Time for another episode for this series. Triggered by the last mix I did based on a Top 1000, Paul Dmitriev from Ukraine asked me if was able to do the same with his Top 100. By creating many mash ups I managed to include 45 tracks or elements from tracks of this list in this mix. A bit of an experiment, it has become a pretty busy, packed with anthems, mix.... And who expected me to end with Scooter, love it!

01 - Bart Claessen & Dave Schiemann vs Carl B Presents Khensu vs Lost Witness - Madness (I Prefer This Mix) vs Chasing Leaves (Original Mix) vs Red Sun Rising (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
02 - Super8 & Tab feat. Alyna - Delusion (Ronski Speed pres. Sun Decade Remix)
03 - Solar Stone - Solarcoaster (Original Mix)
04 - Airwave - Alone In The Dark (With some Andain's Summer Calling)
05 - Armin van Buuren pres. Perpetuous Dreamer - The Sound Of Goodbye (Above & Beyond Extended)
06 - Peter Martijn Wijnia Pres Majesta vs DJ Shah - Who Will Find Me In The End (feat Adrina Thorpe - Armin Van Buuren Mash Up)
07 - Paul van Dyk vs Rank 1 vs Robert Miles - Connected (Motomix 05) vs Such Is Life vs Children (Dream Version) (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
08 - Robert Miles - Children (Dream Version)
09 - Rank 1 - Such Is Life (Extended Version)
10 - Ultra - Free (Svenson & Gielen Remix)
11 - Smith & Pledger - Believe (Smith & Pledger's 2004 Mix)
12 - Endre - Kallocain (Robert Nickson Remix)
13 - Luminary vs Robert Miles - Amsterdam (Super8 & Tab Remix) vs Fable (Dream Version) (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
14 - Lange presents LNG - Inter City (Lange Mix)
15 - Matti Laamanen vs The KLF - Flakes (Original Mix) vs Last Train To Trancentral (Live From The Lost Continent) (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
16 - Jose Amnesia vs Serp vs Aly & Fila - Second Day (Martin Roth Remix) vs Eye Of Horus (Ronski Speed Remix) (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
17 - Airbase - Medusa (Original Mix)
18 - Menno de Jong - Tundra (Original Mix)
19 - Progression - Sands Of Time
20 - Darren Tate & Jono Grant vs Mark Eteson & Zirenz - Let The Light Shine In (12'' Original Mix) vs The Hymn (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
21 - Matt Hardwick Vs. Smith & Pledger - Day One (Above & Beyond Big Room Remix)
22 - L.S.G. vs Kay Cee - Netherworld (Oliver Prime Remix) vs Love Stimulation (Humate Remix) (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
23 - Moogwai - Viola (Armin van Buuren Remix)
24 - Paul van Dyk feat. Second Sun - Crush (PvD Remix) (With some Delerium's Innocente)
25 - Duende - Ilimitado
26 - Andain - Beautiful Things (Photon Project Remix)
27 - Thomas Datt - 2v2 (Sean Tyas Unabridged Remix)
28 - Above & Beyond pres. Tranquility Base - Surrender (Original Mix)
29 - Super8 vs Sinéad O'Connor - Alba vs Troy
30 - DJ Ton T.B. vs Paul van Dyk & Starkillers & Austin Leeds - Dream Machine (Factor B Remix) vs New York City (Feat. Ashley Tomberlin) (Super8 & Tab Remix) (Marnix Mulder Mash Up)
31 - Fire & Ice - Souvenir De Chine (Original Mix)
32 - Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx Remix)
33 - Kiholm - Fragile (Daniel Kandi Emotional Remix) (with some Tekara's Breathe In You)
34 - Gaia - 4 Elements (Original Mix)
35 - Icone Joins Arpegia - Fatal Beauty (Tragida Remix)
36 - Scooter - The First Time (Remastered)

Your Favourite Trance Classics - Part Five

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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.

Back to my own name - Old Skool Oakenfold fan  - I play trance yet apparently thats now called prog/etho/house but the 140 stuff mainly blows