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List of 10 New Trance Tracks 23-09-09

Stuart — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:43:06 +0000

Well summer is coming to a close here in the UK and all those tracks you have heard on those (some) sunny days are rolling in. The DJmag votes are now being counted by the time many of you read this…will Above & Beyond take that number one spot I wonder?

Mean while the closing parties in Ibiza are under way and I’m planning on celebrating my 30th Birthday at Slinky, O2 Academy Bournemouth (formerly known as The Opera House). Feel free to join me for one hell of a night on the 31st October with the likes of Marco V, Adam Sheridan, Ali Wilson, Lee Haslam, Ben Gold and Dav Gomrass!
Event details can be found here.

Sulaco – Realm Of Infinity (Original Mix)
Digitized Recordings
DJdownload.com link

The throb of the sub-bass and kick to this track really picks it out. Then when it breaks, the keys and the rhythm changes in the percussion (very dubstep stylee Haha!) as it builds again make it one supreme track on the list today!

Stoneface & Terminal – St Francis Foley (Club Mix)
Euphonic
DJdownload.com link

As always Stoneface & Terminal bring us delightful uplifting numbers. I’m playing catch up on releases on the blog not having written anything recently, if like me, you may yet to catch up including this one in your collection

Adiva feat Vicky Fee – How Does It Feel (Myon & Shane 54 Vocal Mix)
Coldharbour Recordings
DJdownload.com link

How does it feel? Well beings you ask, it feels nice and warm, with a fluttering feeling in my chest…
Myon & Shane 54 take an already excellent track and give it a superb vocal mix that is…well, just lovely I guess does not sum it up enough. Love vocal tracks? This is one for you!

Marco V – Stimulated 2010 (Original Mix/Jonas Stenberg Remix)
In Charge
DJdownload.com link

Ok I’m going to act all child like now (sorry!) —- OMG! OMG! OMFG! TUNE!!
I shit you not this has totally made my day and trying to listen to other tunes to pick after I came across this corker of a remake has been hardwork. Old school Marco V tracks such as Indicator, Acid Pacemaker and of course Stimulated are some of my all time favourite tech-trance tunes. How could they not be? If you have ever loved tech-trance then I dare you to say you have not heard of at least one of those three and say you have not enjoyed them!

The Original Mix of Stimulated 2010 has that slight slant of the new Marco V. What I love is it does not give the game away until 2mins 38secs and then the trademark sound screams out.
The Jonas Stenberg Remix is one evil sucker with lots of familiar sounds but the main riff drops in at 3mins 57secs. This I can tell is going to be weapon of choice in many DJs collections but to be fair I love them both. Now who is up for Indicator 2010??

Jordan Suckley – The Storm! (Original Mix)
Liquid Recordings
DJdownload.com link

Jordan Suckley jumps up the production ladder all the time with his efforts! Already signed to one of Britain’s biggest booking agencies and producing top notch tracks I can’t see what can go wrong for him right now. The Storm! is set to kick off a storm of fans flocking his way with this excellent trance track incorporating something for everyone.

Gaia – Tuvan (Gareth Emery Remix)
Armind
DJdownload.com link
Armind + Gareth Emery Remix = Winner! All round brilliant track anyway (check out the luxurious violins in the Andy Blueman Remix) gets a ‘man of the moment’ makeover.

Estiva – I Feel Fine (Piano Mix)
Enhanced Recordings
DJdownload.com link
Nothing new here, but it is nice to still hear a well refined peak time trancer that has some piano, and this track hits that nail firmly on the head.

Simon Patterson – Always (Original Mix)
Reset Records
DJdownload.com link
Simon Patterson coming out with a nice driving uplifting tech-trancer with a little female vocal loop rounding it off nicely.

Ben Gold feat. Senadee – Today (Filo & Peri Remix)
Kill The Lights
DJdownload.com link
Have I ever told you how good Ben Gold is? …I have? Well I’m sorry but Today is going to be one of those days again To top it off the Filo & Peri Remix is the one getting caned by literally everyone, and rightly so.

Dennis Sheperd and Cold Blue – Freefalling (Cold Blue Mix)
High Contrast Recordings
DJdownload.com link
A difficult choice with both Dennis Sheperd and Cold Blue each doing a Mix and Dub Mix. Cold Blue does it for me though by a whisker as it carries the energy throughout the track a lot more.

Bonus Tracks
Aurosonic & Morphing Shadows feat. Marcie – Ocean Wave (Heartstrings Remix)
Shah-Music Digital
DJdownload.com link
There are a whole bundle of mixes for this track! Soo many in fact that it floods into Dub, Breaks and Chillout.
Something for everyone I guess is Shah’s orders. I’m prefering the Heartstrings Remix just a little over the Original Mix as it has a little more grunt after the breakdown.

A/B Project – Everything Ends (Original Mix/Steve Anderson Remix)
SAME Progressive
TrackItDown.net link
As heard on the Epitome of Sound Sessions podacst Episode 3 this month with Steve Anderson supplying a wonderful guest mix. A fantastic progressive trance track that really has it all in the right places with drum rolls, synths that leave you floating on cloud 9 and piano keys that call out your name.

Thank you for reading and as always please remember to subscribe to the blog at the top right of the page if you have not done so.

Stuart

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My DJmag Top 100 DJs Poll Selection

Stuart — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:44:38 +0000

Oh yes here they all come, those polite requests of “Vote for me!”

Once again our fantastic trance DJs complete against all comers in dance music genres alongside trance music to earn a place in the DJmag’s Top 100 DJs poll. Voting this year I expect will throw up some new faces for us trance music lovers as we have seen lots of new talent emerge, but there is just no telling until we finally see the results as we all know

Last year saw trance DJs of all sub-genres dominate pretty much half of the poll, which can be attested to with the posts I first made on iLove Trance Music. To recap, I made two lists of the Top Trance DJs based upon their placing in the 2008 DJmag Top 100 DJs poll.

Top 25 Trance DJs

and to round it upto 50…

Top 50 Trance DJs

This year has opened many new avenues for choice of voting and I must say there is more than a few good DJs out there. Picking just five entries was very hard! Anyway here are my 5 that I voted for in the poll…

Above & Beyond
Gareth Emery
Will Atkinson
Ben Gold
Richard Durand

Who did you select or are you still making a shortlist? Hahaha! Please leave a comment below!

Cheers for reading!

Stuart

http://top100djs.djmag.com/

All Time Favourite Trance Tracks By Twitter Followers

Stuart — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:00:31 +0000

Last week I asked some Twitter followers what their favourite trance tracks were. If they stated a mix I have added that but otherwise just left it to your imaginations which ones they liked…maybe they would like to add in the comments box which mix it actually is

So without further ado here in no particular order is a list of trance tracks as liked by many of the mighty folk who follow @ilovetrance on Twitter

DionRodrigues

Signum – Solar Level

LeJonny

Armin Van Buuren – Unforgivable (First State Smooth Mix)

Terraburn

4 Strings – Into The Night (Re-Ward Remix)

hunnylovins

Gareth Emery – This Is That

TI_Podcast

Johnny Shaker – Pearl River

Trance_Cat

ATB – Autumn Leaves

teknodave

Armin Van Buuren – The Longest Day

JamesPatronNL

ATB – Fields of Love

djjose

Binary Finary – 1998 (PvD Mix)

LissBombs

Claudia Cazacu – Free Falling

Thank you to everyone who contributed and of course now shout out to the world that you are featured on iLove Trance Music!

If you did not get a chance to contribute to the list above please share your tracks below in the comments and also for those who wanted to leave more than one track please do the same.

Cheers

Stuart

New Trance Tracks 18-05-09

Stuart — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:35:41 +0000

Just like last week I’m really struggling to resist adding more than 5 new tracks, and this week you will be glad to know I have failed! So here are 10 New Trance Tracks that I think you’ll more than like!

The list below is just a small selection of the many great tunes floating around at the moment, but first I’ll start with a progressive tune that I heard played from a DJ’s laptop not so long ago at a house party. It is by no means a new track having being released last year, but I really, really, really do love this track. It is unusual for me to like a progressive tune as much as I do this one, I think the last time I bought a true progressive tune it may have been Holden & Thompson’s ‘Nothing’ to put it in perspective.

So, this maybe a list of New Trance Tracks I try and gather each week, but along the way I may include something that is new to me and old to you. Hopefully it will serve as a reminder of a great track, enjoy!
Also I notice some of the sites I visit release the same track at different times, so I’m sorry if there is confusion if you have seen a release elsewhere earlier. I’m working very hard on getting official release dates from labels and artists directly to avoid this in future.

Mango – Every Sunrise (Original Mix)
Mango Alley Recordings
beatport.com link

I’ve been winding a few of my followers up on Twitter about loving this track, well here it is! It has that perfect summertime feel to it and with the sun shining again I bet this really set the tone last summer for those who heard it – lucky people I say! I know I will be playing it this summer due to its uplifting and euphoric nature.
Thanks to new friend Sydmey for introducing this track into my life! You’ll find the full length track embedded from YouTube on the home page too.

Gareth Emery – Metropolis (Original Mix)
Garuda
TrackItDown.net link

Gareth’s second release ‘Metropolis’, on his new label Garuda, is just as keen as ‘Exposure’ to show why so many people are believing him to be one of the leading figures of trance for the future. Another top notch track!

Maelstrom – Remember Your Inputs (Original Mix)
Iboga Records
DJdownload link

Another progressive tune for you, somewhat deeper and darker here with a lovely rhythm to it. I love the use of percussion and the vocal which really brings the track to a new level. I have never come across this label before even though it has been in existence for many years. I recommend checking out their other releases that are really something different from the norm.
TrackItDown.net as it happens featured this label in a mail out today and count most of its work as house, nice cross over stuff if you ask me though.

Michal Poliak – Carpathia
WA-X Records
TrackItDown.net

Many tracks are doing a fabulous job at infusing tech-trance sounds and feeling to a progressive attitude right now and this is one of them. There are many producers from further east doing a great job representing trance to the world and I must say I’m loving their sound. I’ll be looking at for further releases from Michal Poliak and those of WA-X records, which happens to be a label from CGI Records.

Taylor & Close – Vanity Fair (Neal Thomas Remix)
Abstract Recordings
TrackItDown.net link

The Neal thomas Remix is a TrackItDown.net exclusive and does the business really well, but any one of the other mixes are worthy for your collection I’d say. Abstract Recordings owner Ben Nicky was suggested as my Trance Tuesday a few weeks back, if you didn’t get to grab his mix, then go do so now: Link

Frog & Bugle feat. LeeMac – Seven Days To Eden (East & Young Remix)
RR Recordings
beatport.com link
A nice use of Robert Mile’s ‘Seven Days and One Week’. Another one of those tracks that will get a good reaction from making use of a classic and if you remember I featured RR Recordings previously with Cartouche’s ‘Bitter Sweet’ track. Good stuff coming from this label that is brushing close to commercial but doesn’t quite cross the line to turn me off.

Marcel Woods – Inside Me (Original Mix)
High Contrast Recordings
beatport.com link
I do like a bit of Marcel Woods for his ear piercing synth use and here it as if he has ripped Marco V’s ‘Unprepared’ and made it his own. Suits me fine!

Richard Durand – Always The Sun (Roger Shah Remix)
Magik Muzik
DJdownload.com link
Was disappointed to hear Richard Durand going down the big uplifting vocal route until I heard the Roger Shah Remix. I hope this is not an ongoing trend for producers who have done well doing the tech-trance sound with vocals; John O’Callaghan being another example after his album featuring a load of vocalists and no hard hitting sound in my opinion.

Pascal Feliz – Smack My 2 Core Up
Musical Madness
TrackItDown.net link
An epic breakdown soon makes room for a monster riff that gets the feet moving. Highly recommended listening!

Sunny Lax – Reborn (Original Mix)
Anjunabeats
DJdownload.com link
Lush track that you have heard many a time no doubt, and will hear again and again now everyone can get their hands on it. The remix by Nitrous Oxide ups the pace nicely if you find the original too laid back.

That is the 10 for this week!

Hope you get to enjoy some of them. I’d better start looking for new tracks straight away if I’m to do 10 next week :S Haha!

As a thank you to all my readers I got a freebie sourced for you.
Last week Dave Dresden threw up the following link for all to download on Twitter. I asked him if I could feature it here which he gladly said yes to. It is a remix of Calvin Harris’s I’m Not Alone.

YouSendIt.com Link

You can follow Dave Dresden on Twitter here.

Thank you to all the readers once again and I’ll look forward to writing up tomorrow’s Trance Tuesday now.

Love or hate any of the above tracks please discuss below by leaving comments

Cheers

Stuart

P.S. Look out for the Facebook fanpage coming this week. Is there anywhere else I should be covering to spread the word? Make suggestions below cheers!

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New Trance Tracks 11-05-09

Stuart — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:17:53 +0000

Soo many good tracks out there right now I nearly threw caution to the wind and threw them all on here! I dug my heels in though as it is getting late into the night, so here is my Top 5 New Trance Tracks for the 11th May!

There are many great tracks as I say, but disappointments I felt with John O’Callaghan’s ‘Find Yourself’ and the collaboration of Sander van Doorn & Marco V with their release ‘What Say’. I was so disappointed in both that I nearly went on to find a further 3 tracks and rename this weeks list as My Top 5 Trance Tracks Not Doing It For Me…

Thankfully I came across many beautiful releases and worked hard to just bring what I believe to be 5 fantastic tracks that should be in your life.

Matt Hardwick – I Am DJ (Ben Gold Remix)
Kill The Lights
TrackItDown.net link

Two of the UK’s finest on one track! Pure unadulterated uplifting tech-trance with Ben Gold doing the remix duties on Matt Hardwick’s ‘I Am DJ’ has left me weak at the knees and it is only the first track in the list!

ATB – A New Day
A1 Music Oy
TrackItDown.net link

Well I was not going to miss giving the lovely Betsie Larkin a shout out on her latest track with ATB. More lush vocals and I can just feel myself clapping away in a club to the percussion and kick that ATB has laid down making you realise why he demands a No. 14 spot in the Top 25 Trance DJs list.
Betsie Larkin interview for something to read after you have finished the next 3 tracks if you have not already done so

Gareth Emery – Exposure
Garuda
TrackItDown.net link

Wam! Bam! Thank you Ma’am! If all first releases on new labels were this good imagine how much more good music there would be? Yeah, I’m getting hot flushes just thinking of it!
Gareth Emery is stamping his authority on the scene and here is why – he oozes quality and with his recent appearance on Armin’s A State of Trance 400 show, the world is getting to hear about him even more.

Dave Walker – Sunshine At Night (Steve Anderson Remix)
SAME Progressive
TrackItDown.net

Don’t be fooled by this release being under the progressive side of SAME Recordings, Steve Anderson leads it down a dirty path with his unique style and lush synths spread out all over the track. The Original Mix is also one to check out.

Yakooza – Cocaine 2009 (Dr Willis Remix)
Traffic Tunes
TrackItDown.net link

I’ve left the hard one for the end and what a classic! Traffic Tunes throw up a collection of remixes to suit all tastes with ‘Cocaine 2009′. Dr Willis really struck out for me and has a real nice groove to boot!

Thank for reading and please leave a comment on what you think of the above selection and any tracks you have bought recently!

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Stuart

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