The legacy timeline

Timeline

From the first tracks on MP3.com to the stages of London and California. Dates are given as precisely as they are known: a day where the day is documented, otherwise the month or the year.

1997–1999

  1. Founding

    trance[]control is founded in Gothenburg

    Alexander Carlborg (DjC) and Andreas Wennersköld (WennE) start producing together as trance[]control. Sources differ on whether this was early or late in 1997.

  2. Internet

    The band joins MP3.com as artist number 749

    The artist page www.mp3.com/music/Techno/749.html, later also reachable as www.mp3.com/tc, becomes the band's main channel.

  3. Grey badge from the band's 1999 website: trance[]control official homepage, the swirl emblem, and the words most wanted www-band 1999.
    Website

    The Teraxis site starts counting visitors

    The band's own website at teraxis.se/tc/ shows a counter of "visits since October 3, 1998".

  4. Business

    Publishing contract with Frontline Music Publishing

    Frontline Music Publishing acquires the rights to "Fragment of Time" and "Virtual Love". The same week the band publishes two pieces written for the freeware game PK2oons by Third Eye Entertainment.

  5. Release

    Traped [1999 Edition] on MP3.com

    A more club-oriented progressive house track. The band also announces "GOA Project – Insane II" on a 52'nd Stream Media techno compilation CD.

  6. Release

    Atomic Dance Explosion is released on MP3.com

    Published in MP3 and RealAudio, "based on our new sound". The track becomes the band's breakthrough.

  7. Cover of the.demo.cd: a blue and white abstract image with the title the.demo.cd.
    Release

    the.demo.cd

    The band's demo CD, sold through MP3.com. In March 1999 the band writes that the first pay cheque for CD sales will turn the garage into a studio.

  8. Chart

    Atomic Dance Explosion at No. 9 on the MP3.com Top 40

    "Beasty Boys still ahead of us with the track '3 Mc's and One Dj' but not for long..."

  9. Chart

    Number 1 on MP3.com

    The band reports Atomic Dance Explosion at No. 1 across all genres, with 57,000 downloads in 24 days.

  10. Internet

    April 1999: 129,165 downloads and 186,973 visits

    The band reports second place among all MP3.com artists and first among European ones. The same update mentions a vocal mix of Atomic Dance Explosion with the singer Meilani and a feature on the BBC's Tomorrow's World.

  11. Cover of Beyond 2000: a chrome spiral on a dark blue background, with the title beyond 2000.
    Release

    Beyond 2000

    Album on trance[]control Productions, collecting the MP3.com tracks of 1998–1999.

2000–2001

  1. Release

    Remix of MOVE "Rage your Dream" on Avex Trax

    A remix for the Japanese label Avex Trax.

  2. Release

    Health Warning 12"

    First vinyl, on SHR: Psychotic Chaos / Welcome to the House.

  3. Back of a flyer published on the band's site in June 2000, billing Trance Control first, above Cristopher Lawrence, DJ Moda, DJ FX, Vitamin D, Nebula 9, Fury and Loic Xion.
    Live

    First US performance: PLURFEST 2000, Fort Collins

    PLURFEST 2000 – Vol. 1 PEACE in Fort Collins, Colorado.

  4. Cover of Beyond 2001 – the resurrection: a burst of blue light radiating from the centre of a dark frame.
    Release

    Beyond 2001 – the resurrection

    The album the 2005 biography calls the band's debut, reportedly selling about 18,000 copies in the US and Canada.

  5. Header of the band's website in 2000: a white swirl emblem on a dark rayed background and the words official homepage of trance[]control, www.trancecontrol.com.
    Website

    trancecontrol.com goes online

    The earliest archived homepage on the band's own domain.

  6. Business

    Sony and the PlayStation 2 game Frequency

    Sony approaches the band about music for Frequency. The contribution does not go ahead after the band's manager fails to follow up.

  7. Cover of the album Audiographic Moments: the title in thin white letters over a dark image of a mixing desk lit in amber.
    Release

    Audiographic Moments

    Album on trance[]control Productions.

2002–2005

  1. Cover of OUT THERE: red and orange lights scattered over a dark background, the title in white capitals.
    Release

    OUT THERE

    Album, sold online through Ampcast.

  2. Cover of MISSION 2002 Vol.1: a field of glossy turquoise cells with the MISSION 2002 logo in the corner.
    Release

    MISSION 2002 Vol.1

    First of three MISSION 2002 albums.

  3. Cover of MISSION 2002 Vol.2: studio equipment glowing green in the dark, with the MISSION 2002 logo.
    Release

    MISSION 2002 Vol.2 and Vol.3

    Released the same day.

  4. The trance[]control swirl emblem in blue and white on black, with the wordmark and www.trancecontrol.com.
    Website

    The Designselector site

    A trancecontrol.com generation that lets visitors switch between at least three complete graphical themes.

  5. Wide top banner of the 2004 website: the trance[]control wordmark against a silver and amber blur of studio equipment.
    Website

    New website online

    The PHP site with agenda, discography, MP3 Vault and VIP Vault. By April 2005 it reports 5,429 members registered for Vault access.

  6. Release

    Sunrise 12" on Massive Trax

    Sunrise, Sunrise 2004 and Psychotic Chaos. The December 2004 Heaven show is announced as its first release party.

  7. Red flyer for Massive @ Heaven, London, Friday 19 November 2004: three floors, with trance[]control live in the first room alongside DuMonde, Cosmic Gate, The Warp Brothers and Airbase.
    Live

    Live at Heaven, London

    Massive @ Heaven, with DuMonde, Cosmic Gate, The Warp Brothers, Airbase and Conti in the uplifting trance room. The band returns on 17 December.

  8. Release

    Heaven on Black Tiger Recordings (BTR-005)

    Vinyl release of the track written for the Heaven performance; reported at No. 1 on DJMR's trance chart.

  9. Live

    Live in Sacramento, California

    Announced in April 2005 as "Reserved - CA - USA".