Mattix Dawn

I'm an independent trance producer crafting high-energy trance anthems.

Spotify: Mattix Dawn

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

🌅 Eternal Dawn — a journey through light and sound. Let the music wash over you. 🎶

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

Real talk for a second.

I started this account a couple months ago with one goal: find the people who love trance the way I do.

And you showed up.

Every reply, every share, every person who said 'this track hit me' or 'I haven't heard that name in years' — that's the whole point. That's why I'm here.

If you haven't checked out my music yet, this weekend is the time.

🎵 https://t.co/9t96RP9TEX
▶️ https://t.co/gz4BG9r90L

Thank you for being part of this. Let's keep going.

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

How the tempo of trance has shifted across 30 years.

The BPM tells the story of where the genre was going — and where it's going now.

#Trance #BPM #TranceHistory #EDM #TranceProduction #MusicFacts

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

I want to talk about something people don't say enough:

Trance has genuinely helped my mental health.

Not in a vague 'music is good for you' way. In a specific, concrete way. When things are heavy, there's a particular kind of trance build that does something nothing else does — it takes the feeling and gives it somewhere to go.

The release at the drop isn't just sonic. It's emotional. The music does the work of processing something you couldn't process on your own.

I make music because I know other people feel this too. And I want to give them that release.

Has trance ever helped you through something? You don't have to share details. Just know you're not alone.

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

There's a moment at every great trance event when the crowd becomes one thing.

Not 10,000 people standing next to each other. One entity experiencing one moment.

I've felt it. You've felt it. It's why we keep going back.

This is for everyone who has ever lost themselves in a trance crowd and found something better.

#TranceFestival #TranceFamily #Trance #EDM #ASOT #Euphoria #TranceUnity

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

Some events didn't just showcase trance. They proved what it was capable of.

Tiësto's solo performance at the 2004 Athens Olympics opening ceremony — the first DJ to ever play the Olympics.

A State of Trance 650 in Utrecht, Netherlands — 40,000 people, 12 hours, every major trance DJ on the planet.

Dreamstate in California — the US finally getting the kind of dedicated trance event Europe had been running for decades.

These weren't concerts. They were moments when trance proved it was more than a genre.

What's the trance event you'll never forget?

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

I've been working on something.

New track. Female vocal. Longer build than anything I've done before. The kind of build that makes you think it can't possibly get bigger — and then it does.

Not ready to share details yet. But it's close.

In the meantime, everything I've released so far is on Spotify. If you haven't listened yet, start there.

🎵 https://t.co/9t96RP9TEX
▶️ https://t.co/gz4BG9r90L

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

Finding the right voice for a track is the hardest part of what I do.

I'm not looking for technical perfection. I'm looking for the thing that happens in the space between the notes — the breath before a word, the way a phrase lands slightly behind the beat.

The female voice in trance has to carry an emotion the music can't say on its own. It has to open something.

When I find that voice for a track, everything else clicks. The build has somewhere to go. The drop has something to release.

How do you feel about the role of the vocalist in trance?

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

Above & Beyond proved that trance could break your heart.

Their OceanLab project with vocalist Justine Suissa produced some of the most emotionally devastating music the genre has ever seen. 'Satellite', 'Clear Blue Water', 'On a Good Day' — these weren't dance tracks. They were confessions.

The Anjunabeats sound they built — progressive, melodic, deeply emotional — influenced an entire generation of producers who wanted to make music that meant something.

They showed us that a trance track could be a song. A real song with something to say.

Favorite Above & Beyond or OceanLab track?

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

The voices that made trance unforgettable.

Behind some of the biggest trance anthems ever recorded is a vocalist who gave everything to the track.

These are the ones who defined the sound of a genre.

Who's missing from this list? 👇

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

The greatest trance tracks are partnerships.

A producer creates a world. A vocalist steps into it and makes it real.

The best collaborations happen when the vocal doesn't just sit on top of the music — it drives it. The melody forms around the voice. The build happens because the voice is building somewhere.

That's why the vocal goes in first for me. Everything else is built to serve what she gives the track.

Think about your favorite vocal trance collaboration. Could the track exist without that specific voice? Almost never.

Name the collaboration that proves this.

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

People ask me what inspires my music.

Honest answer: the moments between things.

The drive home at 2am when the city is quiet. The feeling after a conversation that went somewhere unexpected. The last few seconds before sleep when your thoughts are still and something drifts through.

Those moments have a sound. A female voice, something unresolved, something that wants to go somewhere.

I try to make that sound.

▶️ https://t.co/gz4BG9r90L
🎵 https://t.co/9t96RP9TEX

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

In 2001, a Dutch DJ launched a weekly radio show.

25 years later, A State of Trance is the longest-running electronic music broadcast in history — 1,100+ episodes, 40+ million listeners in 84 countries.

Armin van Buuren didn't just DJ. He built an institution. Every week, for a quarter century, he showed up and delivered the best trance on the planet to anyone with a radio or an internet connection.

ASOT is the reason millions of people know what trance is. It created a global community that still holds.

What's your favorite ASOT moment or track? 👇

#Armin #ASOT #AStateOfTrance #Trance #TranceHistory #EDM #ArminVanBuuren

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

Trance started in a city. It ended up everywhere.

Frankfurt → Amsterdam → London → Ibiza → Beirut → Sydney → Los Angeles.

The genre spread along an invisible map of clubs, radio shows, and pirate broadcasts. A Sven Väth record played in Germany would show up on a tape traded in Tokyo six months later.

Then the internet arrived. Suddenly a 17-year-old in São Paulo could hear the same set as someone in a Berlin warehouse. Trance became the first truly global electronic genre.

Where in the world did trance find YOU? 👇

#GlobalTrance #TranceHistory #Trance #EDM #ElectronicMusic #TranceFamily

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

This is what trance feels like when you close your eyes.

Not a crowd. Not a stage. Just the sound and what it does to you.

Some music fills a room. Trance fills something else.

Follow for more. 🎵

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[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

@saralandrydj Great scene

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

There's a reason trance makes you feel the way it does. Science can actually explain it.

1. The BPM range (130–140) syncs with elevated heart rate, priming your body for emotional response.

2. Repetitive patterns in trance engage the brain's default mode network — the same state activated in meditation.

3. The long build-and-release structure triggers dopamine anticipation — your brain rewards you just for expecting the drop.

4. Communal listening amplifies all of it. Hearing trance with others isn't just social — it's neurologically different from hearing it alone.

Trance doesn't just sound good. It's built to make you feel.

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

@CharlottedWitte Awesome

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

Long weekend incoming.

The best long weekends have a soundtrack. Something that starts slow, builds, and takes you somewhere you didn't expect to go.

That's what I make.

Put it on tonight and let me know what you think.

🎵 https://t.co/9t96RP9TEX
▶️ https://t.co/gz4BG9r90L

What's on your playlist this weekend? Drop it below 👇

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

Some tracks don't just define a moment — they define the entire genre.

These are the trance anthems that changed everything.

Which one hit you first? 👇

[Mattix Dawn @mattixdawn]

@callittechno Nice