Kolanii – The Belgrade DJ Makes You Travel Back in Time – No Time Machine Needed
Close your eyes. It is a summer night in 2001.
A supersaw melody rises above an offbeat bassline. Someone’s flip phone glows nearby. The future feels impossibly bright, and the anthem coming through the speakers seems familiar enough to have followed you home from a long-forgotten dance floor.
Then comes the twist: the record was released in 2026.
One of the show’s own hooks puts it plainly: “Do you remember this trance anthem from 2001? You can’t. It was made in 2026.”
That impossible memory is the idea behind The Other Timeline, a new weekly show from Belgrade producer and DJ Kolanii. Its premise is simple: what if the golden age of trance and Eurodance never ended, but continued evolving somewhere just beyond our reality?
No time machine needed. Just headphones.
The first episode on Mixcloud (https://www.mixcloud.com/kolanii/the-other-timeline-with-kolanii-episode-001/) runs for 59 minutes and 29 seconds, building its alternate history from current releases, new remixes and melodies that still carry the emotional vocabulary of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
At 0:28, Marlon Hoffstadt’s “Party People” opens the journey with the directness of a record built for raised hands. By 3:05, Solarstone’s “Solarcoaster” has returned in SUPERSTRINGS’ Emotional Rollercoaster Remix, connecting a 2003 original to the current classic-trance renewal.
The illusion deepens at 8:01 with Tiësto, Cleopard2000 and CH4YN’s “Hard To Be Around,” a 143 BPM vocal-trance record released in October 2026. It sounds aware of history without becoming trapped inside it: polished for the present, but driven by the kind of melody and momentum that once promised a radiant new millennium.
That balance is central to Kolanii’s music and selections. The show does not pretend its tracks were literally recovered from an archive. Every record is real; the alternate year 2000 is the story wrapped around them.
“I want each episode to feel familiar, but never predictable, like tuning into the year 2000 in a world where the music took a different path,” says Kolanii.
Why does this sound produce such a strong pull? Part of the answer lies in its ingredients: bright synthesizers, emotional chord changes, dreamy vocals and tempos that create constant forward motion. Early trance often sounded futuristic without feeling cold. Its optimism was pure, unapologetic, and built to unite a room rather than divide it. Its optimism was physical, built into every rising melody and long breakdown.
Today’s producers are returning to that language with sharper production and faster contemporary rhythms. Beatport’s own 2025 sales round-up showed the genre selling again, and veterans and newcomers now routinely share the same tracklists.
Episode 001 makes those connections audible. At 21:31, Hi-Gate’s 2000 track “Pitchin’ (In Every Direction)” reappears through a Shugz and Trance Wax remix. At 35:46, Armin van Buuren and Funk Tribu’s 2026 collaboration “Nirvana” places an original-era figure beside one of the artists shaping the newer nu-trance wave.
Then, at 43:39, Energy 52’s “Café Del Mar” arrives in Wippenberg’s 2026 edit. The melody is among trance’s most enduring, but here it functions less like a museum piece than a signal being received again. At 53:04, New Order’s “Blue Monday” is recast through an Indecent Noise remix before Mark Sixma and Steve Dekay close the episode with “2 The Beat.”
These are songs from different decades, but Kolanii arranges them as one continuous present. Not retro. Reborn.
The YouTube replay of Episode 001 also reveals the show’s broader purpose. Recognizable names such as Tiësto and Armin van Buuren provide context, while producers including SUPERSTRINGS, BURNR, LAWTON, dj try and DJ WIFI give the journey its sense of discovery.
That attention to smaller artists matters. A revival survives by producing new records, not merely replaying old ones. Kolanii’s music follows the same instinct: classic emotion, modern energy and an affection for an era when electronic music seemed able to open a door into a more beautiful world.
“There was so much innocence and wonder in that sound,” Kolanii says. “For me, that feeling never ended, and there are new records still waiting to be discovered.”
New episodes land every Tuesday at 8 PM CET, and each hour stays available afterwards on YouTube, Mixcloud and SoundCloud. The show’s promise is captured in one line: “The music you remember. The songs you’ve never heard.”
Find out more and Follow Kolanii via his official website, platforms and social media:
Official website: https://kolanii.innovision.lol
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3YJn0GIKkwaZjxHenlLVH7
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kolanii-official/the-other-timeline-with
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kolanii.official/
Mixcloud, Episode 001: https://www.mixcloud.com/kolanii/the-other-timeline-with-kolanii-episode-001/
