Biography

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SHORT HISTORY

The production duo trance[]control was founded early 1997 by the cousins Alexander Carlborg & Andreas Wennersköld. At a start music was only a common interest between the two but but the future had a bit more in stock then that. Andreas who previous to trance[]control played various instruments and was used to music programming had a fairly solid background within music. This compared to Alexander who pretty much didn’t have any background within music what so ever.


Today trance[]control is one of the largest, most well known and most downloaded bands on the internet. Even though the time from start to today has been fairly short counted in years, the path still has been long with many tricky turns along the way.


Their style & sound can generally be described as hard, progressive & melodic trance. But keep in mind that trance is a very broad genre where the lines between the different sub-genres are extremely thin. The bands specialty has over the years become to produce music that appeal people that normaly wouldn’t listen to this type of music. The age-scale of their listeners range from 10-65 years, though the more common group of people are between 15-30 years old. Despite the slightly odd and undergroundbased style of this band, their music still appeal the most addicted trance lovers out there as well. For instance, the band frequently is compared to other superstar Dj’s such as Commander Tom, BT, Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, Dj Tiësto to name a few.


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RANDOM FACTS

trance[]control headlined Christopher Lawrence & Dj Moda on the flyer of their first US Performance.

trance[]control performed & headlined the afterhour party @ the Love Parade – Berlin

The track Atomic Dance Explosion (Produced by Alexander Carlborg, December 1998) was on the MP3.com TOP40 chart for 81 weeks in a row without dropping out, @ the 82’nd week the band took the track off their page cause the track really didn’t represent their sound anymore.

The same track held the #1 spot @ MP3.com for over 3 months straight.

trance[]control – Atomic Dance Explosion was nominated song of the year on MP3.com 1999

trance[]control was nominated band of the year on MP3.com 1999

Throughout the years every single track by trance[]control have reached #1 in respective genre (Melodic Trance, Hard Trance, Progressive Trance…)

In total 7 of the tracks by trance[]control has reached the MP3.com throne spot #1.

trance[]control is the only artist to reach over 10,000,000 valid downloads from MP3.com. (A valid download is a download or stream that last for 30 seconds or longer. If a user download the same track twice during the same day - it still counts as one download).

In an early stage, trance[]control by mistake turned down a record contract with Universal Music in Germany. Probably not the smartest choice if you want to set fire on your career.

trance[]control was selected to create music for the Sony Playstation 2 game FREQ – but due to a lousy manager they where not properly informed and missed the deadline. (the initial contact was between trance[]control & Sony – but trance[]control left the deal with their manager)

trance[]control released a remix of MOVE – Rage your Dream (#3 @ Billboard - Japan) on AVEX TRAXX – Japan. The remix was bought dirt cheap and AVEX later on made a video from the remix.

The trance[]control debut album ‘Beyond 2001 – the resurrection’ sold about 18,000 copies in US & Canada alone. The record label projected about 3,000 sold copies in total and spent a total of $8,000 in promotion.