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)

There’s a glitch in the first 5 minutes or so, but once you skip past that – this week’s show should not be missed! Possibly my best Hard Trance Mix ever, this may turn into my latest demo mix. New and old smashing tracks and a few that have been given the Smiley Mike touch – guaranteeing that you won’t hear a set quite like this anywhere else in the world!

For those who are curious – these are digital tracks mixed live using Serato with vinyl control records.

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dj Smiley Mike Epic Hard Trance Mix:

Nick Rowland – Galactica (dj Smiley Mike Edit)
John Askew & Matt Hardwick – Slaves to the Machine (Liam Melly Remix)
Geezk & G.R.G. – Madcake (dj Smiley Mike Smashed & Broken Remix)
Mallorca Lee – Medication Vacation (Fabio Stein’s Uprise Re-interpretation)
Outdare! – Live Today (Parks & Wilson’s Annexe Dub)
Activa vs. eGYPT – Transmission of Spoken Words (dj Smiley Mike Epicane Mashup)
Toryn D – Trip to Trumpton
Phil Reynolds & Ben Bennett – Progress (dj Smiley Mike Epicredible Remix)
A.S.Y.S. – No More F*****g Rock’n'Roll
Organ Donors – In Power (Fabio Stein’s Under the Knife Remix)
Phil Reynolds – Global Takeover
Nick Sentience feat. Nick Rowland – Meridian
Nick Sentience – Electrify (Tech Mix)
Simon Qudos – Ascension Protocol
John Askew – How Can I Put This (Fabio Stein Remix)
Ben Nicky – Catapult (Fabio Stein’s Uprise Remix)

This week’s show is dedicated to the friends and families of the 19 people who were trampled to death at the 2010 Love Parade in Germany.

Is it possible to to be deep and fullon at the same time? I tend to think of them as somewhat opposite, but this week’s show really seems to bridge the gap. Two new tracks worth mentioning are Black Jack by Mekkanikka and Nu Metro by Broken Toy.

I couldn’t get the second half of the Simon Qudos guest mix working, so the second half of the show features a BBC essential mix by Christopher Lawrence from 2004. Watch for the second half of my Simon Qudos guest mix in the coming weeks!

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dj Smiley Mike 2010 Love Parade Mix

Bizzare Contact vs. Ultravoice – Ultrabizzy
Silicon Sound – Pure Reality (Ephedrix Remix)
Aquila – Alice (Ephedrix Remix)
Electro Sun – High Cue
Ephedrix – Far Away (DNA Remix)
Mekkanikka – Black Jack
Indigo – Moon Walker
Quadra – Time Immemorial
Quadra – Technoport
Quadra – Cyberfunk
Alien Project – Deeper
Broken Toy - Nu Metro
Dapanji vs Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music (Original Mix)
Save the Robot – Robotz
Save the Robot – Feel Like a Star

This is supposedly the last Nukleuz Records set for awhile. I don’t know if I can stick to my promise or not. I don’t want to subject you guys to the same tracks week after week, but after giving the first hour a second listen this morning I was pleasantly surprised. There’s a lot of decent mixing in the first hour (I’m a perfectionist so you won’t often hear me praise my own mixing) but I was pretty disheartened after the first colossal trainwreck. It wasn’t so much a trainwreck of a mix as the golden mistake of cuing the record with the level all the way up. Argh!

I find at the radio station I’ve been mixing more with the gain knobs than usual. I like it – but you really have to watch that the level slider isn’t left up when you start to cue the next record. 

All in all it was a good listen.

The second hour is a bunch of B-Sides thrown together. The radio show has always been about having fun for me and the second hour is just me playing around with a bunch of records that I have rarely if ever played.

After many weeks of PsyTrance and a few weeks of talking about a new deep trance mix, Smiley Mike finally delivers with a mix of new and old tracks including deep trance, uplifting trance (or epic trance as I like to call it) and even a few vocal trance trax.

Caddyshack follows up with some uplifting vocal trance of his own, but his set, and the entire show – is cut about 10 minutes short after security guards walk into the studio and inform us that we have to leave the UBC Student Union Building immediately due to a bomb threat. (I’m not sure who makes a threat on a nearly empty building at close to midnight on a Sunday – but that’s how it went down!)

dj Smiley Mike New Deep Trance Mix

Disco Hooligans – Steady Now
Michael Lee – Everblue (Adam Foley Remix)
Nick Rowland – Galactica
John Askew & Matt Hardwick – Slaves to the Machine (Liam Melly Remix)
Disco Hooligans – Steady Now
John Askew – How Can I Put This (Fabio Stein Remix)
Nick Larson – Push (Fabio Stein back2basics Remix)
Chac feat. Chilli Gold – 7 Years (Grinder Vox for the Box Remix)
First State – Off the Radar (First State’s 808 Clash Remix)
Claudia Cazacu – Quatrain 3
Maloraca Lee – Medication Vacation (Fabio Stein’s Uprise Remix)
Activa – Transmission
eGYPT – Spoken Words

dj Caddshack Vocal Trance Mix

Re-locate – Rogue (Caddyshack Edit)
Cirez D vs. Armin Van Buuren – On Off Love (Armin Van Buuren Mashup)
DJ Tomcraft – Overdose
Reflekt feat. Deline Bass – Need to Feel Loved (Seb Fontaine Remix)
Andy Moor vs Orkidea – Yearzero
Orkidea & Gareth Emery vs. Nadia Ali & Andy Moor – Metaversal Love Story (Theta Mashup)
Super 8 & Tab – Irufushi
Lens Flare – Shutter (DNS Project Original Mix)
Tiesto – Sparkles (Transa Remix)