Wherever you are this summer, every summer demands some lovely moody trance classics, here some smooth melodies to enjoy in the sun. Just relax, or try to, with these classics it's mandatory to move a bit 🕺

This is A Summer Of Classic Trance - Part Eight

Tracks by Chicane, 4 Strings, BT, York, Jonas Steur and many others 🔥🤩

01 - Markus Schulz presents Elevation - Clear Blue (Intro mix)
02 - Duende - Luna Negra (Store 'n Forward Remix)
03 - Dave Kane - The Journey Of Zoë (Filterheadz Remix)
04 - Deep Nights - Memories Of Love (Balearic Mix)
05 - Way Out West - The Gift (Original Mix)
06 - Jose Zamora Vs. Damian DP - Transatlantic (Andy Moor Remix)
07 - Dave Swayze - Sunstroke
08 - Chicane - Poppiholla (The Thrillseekers Remix)
09 - The Free Radicals - Summer Breeze (Original Mix)
10 - Cellec - Love Of My Life (Tenthu Summer Mix)
11 - Leama - Melodica (Leama's Space Mix)
12 - 4 Strings - (Take Me Away) Into The Night (Gabriel & Dresden 4 Deep Remix)
13 - Paski - Rainclouds (Original Mix)
14 - Way Out West - Apollo
15 - Team SR - Leaving London (Original Mix)
16 - Yekuana - Caves Of Abraham (Northface Remix)
17 - Estuera - Cold Monday
18 - York - Reachers Of Civilization (Original Mix)
19 - Katoi - Touch You (Urban Myth Remix)
20 - Ascension - Someone (Original Vocal Mix)
21 - Agnelli & Nelson - Everyday 2002 (Alex Gold Instrumental Mix)
22 - DJ Tandu - Velvet
23 - Ron Hagen & Pascal M. - Forever (Original Mix)
24 - Reflekt feat. Delline Bass - Need to Feel Loved (Thrillseekers mix)
25 - Agenda - Heaven (Resistance D. Treatment)
26 - Divide & Rule - Never Be Lonely (Vox Off)
27 - Tunnel Allstars - Blue Lagoon (Rank 1 Instrumental Remix)
28 - Dee Dee - Forever (Pulser Remix)
29 - Nordlander - Nemesis
30 - Jonas Steur - Castamara
31 - Svenson & Gielen feat. Jan Johnston - Beachbreeze (Remember The Summer) (Spacediver Remix)
32 - Summer Sessions feat Michelle Smith - Blossom (Original Mix)
33 - BT - Flaming June (Paul Van Dyk remix)

A Summer Of Classic Trance - Part Eight

A female, UK-based House & Trance DJ with a deep passion for Classic trance, a genre that has been a part of her life for over 25 years. Regularly attending iconic events like Goodgreef, Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, and immersing herself in the vibrant Ibiza Trance scene at Cream and Judgement Sundays in the mid-2000s, she has cultivated a rich connection to the dance music world.

After years of being a devoted fan and dancefloor lover, 2024 marked the year she finally took the plunge to share her love of trance. With a huge passion and a deep knowledge of trance history, she quickly established herself in the DJ scene, winning various competitions that led to exciting opportunities with respected brands such as Evolve Rising Stars, Small Trees & Limitless and Temple of Trance, offering her a platform to share her passion with the world. Since then Chantel has secured bookings at some of the best respected UK club scene events. 

Her mixes, a blend of old-school trance classics and fresh, progressive vibes, have been met with incredible response since she hit the scene. She has a particular affinity for rediscovering lost music gems and is on a mission to share her passion for this, taking listeners on a journey through its evolution while ensuring the classics never fade away. 

Bookings 

7.9.24 - Evolve - Sheffield
13.9.24 - Limitless - Empire, Middlesborough
28.12.24 - Lost in Trance - Wakefield
2.2.25 - Pulse Events - Wirral
7.3.25- Reminiscence - Norwich 
2.5.25- Vestry - Chorley
17.5.25 - Seriously Uplifting - Newcastle
27.6 -29.6 - TBA - Newquay
12.7.25- Pulse Events - Wirral
9.8.25 - TBA - Bristol
29.11.25 - TBA - Leeds

Booking enquiries: chantel.ford@email.com 

Trance music lover but also most genres of Dance music, Deep House , Tech and Progressive House , EDM and Trance my favorite genres . #lovemusic

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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.

A Summer Of Classic Trance - Part Eight

Marnix Mulder