Euphoria is a series of dance music compilations that debuted on the Telstar Records label in early 1999. During the first year, Euphoria focused primarily on trance music until mid-2000 when Euphoria released the first chill-out album in the series and the first hard house album in late 2000. Euphoria was later spun off into a number of associated club nights around the UK, Ibiza and Cyprus. Over the course of three years, in excess of 500 tour dates were chalked up with tour DJs such as Adam White, Robert Van Ryn, Simon Webdale and Darren James. The compilations included box sets usually priced at around £20.00. The Euphoria albums were of high quality and still are highly collectible and the earlier versions are somewhat rare.

Frequent DJs and/or producers who have mixed albums include Dave Pearce, Matt Darey, Lisa Lashes, John '00' Fleming, Adam White, The Tidy Boys, Jay Burnett, Red Jerry and Andy Whitby.

When Telstar Records folded in 2004, the brand went to Ministry of Sound recordings.

Since the debut release, the Euphoria brand has showcased other genres in electronic dance music including hard house, hard dance, progressive and psy-trance as well as releasing some (thus far) "one offs" that cover old skool, funky house, hardcore and the ever-popular "mash up".

Although focusing mostly on "Best of" compilations in recent years under various guises, the Euphoria brand went "back to its roots" in mid-2008 with its first release of new (all encompassing) trance music in 3 years as opposed to the subgenre releases. Summer Euphoria was also the first digital-only release under the Euphoria brand.

With no new releases for nearly 18 months, Ministry of Sound released Euphoria 2011 in September of that year. This was a new direction for the Euphoria brand in that the album contained the latest dance music including the recent fusion of dance beats with R&B.

Telstar also launched the Breakdown (its full name being The Very Best of Euphoric Dance Breakdown) series in 1999, the same year as the inaugural Euphoria album, and this brand also went to Ministry of Sound following the folding of Telstar. Breakdown too focused on electronic dance music, but was never focused on trance music in particular, focusing on a wide range of subgenres of dance music, including non-electronic genres such as a disco edition. The series was computer mixed, but did not list a DJ on its cover, but instead in its liner notes. In the book The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums, the Breakdown series is erroneously listed as being part of the Euphoria series.

List of Euphoria albums by Telstar Records (Telstar TV) (1999–2004) # Album name Mixed by Release year Catalog #1Euphoria - For the Mind, Body and SoulPF Project1999TTVCD30072'Deeper' EuphoriaRed Jerry1999TTVCD30643Ibiza EuphoriaMatt Darey1999TTVCD30784'A Higher State of...' Euphoria - Level 3PF Project1999TTVCD30955Pure EuphoriaMatt Darey2000TTVCD31186Chilled EuphoriaRed Jerry2000TTVCD31277Ibiza Euphoria Volume 2Alex Gold and Agnelli & Nelson2000TTVCD31348Hard House Euphoria Volume 1Lisa Lashes2000TTVCD31529'Transcendental' EuphoriaDave Pearce2000TTVCD315510Deep & Chilled EuphoriaRed Jerry2001TTVCD316411'True' EuphoriaDave Pearce2001TTVCD317612Hard House Euphoria Volume 2Lisa Pin-Up & The Tidy Boys2001TTVCD3177 13Progressive EuphoriaJohn '00' Fleming2001TTVCD318314Chilled Out EuphoriaSolar Stone2001TTVCD318915Ibiza Euphoria Volume 3Dave Pearce2001TTVCD319916'Total' EuphoriaDave Pearce2001TTVCD322017Old Skool EuphoriaAltern82001TTVCD323318White Label EuphoriaJohn '00' Fleming2002TTVCD324119'Absolute' EuphoriaDave Pearce2002TTVCD325120Extreme Euphoria Volume 1Lisa Lashes2002TTVCD326521Ibiza Euphoria Volume 4Dave Pearce2002TTVCD327422The Very Best of EuphoriaMatt Darey2002TTVCD329723Extreme Euphoria Volume 2Lisa Lashes2003TTVCD330524Deeper Shades of Euphoria Volume 1Jay Burnett2003TTVCD328525White Label Euphoria Level 2John '00' Fleming2003TTVCD332726Ireland EuphoriaAl Gibbs2003TTVCD3334 (deleted)27Extreme Euphoria Volume 3Lisa Lashes2003TTVCD3346283CD Limited Edition EuphoriaMatt Darey & Adam White2003TTVCD336529Extreme Euphoria Volume 4Lisa Lashes & BK & The Tidy Boys2003TTVCD337430Deeper Shades of Euphoria Volume 2Jay Burnett2004TTVCD3383

Unusually, the last installment of the Telstar years, Deeper Shades of Euphoria (volume 2) was a co-release with Virgin Records/EMI, who had been rival labels with Telstar in the past. It has been suggested Virgin and EMI helped support the album as Telstar entered closure.

List of Euphoria albums by Ministry of Sound (2004–2017) # Album name Mixed by Release Year Catalog #31Frantic EuphoriaAnne Savage & Cally & Juice2004EUPCD132Infinite EuphoriaFerry Corsten2004EUPCD333Extreme Euphoria Volume 5BK2004EUPCD434The Very Best of Tried & Tested EuphoriaJudge Jules2004EUPCD535Frantic Euphoria Volume 2Anne Savage & Andy Whitby2004EUPCD636Beyond EuphoriaDT8 Project2005EUPCD737Tidy EuphoriaLee Haslam & The Tidy Boys & Amber D2005EUPCD838Judgement EuphoriaJudge Jules, Eddie Halliwell & Trophy Twins2005EUPCD939The Very Best of Uplifting House EuphoriaJay Burnett2005EUPCD1140The Very Best of Frantic EuphoriaAnne Savage & Andy Whitby2005EUPCD1241Classic EuphoriaDave Turner2006EUPCD1442Lashed EuphoriaLisa Lashes2006EUPCD1643Classic Euphoria Level 2Jay Burnett2006EUPCD1744Hardcore EuphoriaSy & Unknown, Dougal & Gammer, Brisk & Ham2006EUPCD1945Return to Ibiza EuphoriaJay Burnett2007EUPCD2046The Very Best of Extreme EuphoriaLisa Lashes 2007EUPCD2147Psy-Trance EuphoriaJohn '00' Fleming2008EUPCD2248Summer EuphoriaAirwave2008Digital download only49Tech-Dance EuphoriaYoji Biomehanika2008EUPCD2450Psy-Trance Euphoria Level 2John '00' Fleming2009EUPCD2651Mash Up EuphoriaThe Cut Up Boys2009EUPCD2552Hard Dance Awards 2009 EuphoriaAndy Whitby, Showtek & Ed Real2009EUPCD2753Euphoria Run-Fit WorkoutN/A2009Digital download only54The Very Best of Chilled EuphoriaJay Burnett2009EUPCD2355Euphoria Trance Awards 2009Sean Tyas, Simon Patterson & Claudia Cazacu2009EUPCD2856The History of Trance EuphoriaJohn '00' Fleming2010EUPCD3057Hard Dance Awards 2010 EuphoriaKutski, Andy Whitby vs. Technikal & Ed Real2010EUPCD3258A Decade of Trance Anthems EuphoriaJay Burnett2010EUPCD3159Euphoria 20112011EUPCD3360Classic Euphoria Fitness Workout2012Digital download only61Electronic Dance Music Euphoria2012MOSCD30462Electronic Dance Music Euphoria 20132013MOSCD33363Deep House Euphoria2014MOSCD36164Electronic Dance Music Euphoria2014MOSCD38265Euphoria Classics2017MOSCD494

See also Clubland X-Treme Hardcore (compilation series) Bonkers (compilation album series) Reactivate

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