Cosmos 2.0

Cosmos 2.0 (Extended Mix)

I got involved in EDM and deejay in the late 90s thanks to a friend of mine that bought a pair of Gemini turntables and some 90s Italo-Dance vinyl that we was listening in local disco.

From that point my own equipment evolved from Virtual Turntables 1.8 to Stanton ST90 passing by a pair of Pioneer CDJ 100 and my musical tastes quickly evolved from Italo-Dance music to Trance music, thanks to the Internet and the great community Tranceaddict.com.

In the 2006 I stopped to deejay and I sold my equipment but in the 2014 I started to slowly re-enter and I (finally) started to play and enjoy some good electronic music again.

I love instrumental uplifting and euphoric trance but I don't dislike to put in my sets some more deep and grovy progressive / techish tracks and some catchy vocals tunes.

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.