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)

Finally back at the station after a crazy December – this show goes out to Steve Clark. A good friend, a brother in fact – Steve and I met at the legendary 1999 Spirit Circle gathering in Pemberton. Steve was up on Blackcomb mountain for New Year’s Eve and an avalanche got him. You’ll always be with us in spirit Steve. 

Quite a few new records this week…

One other thing I forgot to mention – the Trancendance Podcast is now available straight from the iTunes store. Just search for Trancendance and click on See All in the Podcast section. 

First Half:

Tomcraft – Katowice
Prism – Innerscape
Flash Brothers feat. Tiff Lacey – Stay - Noel Sanger Remix
Forcefield – Visions of Eden – Mea Culpa Remix
Ian Van Dahl – Inspiration – Peter Luts Remix
Tomcraft – Lonliness – Club Mix
Tomcraft – Lonliness – Hacker Remix
Breeder – Twilo Thunder – Stoked Up Mix
Freddie Filter vs BT – Loving U More

Second Half:

Chac feat. Chilli Gold – 7 Years – Grinder Vox for the Box Remix
Miss Shiva – Dreams – Humate Remix
Delerium – Silence – Funkagenda’s Saphire Vox
Schiller mit Mila Mar – Lieb – ATB Club Remix
Dumonde – God Music – Euphonic Mix
Habersham & Numinous – Rhetorical Question – Chris Micrli Mix
White Label – Numb – Nick Muirs Mix
BT – Smartbomb – Plump DJs Mix
Outdare – Live Today

Sorry I missed last week’s show. This week was going to be a remix of three weeks ago but at the 11th hour I started pulling out records and the set seemed to be taking a more classic trance anthem feel. I’ve always had a handful of records that are brilliant but seemingly impossible to mix. This week I brought 5 or 6 of them and overall things didn’t go to badly. The first mix was a little forced but then things smooth out a little better. 

First Half

prism – innerscape (limbo records)
natious – sonic sunrise
mike hiratzka & justin scott dixon – two worlds (original mix)
seafield – feel free (white label promo)
opus 808 – don’t turn away (e.f.o. remix)
dj eyal – xtacy 1999 (phatt phunk records)
blue amazon – no other love (blue amazon’s new phase funk mix)
polar – polar south (koncept records)
dastrix – raw (red parrot recordings)
tomcraft – lonliness (club mix)

Second Half

dumonde – god music (euphonic mix)
three drives – greece 2000 (deniro remix)
talla 2xlc – love’s coming down (dumonde remix)
miss shiva – dreams (humate remix)
three drives – greece 2000 (farmatronic genetic mix)
transa – carla’s theme (hook recordings)
transa – enervate (hook recordings)
three drives – greece 2000 (leama & james davis remix)
transa – perpetua (hook recordings)
chac – 7 years (grinder vox for the box remix)

This week I did set aside the Nukleuz records and laid down a fairly deep trance set including a few well-known trance classics. All in all the set went pretty smooth. Being a perfectionist I can hear every wobble but there were really no major mistakes.

Both the first hour and the second hour start with the same track which is written and produced by Nick Hook & Martin Sharp and released on Total Music Records – but then each set goes in its own direction.

(Note: there is some back and forth mixing so some of the records below are played more than once)

Partial track listing (First Hour)

First Life – The Feeling the Day Before – Total Music Records
Jon the Dentist – Analogue Storm (Part 1) – Intensive Music
Transa – Supernova – Xtranova / Hook Recordings
Opus 808 – Don’t Turn Away (EFO Remix) – Xtranova / Hook Recordings
Smudge & Smith – Near Me – INCredible
Doran vs. Joshua Ryan – Unreal – Crush Recordings
White Label
Chac feat. Chilli Gold – 7 Years (Grinder Vox for the Box Remix) – Tonkin’ Music Test Pressing

Partial track listing (Second Hour):

First Life – The Feeling the Day Before – Total Music Records
Trigger – Rollercoaster (The Traveller and Quest’s Ectopic Beats Remix) – Viscious Vinyl
Morris v Rogers – Girl from the Green Dimension (Main Mix) – Pitch Black Records
Dumonde – God Music (Euphonic Mix) – Bulletproof Music
Max Graham – Falling Together – Hope Recordings
Paul van Dyk – We Are Alive (Breathless Mix) – Deviant Records
Outdare! – Live Today (Parks & Wilson’s Annexe Dub) – Test Pressing
Plastic Gangsters – The Yin, The Yang… The Young (Corrupted Parts Hard Mix) – Nukleuz Records
Sidekick – Respond – Test Pressing
Spider & Marc van Bekkum – One (Original Mix) – 2Play Recordings
Breeder – Twilo Thunder (Beetlejuice Version 4) – Rhythm Syndicate Recordings

The first hour of this weeks podcast is almost entirely from the Nukleuz record label with the one exception being a Nick Sentience record from Riot Recordings. Nick Sentience is one of my favourite trance artists from the Nukleuz label and many of the Nukleuz tracks played in the first hour feature him. 

The second hour isn’t as smooth but it’s still not hard to listen to. The second hour features more layered trance with some tribal influence.