Joe Fares is a Trance producer from Beirut, Lebanon who has recently been interested in electronic music. Ever since he was a kid he was a metalhead. At the age of 14, Joe started composing metal verses that were played by the band which he formed with his school friends. His friend Michel introduced him to trance by sharing with him the playlist of A State of Trance episode 650, thus, hooking Joe on Trance. Furthermore, he started producing music in the summer of 2018 in which he taught himself all the fundamentals of production including sound design, mixing, and mastering. Joe is infatuated with a melodramatic chord progression. He is inuenced by classic/old school trance such as Above & Beyond’s Trance Around the World, Smith & Pledger, The Thrillseekers,