Come along for a 23 year long journey! Spirit/Spirit of Ibiza/My Spirit, has held a special place within my musical heart for a long time. Second track on my first (and probably last) real single release (on vinyl). From a time when labels where real and music was physical. Thanks to everybody who made this journey possible, the Transa brothers, Blue Amazon, Inzite (J. Gustafsson) and my brother Eric (@ericlidstroem), especially for finding all this in the deep archives of The Lidstroem Sound Republic!

DJ Zephyr / Dual Force / Robert Lidstroem - Spirit of Ibiza/My Spirit

From the Sun

From the Sun (Enigma State Remix)

In My Fantasy

Enigmatic

"Recitation", my breakthrough track in 2002-2003. Made quite a buzz with the help of Misja Helsloot and Armin van Buuren. Armin had the Misja Helsloot Remix as "Tune of the Week" 5 times in a row and opened his NYE gig in NY with it. It opened alot of doors to me. I got invited to play at clubs, free shots in the bars, hang out with ALOT of cool people. The "Original Mix" never made it onto the vinyl sadly, but had a life of its own through FTPs and Napster back then. The "Radio Edit" got used as a theme-track for a event called Tranceatlantic in Stockholm, Sweden. My biggest track to this point, now available for all of you to enjoy, legally!

© 2002
Written, produced & arranged by R. Lidstroem

Recitation

Robert Lidstroem - Recitation (Original Mix)

In 2000 i had a change of style and got more influenced by the german and dutch trance scene. Me and my brother (@ericlidstroem) was buying In Trance We Trust and Trancemaster-mixalbums by the truckloads! I have a feeling i must have started this even in late 1999, and i believe this was made in either MadTracker2 or FruityLoops, yes the DAW was named FruityLoops. Still using it 23 years on! This is one of the absolutely first versions of the track later known as "My Spirit". Using my DJ Zephyr moniker at the time!

© 1999/2000
Written, produced & arranged by R. Lidstroem

© Dj Zephyr

DJ Zephyr - Spirit 2000

We are still in early 2000, January 22nd (thanks @ericlidstroem for digging through the archives). This is a somewhat different version and i did a namechange aswell. Fairly simple stuff, and uplifting. I had been producing for 2-3 years at this point.

© 1999/2000
Written, produced & arranged by R. Lidstroem

DJ Zephyr - Spirit Of Ibiza

Now we are in 2001! Epic music year, and headlong into trance by this time! I had left home and was at the moment living with a close friend, J. Persson (@joakim-persson-649475997). Like mentioned before he had all the bells and whistles in terms of both hardware and skill! We took it upon us to freshen this track up, and while doing so, we made a co-op alias to go with it, "Dual Force" (nah, i dont think Dutch Force had anything to do with the name....not at all...nahah!). This made its way up on Beatmaka, a great site for amatures to get music featured! Great times! Enjoy!


© 2001
Written, produced & arranged by ©J.Persson, R.Lidström (@joakim-persson-649475997)

©J.Persson, R.Lidström

Dual Force - Spirit of Ibiza

Still in 2001! Jan Gustafsson, "Inzite" was a fellow Swedish producer who went on to make awesome things in the trancescene! He was also very active on a website called Beatmaka, even released a fullength album (which i ofcourse have), and he was kind enough to even include this remix on his own album. We still chat now and then, me and Jan, and have made (very vague) plans of hitting Luminosity in the future as part of a old Swedish Trance Producers Alumni-kind of thing ;)

Great guy, awesome producer! Went on to release on Galactive, ATCR, Godskitchen Recordings and more!

P.S: This is not to be confused with the later "Transa vs Inzite Remix"! More on that later on!

© 2001
Written, produced & arranged by ©J.Persson, R.Lidström (@joakim-persson-649475997)
Remixed by J. Gustafsson

© DJ Zephyr

Dual Force - Spirit of Ibiza (Inzite Remix)

Time to get serious! As you can see its not "DJ Zephyr" or "Dual Force" anymore. Now, this is straight from my one and only true release in 2003. Although not as commercially succesful as the Misja Helsloot-remix of Recitation, this was a true trancer! Cue classic trance courtesy of legends Transa! Lush pads, production is impeccable, stomping right to the end. Now, why would there be a "vs Inzite"? Well, its 20 years ago so i might not be spot on. But to some extent Transa borrowed inspiration and style in a way, from the Inzite remix, that it was best to just release it as "Transa vs Inzite". 

Enjoy!

© 2003
Remixed by ©D.Webster, B.Webster, J. Gustafsson

My Spirit

Robert Lidstroem - My Spirit (Transa vs Inzite Remix)

Lunar's Theme

Enigma State - Lunar's Theme

Transolar

Enigma State - Transolar

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Robert Lidstroem - My Spirit (Atharil Remix)

This track is made out of love for classic trance sounds of the early 2000's, of which the original by Robert Lidstroem is a perfect example. My version is made exclusively with hardware synthesizers, effect units and drum machines of the era, recorded live through an analog mixer with only minimal processing and some samples added afterwards. Thus, it is not a modern take, but instead aims to capture the spirit, joy and nostalgia that classic uplifting trance evokes in us who love it.

I hope you enjoy the result as much as I did producing it! 
Please also check out the mastermind behind the original mix, https://soundcloud.com/robert-lidstroem

Track credits:

Written & produced by Robert Lidstroem
Additional production, arrangement and mixing by Thomas Häggblom
Mastered by Thomas Häggblom
℗ & © 2025 Atharil Music. All rights reserved.
Published by Atharil Music / Copyright Control

Length: 08:45
Ab minor / 138bpm

My Spirit (Atharil Remix)

Hi and welcome! 

My name is Thomas and I am a trance producer from Finland. I'm on a mission to recreate the uplifting mid-2000's trance sound that I love, using a combination of software and my beloved classic hardware synthesizers.

Enjoy the music!

My Spirit (Atharil Remix)

Atharil

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