Sandra Collins DJ: Tranceport 3, Twilo and Progressive Trance

If you know Sandra Collins, it's probably from one trance CD, and that's a problem for anyone who likes their dance-music history neat. Tranceport 3 is right there, so calling her a trance DJ isn't wrong. It just misses half the point. Her best period moves through progressive house, trance, tougher rhythms and an American rave scene that developed very differently from the British Renaissance and Global Underground story. The records change. The patience doesn't. It's worth following the music either side of Tranceport 3 instead of treating one release as her whole identity. Collins belongs to a particular American club story in which progressive house and trance overlapped, with DJs working across scenes that were not neatly divided by a British genre label. That context gives the better-known compilation a different perspective.