Sander van Doorn Supernaturalistic

Doorn Records, 2008

For Trance superstar Sander van Doorn’s debut album he knew he wanted to push himself, and the genre. The scene was in danger of becoming stale and predictable. Too many releases followed the same patterns and too many producers coasted along with the same stock sounds. Over the course of Supernaturalistic, released on his own Doorn Records imprint, the flying Dutchman grabbed Trance by the scruff and shook the damn thing up. Techno beats met House chords, moodier textures brought in Soul, and rigid tempo templates were ignored in favour of letting the tracks find their own steam, rather than one dictated by the current dancefloor bangers.

“A lot of Trance out there at the time had started to use the same formula,” says Doorn. “I wanted to add other genres to the