Richard suggested suggested this was his favourite Trancendance set. I’ve only just started listening to it but anything that starts off with the ripping floor-crasher ‘Generate the Wave’ by Dave 202 is worth posting. So I dug up the podcast and here it is for all to enjoy.

Caddyshack returns after many weeks off for this week’s extended 3 hour show on BC Day long weekend. Smiley Mike plays an all Platipus set for the first hour. Caddyshack plays the second hour and then we tag team for the final hour – playing two records each.

Smiley Mike’s Platipus playlist

POB featuring X-Avia – The Awakening (Quietman Remix) – 1997
Jamnesia – Get Busy – 2002
Libra presents Taylor – Anomaly – Calling Your Name (Original Mix) – 1995
Art of Trance – Easter Island (Cygnus X Mix) – 1999
Chromium – Chrome (Terra Ferma Remix) – 1997
Universal State of Mind – All Because of You (Mindsweeper Mix) – 1996
Libra presents Taylor – Anomaly – Calling Your Name (Forth’s Remix) – 1996
Patrick Reid – Goose – 2001
Star – Rock Rose (Chab Mix) – 2001
Union Jack – Cockroach or Yeti (Can’t Remember) – 1997
Union Jack – Two Full Moons and a Trout – 1993
Quietman – The Sleeper – 1997

This week I did set aside the Nukleuz records and laid down a fairly deep trance set including a few well-known trance classics. All in all the set went pretty smooth. Being a perfectionist I can hear every wobble but there were really no major mistakes.

Both the first hour and the second hour start with the same track which is written and produced by Nick Hook & Martin Sharp and released on Total Music Records – but then each set goes in its own direction.

(Note: there is some back and forth mixing so some of the records below are played more than once)

Partial track listing (First Hour)

First Life – The Feeling the Day Before – Total Music Records
Jon the Dentist – Analogue Storm (Part 1) – Intensive Music
Transa – Supernova – Xtranova / Hook Recordings
Opus 808 – Don’t Turn Away (EFO Remix) – Xtranova / Hook Recordings
Smudge & Smith – Near Me – INCredible
Doran vs. Joshua Ryan – Unreal – Crush Recordings
White Label
Chac feat. Chilli Gold – 7 Years (Grinder Vox for the Box Remix) – Tonkin’ Music Test Pressing

Partial track listing (Second Hour):

First Life – The Feeling the Day Before – Total Music Records
Trigger – Rollercoaster (The Traveller and Quest’s Ectopic Beats Remix) – Viscious Vinyl
Morris v Rogers – Girl from the Green Dimension (Main Mix) – Pitch Black Records
Dumonde – God Music (Euphonic Mix) – Bulletproof Music
Max Graham – Falling Together – Hope Recordings
Paul van Dyk – We Are Alive (Breathless Mix) – Deviant Records
Outdare! – Live Today (Parks & Wilson’s Annexe Dub) – Test Pressing
Plastic Gangsters – The Yin, The Yang… The Young (Corrupted Parts Hard Mix) – Nukleuz Records
Sidekick – Respond – Test Pressing
Spider & Marc van Bekkum – One (Original Mix) – 2Play Recordings
Breeder – Twilo Thunder (Beetlejuice Version 4) – Rhythm Syndicate Recordings

Where: Club 23 West - 23 West Cordova, Vancouver, BC 
When: July 18, 2008 - 10-3am

$20 at the door, Limited Capacity

Eskimo (aka Junya) is one of the most promising of the new generation of trance producers out there. Having released his debut artist album “Can You Pick Me Up” aged 17, Eskimo was almost immediately catapulted amongst the trance elite, add to this his scorching DJ Sets as DJ Junya, that he had been playing worldwide since he was 13, Eskimo is without a doubt one of the most exciting British artists today.

His unique production skills and ability to put together a class-A belter saw Eskimo’s tunes begin to show up in the sets of psy trance DJs across the globe. By the time he performed his first live set 6 months after the album dropped his repertoire had trebled and so had his ability. Landmark remixes, many still unreleased due to copyright wrangles, from this time included some of the scenes biggest players such as Infected Mushroom and Skazi, but it was his unofficial remix of The Prodigy “Voodoo People” that sealed his reputation on the global dance floor. When this struck everyone knew who Eskimo was.

By the summer of 2004 Eskimo dropped his second artist album “Take A Look Out There” a mind-altering collection of tunes let loose on an unsuspecting world including the near legendary “Party Pooper” a track sampling the police shutting down a free party. In November 2005 the release of Balloonatic Part One, a genre busting masterpiece redefined the standard of studio trickery yet retained a firm grip on the dance floor.

With the release of Balloonatic Part Two, Eskimo looks set to seal his already unassailable position as the most original and one of the most popular artists working in dance music today.

This week’s Trancendance podcast is a full 2 hours of Nukleuz records mostly featuring the handiwork of Hard Trance genius Nick Sentience. It’s not a perfect set but it felt like there were more good parts than bad parts. It might not make it into the featured podcasts widget but I say it’s worth a listen.

One of my complaints has always been that it’s hard to find DJ mix CDs (back then it was mix tapes) that captured the high energy non-stop beats that I heard at raves. The mix tapes I found were good – they just lacked the relentless energy of some of my favourite DJ performances. This set is pretty relentless so hopefully a few of you will come out of it like I did – wondering were you are!