Return to Balerica – Stacey Jay & Andre Wildenhues

22/08/2025 112 28 4

Back to Where It Still Feels Real

Where are you looking for peace these days? Because peace hides in strange corners. Sometimes a track gives you five quiet minutes, sometimes gives you more than that. Me? I’ve got one that keeps the cracks from spreading. When I hit play on Return to Balerica, something different happens. Something clicks. Not a flashback, but more like muscle memory pulling you somewhere softer.

Stacey Jay and Andre Wildenhues – two names already stitched into trance’s emotional tapestry – team up again for this one. You may remember their previous collaboration, Hold on to Hope, which is full of emotion and late-night resilience. But this one… this one takes your hand and walks you straight into the sun.

Released on Ablazing Records, Return to Balerica it’s a passage. A ticket back to the version of yourself that could still breathe without noise, still dance without planning it for social media. The bass just stays out of the way. Like it knows the track’s not about it. The melody? You notice it when it’s gone. That’s how it moves.

A Trance Track with Sand Between Its Toes

When Stacey says Ibiza changed her life in the ‘90s, I believe her. You can hear it in how she sings. Well… not like a pop act trying to sell a chorus, but like someone trying to hold on to a feeling. And Andre? He calls it Balerica. His happy place. Plenty go there for the parties. Some go to breathe again. Different arrivals, same runway – a real place. People just forget it can heal too.

I get it. I’ve had my own versions of Balerica – moments, not places. A beach after a breakup. A late-night drive where the only thing louder than the engine was the music. That’s the power of tracks like this. They sneak past the gate and settle into your memory bank like madness.

The lyrics don’t try too hard either, which is rare these days. No big metaphors, or empty hooks. Just lines that tells something deeper: “Take me far, take me far away, where the ocean calls my name…” And if you’ve ever needed to go somewhere, anywhere, to feel again – then you already know what that line means.

Somewhere Between Soul and Speaker

This is uplifting trance. Yeah, but not the hands-up-in-the-air, glowstick-type. Return to Balerica is actually grounded. Like walking barefoot on a beach you used to know, with the tide slowly smoothing out all the damage. You get that, right? There’s healing here – real healing. The kind you don’t post about because it’s still too personal.

I played it three times before I even noticed I was breathing slower. And there’s enough emotion to stretch, because this release drops four versions – each one built to keep you locked in. For me, this is the kind of music I leave on loop when writing late into the night. It gently tugs at those places I don’t check often enough, and maybe that’s the point. If trance is supposed to take you somewhere – this one actually does. And when it drops you off, don’t be surprised if you want to stay a little longer than planned.

Listen to “Return to Balerica” on Spotify, Beatport, or wherever your headphones call home. For more from the artists: