Live at Captains in Geelong for the Inner Mind Records takeover night. Playing 9:30-10:30, warming up for label boss Cooper James.

Troy Schmidt Live at Captains [Inner Mind Records Takeover - 15/08/2025]

MONTHLY MEETING Ep 97 (August 2025)
Winter Closing Session

We are still the meeting you need to attend each month and to close out a cold-ish winter, here is a solo session with the variety you know and love from this podcast!

THE AGENDA
1 Horyzon ft Amitav - Lost in Time
2 Empira and Belle Sisoski - In Control
3 Clive King ft MC Alee - Wild Out (The Principal kick edit)
4 D-Block & S-Te-Fan ft Conrad Sewell - A New Day to Remember
5 Da Tweekaz & D-Block & S-Te-Fan - In My Mind
6 Noisecontrollers & A-Rize - The Lost Gods
7 Galactixx & Ecstatic - Hurt
8 Vertile - Goodbye
9 Radical Redemption ft Vertile & Atmozfears - Eyes Open to a Laser Legion Daydreamer (The Principal quick mashup)
10 Refold & Resilience - Sense of Wonder
11 Cryex & Scarra - Nobody Stopping Us
12 Phuture Noize - Stop The Bleeding
13 Aversion - All Eyes On Me
14 Vexxed - Scream in Silence
15 Warface - Disconnect
16 Rebelion - Das Ist Kein Techno (Rave Heaven & Scutoid edit)
THE CLOSING CURVEBALL
17 ANUQRAM & Anton Make vs. Above & Beyond ft. Richard Bedford - La Saga vs. Sun & Moon (Sunrise Mashup)

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MONTHLY MEETING Episode 97 (Aug 2025)

My support set for Oots at Bloom, Geelong on August 30th :)


Hayden Trotter | Bloom, August 2025 (Oots Support)

Monday lasagna (Not Tuesday) DEMO

MONTHLY MEETING Episode 99 (The Retrospective Special - ft IRIDIUM DJ, NL)

The best meeting of your month is back again and just shy of a century of podcasts, we look back on favourites from the podcast and a little bit before with some that inspired hardstyle as a whole through Iridium DJ's early hardstyle flashback and those that were the lighter sound that sparked this project prior to 2016.

Please enjoy this trip down memory lane. A deeply personal and emotional retrospective. 

Sit back and enjoy.

INTRO - 0 Above & Beyond - Surge (from "Inspired by Ghost in the Shell")
THE AGENDA (Pre-Principal era)
1 Brennan Heart - Evolution of Style
2 DJ Vortex - Bassdrum (Low-E 2009 remix)  
3 Wildstylez - Back to Basics
4 Frontliner - Sunblast
5 Noisecontrollers & Zany - Diffusion
6 Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit (Psyko Punkz bootleg)
GUEST MIX 
(Iridium DJ - early hardstyle retrospective)
7 Philippe Rochard - The Survivors Of Hardstyle (Original Mix)
8 Megaton - Maphia (Zatox Remix)
9 Alphaverb - Got It! (Unoriginal Mix)
10 Timescape - Superstyle (Original Mix)
11 K-Traxx - Hardventure (2005 Tatanka Remix)
12 Q-Zar - Power Zone (Super Mix)
13 Wild Motherfuckers - Fother Mucker (Tatanka & Zatox Mix)
THE AGENDA cont
(The Podcast Retrospective)
14 Wildstylez & Hard Driver - Get Wild Go Hard [Ep 7]
15 Jay Reeve - The Blackbird [Ep 14]
16 Noisecontrollers and Ecstatic - Music = Love (The Principal's add-on of "The Theme") [Ep 94 - rework]
17 Donkey Rollers & Noisecontrollers - Human Enemy [Ep 10]
18 D-Block & S-te-Fan - Enter Your Mind [Ep 53]
19 Phuture Noize ft Snowflake - Shallow Waters [Ep 1]
20 Keltek & B-Front - Step into the Game! (Intents Anthem 2020) [Ep 40]
21 Myst - Before you walk with Kings (Brennan Heart's tribute mix) [Ep 69]
22 RVAGE - New Dimension [Ep 33]
23 Endmyion & The Viper ft Feral is Kinky - Raging in the Dancehall (Vertile remix) [Ep 34 and Ep 35]
24 Jack of Sound & Delete - Heavy Damage (Jack's Double Damage edit) [Ep 3]
25 D-Sturb & High Voltage - Universe [Ep 23]
26 X-Pander - The Orwellian Nightmare [Ep 2]
27 Level One & Atmozfears - The Alchemy [Ep 83]
28 Rebelion & Vertile - Simulation [Ep 62]
29 B-Front - EVP [Ep 8]
30 Polish Punisher - Your Blood [Ep 88]
31 D-Sturb ft Finnick Jones - Bittersweet [Ep 87]
32 Sub Sonik & Uncaged - Aggressors of Violence [Ep 99]
THE CLOSING CURVEBALL - Sureno - Guideline (Syntone remix)



MONTHLY MEETING Episode 99 (The Retrospective Special - ft Iridium DJ , NL)

Trav Beckley chats with Harry Smyth in the lead up to his very first full distance IRONMAN event which is IRONMAN WA in Busselton. 

Harry has been ticking off his training set by his coach Anthony Goss and is in great condition with just 5 weeks until race day.

Harry takes us through how he is feeling and what he expects on race day.

We hope you enjoy this episode.

Episode 43: Build To Busso Series Ep.6

Trav Beckley flying solo for this podcast as he gives us an insight and update into the Build To Busso. Trav shares his own training ups and downs and gives us a few hints on how the other athletes targeting IRONMAN WA are travelling.

With only 3 weeks to go, it's a very important time in the build.

We hope you enjoy this episode.

Episode 44: Build To Busso Ep.7

Trav Beckley catches up with Anthony Devlin ahead of IRONMAN Western Australia (Busso). We have just entered taper and race day is just around the corner. 

We chat about Devo's build and the challenges that have come his way with work and life interrupting the training. Devo has had to put together a very quick 10 week build starting from scratch. 

We chat about his race day strategy, expectations and more.

We hope you enjoy. 

Episode 45: Build To Busso Ep.8

13days - Nebula X Murmur (06/12/25)

we're gonna just put all our demos on SoundCloud only so make sure to check our insta for updates about when they're published and recorded good cause we're not gonna upload those ones on here!

After years of practice, The Principal brings a mature and diverse approach to raw and melodic hardstyle in Australia. 

Since October 2016, The Principal, better known as Sam, has supported dozens international acts at some of Australia's finest events, including B-Front, Crypsis, Darren Styles, Rebelion, Da Tweekaz, Ran-D, Adaro, Sub Zero Project, Phuture Noize, Digital Punk, Hard Driver and the late great Delete to name a few. 

He has played for established Australian brands such as Masif Saturdays, Hard Kandy, PHD, HSU Events,  No Sleep Entertainment among others as well as touring Europe in 2017 and 2018 playing in the Netherlands for Boulevard Outdoor and in France for Hardpulz.

He organised his own events under the Surge brand and now focuses on small occasional events at Top Yard Rooftop bar in Melbourne

His energetic, tough, melodic and emotional approach is unrivalled in Australia making him the no 1 choice for fans and promoters alike.

Approaching 10 years into this project, The Principal is still standing strong for quality music that takes you on a journey! 

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facebook - no longer in use

@13dayss__

The world has ruined your brain

Rising from Geelong, Hayden Trotter is a DJ and producer known for a forward thinking blend of hardgroove, rave techno and underground club music. His sound draws from rave inspired energy, hardgroove percussion and gritty underground textures, helping shape the direction of today’s underground scene.

With support from artists such as Kettama, VTSS, Boys Noize, Bad Boombox, Justin Jay and Joe Hunt, Hayden’s productions have become recognised for their distinctive groove, sharp sound design and strong dancefloor focus.

On the stage, he has performed alongside Oots, DJ Love, Luke Hovey, Ben Hemsley, Lady Shaka ,THELMA, Laura King and CRTB, steadily building a reputation within the Naarm underground community.

After releasing a techno mix on SoundCloud for LMN Label and gaining traction through a series of standout edits and originals, Hayden enters 2026 focused on expanding his catalogue and refining his artistic direction.

Whether exploring rave focused textures or harder tribal rhythms, Hayden continues to push his sound forward, establishing himself as an emerging name in Australia’s new wave of club producers.

Contact: haydentrottermusic@gmail.com

The Beckworth Racing Podcast is hosted by Coach Trav Beckley. He brings you all things triathlon, including interviews local triathletes, professionals & age group athletes meaning there is something for everyone. We hope you enjoy!

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