Vini Vici

Vini Vici for the EDC Las Vegas Virtual Rave-A-Thon in May 2020—because what better way to simulate a festival mainstage from your living room than with full-throttle psytrance and questionable life choices? The vibe is that of a digital mainstage: all flashing visuals and dopamine hits, tailored for at-home ravers wearing pajamas. Vini Vici pushes the tempo to an average 133 BPM, with keys like 12A and 4A providing a harmonic backbone for soaring leads and relentless basslines. Energy is more balanced here, with significant mid and high frequencies cutting through, creating that classic, euphoric trance lift.

Mixing is fast and punchy, often using hard cuts and dramatic builds to mimic the peak-time festival experience, even if the crowd is just your cat. This is big-room psytrance at its most unapologetic, designed for maximum impact with minimal subtlety. Notable tracks include Armin van Buuren's 'Blah Blah Blah', a meta-commentary on trance tropes that somehow works, and Swedish House Mafia's 'Save the World', a progressive house anthem given a trancey sheen.

The remix of Hilight Tribe's 'Free Tibet' is Vini Vici's signature psytrance bomb, while Alchimyst & P.R.O.G.'s 'Runes' adds a mystic, vocal-heavy layer. The swing of SOFI TUKKER's 'Swing' remix offers a brief, playful detour, and Gigi D'Agostino's 'Bla Bla Bla' is a nostalgic, Italian dance throwback. From an unknown opener, the set rockets through trance and psytrance peaks, with 'Great Spirit' serving as a climatic moment, before closing on the collaborative bombast of 'Get in Trouble' with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike.