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Mercurial Virus is Darren Jones an Uplifting Trance artist from Birmingham in the UK. Mercurial Virus was previously known for his hard trance on Fevah & Viper Traxx.
Darren is more known for Hardstyle and Hard Trance under the D10 alias but has had trance releases under DJ in the past.

Mercurial Virus has had many successful releases ranging from solo, collaborations and remixes which led to support by the biggest names such in Trance such as Armin Van Buuren, John O'Callaghan, Aly & Fila, Daxson, Sean Tyas, Darren Porter, Ferry Corsten, Paul Van Dyk, Johan Gielen, Alex M.O.R.P.H, Ram, Allen Watts, ReOrder, Daniel Skyver, John Askew, Ferry Tayle, Ronski Speed, Dan Stone, Bixx, Talla 2XLC to name a few.

Mercurial Virus has had some huge releases such as 'Turning Point' on Subculture which was played on A State Of Trance 950,951,952 as well as ADE, FSOE 636, Transmission etc.
Mercurial Virus reached number 1 in the beatport charts with his quality collaboration with the amazing Darren Porter.
Mercurial Virus had an amazing release on FSOE Fables with 'The Journey' which Aly & Fila played 4 times on FSOE 910,911,912,913.
Many huge releases followed on the big labels in trance such as FSOE, FSOE Fables, Regenerate, Nocturnal Knights, AVA White, Reason II Rise, Kinected, High Voltage, ZYX Trance and many more.
Early releases such as Legacy, Memories, Earth, Ethno, Roseline were released on Redux, Beyond The Stars Recordings and Phoenix Recordings but were successful including ASOT play.
Mercurial Virus has had the pleasure to remix for artists he looked up to in his early clubbing days such as Hemstock & Jennings and The Conductor & The Cowboy and has plans for other big collaborations with other big influences in the near future.
Mercurial Virus also collaborated work with String Theory which were released on Nocturnal Knights, Redux & Phoenix Recordings.

Darren was clubbing at God Kitchen, Gatecrasher in the late 90’s and early 2000s, so he knows the original trance sound, but has developed his own style with a taste of film music influences.
Every Mercurial Virus track is unique and different to the last, which is why all tracks have a place.

You understand music only when you can feel it.

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. 

Because I wasn’t able to go fo previous Armin Show, i really de Descnitdkkkk
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)

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