We have all seen Tony, Jono, and Paavo from Above & Beyond, perform in front of crowds numbering in the high thousands and more (Electric Zoo? Brazil?) but this past weekend Underground Sound was able to join a more intimate Trance family Group Therapy session at Mixx at The Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After three days of birthday partying, this party chick definitely needed some therapy!

The bottle service tables may have crowded the dance floor but these trance junkies were not about to sit still. Three hours of trance we essentially lost our minds to the melodies in a land of pure electronic bliss. The transitions were seamless. The beat was constant.

The songs become less audio and become a full mind experience with visual and I also was particularly fond of the personal messages being written to the crowd by A&B explaining their own emotions during each song and explaining the background to the song’s creation.

Richard Bedford and Zoe Johnson, a classic vocal favorite, uses their voices to put into words what normally most of us mere mortals would have difficulty expressing. The music of course had the high energy meant for a club but that progressive edge never truly severed from the trance roots.

On a side note Underground Sound wants to know: Mixx, why oh why? Above & Beyond leaves the stage and BOOM you play some top 40 house-y club mixes? What was the point of that. The opener played trance. Above & Beyond IS trance and then you go to Flo-rida and Z100 edits? Explain yourselves! 4 a.m. is not an excuse, remember that.

If you have not taken a look or had the opportunity to have the Underground Experience, please check out A&B’s channel on YouTube.

Or for their free downloads for this session via Facebook go here.