This week Trancendance will be giving away 2 pairs of VIP tickets to rising star and Black Hole Recordings artist Steve Kaetzel at Shine Nightclub on Friday January 28, 2011, brought to you by Elite One Productions and PH1. Whether he’s remixing some of the world’s top producers or treading new ground in live performance, Steve Kaetzel is quickly rising through the ranks in the electronic dance music community. With a steady stream of releases on the legendary Black Hole Recordings and a growing catalog of remixes including the likes of Moonbeam and Zoo Brazil, DJs and clubgoers around the globe are taking swift notice of this multitalented artist.

To win the tickets you need to be listening live to Trancendance during our Sunday Jan 23rd broadcast, from 10pm – Midnight. In Vancouver, you can tune in at CiTR 101.9fm or you can tune in on-line.

Dear Listeners,

Thank you so much for listening to our show! This is so much fun, I don’t ever want to stop!

Trancendance is broadcast on CiTR 101.9fm – the University of British Columbia campus radio station which is largely run by volunteers (including me). CiTR makes the Trancendance podcast possible, however they rely on donations from listeners like you. Once a year, we ask for your help – even if it’s just a few dollars.

Trancendance Fun Facts

I was on-air at CiTR for the first time in 1994 (16 years ago) as a groupie and soon-after as a co-host for “Digital Alarm Chronometer” which was an all electronic show (mainly techno) broadcasting from roughly 10-11:30 every Wednesday morning. (Yes – it was an odd time of day for a hard techno show The show was hosted by dj Vader with co-host Sidearm.

Trancendance first aired in 2001, which means the show is now 9 years old, and going stronger than ever! My real-life brother, dj Caddyshack, joined the show as a co-host in 2002 after developing an oddly similar taste for underground dance music and DJing.

In 2006 CiTR began to podcast the shows it broadcasts, including Trancendance. Since then, there are over 140 episodes of Trancendance available for free download via iTunes.

This year we started a Facebook Fanpage that now has 1300 members, we launched the newly redesigned Trancendance.net website which receives over 1500 visits per month, and we now have a selection of our best podcasts available on Soundcloud.com which have received 5,000 listens and 2,700 downloads since August.

This year also marked the year that Caddyshack and I “went digital”. Prior to this year we used all vinyl records. Now we use Serato hardware and software that allows us to use special time-coded vinyl records to play and control MP3s from our laptops, while still maintaining the feel of DJing with vinyl records.

SO….

It would really mean a lot to me and to CiTR if you could help out with a donation.

PLEASE…

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Call (604) 822-8648 and tell the person who takes your call that you are donating to Trancendance.

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Thank you so much!

dj Smiley Mike

When I heard Mad Maxx was coming in from Spain to play a live set of full on psytrance in Vancouver this Hallowe’en, I couldn’t wait! In the last few months I’ve rediscovered my psytrance roots, and really been loving some of the new stuff. Mad Maxx stood out as one of my favorites and I’ve featured his tracks most notably on my Journey to Here episode. (I thought I had featured him more, but am a bit excited to see that I haven’t overplayed his tracks. Maybe I’ll feature him in the Hallowe’en podcast.)

Anyways, Mad Maxx is actually Max Peterson who was born in San Diago but spent time living in France and Mexico before moving to Spain where he is currently based. In 2000, Max teamed up with Samy Guediche (CPU) and Nicolas Oesch (Mekkanikka) to create a group called Biodegradable. After the success of their album, Phaser, Max joined up with Davina Elmosnino and created the Trance Project formerly known as Sirius Isness.

Don’t miss tomorrow’s show at 23 West in Vancouver! Event info is on the Facebook Event page. You can find a little more about Mad Maxx on the Mad Maxx MySpace page. And watch for more Mad Maxx on Trancendance very soon!

The Amsterdam Dance Event is the world’s leading international conference and festival for electronic music, and is excited to announce a record breaking line up for 2010 with 165 DJs and electronic live acts taking place at 44 different clubs and stages around Amsterdam. Taking place from October 20 to 23, 2010 the Amsterdam Dance Event expects 2.500 conference delegates and 100.000 festival visitors from all around the world to descend on the city of Amsterdam during the four-day event.

For more info visit: www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl

This is the first EP release of the forthcoming debut album “Zest” from Ignite Digital – the UK based Hard Dance/Hard Trance label run by DJ/Producer Simon Qudos. This EP sees Brisbane based Luke S team up with one of our favourite UK producers, Nick Squires – better known as SQ. After many hours locked in the studio, these two have produced two impressive tunes aimed to devastate the dance floor.

“Relentless” is an out and out solid hard trancer driven by a powerful kick drum and complimenting rolling bassline – plenty of subtle key changes and enough twists and turns to keep you hoping for more!

“Red & Blue” sees the boys take it up a notch and the result is a tune that would easily bridge hard trance and hard house – elements of old skool with a plenty here, with a well used 303, rave FX and a vocal sample from The Matrix that fits the tune perfectly and makes it one to remember long after you’ve left the dance floor!

You can here both of these tracks in my recent Hard Acid Trance Mix, and watch for the Zest album from Ignite Digital to be released on Nov 11, 2010 with digital release following up in December.