Starfleet Commander

Starfleet Commander (Extended)

ALEX M.O.R.P.H.: “Music is the Key. Melodies are the Path. 
Beats are Universal”.

Since the mid 90s Alex M.O.R.P.H has set out to shapeshift within the dance scene as per his alias, leaving no facet of trance unturned and showing the top of the tree is a position that he’s grown rather fond of. Even in a time where stats and streams, followers and figures are pushed to the front, the maths behind M.O.R.P.H’s staying power are frankly mind-boggling. ‘Not All Superheroes Wear Capes’ said the man on his 2016 album – but M.O.R.P.H. is deserving of honours fit for a king. “Passion, discipline, a lot of hard work, and most importantly the love for music”, ensure his crown never slips.

From collaborations with Paul van Dyk and Armin van Buuren (both of whom have always repped M.O.R.P.H. to the fullest), to remixes of Dash Berlin, Gareth Emery, Aly & Fila and Faithless, M.O.R.P.H. is the epitome of can’t stop-won’t stop, earning VIP entry to the globe’s most in-demand clubs and arenas as he continues with the energy and passion of his 1996 self when the Seelenlandschaften imprint came calling. It’s telling that M.O.R.P.H. being the first and only German DJ to play New York’s legendary Madison Square Garden, puts his touring and gig commitments in a different league considering his knocking-out-the-park performances at Cream Ibiza, Mayday, Ultra Music Festival and the ubiquitous A State of Trance spectaculars. Godskitchen, Ushuaia Ibiza, Space Miami, his own HeavensGate takeovers – all mega-scale spaces the German has commanded with ease and never taken for granted, delivering shows and sets living long in the memory while leaving you fiending for his next throb of beats. 

With M.O.R.P.H. still on a high-riding rollercoaster after all these years, cruising through ‘Sunset Boulevard’ while keeping the vibe at ‘Maximum Overdrive’, he has never lost sight of the true goal in life: “find your personal balance, keep things in line – and don’t risk your health!” A true exponent of knowing the scene never sits still, M.O.R.P.H.’s longevity and get-up-and-go overlaps into his handling of the Universal Nation label and podcast series: the man eats, sleeps and breathes music. Global lockdown may have forced a temporary timeout, but it only stirred creativity and tapped into other production processes, ready for when the world was good to go again.

Anyone with a keen ear for the High Contrast label over the last 18 months or so will have heard M.O.R.P.H. hiding in plain sight with a surefire supply of thrills and spills, adding to his reputation as a master of sounds under multiple names maintaining both melodic and attacking instincts. Again it’s all about balance and the right way of going about keeping things simple: “it’s just so important that all elements fit together well: that’s how you keep the atmosphere instead of just adding some big and loud synths in the break that rips the audience in two. It might work fine on the dancefloor, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not how I do things”. Always an in-demand remixer, if you’re given the keys to take on hall-of-famers such as ‘Madagascar’ by Art of Trance and ‘Carte Blanche’ by Veracocha, you know you’ve been doing something right. “One thing has never changed – a heart beating for music”.
 
Back to those statistics. M.O.R.P.H. is an all-time trance bestseller on Beatport and has twice entered the fabled DJ Mag Top 100 list. With a calculator-smashing amount of productions, remixes, compilation mixes and single of the year awards, M.O.R.P.H. has proved time and again his music is for the masses, with streams for favourites such as ‘An Angel’s Love’ and ‘The Reason’ racing into the millions upon millions. On top of being A State of Trance go-to guy and a Vandit Records MVP, he has released on major movers such as Ministry of Sound and Armada. And M.O.R.P.H. isn’t done yet. “I want to get trance back there where it belongs - to the main stages, to more people, sharing with them how gorgeous our music is, and how essential it is to experience it together”. With two new singles reflecting his worldwide adventures - ‘Calling Berlin’ and ‘Calling San Francisco’ – and another album in the pipeline, you believe Alex M.O.R.P.H. is still the man to make all these things happen.

The first time a heard a trance songs I think I was about 10 years old, so that about 19 years ago right now. I think it was one of the Rank 1 Anthems for one of the Sensation White events in Amsterdam. I heard it on the Dutch TV channel in I think it was their weekly top 40. All I could think at that time, what a terrible music as I was much more into what was called mainstream pop music back then. 

 It wasn’t untill Armin van Buuren released his album Imagine and started his Armin Only: Imagine World Tour that really got my mind set on trance music. I think I watched the live registration over 20 times on DVD this is also true voor Live DVD of Armin Only: Mirage. I ready for minsblow of the spectular show die hij keer op keer neer zet, a show that twinkled a my senses. 

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But the tracks back then that really kickstarted trance music for me were: Armin van Buuren vs. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Not Giving Up On Love (Original Mix) and also Armin van Buuren pres. Gaia - Status Excessu D (ASOT 500 Anthem)(Original Mix). Soon after trance became the only music I would be listening to all day. Because within the trance genre there so many different subtypes of trance it keeps surprising every day k lk all from the more downtempo progressive trance, to the emotional vocal tracks, all the way to the uplifting bangers!! A few years ago I started digging online in search of the latest en most exclusives tracks, liveset and radioshows. For a couple of years I’ve been doing exactly that on SoundCloud. The playlists are updated at least weekly and are very variable from all the latest trance radio shows, trance tracks to the best livesets from the latest events and festivals. Hope u enjoy all the music just as much I do!

All time favorite trance tracks:
* Armin van Buuren feat. Fiora - Waiting For The Night (Original Mix)
* Armin van Buuren feat Justine Suissa - Burned With Desire (Rising Star Mix)
* Armin van Buuren pres. Gaia- Status Excessu D (ASOT 500 Anthem)(Original Mix)
* Armin van Buuren - Who’s Afraid OF 138?! (Original Mix/Photographer Remix)
* Armin van Buuren vs. Ferry Corsten - Brute (Original Mix)
* Amin van Buuren feat Jacqueline Govaert & Benno De Goeij - Never Say Never (Live from Armin Only Imagine in Utrecht)
* Armin van Buuren vs. Sophie Ellis-Baxter - Not Giving Up On Love (Original Mix)
* Armin van Buuren - Reprise
* Armin van Buuren feat. Cathy Burton - Rain
* Armin van Buuren - This Is What It Feel Like (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
* Armin van Buuren feat. Jan Vayne - Sail (Original Mix)
* Armin van Buuren - Communication (Original Mix)
* Cosmic Gate - Exploration Of Space (Cosmic Gate’s Back 2 The Future Mix)
* Gareth Emery feat. Lucy Sanders - Sanctuary (Original Mix)
* Gareth Emery - Long Way Home (Ciaran McAuley Remix)
* Gareth Emery - You’ll Be Ok (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
* Ilan Bluestone pres. StoneBlue feat. Emma Hewitt - Hypnotized (Original Mix) 
* Rank 1 - Airwave (Original Mix)
* Rank 1 - Such Is Live
* Veracocha- Carte Blanche (Sneijder Remix)
* Ferry Corsten pres. Gouryella - Anahera (Original Mix)
* Simon Patterson - Miss You (Original Mix)
* Simon Patterson - Thump (Simon Patterson 2013 Remix)
* Simon Patterson feat. Lucy Pullin - Fall For You (Cold Blue Remix)
* Magnus vs. Simon Patterson - Evoke (Original Mix)
* Simon Patterson feat. Dave Wright - Vapour Trails (Original Mix)
* Simon Patterson feat. Matt Adey - Time Stood Still (Original Mix)
* Simon Patterson - Mood Swing (Original Mix)
* Simon Patterson feat. Dave Wright - Nothern Lights (UDM Remix)
* Sean Tyas - Chrome (Original Mix)
* John Askew - Through The Looking Glass (Original Mix)
* John Askew - Black Coffee (UDM Remix)
* John Askew - Supersonic (Original Mix)
* John Askew - The Witch (Original Mix)
* John Askew - Shine (Original Mix)
* John O’Callaghan - Stresstest (John Askew Remix) (vs. Commander Tom - Are Am Eye)(Armin van Buuren Mashup)

33, Intensity, Passion & Emotion all rolled into 1 !
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