This week was a blast! It’s Fundrive week at CiTR which is when we ask our listeners to donate and help support the station. Caddyshack and I scoured our vinyl collection for the oldest, most classic warehouse rave tunes that we could bust out for our fundraising show. CiTR’s music director, Luke Meat, hung around for the show, which was a blast since he shares a passion for oldskool rave tracks (which I only found out recently!)

Thanks to everyone who has donated, and if you haven’t already, please consider making a small donation. You can call (604) 822-8648 and tell the person who takes your call that you are donating to Trancendance or donate online.

So what did we play? Here’s the tracklist:

Friction & Spice – Trixta
Cosmic Records – 1996

AGH – African Heartbeat (Mr. Knight Life’s Heartbreakin’ Mix)
Knight Life Recordings – 1996

Westbam – I Can’t Stop
Polydor – 1991

Members of Mayday – Sonic Empire (Live at Sonic Empire)
Logic Records – 1997

The Prodigy – Charly (Trip into Drum & Bass)
No Label – 1994

The Prodigy – No Good (Start the Dance)
XL Recordings – 1994

Utah Saints – What Can You Do For Me
FFRR – 1991

DJ Santana – Fine Night Tonight
Unknown

BKS – Spaceman’s Journey
Quality Records – 1996

Urban Cookie Collective – Rest of my Love (Do-do Bassburger Dub)
CNR Music France – 1995

John Debo – Uh-Yea (DJ Icey’s 407 Remix)
Caffeine Records – 1994

The Scammers – Cool Britania
Narcotix Inc. – 1998

Skylab 2000 – Auburn (Taylor’s OneInMetrobolis Mix)
Fatal Data Records – 1996

Cosmic Baby – The Space Track (Album Mix)
MFS – 1992

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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Thank you so much!

dj Smiley Mike

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)

I’m listening to the first third of this weeks podcast right now and watching Metrotown pass by while I ride the train through the blue sky on my way back from another busy day that started off with three hours of dentistry this morning. So now you get why this week’s show is untitled. I could have called it the Froster.ca launch show, but that seemed a little too corporate. Yeah – I do have a day job, and this week I was right in the middle of it during the show. How is that possible, given that the show airs from 10pm – Midnight in my timezone? Well, let’s just say I’m a dedicated employee that is lucky enough to work with some pretty dedicated people.

Alright, so none of that really has to do with anything musical. What’s on the decks this week? I’m still well into my PsyTrance kick. Steve played some of the wonkiest, most twisted trance I’ve ever heard (sorry, I wasn’t able to capture the track list), and Caddyshack dropped a fine mix of old-made-new epic trance.

dj Smiley Mike PsyTrance Set:

Timelock – Radioactive
Disco Hooligans – Clear Skies
Disco Hooligans – Easy to Get Lost
Quadra – Pure Ecstasy (Dynamic Remix)
Save the Robot – I Care
Domestic – Bloom on Day
Quadra – We Shall Overcome
Dapanji – Attention Please
Dapanji – The Dog is Talk
Hunab Tech & Antigravity – Nitro (Lamat Rmx)
F.F.T – Frequency Request (Lamat Rmx)
Lamat & Hans Solo – Next Generation of Science
Dapanji vs Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music

Steve Krueger Twisted Trance Set:

I didn’t get Steve’s track list this week because I was winding up a pirate game and launching a new Froster website for Mac’s.

dj Caddyshack Trance Mix:

Deadmau5 – Jaded (Caddyshack Edit)
John ’00′ Fleming & The Digital Blonde – Nine Inch Nails (The Dub Mix)
Christopher Lawrence & Nicholas Bennison – Continuation (Original Mix)
Ummet Ozcan – Timewave Zero (Original Mix)
Cirez D vs Armin Van Buuren feat Sharon – On Off Love (Armin Van Buuren Mash-Up)
Andy Moor vs Motorcycle – So Much Rush (Myon & Shane Mash-Up)
Dave 202 – Generate the Wave (Original Mix)
Ben Gold – First Class Travel
The Prodigy – Smack my Bitch Up (Richard Durrand Remix)
Taucher – Science Fiction (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Push – Universal Nation (Dumonde Remix)

Another smashing week with an extended 3hr show! This week my set features remixes of classic trance anthems and trance mash-ups that should send shivers down your spine and leave your whole body tingling! I’ve always liked the heavy remixes and mash-ups, but often they’re on the lighter side. Not this set! At 145bpm it’s an epic PsyTrance set not to be missed! Tell your friends!

During the second half of the show, after his excursion into Drum & Bass, Caddyshack returns to trance with an Epic Trance mix that combines both new and old favourites.

dj Smiley Mike PsyTrance Remixes of Classic Trance Anthems and Mash Up Set:

Domestic – Bloom on day
Save the Robot – I Care
Quadra – Pure Ecstasy (Dynamic Remix)
Quadra – Bless the Robot
Save the Robot – She Came
Save the Robot – Robotz
Quadra – Chase the Sun
Alien Project – Deeper
Alien Project vs Space Cat vs Quadra – I Dose
Alien Project – Activation Portal
Quadra – Cyberfunk
Quadra – Unification
Quadra – LSD Came Falling Down
Alien Project – Missing Linker
Save the Robot – Feel Like a Star
Astrix – Tweaky (Alien Project Remix)
Quadra – We Shall Overcome
Alien Project – NRG
Save the Robot – What the Funk
Sub Focus – Rock It (Stanton Warriors Re-Rub)
Skynet UK – Back to 89 (Calvertron Remix)

dj Caddyshack Epic Trance Set:

Funkagenda vs Eurythmics – Sweet F*** (Funkagenda WTF Remix)
Cut & Run – Horny Disco Balls
Prodigy – Smack my Bitch Up (Richard Mix)
DJ Tomcraft – Lonliness (Above & Beyond Remix)
Energy 52 – Cafe Del Mar (John ’00′ Fleming Remix)
DJ Tomcraft vs Sunbeam – Versus (Original Mix)
Ummet Ozcan – Timewave Zero (Original Mix)
Klauss Goulart – Misty (Fabio Stein’s Uprise in ’99 Remix)
Christopher Lawrence & Nicholas Bennison – Continuation (Original Mix)
John ’00′ Fleming & The Digital Blonde – Nine Inch Nails (Dub Mix)
John ’00′ Fleming & The Digital Blonde – Sunburn (Original Mix)
Andy Farly & Base Graffiti – No More (Original Mix)
Dave 202 – Generate the Wave (Original Mix)
Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Waiting (First State Remix)