Trance Is Star Radio has run continuously since 2010, a small independent internet station streaming underground trance, deep house, progressive house and techno out of Ukraine without a single advertisement breaking up the mix. It has stayed on air through more than a decade that completely reshaped what electronic music in Ukraine actually looks like.
A Decade and a Half of Underground Trance
The station has broadcast around the clock since 2010, according to its own site at tranceisstar.pp.ua, streaming at 320kbps with no commercial interruptions. Its resident and guest DJs range in age from their mid-twenties to early sixties, an unusually wide span for a single electronic music station and one that points to a listener base built over many years rather than chasing a single trend.
Part of a Scene Built From Nothing
Trance Is Star's long, quiet run sits against a much louder backdrop. Ukraine's electronic music underground traces back to spots like Kyiv's Paris Commune club in the early 1990s, and grew through the 2010s into a scene documented by Mixmag as one of the most vital in Eastern Europe, with collectives like Cxema throwing parties in abandoned factories that eventually drew coverage from Dazed and i-D. That underground energy, built on DIY spaces and word-of-mouth rather than major label backing, is the same environment an ad-free, independently run trance stream like Trance Is Star grew out of.
Dance Music That Kept Playing
Since 2022, Ukraine's club and radio scene has operated under conditions almost no other electronic music community has faced: curfews, air raid alerts and power cuts from a damaged energy grid. Reporting from Al Jazeera and KALTBLUT Magazine has described how clubs and promoters kept dance floors running anyway, treating the music as a deliberate act of normalcy rather than an afterthought. An internet radio station that keeps streaming trance around the clock through those same conditions fits into that same pattern, low-profile continuity as its own form of resilience.
Still Streaming, Still Underground
Trance Is Star Radio was never built to be a major broadcaster, and it has never tried to become one. It has simply kept a trance, progressive and deep house stream running from Ukraine for more than fifteen years, staffed by DJs across four decades of age difference, ad-free the entire time, a small but stubborn constant inside one of Europe's most turbulent recent stretches for electronic music.