Sonic Arps' Above Clouds Climbs for Seven Minutes and Ended Octopus Trance Radio 157
A Hungarian Producer and a Mexican Label Make a Psytrance Track That Floats
Above Clouds runs for seven minutes and 26 seconds, and Sonic Arps spends most of that time gaining height. The Hungarian producer’s March single for Divinity Records treats progressive psytrance as an exercise in patience. The groove opens out instead of tightening. The track keeps rising past the point where a full-on record would peak.
Sonic Arps’ tracks are in the playlist below, and his artist profile collects his full run of coverage. Above Clouds reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Play it first, then keep reading.
Sonic Arps Lets Above Clouds Climb Slowly, the Patient Logic of Progressive Psytrance
Psytrance has two broad tempers. Full-on records stack energy until a room has nowhere left to go. The progressive branch works in longer arcs. It holds a groove steady and changes it by degrees. A DJ can then ride one track into the next without the seams showing. Above Clouds, out since 10 March 2026, sits firmly on the progressive side of that line.
Length is part of that design. Club tracks in this style usually run long, which gives a DJ a generous runway at each end for blending. At seven and a half minutes, Above Clouds follows the convention and spends its middle stretch on the climb itself.
What stands out is how little the arrangement pushes. The track rises gradually, and the rhythm seems to widen rather than accelerate. The layers thin out toward the top instead of piling up. So the high point arrives as a feeling of space more than a surge. Sonic Arps describes his music in terms of driving grooves and intricate melodies. Here he keeps the drive in check. Each melodic idea gets room to settle before the next one arrives.
That approach has a long pedigree. Israel’s Astrix built his career on progressive psychedelic trance. He climbed to No. 18 in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs in 2007. That showed the slower-burning branch of the genre could fill main rooms as well as sunrise sets. Above Clouds belongs to that tradition. It suits the long middle of a set, where a DJ wants momentum without fatigue.
The Hungarian Producer Behind Sonic Arps and His Run of Releases on Four Psytrance Labels
Sonic Arps is the alias of László Szabó. Spotify credits him as both composer and producer of Above Clouds. Every decision in the build traces back to one person. He comes from a country that takes this music seriously. Hungary is home to O.Z.O.R.A., held on an estate near the village of Ozora since 2004. The festival grew out of a gathering during the total solar eclipse of 11 August 1999. It now counts among the largest psychedelic trance events in Europe. Ozora has since run one-day spin-offs abroad, Mexico among them. Sonic Arps has travelled the same route in reverse. He sends his music from Hungary to a label based in Mexico.
Divinity Records introduced him in June 2025 with Spaciousness. The label presented him as new to the spotlight but shaped by years of exploration. The pace since then has been brisk. Dream & Desire and Spring arrived on Sounds Of Akasha in September 2025. Purple Dimension followed on the same label in February 2026. After Above Clouds, Divinity released Echoes of Infinity in July. The Sun followed on Ovnimoon Records a few days later. In September, Quantum Messengers, a collaboration with Nahalun, came out on YTNK. Jupiter Storm has also remixed Purple Dimension for Saturn6 Records.
Almost everything in that catalogue runs long. The other tracks last between seven minutes 46 seconds and eight minutes 37 seconds. That makes Above Clouds the most compact of the set.
TopMusic.News Curator Team: “We placed Above Clouds in our trance and psytrance playlist beside Aly & Fila. There it works as the breathing space between bigger peaks. It lifts the room without anyone noticing the gear change.”
Where to Hear Sonic Arps’ Above Clouds, From a Divinity DJ’s Radio Show to Your Own Library
The label’s own DJs have already made the case for it. Attika, the Divinity Records DJ who has hosted Octopus Trance Radio since 2016, built episode 157 around Sonic Arps. The show aired on 2 October 2026 and opened with Echoes of Infinity. Seven of its ten tracks were his, from Spring and Dream & Desire to The Valley and The Sun. The episode closed on Above Clouds.
It also suits listeners who came to psytrance through Vini Vici, the Israeli duo from Afula. Their Great Spirit with Armin van Buuren, released in December 2016, was the Dutch star’s first psytrance record. That collaboration showed how far the genre’s hooks could travel. Above Clouds comes from the progressive side of the same family. Here a track asks you to live in it for minutes at a time.
Stream Above Clouds on Spotify and Apple Music. Follow Sonic Arps across platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Instagram, Facebook, and Linktree.
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