dj Smiley Mike and dj Caddyshack will both be going.

Find out more at: www.motionnotion.com

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I started going to warehouse raves in the early 90s, and quickly found myself travelling around Western Canada to attend outdoor raves and electronic music festivals like Summer Love. My passion for electronic dance music has never  wavered, but until this year, I haven’t been out to many shows over the past 10 years. Despite knowing many people who have made the annual treck to Shambhala, it has never been successful at drawing me out of hibernation.

Enter Motion Notion. It was a Trancendance fan who first told me about Motion Notion (thanks Karl!), and as soon as I saw the lineup I NEEDED to go! I’ve been fortunate enough to see the likes of Union Jack, Chemical Brother and Skylab 2000 all play live. But the group that has escaped me for years is The Crystal Method. I’ve been a huge fan of their unique sound since the beginning, and I’ve always wanted to see them. If that wasn’t enough, I’ve become a huge fan of Ace Ventura over the past few years, and watching the photos and videos of his performances from overseas as they get posted to Facebook has left me wishing and waiting for him to play a show close enough to BC or Alberta that I can see him play. John 00 Fleming is icing on the cake.

Last week, after Caddyshack and I had already been buzzing about the potential for a road trip from Vancouver to Golden, BC to see the show, I found out that Motion Notion had asked to sponsor Trancendance for June and July! And so it begins. Over the next six weeks leading up to the Motion Notion festival, Trancendance will feature different artists scheduled to headline the show as well as some of the different artistic aspects of the event. Plus… we’ll be talking about a roadtrip or maybe even a caravan from Vancouver to the Beaverfoot Lodge in Golden.

Find out more and get your tickets now at motionnotion.com

It’s not that often that I pull out the Electro House, but I like some of the tracks. I’ve always liked big builds. Personally, I think Electro House is more closely related to trance than it is to house, but whoever gets to name these genres doesn’t seem to consult with me before they carve out the stone, so electro house it is.

dj Smiley Mike Electro House Anthem Mix

E Clashback & Michael Woods vs. R.E.M. – Losing My Outset (Gabriel & Dresden Mashup)
Nicky Romero – Toulouse
Filo & Peri – Subzero
Sander van Doorn – Drink to Get Drunk (Extended Mix)
Bassjackers & Angger Dimas – RIA
Niels Van Gogh vs. Daniel Strauss – Punkd
Avicii – Sweet Dreams (Gregory Klosman Remix)
Tommy Trash – Cascade
Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano – Lethal Industry
Tiesto – Love Comes Again (Hardwell Rework)
Melleefresh – Intuition (Darth & Vader Mix)
Darth & Vader – Return of the Jedi
Deadmau5 – Sometimes Math Gets Complicated (Ryan Enzed Bootleg)
Jack Holiday & Mike Candys – Children (Original Higher Level Mix)

dj Smiley Mike Encore Mix

Pryda – Glimma
Lish – Robots in my Lab
Jerome Isma-Ae & Daniel Portman – Flashing Lights (Dub Mix)
Pryda – Illusions
Union Jack – Papillon

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dj Smiley Mike Bangin Fullon Psytrance Mix

Misted Muppet – The Mist
Misted Muppet – From the Legend
Tetrium – Electro Sound
Broken Toy – Nu Metro
Aphid Moon & Lucas – We Are Your Friend
Digicult – Icarus One (Lamat Remix)
Gataka (feat. Sesto Sento) – Keeping the Moment
Toxical – For Eternity
Astrix – Closer to Heaven (Pixel Remix)
X-Noise – Rock It
Aphid Moon & the First Stone – Loom
Psycraft – New Dance
F.F.T & Crank – Do Your World
Earthling – Echo Ghetto (Mekkanikka & Chroma Remix)
Electric Universe – Tune Up
Lamat – Fenix

dj Caddyshack Drum and Bass Mix

Shadowland – Path to Enlightenment
Logistics – Warehouse
State of Mind & Subsonik feat 3pm – Somebody Stop Me
Danny Byrd – Sweet Harmony (feat Liquid)
Netsky – I Refuse
The XX – Infinity (Bachelors of Science Remix)
Netsky – Escape (feat. Darrison)
Pendulum – 9000 Miles
Nu:Tone – Balaclava
State of Mind – Deeper Stories
State of Mind – Sunking
State of Mind feat. P. Digsss – Vega

I’m slowly catching up after being pretty slack for a few weeks. This week CJ from the CiTR News program dropped by, Caddyshack called in sick at the last minute and Sid JUST DIDN’T SHOW UP! (Hopefully he reads this Sorry about the shouting.

This week was full on psytrance, and despite having set aside some Misted Muppet, the set turned out to be some of my all time favourite psytrance tracks, especially psytrance mashups.

dj Smiley Mike Full On Pstrance Mashup Mix

Rastaliens & Avalon – Ufoff
Bamboo Forest – Voyager (Solar System Remix)
XSI & Mad Maxx – Bass Monkey
Dapanji vs. Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music
Inner Action – Distortion
Gataka – Desert Wind
Alien Project – Deeper
Avalon – Teleporter
Quadra – We Shall Overcome
Quadra – Back Again
Mekkanikka – Black Jack
System Nipel – Mad World
Save the Robot – What the Funk

I slowed things down for the second half of the show, but after a few deep psy tracks, took a sharp left with a dubstep track before swinging into the classic trance with a couple favourites. CJ said he liked the vocal stuff, of which I don’t have a lot, but managed to pull out a couple to round off the set.

dj Smiley Mike All Over the Place Mix

Logic Bomb – Checksum
Zyce & Flegma – Pressure (Yokain Remix)
Slow Bit – Clavia
Sideform – Web of Life (Float Remix)
Elite Force – Calypso (Datsik & Excision)
Union Jack – 2 Full Moons & a Trout (Orkidea Remix)
Push – Universal Nation (Easton Remix)
Gareth Emery – Tokyo (Ben Gold Remix)
Gareth Emery – I Will Be the Same (feat. Emma Hewitt)
Kernkraft 400 – Zombienation (Chris Schweizer Bootleg Mix)
Andrew Bennett – Run Till U Shile (Cosmic Gate Mix)

Caddyshack and I went to see Paul van Dyk at the Commodore last Friday, and he dropped this crazy acid 303 build that went on for a good three minutes before finally crashing in. It reminded me of the version of Aldo Bender’s Acid Enlightenment that was on Fatboy Slim’s On the Floor at the Boutique, but heavily remixed.

And so it started me digging through the record collection and tracking down a few lost classics. These tracks are from some of my favourite rave memories.

(And, yes… I’m way behind on posting the last couple tracklists. Life’s been busy, but this one just couldn’t get missed!)

dj Smiley Mike Oldschool 90s Acid Trance Mix

Cores – Matabu (Part 2) || Noom Records 1996
Pablo Gargano – Pink Fluyd || Eve Records 1995
Solar Quest – Acid Air Raid (George’s All Nighter) || Choci’s Chewns 1994
Commander Tom – Are Am Eye || 1995 Re-released on Noom Records in 1999
Aldo Bender – Enlightenment (dj Smiley Mike Bootleg Mix) || React America 1996
Angel of Death – Angel of Death (Tracid Mix) || Tracid Traxxx 2001
Kai Tracid – Liquid Skies (Polaris Lab. Mix) || Suck Me Plasma Records 1998
Mana – Psionic (Arrakis Remix) || Fluid Recordings 1999
Kai Tracid vs. Kan Cold – Untitled || White Label
Yoda – Definitely (Kai Tracid vs. Sunbeam Mix) || Netrecord-Z 2001
X-Cabs – Neuro 98 (Kai Tracid Mix) || Orbit Records 1998

dj Caddyshack Dirty Trance Mix

Caddyshack played some stuff too. Although I didn’t write it down, because I’ve been pretty lazy this past couple weeks. However, I know he played the Deadmau5 – Psynapse intro track, and then later in his set he player the Armin van Burren Intro mix of Omnia & IRA – The Fusion and then a little later he played a couple tracks by Crystal Method followed by a couple tracks by The Loops of Fury. I ran down what he played in the full podcast.