It’s been just a month or two since we finally went all digital. Still using Technics 1200s with a vinyl interface but now connected to a Macbook running Serato — the potential seems to have blown through the roof. The colour coded waveform is perhaps the biggest advancement in DJing since the 1200s. What a difference, and what a great visual representation of the music.

dj Smiley Mike set:

Nick Robertson – Cattleships & Bruisers
Nick Rowland – Timeline (Original Mix)
Christopher Lawrence & John 00 Flemming – Beyond the Limit (Deep Mix)
Christopher Lawrence & John 00 Flemming – Beyond the Limit (Nicholas Bennison Remix)
Ben Nicky – Catapult (Fabio Stein’s Uprise Mix)
Nicholas Bennison – Spirit Chamber
Nicholas Bennison – Exocet (Bennison Rework)
Nick Robertson – Identity Crisis
Nick Sentience feat. Nick Rowland – Meridian
Nick Sentience – Electrify (Tech Mix)
Nick Sentience – Electrify (uplifting Mix)
Fabio Stein – Stroboscopic
Fabio Stein – Panic Mode (Danny Oliveira’s Future Tech Remix)
Nick Larson – Push (Fabio Stein’s Back2Basics Remix)
Organ Donors – In Power (Fabio Stein’s Under the Knife Remix)
Lab 4 – Concept of Love (SQ’s Electrik Shandy Remix)

dj Caddyshack’s tracklist is super secret.

We’re still catching up after falling a little behind. Here is last week’s set. First hour is hard electro trance by dj Smiley Mike and in the second half dj Caddyshack goes K2 trance. At least that’s how I describe it? Have you ever listened to the soundtrack to the mountain climbing movie K2? It’s epic!

Download this (last) week’s Hard Trance Podcast

We’re back on track and this week’s trance podcast even comes with a playlist – in order. Dj Smiley Mike plays B-Sides of last week’s hard electro trance records. Caddshack drops electro breaks.

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Smiley Mike Hard Electro Trance Set

marco v – indicator (big fat remix)
white label – core adaptor (base grafitti remix)
nick sentience – bring it on
monsoon – carlottas day
interflow #4 – area 51 (groom lake mix)
eufex – find me
spider vs marc van bekkum – one (tribe tech mix)
digital masters – star wars (death star mix)
miss shiva – dreams (humate remix)
smudge & smith – near me (lange Remix)

Caddyshack Electro Breaks Set

the dream traveller – time
louis q – bind your love in heaven (natious remix)
first life – be one of us (nick hook mix)
i spy – the looking glass
dj scott project – y
uberzone – botz (android mix)
josh wink – higher state of consciousness (dirty south & tv rock club mix)
humanoid – stakker humanoid (krafty kuts mix)
White Label – DJ’s on X
scanners – prayer (d:fuse remix)

Sorry about the delay in posting this week’s podcast. There was a glitch with the podcast server but it’s fixed so this week’s show is ready for download.

This week Caddyshack and I were going to play a Nukleuz Records tag team set but we’ve postponed that until next week (Sep 14). In it’s place this week’s set is filled with tracks off the brilliant intelligent hard trance label WellWicked as well as the complex layered trance of Noom Records.

I tried to write down the playlist as I went but be warned there could still be a few tracks out of order.

Natious – Lift (Bluestone Records)
Nuw Idol – Polly’s Pharmacy – Dr Bob X-SDose Remix (WellWicked Records)
Nuw Idol – Not Afraid (WellWicked Records)
Natious – Another World (Bluestone Records)
Nuw Idol – Kick Drum Domination (WellWicked Records)
Sonik Kross – Walking with Dreamz (WellWicked Records)
Nuw Idol & Gianni – The Gates of Time – Nuw Idol UK DK Mix (WellWicked Records)

Les Logos – 1.17 – Original Mix (Noom Records)
Instinct – Zero (Noom Records)
Nuw Idol – Out of Id (WellWicked Records)
Natious – Thrust 1
Nuw Idol – Dreamweaver (WellWicked Records)
solarize – DJ Idge (WellWicked Records)
Snack vs. Uwe Hacker – Dampframme – Street Mix (Noom Records)
Waterhouse – Is It Right (Noom Records)
Nuw Idol – The Gates of Time (WellWicked Records)

This week’s Trancendance podcast is a full 2 hours of Nukleuz records mostly featuring the handiwork of Hard Trance genius Nick Sentience. It’s not a perfect set but it felt like there were more good parts than bad parts. It might not make it into the featured podcasts widget but I say it’s worth a listen.

One of my complaints has always been that it’s hard to find DJ mix CDs (back then it was mix tapes) that captured the high energy non-stop beats that I heard at raves. The mix tapes I found were good – they just lacked the relentless energy of some of my favourite DJ performances. This set is pretty relentless so hopefully a few of you will come out of it like I did – wondering were you are!