Tunnel ElectroCity Lubiąż 2007, originally uploaded by marcus.s.
Tunnel ElectroCity is a massive electronic music festival in Poland. This laser-lightshow picture is from last year’s show. This year Tunnel ElectroCity will be on August 14, 2008 featuring headline DJs Mauro Picotto and Marco V among many others. Chicane and Booka Shade will perform live electronic sets. If you can read polish check out the Official Tunnel ElectroCity Website
The first hour of this weeks podcast is almost entirely from the Nukleuz record label with the one exception being a Nick Sentience record from Riot Recordings. Nick Sentience is one of my favourite trance artists from the Nukleuz label and many of the Nukleuz tracks played in the first hour feature him.
The second hour isn’t as smooth but it’s still not hard to listen to. The second hour features more layered trance with some tribal influence.
What better gift for Father DJ than a trip to the record store. After starting a family I’ve been spending a lot less on records, but the owner at the record store still remembers me as his best Trance customer. I buy almost all my vinyl second hand. I believe if a track is really worth owning it should be timeless.
After listening to a stack of about 75 trance records – 3 made the cut and came home to be added to the collection. Here are the worthy tracks:
A1 – Nick Sentience – Transcender
AA1 - Nick Sentience - Bring It On
Riot! Recordings - 2006 - RIOT!018
Both sides of this record are brilliant. Most of the time I’ll buy a record just for one track so when I get two playable tracks on the same record it’s like a 2 for 1 discount!
A – Talla 2XLC – Love’s Coming Down (DuMonde Remix)
Access Tunes – 2000 – ACCESS-04-12 (Germany)
This is the money track. The flipside features JamX and De Leon Remixes of Harem Doctors – Heartbeat and Terra W.A.N. – Who’s Gonna Ease the Pressure, which might be okay tracks (I can’t remember) but I rarely play tracks that only run for half a record. I need as much time as I can get for the mix (and I hate it when I forget and the track plays over into the next song).
Last but not least is another 2 for 1 deal with a Tribal-Trance sound…
A – Spider & Marc Van Bekkum – One (Original Mix)
AA – Spider & Marc Van Bekkum – One (Tribe Tech Mix)
2Play Recordings – 2004 – 2PLAY007 (Netherlands)
A great Father’s Day Weekend trip indeed! You can hear all the new records in this Sunday’s Trancendance Podcast.
Maybe it was the fact that I wrote about being a selfish DJ last week that finally got me to shorten up my mixes a little bit, or maybe it’s the fact that after hosting the show four weeks in a row I’ve had a bit more practice – but I’m pretty happy with this mix. So far I’ve only listened to the first hour, and it has a few wobbles, but all in all I like the flow of the tracks.
In the first hour I only played six or seven records, weaving back and forth several times. I will try to update this post with at least a partial track list, but it will be hard to figure out the order because I played different parts of the records several times with at least one main theme record running through most of the set.
Well, I thought last nights set went a lot better before giving it a second listen. I was a selfish DJ to begin with, always playing the tracks I wanted to hear. I get bored of the music easily, so if I’ve played the same records a few weeks in a row I tend to mix things up, but unfortunately that means playing on the fly with little or no practice before the show. Before starting a family I used to play at least a couple hours a day. Now, I play a couple hours a month! It’s like riding a bike, but I’m pretty wobbly if I haven’t practiced much – and it shows. I always had an appreciation for DJs that pulled off long mixes – with at least two records playing more often than not. I’ve been able to do it before, but without the steady practice I should probably stick to shorter mixes. But like I said – I’m a selfish DJ. Part of the reason being, when you hit the mark and two records peak together the result is 1000 times cooler than any short mix will ever be. It’s consistency that demands the practice.
I will work on introducing a rating system, both for me and for you guys, so that good sets can be separated from some of the derailed locomotives.
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