1996 - GB takes control

Seventh in a series of mixes that charts the evolution of trance, from it's roots in the early 90s to the world domination of the turn of the century. This one takes in the sound of 1996 as trance moves into a more progressive direction, led by Chris Cowie's Hook Recordings.  British artists such as John Digweed's Bedrock and Way Out West push this new take on the trance sound.  Ferry Corsten makes his first appearances as Moonman and Discodroids, hinting at the more melodic and uplifting sound that would dominate in coming years.

Tracklisting

1. Red Sun - This Love (Longredsun Mix)
2. BBE - Seven Days And One Week
3. O.R.N. - Snow (Original Bedroom Mix)
4. Discodroids - Interspace (Original Tremolo Mix)
5. Chakra - I Am (Digweed and Muir's Bedrock Mix)
6. Blue Alphabet - Genetic Trance (Ozonic Phylloxera Mix)
7. Lucky Monkeys - Bjango (Way Out West Bjangin' Mix)
8. Team Deep - Morning Light
9. Van Basten - Silver Bullet
10. Pablo Gargano - Trance In Saigon
11. Little Jam - Black Hill (X-Cabs Hells Bells Remix)
12. De Niro - Minds of Man
13. De Niro - Elan Vital
14. Astral Projection - Ionized
15. Marco Bailey - Scorpia
16. CJ Bolland - The Prophet

The Evolution of Trance - 1996

big set do in memory of a fallen friend .

1st Strike. Eamonn Fevah Hard Trance : Trance Session

Well, Autumn has come, but when I made this mix it was a great Indian Summer day. Just some final summer feelings to remember this memorable summer. 

A summer when my music production ambitions became more serious. Two great collabs in progress and that's only the start. More news regarding those tracks will follow. 

For now, catch those last sunny vibes with this sunny cocktail of classic, modern and future tracks. And check out my homemade mash-ups, they turned out to sound pretty nice :)

This is My Life In Trance - Episode 2

01 - Signalrunners vs Andain - Meet Me In Montauk (Judah Remix) vs Promises (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
02 - Young Parisians - U Write The Rules (Solarstone Remix)
03 - Carl B. - Just A Thought (Original Mix)
04 - Lange ft. Skye - Drifting Away (GVN Remix)
05 - Airbase - Escape (Sunny Lax Remix vs Original Mix)
06 - Ferry Corsten - The World 99 (Moonman Remix)
07 - Mark Sherry - Gravitational Waves (Original Mix)
08 - Darren Tate - Prayer For A God
09 - Paul Van Dyk & Kolonie - Wishful Thinking (PvD Club Mix)
10 - Orkidea - Unity (Solarstone Pure Mix)
11 - Solid Sleep - Club Attack (TPOD Mix by Paul van Dyk)
12 - Ferry Tayle & Dan Stone - Resilience
13 - DJ Eco vs Jan Johnston - Lost Angeles (Breakfast Remix) vs Flesh (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
14 - Salt Tank - Eugina (Tiësto Remix)
15 - ID vs ID - ID (Original Mix)

My Life In Trance - Episode 2

when I’m travelling I always love to listen to those lush and smooth classic progressive sounds…will you join me on this journey?

this is progressive paths - part three

01 - Velvet Girl - Walking In Sunshine (Philippe Van Mullem Intro)
02 - Paris & Sharp - Kali (Original Mix)
03 - Yunus Guvenen - Red Pilot (Original Mix)
04 - Benz & MD - Turning The Curves (Perry O’Neil Remix)
05 - Nic Vegter - Amazone Fall (Plastika remix)
06 - Illuminati - Bohemian Groove (Yum Yum Remix)
07 - Sleeper - Reach
08 - Rouzbeh Delavari - Soup (Original mix)
09 - Basilica - The Amulet (Original Mix)
10 - Jay Welsh - Weird Noises (Northface Remix 2)
11 - Yekuana - Canis Loopus (Citrus Explosion Mix)
12 - DJ Robert & The Martinez Bros. - Natural Peak
13 - Lemon8 - Tunnelvision
14 - Tilt - My Spirit (Pink Bomb Remix)
15 - Thomas Schumacher - The Fortunate Ones (Humate remix)
16 - Travel - Pray To Jerusalem (Christian West Remix)
17 - Sunday Club - Winds Of Change (Part 2)
18 - Twilight - Platina (Maurits Paardekooper Remix)
19 - THK - France (Cass & Slide Remix)
20 - Hong Kong Trash - Down The River (McBuffalo Mix)
21 - Chrome - The Fly (Marc O'Tool Mix)
22 - Liquid DJ Team - Liquidation (Marco V Remix)
23 - Chab - (The) Sinus (Original Mix)
24 - Marmion - Schöneberg (thomas schumacher's rumpshakers galore mix)
25 - Jaya - Mano De Piedra (Elias Mix)
26 - Deepsky - Cosmic Dancer (Original Mix)

progressive paths - part three

Besides my little and well-known obsession for classic trance and progressive music I actually listen quit often to modern work. That basically means everything melodic from 115 to 145 BPM 😉

Inspired by some recent deeper mixes by some of my friends I was inspired and decided to build a little collection for creating something new, something deeper.
Expect lots of melodies, a couple of breakbeats and a nice techy ending…

This is Into The Deep #02

01 - Not Now Please - Gone
02 - Luke Brancaccio & Gai Barone - Just Stop
03 - Maga - Traverse
04 - Secret Factory - Night Vision (Mufti Remix)
05 - Lucas Pietra - Un Dia Mas (APNITUS Remix)
06 - Avar Garden & Locati - Doors Getting Closed
07 - Flow - Scoom Legacy
08 - ANUQRAM - Tell Me
09 - Kamilo Sanclemente - Boreal Forest
10 - Fabrication - Before We Know Light (Original Mix)
11 - Pete Oak - Between Two Worlds (Losless Remix)
12 - Anderson - The Beyond
13 - Fabrication - Breathe
14 - Alex Schaufel - Light (Original Mix)
15 - Just Her - Away From Here (Extended Mix)
16 - MAAND feat. Rob Delaney - Another Day
17 - Basil O'Glue - Too Many Questions (Original Mix)
18 - Hunter/Game - Fire Circle
19 - Alexandros Djkevingr & Greg Ignatovich - Faniola
20 - MPathy - Tilikum (Original Mix)
21 - Aubrey Fry - Nature
22 - Signalrunners - Meet Me In Montauk (Judah Remix)
23 - Zimmz - Ancient Dream
24 - Orbital - Belfast (Anna Techno Remix)
25 - Ramon Tapia - Tamashi
26 - Sam Wolfe & Andrea Garcia - Prison Break

INTO THE DEEP #02

To keep up with present and future times of Trance I hereby present you part #02 of Exhibition of Modern Trance!

01 - Standard Form - Tracks In Crimson Dust (Tim French Lost Angel mix)
02 - Taygeto - Borealis (Extended Mix)
03 - Mushroom Cake & Stoked - In A Dream (Instrumental Mix)       
04 - Vlind - Rejection
05 - Kaspar & aKKi - Horizon
06 - Universal Frequency - In Full Swing (Secret Club Mix)
07 - HOF - Outer World
08 - Stoneface & Terminal - Moonscape (Extended Mix)
09 - Nikolauss - Monolith (Extended Mix)
10 - THIRDWAVE feat. Nerissa Simmone - Blue (Extended Mix)
11 - Peter Steele - Creation (Original Mix)
12 - 2 Players - Signet (Glynn Alan remix)
13 - The Digital Blonde & Idiosyncrasy - Providence (Original Mix)
14 - Ralphie B - Divinity (Extended Mix)
15 - Ton TB - Red Forrest (Magnevi's Summer Of Love Remix)
16 - David Elston - Smoke & Mirrors (Extended Mix)
17 - Dreamy - Esmeralda
18 - Stoneface & Terminal - Moonraver (Extended Mix)
19 - The Digital Blonde - Callakuma 22 (Original Mix)
20 - Dreamy - Never Forgotten (Factoria Remix)
21 - AA Meeting - Summit (Extended Mix)
22 - Divisional Phrase & Prisma Storm - Lifesaver (Extended Mix) 
23 - Project 8 Pres. Shane Kinsella - Tell Me (Extended Mix)
24 - Ciaran McAuley & Paul Denton - Stand Still (Extended Mix)
25 - Joint Operations Centre - Gizmo (Extended Mix)
26 - Kriess Guyte - The Volume (Extended Mix)

Exhibition of Modern Trance #02

As broadcasted on www.beats2dance.com during December '22

Tracklist

01 Ruben de Jong - Perfect Storm (Han Beukers Remix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
02 Grande Piano - Ibiza Flowers (Han Beukers Remix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
03 Neo Future - Still Love (Joram Smit Remix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
04 Ton TB - Red Forest (Original Mix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
05 ID - ID (Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
06 ID - ID (Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
07 ID - ID (Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
08 Victor Special - Flight To Orion's Belt (Original Mix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
09 Ton TB - Red Forest (Magnevi's Summer Of Love Remix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
10 Magnevi - The Battle Of Zela (Saving Time Mix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
11 ID x ID - ID(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
12 ID - ID (Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
13 Ruben de Jong - Broken City (Original Mix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
14 Purepath & 40Thavhan - Romantica (Original Mix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
15 Tomah - Somewhere (Original Mix)(Legacy Of Trance Recordings)
16 ID - ID (Legacy Of Trance Recordings)

Podcast: Barry Xwood - LOTPOD075 (Legacy Of Trance Recordings)

What an absolute joy and privilege it is to play for an outstanding outfit like Goodgreef. The whole club was bouncing from top to bottom for their annual Mad Friday knees up in Newcastle. The upstairs room was pure class and Alan and I had to bring our 'A' game for our B2B set.  
A cracking night was had by all accounts. Our mix went through all the gears to make sure it raced up the ramp!

Victor Ruiz - Surrender (Original Mix) 
Sasha, Knives Out - Hoodie Alan (Original Mix) 
Dyno - Zero punto due (Original Mix)  
Sam Paganini - Rave (Adam Beyer & Layton Giordani Remix)
Mumbai Science - Lotus (Original Mix)
Markus Schulz, BT - Prestwick (Extended Mix)
Solar Factor - Urban Shakedown (Bryan Kearney Remix) 
Bedrock - Heaven Scent (OC & Verde Remix)
Spektre - Love Never Ends (Original Mix)
Will Atkinson, Harry Roke - Burning Out (Eshericks Extended Mix) 
Commander Tom - Are Am Eye? (John Askew Remix) 
Chris Lake, NPC - A Drug From God (Rebuke Extended Remix)
Tony De Vit - The Dawn (Fergie Extended Remix)
Gouryella - Gorella 
Naxos Project - Cold Fusion (Apogee Remix) 
DJ Kim - Jetlag (Alphazone Extended Remix)
Activa, Mac & Monday - A Light in the Dark (Original Mix)

Goodgreef

Alan Ruddick b2b Phil Littledyke Live at Goodgreef 2022

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The Weapon

Onizmik – Samulnori [Mumbai Records]
via Future Sound of the Lucky Islands Vol.8

Inspired by the powerful rhythms of Korean traditional percussion, Samulnori blends the spirit of the “four instruments” — Kkwaenggwari (small gong), Jing (large gong), Janggu (hourglass drum), and Buk (barrel drum) — into the modern language of melodic techno.

Each sound represents thunder, wind, rain, and clouds, carrying centuries of ritualistic energy. With this track, I wanted to reinterpret that heritage and deliver it to dancefloors worldwide.

Special thanks to Alex Medina and the Mumbai Records team for opening the door for Korean sounds to resonate across the globe.

🎧 Listen now & enjoy the ride.

Onizmik-Samulnori [Mumbai Records]

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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.