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OK so this is a peak time Trance and Tech Trance mix I did way back in 2008 (I think), it's all pretty no holds barred and has some of my favourite tracks of the era on there plus a few surprises.

1- Activa - Genetic
2- Super8 + DJ Tab - Suru
3- Cold Blue + Del Mar - 11 Days (Sebastien Bradt remix)
4- Simon Patterson - We'll See
5- Neil Scarborough - Stung On The River (Sean Tyas remix)
6- Alex Morph + Rank 1 - Life Less Ordinary (MEKK remix)
7- Inner City - Good Life (Killa B remix)
8- Simon Patterson - Bulldozer
9- Crossover - Exhale
10- Thomas Bronzwaer - Resound (Sean Tyas remix)
11- Sean Tyas - Drop
12- Oceanlab - Clear Blue Water (Ferry Corsten remix)
Bonus Track - Paul van Dyk - Times Of Our Lives

Times Of Our Lives (Peak Time Trance & Tech Trance - 2008)

Originally released in 1993, Two Full Moons & A Trout was one of the seminal releases on Platipus Records.

It was picked up by Rising High in 1994 featuring the epic remix by Caspar Pound and mix by Friends Lovers & Family.

Platipus delivered 2 further remixes in 2006 by Luke Chable, Chab and Tetonik^.

Now 7 years later and 20 years after the original release, we thought it's time for a fresh take on this legendary release.

This time round from with mixes from Belgium's Airwave, Israel's Freedom Fighters & Domestic and USA's Terra Ferma, each bringing their own take within today's sound along with the Original 14" Mix.

Two Full Moons & A Trout (Original Mix Remastered)

Union Jack - Two Full Moons & A Trout (Original Mix Remastered)  Platipus

Chromium - 'Chrome' [Released 1.9.14]

1. Chromium ‘Chrome’ Remastered Original Mix 
2. Chromium ‘Chrome’ Remastered Terra Ferma Remix
3. Chromium ‘Chrome’ Remastered Ocean Wave Mix

Following on from Narcotic 'Blue', this is the second instalment of remastered classics from Australian duo Gab Oliver and C.J. Dolan.

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Chrome' (Ocean Wave Remix

Chromium 'Chrome' (Ocean Wave Remix) Remastered [Platipus]

Chrome' (Terra Ferma Remix

Chromium 'Chrome' (Terra Ferma Remix) Remastered

Pure Trance ADE 2014. Aly & Fila.

5yrs of deadmau5 available at iTunes: http://po.st/5yearsofmau5 

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5 years of mau5

Maths (Botnek Remix)

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Catalyst ‘The Chamber’  [PLATMU89]

1. Catalyst ‘The Chamber’ (Movements One to Three)
2. Catalyst ‘Seahorse’

Catalyst is the solo project of London based Mark Brogden who is the younger brother of Paul Brogden (POB / Union Jack).

Conceived over 22 years ago, ‘The Chamber’ was originally released in ’93 on Colin Faver’s influential label Rabbit City (early Aphex Twin / Spiral Tribe etc), after it was performed at the legendary Knowledge night at SW1 Club in London and featured on a mix tape by Sven Vath.

The Chamber is an evocation of an incredible journey that takes the mind through wonderful realms of science fiction, glimpsing on possibilities presented by advanced extra-terrestrial forms. Strong orchestration, fine control of synthesised sounds, intense arpeggios and pacy rhythms propel the listener forward through the three interconnecting movements and their internal passages. Experience the whole journey in this 21 minute electronic masterpiece.

Movements and their passages:

Movement One: Approach, aurora, marching, acceleration, grande hall
Movement Two: Electric data storm, data communique overload
Movement Three: Time, space, motion

Seahorse: Brush through the shallow warm tropical waters, air pockets bubbling up from the seabed and underwater plant-life gently sway. The expanse opens up and the seahorse is revealed in all it’s enigmatic glory.

Catalyst ‘The Chamber’ / ‘Seahorse’ is available on 19th Jan 2015 on Platipus Records.

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Seahorse

2. Catalyst 'Seahorse'  [Platipus Music]

Catalyst ‘The Chamber’  [PLATMU89]

1. Catalyst ‘The Chamber’ (Movements One to Three)
2. Catalyst ‘Seahorse’

Catalyst is the solo project of London based Mark Brogden who is the younger brother of Paul Brogden (POB / Union Jack).

Conceived over 22 years ago, ‘The Chamber’ was originally released in ’93 on Colin Faver’s influential label Rabbit City (early Aphex Twin / Spiral Tribe etc), after it was performed at the legendary Knowledge night at SW1 Club in London and featured on a mix tape by Sven Vath.

The Chamber is an evocation of an incredible journey that takes the mind through wonderful realms of science fiction, glimpsing on possibilities presented by advanced extra-terrestrial forms. Strong orchestration, fine control of synthesised sounds, intense arpeggios and pacy rhythms propel the listener forward through the three interconnecting movements and their internal passages. Experience the whole journey in this 21 minute electronic masterpiece.

Movements and their passages:

Movement One: Approach, aurora, marching, acceleration, grande hall
Movement Two: Electric data storm, data communique overload
Movement Three: Time, space, motion

Seahorse: Brush through the shallow warm tropical waters, air pockets bubbling up from the seabed and underwater plant-life gently sway. The expanse opens up and the seahorse is revealed in all it’s enigmatic glory.

Catalyst ‘The Chamber’ / ‘Seahorse’ is available on 19th Jan 2015 on Platipus Records.

http://www.beatport.com/release/the-chamber/1441979





1. Catalyst 'The Chamber' (Movements One to Three) (Remastered) [Platipus Music]

1. Neo & Farina 'Alba Rossa' [Original] Remastered.  Platipus Records

Another fine atmospheric piece of craftsmanship from Simon Berry’s solo venture following on from ‘Humans’ in 2014.

Italy’s Gai Barone has has rightfully earned his place as one of the leading figures in the progressive house and trance scene and delivers one of his best remixes to date.

French born Rick Pier O’Neil, who now resides in Mexico delivers an equally blistering mix.

Art Of Trance ‘Before The Storm’ is available on 13th July 2015 on Platipus Records.

Before The Storm

Art Of Trance 'Before The Storm' (Original Mix) Sample [Platipus]

In Digital Stores October 12th. 
Pre-order + physical rewards available here: electronicopus.com/support/

The wait for BT's anticipated "Electronic Opus" album ends October 12th when it officially releases to the public. 14 beloved BT tracks have been reworked and reimagined into a fantastical exploration of classical arrangements, electronic dance frequencies, and experimental sound editing techniques. Thanks to the dedication and creativity of the production team at TanZ, conductor Eímear Noone, Milk & Honey Management, Tommy Tallarico, and BT, "Electronic Opus" signifies a shift in the way dance music and EDM will be perceived from here on out.

BT's Electronic Opus - Dreaming [Preview]

Art Of Trance ‘Octopus - The 2015 Remixes’  [PLATMU92]

1. Art Of Trance ‘Octopus’ (Gai Barone’s Gallery Remix)
2. Art Of Trance ‘Octopus’ (Perfect Stranger Remix)
3. Art Of Trance ‘Octopus’ (Rick Pier O’Neil Remix)
4. Art Of Trance ‘Octopus’ (Matt Holliday Remix)
5. Art Of Trance ‘Octopus’ (Gai Barone’s Smileodontic Remix)
6. Art Of Trance ‘Octopus’ (Original Mix Remastered)

Originally released back in ’95, ‘Octopus’ is one of Simon Berry’s strongest Art Of Trance releases to date. Later that year, it was remixed by R&S artist Capricorn (of 20Hz fame) and Man With No Name, so it seemed that after 20 years new remixes were surely justified.

Italy’s fast rising star Gai Barone has delivered quite possibly the finest remix he’s ever done with his Gallery Remix. Not only that, he decided to do a second remix for good measure.

Israel’s Yuli from Perfect Stranger serves up a very solid mix which stays closer to the original.

Frenchman, Rick Pier O’Neil returns with another sublime slice of sunrise.

Englishman, Matt Holliday offers a spacious and textured soundscape for his interpretation and is followed by a remastered version of the original.

Art Of Trance ‘Octopus - The 2015 Remixes’ is available on 30th November 2015 on Platipus Records exclusively from Beatport and from 14th Dec on all other portals.

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Art Of Trance 'Octopus' Original mix remastered  [Platipus]

Art Of Trance - ‘Firebird’ (Platipus Records)

After recent success with 'Ultrafoxx' and 'Before The Storm', Simon Berry unleashes 'Firebird'.

Remixes from Peter Dundov, Gai Barone and Jonno Brien.

PLATMU94 Platipus Records

Global Release: 21/11/2016

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Art Of Trance 'Firebird' (Original Mix) Platipus Records

Art Of Trance​ ‘Curve Bender’  [Platipus Records​]

After recent success with ‘Firebird’ and ‘Ultrafoxx’, Art Of Trance returns once more with ‘Curve Bender'.

A Voluminous hoover-bass anchors proceedings with saturated morphing percussion and hypnotic shards of light.

Accompanied by a rather satisfying double-ended Barone-Bender remix doppleganger.

PLATMU95 Platipus Records
Global Release: 27/02/2017

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Curve Bender (Original Mix)

Art Of Trance - Curve Bender (Original Mix) Platipus Records

Union Jack - ‘Cactus’ 2017 Remixes [PLATMU96]

1. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Jonno Brien Remix)
2. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Adam Kent Remix)
3. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (OOOD Remix)
4. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Airwave’s Dark and Long Mix)
5. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Quietman Remix)
6. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Original Mix Remastered)

Originally released in 1994, ‘Cactus’ is regarded as one of Union Jack’s finest moments. 23 years on, despite a plethora of requests, no remixes have ever been commissioned…until now.

Irish Techno DJ/Producer and rising star Jonno Brien originally got the ball rolling last year when he sent in his remix out of the blue. It was quite simply too good to be ignored. Carl Cox, who was one of only a handful of DJ’s to be sent the mix, hammered it worldwide and included it as one of his highlights at the Closing Party @ Space, Ibiza.

Adam Kent serves up a driving semi-spangled tech houser.

Psychedelic sorcerers OOOD remain faithful to the prickly original but slam it into the 21st planet and beyond.

Airwave’s Laurent reappears with an extended gloaming exploration into Cactaceae cornucopia.

After a long hiatus, Quietman’s Laurence and Wilf emerge from a shimmering mirage with a sublime slice of desert sunrise. 

‘Cactus - 2017 Remixes’ will be released 12th June 2017 on Beatport. Global release 27th June 2017 on Platipus.

Cactus - Original Mix [Remastered]

6. Union Jack - Cactus - Original Mix [Remastered] [Platipus]

Swarm (Original Mix)

Art Of Trance - Swarm (Original Mix) [Platipus]

Quietman - The Sleeper  [Platipus]

Papillon [Original mix]

Union Jack - Papillon [Original mix]  [Platipus]

Dear All,

I am very excited to share with you the first single from my forthcoming #EDM album on @Armadamusic. This song, a collaboration with Arty and Nadia, began several years ago in demo form when I emailed a rough track to Nadia. After several months of riffing back and forth on lyrical notes and counterpoint lines, I began the lengthy and arduous task of comping together a meaningful and poignant vocal. I often compare this process to pointillism in art. It takes an extraordinary amount of time, but in the end when it's worth it, it's well worth it.

This track then sat on my proverbial studio shelf for about 18months. During this time, one of the myriad of pieces I was composing was a 6/4 64 bpm orchestral composition that had these protracted movements of cello, vibraphone, metalaphone and handbells. It occurred to me, somewhere I think I have a vocal, in a related key and tempo / signature. I dug around on the server and bingo...dorian it was. Nadia's vocal was a near perfect fit and worked amazingly with some of the orchestral and small instrument (TBU style) orchestration.

Enter...Arty. At this time Arty and I had been talking over DM on Twitter about collaborating on a track together. I sent him both the vocal and orchestral things we'd written and he sent me back beautiful percolating and driving percussion, an incredible undulating tresillo ostinato synth line and a beautiful drop.

This part of the process began to culminate during this summer. As I was beginning to dig in to Trevor Wisharts brilliant new version of CDP. For those of you that don't know, CDP is a command based DSP programing language that calls opcodes and commands in either OSX terminal or DOS. I've been using it in both for many years but this track is the first time I've really gotten my hands dirty so to speak, on something as prominent as a vocal and Nadia's provided the perfect clay. After about 100+ hours of pure sound design, spectral blurring..distort repeating and the epic PSOW and modify brassage, you can hear the results of these sonic transformations throughout "Must be the Love", most notably at the very beginning. I for one have never heard anything like this.

More than anything, this is a beautiful and simple song that speaks directly to me, and I hope to you as well. After all, music is first and foremost a language to speak the unspoken directly from breathing life form to breathing life form.

Thanks for listening.
Always,
_BT


Must Be the Love

BT and Arty feat. Nadia Ali-Must Be The Love

OUT NOW www.beatport.com/release/go-slow-ep/975244

Nolan - Go Slow ft Amber Jolene (Finnebassen Remix) [OFF]

This is the first composition on my summer release "If the Stars are Eternal, so are You and I". You can buy it on iTunes here : http://tinyurl.com/IfTheStarsAreEternal

This work, features some new convolution topology morphing ideas (executed in CDP) and hours of painstaking molecular level editing in the drop. It was worked on in 3 movements, similar to my working modality on This Binary Universe.

As it relates to the "drop". I'd like to refer you to the last 4 minutes of Mad Skillz Mic Check. That's 1999. *rests case your honor*

In digging around in some of these new FFT/Spectral/convolution ideologies, I've come up with some compelling new addendum's for both Stutter Edit and other unreleased technologies (with my software partners iZotope).

The video is a collaborative work with the pioneering Randy Halverson and Subtractive. I can't wait for you all to see this. Links below.

To watch it, go here: http://tinyurl.com/Wired13AngelsVideoPremiere 
and to buy it on iTunes in HD/lossless, go here : http://tinyurl.com/13AngelsVideo

This is a dark room, full attention piece. Don't cheat and read the last chapter!
Thank you all for supporting my work.

All my best,
_BT


13 Angels On My Broken Windowsill

Was asked to remix one of all time favourite tunes, so here it is 99 problems Jay-Z - the prodigy remix
Play it loud!
LH

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99 Problems - The Prodigy Remix (INSTRUMENTAL)

Crystalised

The XX - Crystalised (Edu Imbernon Remix) [YOUNG TURKS]

The XX - Reunion (Edu Imbernon Remix) [YOUNG TURKS] Snippet

1. Simon Berry - Pangolin [Original Mix] 
2. Simon Berry - Pangolin [Torsten Fassbender Remix]
3. Simon Berry - Pangolin [Satoshi Fumi Remix]

Back in 1995, in a 4 page Mixmag Platipus special, Simon Berry was described by Alexis Petridis as “The Unstoppable Trance Machine". A quarter of a century on and Mr Petridis was not wrong. As the force behind Art Of Trance, one half of Union Jack, and founder of Platipus Records, Simon has been consistently fine tuning his trademark sound with chart topping singles on Bedrock, Platipus and Circus.

Following on from his ground breaking solo excursions ’Black Rainbow’, ‘Anaconda’ and ‘Rogue Planet’, Simon makes a return to nature with ‘Pangolin’.

Opening with the omnipotent original, ‘Pangolin’ emerges from the undergrowth as a low slung elusive anomaly. Rattling percussion paves the way for oriental ear bending arpeggios, soaring chords and descending scales, providing shimmering glimmers of hope for a more utopian vision of the future beyond pandemonium.

Ominous low frequency oscillations introduce the second instalment of 'Pangolin' by Berlin frequency wizard Torsten Fassbender. Spiralling glitched arpeggios are interspersed with jagged fluttering sawtooth pulsations. A divine audio delicacy to be savoured, or a medicinal musical doctrine?

Tokyoite DJ, producer, label owner and radio presenter Satoshi Fumi has been sharpening his katana over the course of time with a collection of quality releases on esteemed labels such as Get Physical, Bedrock and Moodmusic. Premiering on John Digweed’s Bunker Session 12, Satoshi’s instalment of 'Pangolin' is quite possibly his strongest remix to date. He unashamedly dissipates any distancing rules to implement a gentle pummelling of deep driving House, rich in rhythm and melodic tech nostalgia, revealing his roots in early 90's Chicago House and Detroit Techno, in a noble attempt to save it from extinction.

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Simon Berry - Pangolin [Original Mix] Platipus Preview

1. POB - Darkness
2. POB - Lightness*

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POB (Paul Brogden) has been lurking elusively behind the scenes now for some time, most notably remixing classics such as ’Heaven Scent’ by Bedrock, ’Break For Love’ by Raze, as well as numerous releases on Bedrock, his own label Seismic, and Platipus who released his excellent debut album ‘Essence’. He’s also collaborated with Simon Berry as Clanger since 1993 and Union Jack with their seminal album ’Pylon Pigs’.

After a seven year solo hiatus, and never one for seeking the limelight, POB proudly unveils his latest overtures. Shunning the traditional remix route, Paul yields two truly unique offerings.

‘Darkness’ plunges to new depths with rolling subtones, relentlessly hypnotic guiro-esque hihats and an arsenal of deranged vocals.

‘Lightness’ discharges a crusading cacophony of grotesque vocal warblings fresh out of the asylum, a barrage of dark bass, and a couple of psychotic heavy breathers that bizarrely crossfade into light-drenched synth chords. You couldn’t make it up … POB can. 

*Featured on John Digweed’s Bunker 25

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
[Dylan Thomas]

POB - Darkness (Platipus Preview)

1. Simon Berry - Maelström [Original Mix]
2. Simon Berry - Maelström [Torsten Fassbender Remix]
3. Simon Berry - Maelström [OCHERii Remix]

Having concluded his resounding astral explorations with ‘Rogue Planet’ and ‘Martian Sunrise’, Simon submerges himself into unchained, uncharted waters.

A vortex of dark and tempestuous gated strings in the Original Mix are underpinned by a metallic resonating bassline, splintered percussion and twisted swirling vocal fragments that pull you under. 

Initially offering a false sense of calm, Torsten’s remix is anything but. Beyond the gentle undercurrent of synth vapour and spiralling arpeggios emerges a menacing and minacious moog riff set to cause the perfect storm. This is quite possibly Torsten’s finest work to date.

Continuing the descent into the maelström, seasoned Israeli DJ/Producer OCHERii delivers a sublime slab of innovative hypnotic Techno at its finest. Pulsating surging base waves provide the turbulent backdrop to more treacherous depths. A relentlessly unnerving drone funnels it’s way into the mist-drenched aether, interspersed with cicada-esque hihats, granular sequences and a plethora of OCHERii’s trademark deep and subtle modular warblings.

All three versions of Maelström represent the diversity of sound and depth that is befitting of recent releases on Platipus.

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Simon Berry - Maelström (Original Mix) Platipus Preview

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