

For me at the moment it would have to be upstairs in my studio!

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