While Mowatt is currently using Pure to aggressively champion trance within the electronic scene, the concept of it ironically materialized out of what he thought was the end of his career. People fall in love to it.” The music promotes a comfortably overwhelming sense of unity and acceptance, a phenomenon that as an influencer of the scene, he wishes to preserve and amplify. Trance is the reason why people get up in the morning, or why they get over a relationship. There’s no other type of electronic music that does it. “It connects people it’s incredible, really. “It’s the sense that ‘we are one,’” he described further. That’s why you have the Trance Family.” His words struck with perfect precision. Staring off in the distance, a sly grin crossed the corners of his mouth as he reviewed its strengths - “putting a smile on your face, hands in the air, and memories of a happy holiday…that feeling of togetherness that you only get from trance. When people started getting into trance, it was always very precise and meticulously programmed, and I loved the fact that trance was very melodic and classically influenced.”īeyond trance’s tight programming and mastery of melodic placement is the intense feeling of connection fostered by it. “The first electronic music was all very…sloppy like the breakbeat scene for example. That’s how I first kind of got into it.” Danny Rampling was another influencer, whose legendary Love Groove Dance Party on Radio 1 switched to a trance direction around 1995/96. He points out two factors in particular that inspired him: “The first proper clubs I went to were gay clubs, where they used to play an early form of trance. Mowatt’s love for trance was sparked just as the genre was branching off from its techno cousin into a more melodious fare. Its momentum led him to California to perform his first open-to-close set on the West Coast, where we caught up with the luminary beforehand to discuss the Pure ethos and why so many are drawn to it. Reverting back to his roots as an artist, Solarstone inaugurated the concept of “Pure.” Presenting what he felt was a raw, unadulterated form of the genre, Mowatt took the helm of what evolved into an international movement aimed at preserving trance in its rightful form. A fan of the music from its beginnings, he witnessed, and was deeply affected by, the change in trance as it began trading in its old identity for one that coincided with electro, house-fueled trends dominating electronic music during its second commercial boom. Rich Mowatt, better known as Solarstone, is just stepping into his role as an emerging leader of the trance scene.
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