With the flood of producers returning to trance, will W&W be heading back to their roots under a new alias?

Its been a long time since W&W has been known for something directly involving trance, and their jump to big room house really turned many fans against them. Lets take it back really quick, for those of you who arent well versed in the saga that is W&W. Joining forces in 2007, they released multiple trance tracks over the years,including many collaborations with notable artists like Mark Sixma, Ben Gold, and Ummet Ozcan. In 2011, they even released an entire album,Impact, on Armada Music that was also well received. Fast forward to 2012, when they struck gold with hit tracks Lift Off! and Invasion. Of course, if youve followed A State Of Trance, youd know that Invasion was also the anthem for ASOT 550 too. But the words W&W and Trance were numbered.

As the tastes of the electronic music scene changed, so did W&W. They werent alone, for what its worth, as others fled right along with them. Names like Ummet Ozcan, Tritonal, and others jumped to more popular genres too.By 2013 they began pumping out big room house hits that still were getting dancefloors going but forcing many older fans to choose between accepting their new sound or leaving them behind entirely. To their credit, theyve gone on to see success in the big room market. Bigfoot, The Code, Rave After Rave, and more have all gone on to become hitsbut it still stings that they left the trance scene behind.

Yesterday, Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of their lineup. Included in that list were many namesand even some aliases too that I wasnt expecting to see. Alpha 9, the old alias of Arty led the charge, and I was excited to see Sander Van Doorn brings you Purple Haze too. Being an active social media enthusiast, I was messaged a link to a post from one of the Ultra groups on Facebook with an interesting theory unfolding. It was brought to my attention that on the lineup post on facebook, someone had asked the question Where is W&W? and Ultras Official Facebook commented, Look Closer ;). The comment from Ultra, which has since been deleted, sparked my interestand many others though. The masses began to check one by one, but it clearly wasnt there in plain sight. One name that wasnt ringing any bells as an actual artist or alias was thoughNWYR.

Credit: Ultra Miami Facebook Group

So away I went in my mission to figure out if perhaps this was some secret alias that an artist like W&W could use. I crosschecked all the names of other artists to a variety of sources just to make sure I wasnt missing something, yet still, nothing could be found. Thats when the digging began, I started scouring W&W socials for any hint or sign that this was the case. I could only really source a comment in which they stated Chill guys, got tons of new music coming!! Even for the Trance heads out there ;). So the search continued to look at figuring out who NWYR was and I found it to be more baffling than ever.

It clearly HAS to be someone using an alias, but who? The artist profile on Ultras own website is lacking in any information about the artist outside of the logo. I stumbled upon the Facebook, Twitter, and SoundCloud, all of which were fresh accounts. The Facebook Page provided the first hint at NEW YEAR, and the SoundCloud placed their location in the Netherlandscuriously where W&W calls home. Unfortunately, after this, I hit a wall and the information really stopped there. I can point out the fact that there are two heads to the dragon and W&W is a duo, too, but honestly, we can only guess at this point.

Could it be someone else? Sure. Could it have been an interns mistake on Facebook? Of course. Maybe well end up seeing the name W&W show up on the Phase 3 lineup in March, or have another artist squash these claims and step forward as NWYR, who knows. But until then, anyones guess is as good as mine, and Ill subscribe to the idea that it is W&W returning to trance under a different alias.

Grant has been listening to electronic dance music since the early 2000s. Actively involved in the EDM community, Grant is an admin for the EDC & Coachella subreddits and their Facebook groups. Previously he has been part of several EDM startups and promotion companies such as Shamele55, Electric State of Mind and Q-Dance. Originally listening to trance artists such as ATB, Armin Van Buuren and Paul Oakenfold, Grant has expanded his listening experience to include a full set of genres ranging from hardstyle to deep house and has been regularly attending both festivals and club events since 2010.

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