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This is Part One of a Trance Yearbook of 2007!
Go 17 years back in time and enjoy the memories...

01 - Lolo - Trance Will Never Die
02 - Roland Klinkenberg - Twilight
03 - DJ Fire - Rendez Vous (Original Mix)
04 - Andrew Bennett feat Kirsty Hawkshaw - Heaven Sent (Pillow One Remix)
05 - Mindscope - Awake (Original Mix)
06 - John O'Callaghan feat. Audrey Gallagher - Big Sky (Original Mix)
07 - Niklas Harding And Funabashi - Addictive (Mat Zo Remix)
08 - Elevation - Blinding Truth (Original Mix)
09 - Arnej - People Come People Go (Maor Levi Remix)
10 - Jose Amnesia feat. Jennifer Rene - Louder (Robert Nickson Remix)
11 - Mulika & Cliff Coenraad - Escalate
12 - Solarstone & Alucard - Late Summer Fields (Ferry Corsten Remix)
13 - Ferry Tayle & Tonks - Vol De Nuit (Ferry Tayle Rework)
14 - Headstrong feat. Tiff Lacey - The Truth (Adam White Dub Mix)
15 - The Blizzard - Kalopsia
16 - Paul van Dyk with Starkillers & Austin Leeds feat. Ashely Tomberlin - New York City
17 - Gleave - Blinded (Original Mix)
18 - Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Rank 1 - Life Less Ordinary (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Original Mix)
19 - Paul Van Dyk Feat. Rea Garvey - Let Go (Alex Connari Remix)
20 - Signalrunners - One Last Look
21 - Menno de Jong - Nolthando (Extended Mix)
22 - Galen Behr Vs Hydroid - Shift Of The Ages (Hydroid Mix)
23 - Airbase - Medusa (Original Mix)
24 - Above & Beyond - Home (Above & Beyond Club Mix)
25 - Tranquility Base - Oceanic (Original Mix)
26 - Robert Nickson - Helix (Original Mix)
27 - Orjan vs. Octagen - Lost Once (Orjan's Festival Mix)
28 - Michael Dow - Ascent
29 - Paul van Dyk - White Lies (Berlin Mix By Paul van Dyk & Alex M.O.R.P.H.)
30 - Hiroyuki ODA - Rise
31 - Mike Foyle - Firefly (Original Mix)
32 - Markus Schulz & Departure With Gabriel & Dresden feat Anita Kelsey - Without You Near (Alex M.O.R.P.H.S. Sacred Light Remix)
33 - Factoria - Revive (Original)

A Trance Yearbook of 2007 - Part One

Welcome to my page which is dedicated to all things trance! 

I’ve been DJing off and on since I got my first pair of Gemini belt drive decks way back in ‘99, which some people refer to as the “year of trance”.  My love for trance started when I first heard PvD - For an Angel and have been hooked ever since. 

I mainly DJ’d in the 00s at a few bars and clubs in Leicester, but never went any further than that. Then life took over and I gave it all up for about 10 years or so, selling all my DJ equipment in the process.  It was only in lockdown that I started it up again as was so bored, and I got back my love of trance and have been mixing ever since. 

I love most types of trance so wanted to create this page to share my mixes which are made up of my favourite tunes from over the years. 

Really hope you enjoy them.

Amateur vinyl DJ, learning as I go along as a hobby. I've had a passion for dance music since the early 90s and learnt how to mix on vinyl and CDJs at house parties before and around the millennium. Then work and growing up got in the way, so I stopped. I love the sound and feel of vinyl, the rawness to it when DJing, so I decided to buy myself some turntables and a mixer again in early 2022 and started again, so these mixes are far from perfect but fun to do! Mainly mixing trance/Prog/House/Commercial stuff from the late 90s and early 2000s. None of the music is my own, just the mixing.

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Born in the hot summer of 1979, I grew up in the center of The Netherlands. At the age of 12 I discovered the wonderful new genre of House music. Still a schoolboy, I used all my pocket money to buy cassette tapes of famous Dutch house compilations like Move The House, Turn up the Bass & House Party. In the following years several new subgenres emerged, in which the melodic ones were my favourites. That means lots of Eurodance, and instead of the popular Dutch Hardcore, I chose for German Rave and Hardtrance. That combination of powerful beats with lots of melodies was golden and formed my music taste.

Some years through genres like Dream House, Club Trance and the famous Pizzicato house followed and the first Trancemaster! CD’s were collected. And then the year 1999 came, I discovered a strange imported English mix compilation called Gatecrasher:Wet
It contained a wonderful combination of trance tracks from all over Europe. At that moment I started to save some money for buying my first turntables. When I bought my first 2 belt drive turntables and a basic mixer a new world opened. The world was far less international so it was quit a challenge to get those gems from abroad. In 2005 this trance addiction was expanded with producing my own tracks with the then brand new FruityLoops software. Exploring all ranges of trance music my production portfolio is very diverse, like all the different music styles I like to play. 

Being a bedroom producer and DJ for many years my collection grew to about 2500 records ranging from deep progressive house to hardtrance. Around 2007/2008 vinyl records stopped being the main medium for electronic music and things were getting all digital. Missing the fun part of buying and spinning part of records, together with a changing sound of trance made that spinning music was not on my highest rank anymore. But although not too active, this was the period that I discovered harmonic mixing, which still forms the base of all my mixes. By combining the harmonies of different tracks, my mixes are full of homemade mash-ups and by using the harmonic mixing wheel I try to make one continuous journey through harmonies.

In these years my turntables and record collection were gathering dust. I still followed the trance scene sideways and made an occasional mix (with Virtual DJ) or track. In 2018 something changed. I decided to go to a trance festival again after 15 years, so me and my friends made a trip to Luminosity Beach Festival 2018. I was overwhelmed by the fact that this scene was so much more alive than I expected. Especially the fact that there were so many DJ’s that still played those classic trance tracks. Inspired by those sets I decided to upload some of my older mixes on my SoundCloud page for all those classic trance lovers. 

In the past 4 years I created my own themes for my mixes, some modern ones but lots of classics. For example my yearbooks in honour to those golden years of trance. My Exhibition of Classic Trance does reflect my personal taste the best, those mixes are always more than 3 hours to ensure a complete journey through different styles of trance. My personal favourite series is Hidden Treasures, which completely consists of all those hidden gems from back in the days. Of course I love the obvious classics, just as much as all trance lovers, but mixes with only the well-known classics are sometimes a bit exchangeable. With these hidden treasures I can let people discover tracks they never heard of and be more unique. It’s my pleasure to provide you all with a broad range of trance music.

Speed is a US Florida native who grew up NYC tri-state area and took on a liking to Trance at an early age of his youthful years. He got his first pair of decks at 16 and would travel to Satellite records shop in Manhattan to get releases he heard on his pc. As time went on he grew a passion for his art in turntable beat matching and was inspired by the likes of the well-known big artists in the genre of Progressive, Trance, & Breaks. Later on, SpeedRising met up with Richard Sander the label boss of Saturn3 Records where Richard signed Speed's first track, Rouge City.

A Trance Yearbook of 2007 - Part One

Marnix Mulder