Wow – I was rummaging through old mix tapes, which lead me to look up a tracklist of an old skool trance and breakbeat mixtape by Kid Bippy – circa 1995. That lead me looking up some of the tracks on YouTube and that planted the seed for this week’s ultimate throwback old skool trance mix.

There are a few bumps along the way – such as the first mix or two – but get past that and get into some super long mixes of some of the most recognizable trance anthems of the early 90s. Did people even call them anthems back then?

Trance trivia

Size 9 is actually Josh Wink, who’s real name is Joshua Winkleman.

Metro LA is actually Mike Knapp & Eric Davenport. Mike Knapp is also known as Xpando.

Dune is actually Tarrentella and Redanka who operate RIP Records and were regular contributors to the Whoop! Records label.

Skynet UK is Ian Widgery, also known as Surge.

Rank 1 is Benno De Goeij and Piet Bervoets

…and Taucher is like nothing I’ve ever seen!

dj Smiley Mike Old Skool Trance Mix

Aftrax – The Mask (Swept Q)
Metro LA – To a Nation Rockin’ (On a Short Journey)
Size 9 – I’m Ready (Remix Edit)
Energy 52 – Cafe del Mar (Raul Rincon Instrumental Remix)
Energy 52 – Cafe del Mar (Deadmau5 Remix)
Save the Robot – Mars Needs Time
Sasha – Xpander (12″ Version)
Metro LA – To a Nation Rockin’
Save the Robot – Mars Needs Time
Habersham & Numinous – Rhetorical Question (Chris Micali Remix)
Dune – Boomerang (Quivver Version)
Size 9 – I’m Ready
Claudia Cazacu – Quatrain 4
Sub Focus – Rock It (Stanton Warriors Re-Rub)
Skynet UK – Back to 89
Rank 1 & Jochen Miller – The Great Escape (Extended)
Opopip – Vita (Keemo & Taucher Mix)

BAD AUDIO! – This week’s podcast has a terrible problem with the audio feed. Sorry everyone. Should be fixed in time for next week’s broadcast.

My featured artists this week are Ephidrex, a Psy Trance group from Mortsel, Belgium comprised of Jochem Peeters & Joris Marckx. These guys have several releases on Dacru Records, a psy-trance label located in Ghent, Belgium that’s managed by Koen Van Cauwenbergh (Eskimo) and Bert De Decker, better known as DJ Nemesis. I happened across Dacru Records after tracking down releases from Electro Sun, a psy-trance DJ from Beer Sheva, South of Israel, who happens to be my other featured artist this week.

Caddyshack pulled out some tracks that date back, even before the classics, to early rave tracks. Cosmic Baby’s Space Track is unmistakable – but Caddyshack pulls another surprise remix intro! An interesting note on Cosmic Baby – Harald Blüchel was born at Feb 19, 1963 in Nuremberg, and classically trained as a concert pianist who began playing at the Nuremberg Conservatory when he was only 7 years old!

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dj Smiley Mike Psy Trance Set:

Ephedrix – Evolving Moods (Chronos Remix)
Peace Maker – Japanese Tours
Timelock – Radio Active
Talamasca feat. Nomad – The Awakening
Silicon Sound – Pure Reality (Ephedrix Remix)
Ephidrex & Aquila – 10 Miles Out (Lamat Remix)
Protoculture – Magnetik (Ephidrex Remix)
Electro Sun & Brain Damage – Hypnotic Voices
Electric Sun – Double Trouble
Hunab Tech & Antigravity – Nitro (Lamat Remix)
Dapanji – The Dog is Talk
Dapanji vs. Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music
Lamat & Han Solo – Next Generation of Science
Visual Contact vs. Electro Sun – Facing the Future

dj Caddyshack Deep Trance Mix:

Cosmic Baby – Space Track (Caddyshack Edit)
Sasha – Xpander
Sydney Blu – Senses and the Mind (Original Mix)
Energy 52 – State of Mind
The Grid – Swamp Thing (Grid Southern Comfort Mix)
The House Crew – Euphoria (Nino’s Dream Remix)
Three Drives – Greece 2000 (Man with No Name Remix)
Union Jack – Tryclops
Union Jack – Funnelweb
Union Jack – Vowel
Union Jack – Two Full Moons and a Trout (Orkidea Remix)

We’ve really been on fire the last few weeks! Here’s another installment that starts of with the psychedelic influence of Disco Hooligans before blowing the roof off with Simon Qudos and Nick Robertson. Caddyshack brings the funk in the second half of the show with a bunch of Cut n Run old skool breaks mashups mixed in with a few other tasty treats.

dj Smiley Mike Psytrance set:

New Born – Trip of the Luna King
Disco Hooligans – No Judgement
Disco Hooligans - Easy to get Lost
Disco Hooligans - Clear Skies
Disco Hooligans - String Theory (Alternate Mix)
Disco Hooligans - String Theory
Disco Hooligans - It’s Good to be Alive
Clone – Perseids
Magic & Witchcraft - Superstructure
Christopher Lawrence & John 00 Fleming – Beyon the Limit (Deep Mix)
Nick Rowland & Toryn D – Timeline (Original Mix)
Geezk & G.R.G. - Madcake
Simon Qudos –  Lets Get Higher
Nick Robertson – Identity Crisis
Simon Qudos - Acension Protocol
Simon Qudos - Next Generation

dj Caddyshack Oldskool Breakbeat set:

Cut n Run - In for the Pill
Cut n Run – No Good
Cut n Run – Outta Space
Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Stanton Warriors Remix)
Far Too Loud – Play it Loud (Broken Robot Mix)
Cut n Run - Done it Again
Young MC – Knowhow (Stanton Warriors Edit)
Cut n Run - King of the Bongo
Cut n Run – Horny Disco Balls
Shimon & Nixon – White Noise (Original Mix)
The Prodigy – Take me to the Hospital (Adam F & Horx Remix)
Josh Wink – Higher State (Hexadecimal Re-think)

This week’s show is a little different than usual. It’s continuous but not mixed and the tracks come from early rave compilation CDs. These are tracks that influenced me in my early rave days.

Warning: This week’s show contains coarse language!

Classic Rave Anthems Tracklist:

Dance 2 Trance – Power of American Natives
Channel X – Rave the Rhythm
Acen – Window in the Sky
Ayahuasca – Heliotropic Twist
The Prodigy – Charly
Man with No Name – Sugar Rush
Man with No Name – Adrenosphere
Ayahuasca – Psychopharm
The Infinity Project – Ego Shredder