My regular DJ streams. I usually do 1 full spectrum and 1 uplifting mix per month, with some special exceptions.

Acid & Emotion


The sakura (cherry blossoms!) are in full swing here in Tokyo and it's starting to be spring...except it's still cold! When will someone turn on the heat haha. I'm still buzzing from our Outburst night at ZEROTOKYO, so I got that to keep me warm at least...and some awesome new tunes here! There's some sweet sweet magic coming out recently across progressive, techno, and trance, beautiful, aggressive, flowing, all of it. 

Here's a mix of some of the stuff I'm throwing down at the moment, including my upcoming track 'Kagura' on the inimitable AVA White recordings.

Set up on YouTube as well here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2PDswcNp0


00:00 Elysian vs. Kryder - Now We Are Free
03:03 You Liang - Feel Your Soul
07:49 Miss Monique - Magnet
11:56 Adara, TLUXX - Destination
15:59 DSTRTD SGNL - Metamatic
20:27 Veztax - Where Is New Light (Hertz Remix)
23:00 Drunken Kong - Give It To Me
27:37 HRDR - The Groove
33:11 YOZÉ - Out of My Mind
36:44 Derek Ryan - Spirited Away
41:45 UDM - Synergy
47:02 Daniel Skyver - Kaval Sviri
51:23 Asteroid - A Distant Hope

Acid & Emotion April 2025 | DJ mix from prog to tech to trance

Spring is definitely springing now, and got a whole new set of killer tunes to share with the world, including some exclusive goodness and brand spankin new hotness from myself and from Ascent.

00:00 Kenny McAuley - Digital Frontier
03:26 DAvIDI - Skyward (N-sKing Remix)
08:55 BT & Kirtsy Hawkshaw - Dreaming (Derek Ryan Reboot)
13:49 John Dopping & Peter Steele -Survival
19:45 M42 -O.E.G.
25:27 Revolution 9 - Shadows
30:29 BiXX & JSKA - To Find Myself
36:25 Derek Ryan - Spirited Away
41:26 Rinaly & Julie Thompson - Running
45:47 Tom Grox & Emily Orchard - Missing Piece
49:17 Derek Ryan & Melissa R. Kaplan - Kepler (James Dymond Remix)
53:53 0Gravity - Nightfall
59:22 Aeon Shift - Echoes In Eternity

Enjoy and turn it up!

Also on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/OlQEw9e477Y

Acid & Emotion UPLIFT - April 2025 - Full DJ Mix - All Uplifting Trance

May is here, and may the fourth be with you!

Tokyo is getting warm just in time to drive back the Sith.

Got a whole slew of mind bending Jedi tricks here from the lush and melodic to the sharp and jagged to rolling and dark, and to anthemic and enlivening, all the way through from progressive to techno to trance!

Tracklist:

00:00 Amber Revival - This Heart Of Mine 
04:18 ARISEY & Vassmo - Infinity 
08:52 Innellea, TH;EN, Carlo Whale - Inside Your Mind 
13:25 Medex - Harran 
17:26 TYDI & Hiroshi Daisuki - Infectious (TYDI & Chusap Remix)
20:45 Rebūke & P.T. Adamczyk ft. Aya Anne - Forever 
25:14 André Pillar - Follow Me 
29:16 LLX, Ale Montoya - Salmo 149 
34:15 Dennis Sheperd & Simon Leon - Remember 
38:20 N-sKing - Clique 
43:12 Casepeat & 02 - Gangnam 
47:16 Revolution 9 - Shadows 
52:18 Amos & Riot Night & Inoblivion - False Awakening

Also on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/Fkf_84cfn1A

Acid & Emotion May 2025 | DJ mix from prog to tech to trance

Already the first tides of summer are on the horizon here in Tokyo, with temperatures gracefully caressing that upper 20ºC range. It's far too soon, give me some shelter!

However, it is a great time in music and the tunes are as hot as the temperatures as we have a whole slew of absolutely excellent melodic music coming up this month. Absolutely insane cuts from Dmpv, Johan Gielen, and more, and two of our finest from Ascent - One in a Million and Into the moment.

Turn it up and keep the heat on!

Tracklist

00:00	Johan Gielen, Airscape - Beach Pearl [Robert's Theme] 
04:10	ID - ID
08:34	Casepeat & Dalmoori - Dredge 
14:08	BELINDA (CA) - Hidden Blade 
19:28	Dmpv - Sahara Night 
25:15	Tycoos, Daisy Lou - Darkness Into Light (Daniel Kandi Remix)
30:21	Fros7novA - Firepulse 
35:10	Artena & Ren Faye - One in a Million 
40:39	Ashandra - Cosmic Light 
 44:45	STNX, N-sKing - Yummy Dance (Umai) 
49:47	Christopher Corrigan - Belfast 
54:35	Mark Allen - Into the Moment 

Set also on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/-qFLkep1Eiw

Acid & Emotion UPLIFT May 2025

June is already here with a vengeance, and it's bringing not just the heat but actually a little bit of a cool breeze to us here in Tokyo. And it's bringing in some CHOICE tunes, across progressive, techno, and trance. Some really cool stuff coming out right now, and I love the experimentation and variation we're getting.

Tracklist
00:00 Heart - Ivan Blyashenko
03:41 Luminous - Dominant Space
7:34 We Could Be Love (Mark Hoffen & Rivo Remix) - Hayden James & AR/CO
12:19 Awaken - Donna-Marie (NZ)
17:25 In My House - Roda
21:11 Life Sentence - HNGT
26:19 Obscure Ocean - RooneyNasr
31:32 Heart Logic - Derek Ryan
35:56 We Evolve  - LawrenceQ
40:58 You Know It's Time - Casepeat
45:08 Oh Fragile Girl - Rinaly, Clara Yates
49:26 One in a Million - Artena, Ren Faye


Also on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/BG9a9IwjsKU

Acid & Emotion June 2025

Getting into full tsuyu (rainy season) mode here in Japan and it's raining choooons! Got a whole phat stack of uplifting here for my regular UP:LIFT mix and ho boy is there some fuel. 

Tracklist:
00:00	Derek Ryan - This Space (Kaeno Remix)
04:39	Amos & Riot - Night   Sequence Six	As Tides Change 
10:41	Derek Ryan - Heart Logic 
15:05	Z2 - I Want You (Robert Nickson Remix)
19:43	Monzilla - Everything Counts 
25:16	Somna, Yang, MIDI Kitty - No Need To Hide 
29:44	Hemstock, Mercurial Virus - Sekhmet 
35:05	Bigtopo - Ways To Love 
40:52	Speed DJ - Atlantis 
45:27	LawrenceQ - We Evolve 
50:28	Steve Allen - The Sign 
55:36	Dave Moth - Racket Sports (Factoria Remix)
1:00:00	Angels&Tilove - Antares 
1:04:48	Cloudhunter - Diamonds
1:09:49	Lyd14, Casepeat - A Place We Call Home 
1:14:37	Code 2, Jessica Doherty - Wait For You 
1:20:06	Aylin, Henry Moe, Bryce Keuris - Between The Stars 

Also available on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/cHkJHB3mAj0

Acid & Emotion UP:LIFT June 2025

Happy July and wow that heat. It's a comin. Here in Tokyo we're getting torched all day but heck, every night too. Since Japan is Japan this is going to go on for another 3 months or so, which is alot. Seems like a  ton to handle until you bust out the cool tunes. Got a whole bunch of stellar sounds here:

Tracklist:
00:00	Aldor - Always Want You 
03:11	Dennis Sheperd x George Jema x Katty Heath - What Is Left Of Me 
07:52	ALIGASH - Quicksand (Once Again Remix)
12:41	Ummet Ozcan - Era 
17:05	Verschallt - Dreams (Monococ Remix)
21:35	Roger Burns - Heya 
25:39	Jody 6 - Big Gritty Fat Bass 
29:49	Inner City, Simone Zino - Good Life 
35:05	Hiromori Aso - Rage Quit 
39:21	Rodrigo Deem - Miramar (Will Rees Remix)
44:50	Derek Ryan - Seeker
49:38	Discordia, Homura - Change 
53:58	Amos & Riot Night, Sequence Six - As Tides Change

Also find this mix on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/bZkTu3L4Q6U

Acid & Emotion July 2025

Hey hey fam! Can you believe it's already most of the way through July?
Still intense heat, and you'll hear me complaining about it for a while haha. But we all know that comes with hot tunes as well, and here are some of my favorites of what's coming out right now, including Unity Theme from my own Ascent Recordings and my personal contribution, Seeker, out not on Reason II Rise: Realms.


Tracklist:
00:00      Protoculture - Lightforms 
04:04	MurZo - Voices 
09:40	RAM - Northern Star (Chris Element Afterhours In Montreal Remix)
15:56	Fernweh, Max Smith, Janie Rox - Keep Believing 
21:01	Free Radical - Unity Theme (Kev Wild Remix)
27:11	Derek Ryan - Seeker 
31:59	Klaus Kaz - Enough For Me 
37:59	Alex M.O.R.P.H. - Silent Moons of Jupiter
43:10	Steve Allen - Epicurean 
48:39	Roman Messer, Skyvol - Blue Water 
53:27	Amos & Riot Night - Leave It All Behind
59:09	Katsu, E1forya - Goodbye 
01:03:19	Ashandra - Apocalypse 

This mix is also available on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/DVQPKzZ-Je4

Acid & Emotion UP:LIFT July 2024

Man, this heat just won't let up. This is one of the hottest months in Japan on record, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. All we can do then is to drop some tunes to match then haha. There's some amazing tunes out this month, and I'm so stoked to share -- From deep prog to bopping chunky progressive trance, to raging hard techno and finally smooth uplifting, here's the tracklist for this month:

00:00 Spartaque, As Ide - With You 
04:59 Alessandro Pierozzi & AKIAL - Pandem 
09:44 Dennis Sheperd x Aldor x Katty Heath - In The Dark 
14:25 Derek Ryan - So Right
19:11 Sebastian Mora, Mosher - Alive 
24:02 SUDO - We Are Free 
28:16 Kulage - Theta 
31:18 Paula van Klar - Sopranos 
34:30 Belocca, Heerhorst - Fire Element
38:26 Jody 6 - Delta 
42:33 Robbie Graham - Heliosphere 
48:29 DJ T.H., N-sKing & Rebecca Louise Burch - Desire
52:36 Sweet Euphoria - Sugar 

What a bunch of tunes!
Shout out to Desire, coming soon on Ascent and So Right, my latest on Reason 2 Rise Realms.

This mix is also available on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/7gdjDp4jywk

Acid & Emotion August 2025 | Full DJ Mix from Prog to Techno to Trance

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.