Judge Jules headlines the upcoming Trance Awards at Ministry Of Sound’s Gallery next weekend and chatting to Skrufff this week, suggested a simple explanation of the genre’s enduring popularity.

“Trance is the ultimate big room/arena sound, and therefore gets exposed to a very large audience at all the major events around the world, hence the large support in the polls,” said Jules.

The TrackItDown backed event also includes sets from upcoming Romanian star Claudia Cazacu, The Thrillseekers and Deepgroove with the awards being announced throughout the night.

Jules also chatted more about his upcoming artist album ‘Bring The Noise’ which includes a track co-produced with Skrufff chief Jonty Skrufff, Trainwreck.

“I’ve been featuring sections from Jonty’s essential weekly online news piece Skrufff on JudgeJules.net for many years, and we got friendly that way,” said Jules, explaining the connection.

“And I’ve watched his DJ career take off big-time, with tune-making the natural next step.”

Jules said the Nebular released record is ‘all trance influenced, with some more conventional trance offerings, plus slower and more techy trance, still with trance undertones’, with no hip hop elements despite its Public Enemy referencing title.

“I loved Public Enemy as a kid, but that wasn’t the influence,” said Jules, “To be honest, someone emailed me and suggested it,” he confessed.

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