I compiled this list last week alongside the Twitter list published Monday. Thanks once again to all of those who contributed!
I asked on my status update for people to list their 5 favourite trance tunes and be featured on the site. You may see some duplicates here which leaves me thinking I’ll set-up a poll on the blog in the future.

Matt Handy
Robert Miles – Children
Energy 52 – Cafe del Mar
Underworld – Rez
Jam and Spoon – Odessy To Anoya
Bedrock – For What You Dream Of




Sue Portman
Binary Finary – 1998
Moogwai – Viola
Verracocha – Carte Blanche
System F – Out Of The Blue
Vincent de Moor – Fly Away




Chaz Pope
Rank 1 – Airwave
Coast 2 Coast – Be With Me
Ron Hagen & Pascal M – Take You There
Lange – I Believe
Lost Tribe – Gamemaster




Martin Bradley
System F – Out Of The Blue
Rank 1 – Airwave
Tiesto – Suburban Train
Push – The Legacy
Cygnus X – The Orange Theme




David Blythe
Push – Universal Nation
Lost Tribe – Gamesmaster
Lost Witness – Happiness Happening
Matt Darey – Beautiful
Verracocha – Carte Blanche




James Armstrong
James Holden – Horizons
Flat 6 – It’s Too Late
Rene Ablaze – Floating
Art of Trance – Love Washes Over (Pheric Mix)
Albion – Air 2000 (Oliver Lieb Remix)




John Binks
Oceanlab – Satellite
Dutch Force – Deadline
Gouryella – Gouryella
Blank & Jones – Cream
PvD – For An Angel

What 5 favourites do you have? Please leave them below!

Cheers

Stuart

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

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

This week’s Trance Tuesday is featuring the label RR Recordings. I really have enjoyed their work immensely recently and have featured a few of their tracks on my round up of new releases each week.

RR recordings originally started out as RR records founded by Ron van den Beuken with the first release in 2001 called ‘Mystery’ produced under his alias The Mystery. 2009 saw the name change to RR recordings and re-launch under the parent company Spinnin’ Records. Since then there has been multiple releases (I count six at time of writing with various remixes) that take a familiar sound and drive it home once again to the dance floor.

Some of my favourites so far have been the labels rework of The Verve’s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ and Chicane’s ‘Saltwater’, in the form of Cartouche’s ‘Bitter Sweet’ and Ron Van Den Beuken’s ‘Faraway (Harry’s Game)’ respectively. Their back catalogue is worth checking out too with releases from Sam Sharp and DJ Tatana.

Click here to keep up to date with Spinnin’ Records.
Click here for their releases on TrackItDown.net

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If you think you have what it takes to be featured for Trance Tuesday please feel free to use the Contact Page to get in touch.

Stuart

Quality UK summer weather means pulling out some ultimate trance tracks to blast out on the speakers!

I really want to say there are some awesome tracks around, and as you will notice from the selection below, some great remixes and sample uses of some classic trance! Love them or hate them, you can’t beat hearing some one else’s slant on an awesome release.

Greg Nash – Summer Overture (Original Mix)
2 Play Recordings
TrackItDown.net link

Three Drives – Greece 2000 (Sander van Dien Remix)
Massive Drive Recordings
TrackItDown.net link

Signum – What Ya Got 4 Me (Yvan Prog Trance Mix)
Armada
TrackItDown.net link

Orjan Nilsen – Moving Mojave (Original Mix)
Armada
TrackItDown.net link

John Askew – The Door (Original Mix)
Discover
TrackItDown.net link

Niklas Harding – The Soul
Black Hole Recordings
TrackItDown.net link

Glensk – Empty Sky (Indecent Noise pres. Terra Break Rework)
Excessive Pressure
TrackItDown.net link

Artimes – Precious Time (Ex-Driver Remix)
Only One Records
TrackItDown.net link

Push – Trance Indicator (Plastic Boy Remix)
Armada
TrackItDown.net link

That is my 10 trance tracks, hope you enjoy!

Please discuss below any tunes that you have bought or are really enjoying right now.

Cheers

Stuart

Photo credit: AFlickion

Last week I announced that Trance Tuesday is about change. Where as previously I stated that it should be kept to DJs and artists who are pretty much unknown, I would like to now state that it is a free for all, you may use #trancetuesday to highlight anyone and everything trance related. Many of my followers were adopting this attitude anyway so I felt it was obvious that many of you felt that this principle would be a lot better.

This week’s Trance Tuesday is someone who in the past year has completely changed the way trance can and will sound. Robert Vadney’s album entitled ‘Halloween Anthems‘ (released last October with perfect timing from Perfecto Records) is not something you really would expect to redefine how trance can sound, but that is exactly what he has done with a sound like no other. His latest album ‘Shadowlove Anthems‘ is further proof to a very talented individual with a very unique sound.

‘Halloween Anthems‘ infuses what I would call Tim Burton let loose in a studio with Sean Tyas, Thomas Bronzwaer or any number of talented trance producers. You just can’t compare his sound to any DJ though! Robert Vadney is totally unique (please do correct me if wrong as I would love to find more of this sound available).

‘Shadowlove Anthems‘ is yet again altogether something else but this time a lot more vocals and so many more of the tracks will give a better impression on the dance floor I feel than his previous album.
From just listening to what I can on DJdownload.com I pick out ‘Black Clown‘ and ‘Hopeless Romantic‘ as some favs. Check out his releases on your favourite download site, I recommend DJdownload.com for listening at least due to the ability of listening to any part of the track in segments due to NeedleDrop Player.

Robert Vadney on DJdownload.com

Robert Vadney on TrackItDown.net

I’m truly astonished that I had not heard of him earlier. Having my head in tech-trance land for most of last year and now running this site is teaching me a few things, namely keep your eyes and ears open and you will find so much more talent

Some people make beautiful trance tracks, where as I believe Robert Vadney makes amazing trance tracks that leave you curious, intrigued and slightly twisted as he is said to reign supreme as “The King of Gothic Trance”…

Robert Vadney Website

Perfecto Records Website

Thanks for reading and don’t forget to add your Trance Tuesday recommendations as a comment below.

Cheers

Stuart

If you didn’t know by now, I run my own little trance night called iLLuMIDanCe. We are based in Portsmouth, UK and have featured up and coming talent such as Ben Nicky, Jordan Suckley and Laura May. Also we have had some great DJs in the form of Dave Dorrer, Dan Ascherl, Willzeh, Digital Harry and so many more.

On the 6th of June we celebrate our 2nd Birthday! Hooray! I originally started the night with my friend Sue Portman, but with Uni and work commitments during 2007 she stepped down and during that same period my resident DJs, Nathan Hunt and Alex Eneas, stepped up and became co-promoters.

I’m proud to say we represent what we truly believe in; hosting a trance night once a month.
Last year on Halloween 31st October, we also launched ‘iLLuMIDanCe Hard‘ to spread the word about the brand to those who liked things a little bit tougher.
This meant us hosting two nights a month at which point I also worked on the ‘iLLuMIDanCe presents‘ concept. This is where one DJ plays all night from when the club opens at 9pm and closes at 2am (told you Portsmouth does not have late licensing didn’t I ). The DJ then gets to play a variety of genres in their collection, rather than being limited to the typical one hour set they are booked for. We now rotate those two nights every other month on the Friday night before we host the trance night on the Saturday.

The future is looking good given the current financial climate and with Nathan and Alex on board with me, we make a good team where we always able to talk things over and pull each other up if something is not thought to be right. One of those things is us re-branding the night as I’m not too happy with the name after two years, still not many people can spell it correctly and what use is a night that no one can spell right? It will be nice to freshen up things a little I’ve been thinking.

In August we are doing a fund raising night for my girlfriend who is running 10 miles for Chase, a hospice for life-limited children. Later in the year I hope to move to a bigger venue or host an event successfully out of Portsmouth involving DJs that are established in the trance scene.

For our Birthday I was very keen to have two particular DJs. One was a lad I had heard something of on DontStayIn.com named Gio, we went up to see him play at Passion and all good there so booked him. I hope to interview him real soon and get a mix off him for you to download.

The other was Stu Rush…

If you live in the North of England then you have no doubt heard of Stu Rush as he has played many nights alongside some of the top names in hard dance. He has a very techno influenced style, with some trance thrown in and a splash of hard dance. After listening to four demos of his, I was very much impressed and wanted that little bit something different for our night that he offers with his cutting, chopping and 3 decks with FX style.

I hope you enjoy the interview and find that it still suits the site’s format. Please leave feedback at the end and also enjoy the following mix that you can download in the background whilst reading. It showcases really what Stu Rush is all about

MegaUpload Link
Tracklist:
1. Distek – Argon
2. Axel Karakasis – Speciation
(3 DEX)
3. Jerimiah – Treeman (Reaky Remix)
4. JOC – Marshmallow
(3 DEX)
5. Axel Karakasis – Timebomb
6. Marcel Woods – Static State (Tech-Trance Mix)
7. John Askew – Z List UberStar
(3 DEX)
8. Barry Connel – Frizzbomb (Bryan Kearney’s Twice as Bright Remix)
9. Jochen Miller – Vanity
10. Th3shold – The Beggining – Jordan Suckley VS aka Carl Remix)
11. Simon Patterson – Thump
12. Mallorca Lee – Dogma (Joey V Remix)
13. Moonyani – Heavy Rotation (Reaky Remix)
14. Mr Sam VS t99 – Anasthesia
15. Joe E – Your Love
16. TT Collective – Strings for Yasmin (Tidy Djs Mavis Remix)
17. Dj Misjah & Dj Tim – Access (KY Jellybabies Remix)
(Roll Scratch EFX Trick)
18. Organ Doners – Super Mario Bros
19. Remo Con – Prototype
20. Joy Kitikonti – Joyenergizer (Dj Choose Remix)

iLLuMIDanCe: Thanks for taking this time to do this interview Stu! This is the first iLLuMIDanCe interview to feature on www.ilovetrancemusic.com
Talking of first times… When was your first time playing out and what made you take up the decks?

Stu Rush: Cool mate no problemo!
My first gig was at a up’n'coming night called Super Stars. If you did well at this night you got to play at the bigger event Eat Your Words, which in its hay day was the biggest night here in hull. I’ve played many EYW events now with some top names. I got into clubbing when I was 19, I use to watch the DJs and think I can do this! I got my first set of decks and got straight into it!

iD: So for first time DJs you would recommend just putting yourself out there and seeing what the crowd thinks of you as you never know where it will lead?

Stu Rush: I was so nervous at my first gig I thought I was gonna be shit, but after 1 or 2 mixes I settled right into it and had the crowd eating outta my hand. I later realised that to get anywhere these days you need to be offering something different. From the first time I heard Eddie Halliwell’s bosh mix from Mixmag, I was totally influenced by him and decided I wanted to go down the technical route rather than the production side of things that everyone else seems to be going down.

iD: Yes Eddie seems to be one of very few who has been able to make a successful career from DJing alone on the merit that he does what he does on the decks so well.
How do you feel about the music industry where it is perceived that in order to be successful you have to be able to produce too?

Stu Rush: Don’t get me wrong, producing good tracks will make the DJ work come in time. Everyone seems to be making tunes these days as production packages are so accessible now, but I still believe strongly that a crowd love to see a DJ getting involved with a crowd and perform, rather than just play a handful of tunes that they have made whilst not entertaining behind the decks.
I have produced a track recently and really enjoyed doing it, but at heart I’m a DJ and that will always come first for me as I love working up a crowd!

iD: Well I will certainly look forward to you whipping up the iLLuMIDanCe crowd into a frenzy with your hard and techy style on the 6th June for our 2nd Birthday! Has this sound crossed over fully with your production do you feel?

Stu Rush: Yes the track I produced is a tech-trance slammer, with a dark and catchy hook. It’s called ‘The Dark Theory’ and I made it with a top young producer called Tomas Evans. I have been going a little more trancier lately, but still try to keep the cut-and-paste mixing style in there without killing the trance vibe.

iD: So Stu Rush in the studio, I’ll be looking forward to listening to that!
Going back to DJing again, what sets you have been booked for stand out in your mind?

Stu Rush: I have played at Helmsley Biker Festival four times. It attracts around 10,000 people each year, and around a third of them go crazy in the dance tent. Also NYE 2004/2005 I played at a massive all day rave at The Street in Skegness.

iD: Has there been any favourite DJs you have played alongside at such events, maybe those who inspired you to take up DJing?

Stu Rush: I have played alongside and also b2b with Jordan Suckley before. He is a top young DJ who has the same approach to DJing I have, to break the rules a little and mangle the tracks up. His stuff will always inspire and appeal to me. I’m still hoping to get the dream gig of warming up for my idols Eddie Halliwell or Kutski yet.

iD: Well if we ever book either we’ll keep you in mind
If you could only play three tracks back to back all night, what would they be?

Stu Rush: Tony Di Vit – The Dawn (Paul Janes Remix)
Signum – What You Got 4 Me
Dejure – Sanctuary

iD: And what three new trance releases are you loving right now?

Stu Rush: The Killers – Spaceman (Sander van Doorn Remix)
John Askew – Vandalism
Paul Webster – Istanbul (Fred Baker Remix)

iD: Nice choices there!
So your latest demo is called ‘3 Dex & FX Extreme Bosh Mix’. How would you describe this mix to anyone not having heard it?

Stu Rush: A no holds barred trip into techno, tech-trance and hard dance, with loadsa my trademark tricks and scratching!

iD: Other than iLLuMIDanCe what other gigs can we catch you at?

Stu Rush: I regularly play for Ultrasonic, Lets Av It, Confusion and Eat Your Words all here up north (England, UK), so check places like Facebook and DontStayIn.com for their listings.

iD: Thanks once again for your time Stu, and as our final question that is always asked on iLove Trance Music… What does trance music mean to you?

Stu Rush: Trance music is powerful, emotional music. I love all different genres but nothing can create the feeling that trance can, 10,000 people with their hands in the air to the same euphoric tune can’t be wrong!

You can check out more of Stu Rush by visiting the following links:

MySpace Videos

Please click image for event page on DontStayIn.com!

Facebook Event Page

Thank you for reading once again trance lovers!

Stuart

I’ve got a mix sitting on my desktop that has been pretty much on repeat of late, and anyone who knows me personally and talked about trance will have heard me banging on about a track called ‘Animal’ (which was co-produced with Jordan Suckley). Mac & Taylor play and produce a sound that I completely love!
If I had my way I would book them straight away for my iLLuMIDanCe event and I’m sure one day I will. Only thing stopping me right now is their cost is a lil fraction higher than our current small venue can meet, but if we move then who knows

I’ll let their press pack do some of the talking…

Cruising Through the ranks as one of the most hotly tipped Tech-Trance acts of the moment Mac & Taylor are set to hit the heights in 2009. Aptly named “New breed tech-trance legends” by top music download site TrackItDown.net this liverpool based DJ/production duo have captured the attention of the worlds elite DJs and the world’s trance scene in general.

They have seen support from the likes of Judge Jules, Agnelli & Nelson, Sander van Doorn and many more for their productions that have been released on Couture, Abstract Recordings, Stampgevaar Digital, Beyond Digital, Communicate Recordings and Infexious Recordings.

Going through their releases on TrackItDown.net, they have an impressive list already that are all quality releases ready to demolish dancefloors across the world, and have done just that!

If you really want to know what I mean then get on with downloading their following mix

Mac and Taylor Guest Mix – Feb 09 and Track list
SendSpace.com Link

To keep up with their bookings then check out their MySpace page, recently added is them being booked for Planet Love Ireland 2009.
MySpace Link

For any booking enquiries please contact www.new-wavemanagement.co.uk

Thank you for reading another Trance Tuesday and don’t forget to use the hashtag #trancetuesday on Twitter when suggesting your own.

Stuart

P.S. Next week there will be a little change in the rules of Trance Tuesday so we can spread the word and make it easier for all to take part. Some of you have already been doing things differently, so it only makes sense for me to go with the flow.

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.

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

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

Michal Poliak – Carpathia
WA-X Records
TrackItDown.net

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

Frog & Bugle feat. LeeMac – Seven Days To Eden (East & Young Remix)
RR Recordings
beatport.com link

Marcel Woods – Inside Me (Original Mix)
High Contrast Recordings
beatport.com link

Richard Durand – Always The Sun (Roger Shah Remix)
Magik Muzik
DJdownload.com link

Pascal Feliz – Smack My 2 Core Up
Musical Madness
TrackItDown.net link

Sunny Lax – Reborn (Original Mix)
Anjunabeats
DJdownload.com link

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!

Photo credit: kofoed

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.

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

Gareth Emery – Exposure
Garuda
TrackItDown.net link

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

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

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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