Trance Playlist Four

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One of the best-loved Ibiza anthems and club cuts of all time Café Del Mar gets brand new remixes from the original trance master Paul Van Dyk. It’s such a perfect fit that it begs the question: why has it taken nearly three decades to happen? 

Nearly 30 years ago, Paul M aka Kid Paul, recording as Energy 52, unleashed a record onto an unsuspecting public that would go on to define club culture for an entire generation of dance music enthusiasts. Named as an homage to the legendary Ibiza sunset spot, Café Del Mar broke down boundaries between the underground and the mainstream, charting in the UK singles charts on three separate occasions and named as the “best tune ever” by Mixmag at the start of the new millennium. In terms of cultural and emotional impact in dance music, it’s hard to find a record that comes close. 

Café Del Mar has come to represent the most euphoric and hedonistic pleasures of dancefloors - in Ibiza and all around the world - and has been remixed by some of the biggest names in the industry. One name that’s been strangely absent though is that of Paul Van Dyk: a trance icon and a seemingly perfect fit for remixing a record of this stature. 

Paul Schmitz-Moormann (aka Kid Paul) and Paul van Dyk were close DJ buddies in the early Berlin Techno scene, and played around a hundred DJ gigs together, all around Germany and Europe, before they moved on in different directions. Now nearly 30 years later he’s finally got the chance to remix this iconic record. 

For the new release, Paul Van Dyk delivers two scintillating remixes. The XOXO remix slows the tempo slightly and employs crisp percussion and deep, pulsing bass while still maintaining the out- and out exhilaration of that epic breakdown, while for the trance purists the Shine remix delivers the atmosphere of the late 90s alongside the sharp production aesthetics of the modern day. 

Paul Van Dyk’s Café Del Mar remixes mark the first new release on the label Superstition Records after an almost 20 years hiatus. From 1993 until 2003 Superstition Records was a groundbreaking Techno, Tech-House and Trance Label and released some of the biggest and most revered records of the early German electronic scene.

Energy 52 - Café Del Mar (Paul van Dyk´s SHINE Mix)

Paul Oakenfold’s Trance Mission album – due for release in the Spring will feature fresh and exciting cover versions of ten of Oakenfold’s all time favourite trance records. 

The first single on Perfecto Fluoro from the album is Paul’s driving remake of one of the most recognisable riffs of all time in electronic music. 

Mixmag voted “Best Tune Ever” in 2001 and BBC Radio 1 listener voted best dance track of the last 20 years in 2011 there have been countless remixes of “Café Del Mar” over the years but few have covered this seminal title till now. 

“After making more of a big room, new school trance sounding remake of “Toca Me” for Perfecto I knew when it came to Café del Mar I wanted to take things in the fluoro direction. The riff just begs you to. And since that was always the plan I also knew I wanted key Fluoro names remixing it as well so got Activa, Angry Man and Peetu S – who are all backbone contributors to the label to stamp their signature style on their versions. This is a touch peak time package for proper trance fans. Every time I’ve played this out in the last few months the place has just gone off. It’s nice to represent the track in a different, kind of GOA Trance themed style.”

Four unique takes on Paul Oakenfold’s cover of what is arguably the biggest trance record of all time. 

This is the first chapter in the Trance Mission story.  

Keep reading - there’s way more to come!

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Paul Oakenfold - Cafe Del Mar (Activa Remix)

Paul van Dyk - For An Angel (Radio Edit).flac

Tiesto - Adagio for strings

Bloom [In Loving Memory]

The Girl with Her Head In The Clouds [Ellie’s Song] (Mixed)

Celestial Bloom

Craig Connelly - Eclipse The Sun (Extended Mix)

Beatport

Matt Robertson - Falling

Communication

Delerium - The Silence (DJ Tiesto remix) Paul Oakenfold

Techno Trance - PPK - Resurrection (Space Club Mix)

Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun (DJ Tiesto Mix) [www.tramcegeneration.com]

PPK - Resurection

Right In The Night

Right In The Night (Nicholson Remix) [feat. Plavka]

Delerium Feat Sarah Mclachlan-Silence Airscape Remix

There a varied mix of Playlists, I used to collect Now That What I Call Music Albums from 1998 to 2010, what started my love of Dance music was a Now Dance 98 album I bought, even since then I've grown to love Trance as well as Dance, over time from Trance and Dance, I branched out into chilled electronia and Ibiza chillout music, in-between that, I love a selection of 90s pop and dance from that decade, over my years I've also love music from the 80s.

Please note, out of my control, some playlist songs are not showing up or showing as "Tracks not found" on certain devices, while on selected devices are showing up as normal.

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