Here's chapter 163 of the Trance Connection adventure together with my buddy Nucrise (@rafa-arendz). We teamed up to deliver a monthly radioshow that's broadcasted on every first Saturday of the month at 17.00 CET on the mighty Afterhours.FM radio station!

Tracklist: 
01: STANDERWICK - Apricus [Armind (Armada)]	 
02: Han Beukers - Nebula [Interplay Flow] 
03: ZOYA - When Heaven Calls [Magik Muzik]		 
04: LTN - I Will Follow [Scorchin' Progressive]	 
05: DIM3NSION - City Of Lights [A State of Trance]	 
06: Rodg - Ibossim [Escape]		 
07: OceanLab - Sirens Of The Sea (Marsh Remix) [[Anjunabeats]	 	 
08: Oliver Smith & Tom Bailey - Everything [Anjunabeats]	 
09: Nucrise - Blissfulness [AVA Recordings] 
10: David Broaders - Horizons (DJ Version) [Euphonic] 
11: Luke Bond Ft. Tyler Graves - B2U [A State of Trance]	 
12: Super8 & Tab x LÜRUM Ft. LYCA - Hold The Fire [A State of Trance]		 
13: Farius - Propulsion [Enhanced Progressive] 	 
14: Suncatcher & Exolight - Ascend (Maywave Remix) [Euphonic]		 15: Gareth Emery Ft. Annabel & LSR/CITY - Ice Moon [Create Music Group] 		 
16: Tim Besamusca - Lost In Time (John Stigter Remix) [Elpida Music]

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Cheers and thank you for your support!
Sjoerd / Mr. Trancetive

You can follow Nucrise on:
Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/rafa-arendz/
SoundCloud: @rafa-arendz
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Nucrise-111743790610762

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Facebook: www.facebook.com/Mr.Trancetive/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mr_trancetive/

Nucrise & Mr. Trancetive - Trance Connection 163 (Afterhours.FM 03-02-2024)

Mr. Trancetive stands for a dedicated and loyal passion for all kinds of Dance and Trance music and the wonderful feeling it evokes. Making mashups, edits and megamixes is his core business and his sets are packed with creative and surprising blends.

Mr. Trancetive (pronounce like 'transitive') alias Sjoerd Hoevens was born in 1987 in Haarlem, The Netherlands. From a young age he enjoyed music, especially when listening to the radio. Every Friday afternoon he rushed home from school to tune into the Top 40 to hear the greatest hits of the moment. He became a loyal customer at the local music stores and his CD-collection grew fast. He was often asked to play records at school parties and organized some of them at his parents’ home, which he really loved doing. As he had no DJ-gear but only two stereo sets, his mixing technique was a bit unconventional, blending tracks with the volume buttons and harmonic-mixing them by ear. It helped him develop a sensitive feel for smooth and harmonic transitions. Though he loves all kinds of music, his interest then already went out to Dance music. This was the late 90's/early 00’s, with great artists like ATB, Mauro Picotto, Faithless, 4 Strings, Scooter, Sash!, DJ Tiësto, Milk Inc. and Paul van Dyk.

When he heard John O’Callaghan’s tune Big Sky back in 2007, his love for Trance music skyrocketed and has never left. From that moment he tuned in to Armin van Buuren’s radioshow A State of Trance every single week. After visiting Trance Energy and Armin Only Imagine in 2008, Sjoerd decided to use his passion for Trance as a basis for his own creative interpretation of the genre. He bought his first DJ-gear and started mixing. In 2014 he posted his first mixtape on SoundCloud and in 2015 he started the production of mashups and edits. Since then his mashups got supported by Trance artists like Jorn van Deynhoven, Artento Divini, David Broaders, Johnny L, Tomac, Lazarus and many more. His inspiration comes from Trance artists like Armin van Buuren, Andy Tau, Solid Stone, Giuseppe Ottaviani, U-Mount, Farius, Gareth Emery, Ben Gold, Ashley Wallbridge, Sean Mathews, Omnia and many more.

Today he’s more productive and passionate than ever before and determined to share his love for Trance music with the world. Besides his solo project Sjoerd is also one of the hosts of the Dutch radioshow @Time4Trance and hosting Trance Connection on Afterhours.FM together with his UK based friend Nucrise (@rafa-arendz).

[ ▲A p o l l o § A r †▼ ]
[ T w o H u s s a r s ]
[ E c c 3 : 4 ]
[ S t e r e o s c e n i c ]

"Under the ban, --
So, ye have wrought me
Designs on the night of our knowledge, -- yea, ye have taught me,
So,
That haply we know somewhat more than we know.

Ye lispers, whisperers, singers in storms,
Ye consciences murmuring faiths under forms,
Ye ministers meet for each passion that grieves,
Friendly, sisterly, sweetheart leaves,
Oh, rain me down from your darks that contain me
Wisdoms ye winnow from winds that pain me, --
Sift down tremors of sweet-within-sweet
That advise me of more than they bring, -- repeat
Me the woods-smell that swiftly but now brought breath
From the heaven-side bank of the river of death, --
Teach me the terms of silence, -- preach me
The passion of patience, -- sift me, -- impeach me, --
And there, oh there
As ye hang with your myriad palms upturned in the air,
Pray me a myriad prayer.
My gossip, the owl, -- is it thou
That out of the leaves of the low-hanging bough,"

“The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?”

https://www.everydayknow.com/positive-words-that-start-with-k/

"The keynote of the stylization achieved in ballet is: weightlessness. Paradoxically, ballet presents man as almost disembodied: it does not distort man’s body, it selects the kinds of movements that are normally possible to man (such as walking on tiptoe) and exaggerates them, stressing their beauty—and defying the law of gravitation. A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man. It projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision, but it is man with a fine steel skeleton and without flesh, man the spirit, not controlling, but transcending this earth . . . .

Strong passions or negative emotions cannot be projected in ballet, regardless of its librettos; it cannot express tragedy or fear—or sexuality; it is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love."

"As Opposed To What?"

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination?”

[ H y p e r b o r e a ]
[ T h e E a s t E n d ]

Trance & .... it's the perfect "Storm" ! 