Pure Trance Recordings (2/2)

Beatport Best New Trance (Main Floor)

Trance 6 - 2025 SF

Learning how2feel, learning how2fly... some days it’s the same thing ☁️ Feels special to be dropping this today, of all days. Whether you’re with someone, missing someone, or just vibing solo, this one is for you. Hope it finds you at the right moment 🦋

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how2fly - how2feel

Never Surrender

Never Surrender (Extended Mix)

Heart Logic

Heart Logic (Extended Mix)

Sunstruck

Imani

Imani (Extended Mix)

Maid Of Orleans

Maid Of Orleans (feat. Torsten Stenzel)

Ben Hemsley - La Sirena

Eternal

Elixir Of Life

Elixir Of Life (Extended Mix)

Blue Leaves

Blue Leaves (Extended)

My new remix of John O'Callaghan's epic single Pebble Beach. 
Out 6th June 2025 on Subculture.

John O'Callaghan - Pebble Beach (John Askew Remix)

Akashic

Future Peace

Future Peace (Solarstone Pure Mix)

Future Peace (Solarstone Pure Extended Mix)

Naked

Naked (Extended Mix)

In childhood it wasn’t a book Derek kept under his covers late at night – it was a pair of headphones. Listening to the late night shows on the Santa Monica university radio station KCRW he discovered the mind expanding experiences of synthesized soundscapes, adding a whole other dialect to his second language of music. (Japanese is his third, but that’s another story.)

Then, while living in France, Derek discovered the trance genre in Antiloop’s “Nowhere to Hide” and Energy 52’s “Cafe Del Mar” on a Love Parade compilation, bringing him ever closer to the melodic textures of this electronic world. One day, in Paris, guided by fate, he completed this crescendo when he accidentally stumbled upon his first outdoor rave – Derek was home.

Returning to the US, Derek headed for the San Francisco club and underground scene. He bought turntables in 2003, deciding to place himself directly in the flow of the sounds he came to love in the chaos and freedom of a Parisian street rave.

Ever since, he has dedicated himself to bringing the raw emotional power of melodic dance music to dance floors and headphones from the San Francisco Bay Area to Tokyo to Black Rock City and beyond through DJ appearances and crafting cutting edge melodic dance sounds in original studio productions, remixes, and collaborations such as BluDream, Panic, Fireflower and Aureal.

Derek Ryan tracks have been rocking clubs worldwide in the crates of such DJs as Giuseppe Ottaviani, M.I.K.E, Suzy Solar, Tempo Giusto, Imag’in, Steve Anderson and more, and have been played on top radioshows/podcasts including Trance Around The World, SAME, Amadeus, In Love For Trance.

Between rave-reviewed productions and live DJ sets described as “blissfully rippin”, Derek continues to live true to his motto of delivering driving melodic beats to the masses.