One of my first tracks produced, uploaded this to keep my memories of TATW alive (Above and Beyond's old radio show) 
I also assured JONO on twitter I would do so ;) This goes out to all three of them!

This track was signed to UpBeat Music who i found on the Anjunabeats Forums. It was a lovely place to sit and discuss things about music production. At the time i learned many things there. Met great friends who i later met in Melbourne when i moved there for my education. Daniel Kandi also gave me advice on what headphones to buy which i mixed down this track on. At the time MySpace had its cool little MP3 player which was used to show off music on your profiles. 

Im sure it exists now but i was just writing about what i was like making music in 2006 - 2008.

At the time i felt people were less bothered about the technical qualities of the track and focused more on how to improve and not find something wrong with music. I also felt there was less pressure to make a track that was popular or sold well. TATW also had a very melodic playlist which is why I used to tune in allot. I started with TATW 50 and didn't think in my wildest dreams id get featured on one of them later.

Some of my all time favourite tracks at the time was Paperjet by Paul Keeley and tracks like M from Ayumi Hamasaki (Above and beyonds remix). Another track back then i loved was Cirrus (Simon Paterson's Remix) originally by Oliver Smith.

I was contacted on the forums VIA DM about both demos that i uploaded for feedback on the forums (i didnt even send this in) but yeah, i signed with UPBEAT MUSIC and then moved to another city (LAHORE) at the time for a school debate (LUMUN) and I start getting emails from LA all the way down  to KURASHIKI in Japan about the track. Rocky from LA mentioned TATW in his subject line and I called my friend to check the show and turns out it even got announced! - This was a high point for me. Never really gave it my all after this it was more of getting lost and never finding my way back again due to various reasons.

So here you go my tribute to trance music from 2008

Special thanks to some of the following people who helped me out in some way or the other with production at the time!

Mitchel Claxton:
https://soundcloud.com/mitchell-claxton-mcx

William Summerbell
https://soundcloud.com/williamsummerbell

Daniel Kandi:
https://soundcloud.com/danielkandimusic

Johnny Yono
https://soundcloud.com/johnnyyono

Suspect44
https://soundcloud.com/suspect44

The Flyers
https://soundcloud.com/theflyersmusic

Adam Szabo (For his lovely presets and patches also)
https://soundcloud.com/adamszabo

7Skies (Didnt know personally but did get help from)
https://soundcloud.com/7skies

And of course Above and Beyond.
Thank you for allowing me to be a part of something that is trance history, 

While I am on a indefinite break right now, I will return at some point in the future.


-Shaun Ansari, 2014

Shaun Ansari - Distant Rain (TATW Airplay 2008)

On vacation from producing till further notice :) Busy enjoying my 80's fix at the moment from some of the brilliant synthwave guys here on SC :)

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Shaun Ansari - Distant Rain (TATW Airplay 2008)

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