inthemix | International News | Judge Jules talks up trance

Judge Jules headlines the upcoming Trance Awards at Ministry Of Sound’s Gallery tonight, Friday November 21st, and chatting to Skrufff he suggested a simple explanation behind 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,” said Jules. “Hence the large support in the polls.”

He also shared a similarly straight-forward theory of why it continues to attract such snobbery from critics and some clubbers. “Popularity breeds contempt in some quarters, though not these.”

Award winners at the TrackItDown backed ceremony will be announced throughout the night in between sets from DJs including Jules, Claudia Cazacu and The Thrillseekers, with Tall Paul and Deepgroove headlining Ministry’s second space in the bar area.

Jules also chatted more about his upcoming artist album ‘Bring The Noise’. “[It’s] all trance influenced, with some more conventional trance offerings, plus slower and more techy trance, still with trance undertones.”

In case you were wondering, the album has 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.