90s90s Trance is one small channel inside a much larger network, but the genre it plays did not need to be imported from anywhere. Trance largely grew up in Germany, and this station exists to keep that specific decade of it in rotation.
Born From a Sister Station's Success
Per Wikipedia's entry on 90s90s, the network launched on November 29, 2016, built by the German radio company Regiocast as a sister project to its earlier decade-themed station, 80s80s. Where 80s80s mined the 1980s, 90s90s applied the same formula to the 1990s, eventually growing from its original two-channel launch into a wide roster of playlist-based, unmoderated genre streams covering everything from Eurodance and Hip-Hop to Grunge, Britpop, Clubhits, and Trance.
One Channel Among Dozens, on a Modern Signal
According to the same source, the wider 90s90s program has broadcast nationwide via digital terrestrial radio on Germany's second national DAB+ multiplex since January 2, 2023, alongside its streaming and digital cable availability, giving a nostalgia format built for the internet era a genuine terrestrial signal decades after the music it plays first aired. The Trance channel itself runs without a host, a straight, continuous playlist built for listeners who want the sound without commentary breaking it up.
A Genre Germany Basically Invented
That focus makes more sense with the country's own trance history in view. Per EDM Identity's account of Germany's trance legacy, Frankfurt's Omen club and Berlin's Tresor were foundational venues for the genre's birth in the early 1990s, and it was Matthias Paul, known to the world as Paul van Dyk, who became the scene's breakout face, rising through Berlin's E-Werk club before signing to Germany's MFS Records for his 1994 debut album "45 RPM," home to the enduring club track "For an Angel." 90s90s Trance is, in effect, replaying the soundtrack of a scene that formed in German clubs before it ever became a global genre.
Why It's Worth Tuning In
90s90s Trance offers a direct, no-frills route back into a genre Germany helped build from the ground up, streamed by a network that turned a decade of nostalgia into dozens of individually run channels rather than one broad mix.