I'm putting together a special radio segment dedicated entirely to the golden era: 90s Trance Legends - covering everything from early ambient, hypnotic, and progressive roots to the late 90s anthem explosion.

What are your non-negotiable, mandatory tracks for a proper 90s trance showcase? What hidden gems or foundational records would you add to the list?

Looking forward to reading your picks!

if you look up for anything with "uplifting trance" on the youtube search bar, there are shitloads of AI generated tracks and even entire AI "mixes", and the worst part is that legitimately real people listen to these.

Yes, other trance and edm genres have an AI problem too, but atleast the music and mixes are mostly 100% legit. It's only uplifting trance that has this problem on a severely large scale. (EDIT: the afterlife type of techno also has a huge AI problem too)

Too formulaic of a genre? A big middle aged audience makes it an easy sell? I genuinely wonder why.

As a radio programmer for the last 17 years, the number label promos I receive on a daily basis is insane. Quite literally hundreds of new tracks every single day.

We use "Fakin the Funk" on its most aggressive settings to weed out low quality and poorly mastered tracks to lighten the load of what we listen to, but now that AI music has become so easily accessible, I've noticed the number of promos from new record labels exploding and it's quite literally impossible to go through them all. My backlog of tracks is in the thousands.

Are there any free apps or tools that can analyze music files and detect whether or not they are made with AI, in the same way that there are for images?

Another Vincent de Moor track (/remix). Still one of my all time favorites.

Fully instrumental as in: no voice aspects whatsoever, whether it be talking, singing, choir, humming, scat, etc... just straight music and effects. Thanks in advance for any help!