Full Dreamstate SoCal 2017 Sets From Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, MaRLo & More
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Dreamstate SoCal took place. If you don’t know, Dreamstate is like a trance fans Christmas. Dreamstate was a 4 stage festival filled with pure trance by some of the biggest trance DJ’s from all over the globe. This is the only pure trance festival that takes place in the United States and it’s a must for United States trance fans.
If you are like me and live on the East Coast and couldn’t attend due to Thanksgiving, I got you covered. Even though it’s a little late, I searched the dark web to find you as many FULL Dreamstate SoCal sets that I could find.
Below listen or watch full sets from some of the best Trance artists in the world including Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, MaRLo, Andrew Rayel, & many more!
Dreamstate SoCal 2017 Full Live Sets
Ferry Tale
Editor’s note
Several of the original embedded SoundCloud sets in this roundup (Armin van Buuren, Ferry Tale, Kristina Sky, MaRLo, Gaia, Greg Downey, Thomas Datt, Brian Kearney, Code Blue, Outsiders, Menno de Jong, Sam Jones & UCast, John Askew, Factor B, Shugz, and Robert Nickson) used opaque numeric SoundCloud track IDs that could not be reliably re-matched to confirmed official or reupload sources, so those embeds have been omitted rather than risk linking fake or unrelated files. The two original YouTube embeds (Paul van Dyk and Andrew Rayel) have been preserved as bare links since their video IDs were directly confirmed from the original embed source.
Andrew Rayel
Dreamstate Remains Trance’s Biggest US Home
Dreamstate SoCal has stayed one of the only dedicated pure trance festivals in the country, which is exactly why full-set roundups like this one matter so much to fans who couldn’t make the trip out west over a holiday weekend. With four stages running simultaneously, there’s simply no way for one person to catch every set live, and roundups pulling together as many full recordings as possible became the next best thing for trance heads scattered across the rest of the country trying to catch up on what they missed.
A Lineup That Spanned Trance’s Full Spectrum
What made this particular lineup notable is how it stretched across trance’s many subgenres, from Armin van Buuren’s globally recognized uplifting sound to deeper, more progressive-leaning sets from artists further down the bill. That range is part of what makes Dreamstate such a draw for serious trance fans specifically, since it’s one of the few US festivals built entirely around the genre rather than trance getting squeezed into a single stage at a broader multi-genre event.
