So I started going through my vinyl collection yesterday. I used to do it all the time. Now it only happens once a year, if that. Anyways, I came across a ton of rare white labels and test pressings, started looking up tracks on discogs and seeing if anything was available on iTunes. There were lots of bootlegs and test pressings that just aren’t available from the digital stores, but it inspired this trance anthem mix.

dj Smiley Mike Trance Anthem Mix

Natious – Arisen [2000 - Forward Recordings]
Natious – Lift [2001 - Bluestone Records]
Ashley Wallbridge – Jynx [2011 - AVA Recordings]
Rank 1 – LED (Let there be Light) (Extended Mix) [2009 - High Contrast Recordings]
Ali Wilson – Pandora [2010 - In Charge]
Jonas Stenberg – Trademark [2010 - Musical Madness]
Rank 1 – Symfo (Sunrise Festival 2009 theme) [2009 - High Contrast Recordings]
Claudia Cazacu – Quatrain 4 [2010 - Reset Records]
Push – Universal Nation (Easton Remix) [1998/2008 - Bonzai Music]
Nick Sentience – Below Zero [2011]
Sandstorm – The Return Of Nothing [1999 - Blueplate Records]
The Hague – Crank [?]
Push – Universal Nation (Guy Mearns Remix) [1998/2008 - Bonzai Music]
Jochen Miller – Red One (Extended Mix) [2009 - High Contrast Recordings]
Marcel Woods – Tomorrow (Dub Mix) [2010 - High Contrast Recordings]

Wow, a lot of those were more recent than I thought… Who knew I was so current

dj Caddyshack Epic Trance Mix

Gareth Emery feat. Brute Force – Arrival (Ashley Wallbridge Intro Mix)
John O’Callaghan & Giuseppe Ottavianni – Ride the Wave
Mark Knight vs. Florence and the Machine – You’ve Got the Love
Nari & Milani – Kendo
Marcus Schossow – Acid, Festival, Champagne & B!tches
Kernkraft 400 – Zombienation (Chris Schweizer Bootleg Mix)
Tiesto & Hardwell feat Adele – Zero 76 in the Deep (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Bootleg)
Grace – Not Over Yet (Max Graham vs. Protculture Remix)
Rank 1 – Breathing (Breaks Dub)
Woody van Eyden & Steve Anderson – Everything’s Twisted (Woody van Eyden Mix)
Rebecca & Fiona – Bullets (Nause & Adrian Lux Club Mix)
Koer – Reactor (Rodrigo Diaz Remix)

Plus there’s part of the DJ Taucher Atlantis Non-stop Megamix from 1997!

Once again the Facebook fans sparked me to look at some new Psytrance and sure enough I found some great new tracks including the new Circle of Life EP by Ephedrix. Just listen!

dj Smiley Mike Full On Psytrance Mix

Tracklist:

Ephedrix – Circle of Life
Ephedrix – Mexican Wave (Original Mix)
Ephedrix – Prototype (Edit)
Ephedrix – Edison’s Future
Talamasca feat. Nomad – The Awakening (Ephedrix Remix)
Ephedrix – Mexican Wave (Lamat Remix)
Lamat – Mass Control
Ephedrix – Astral Ignition
Synsun & Kamasustrance – The Key (Lamat Remix)
Gataka – Higer Lever
Gataka – In My Mind (DNA Remix)
Gataka – Dreaming Mode
California Sunshine – Last Feeling
California Sunshine – The Order

dj Caddyshack Epic Trance Mix

Tracklist:

Aria – Dido (Armin van Buuren Remix)
Yahel – Going Up (Magikal Remake)
Dawnseekers – Gothic Dream (Jan Johnson Remix)
Leon Bolier vs Kamaya Painters – Endless Ocean Wave (Leon Bolier Mashup)
Scott Mac – Damager 02 (W&W Remix)
Ummet Ozcan vs. W&W – Synergy
Ummet Ozcan – Timewave Zero
M6 – Fade to Black (W&W Remix)
Taucher – Science Fiction
Major Laegue – Wonder
Jochen Miller – U &Eye (Extended Version)

It’s been week’s and week’s since I posted a tracklist! The show goes on, but the last four or five weeks are iTunes only. Not because the shows haven’t been good, actually they’ve been quite good, but life has been busy so I’ve only been doing the bare minimum.

In the last couple week’s I’ve been inspired to dig out some of my old classic trance anthems and mix them in with some deep trance. This set was recorded just a day or two after last week’s show and I happened to be recording it. It just happened to be Caddyshack’s birthday too, so a birthday mixtape it is!

Deep and Remixed Classic Trance Anthems:

Space Manoeuvres – Part Three (Breaks Mix)
Space Manoeuvres – Stage One (Markus Schulz Dark Star Mix)
Habersham & Numinous – Rhetorical Question (Chris Micali Remix)
Mike Hiratzka & Justin Scott Dixon – Two Worlds
Space Manoeuvres – Stage One (Leama & Andy Moor Remix)
Pryda – Illusions
Pryda – Glimma
Union Jack – Papillon
Dune – Boomerang (Quivver Version)
Space Manoeuvres – Stage One (Pariah Shadow Lounging Mix)
Space Manoeuvres – Stage One (Space Manoeuvres’ Total Separation Mix)
Paul van Dyk – For an Angel (PvD Remix ’09)
Rank 1 & Jochen Miller – The Great Escape (Extended)
Nicholas Bennison – New Power
Art of Trance – Easter Island (Cygnus-X Remix)

This week was no ordinary week! Caddyshack starts things off with a Canadian Trance set that quickly became an Old Skool classics set and I follow him this week, with a rare ultra deep vocal trance set. Okay, the tracks aren’t that rare, but the fact that I’m playing deep vocal trance at sub-130bpm is!

dj Caddyshack Oldskool Trance Mix

DJ Czech – Czech Fu
DJ Czech – Rock Shock
DJ Santana – Fine Night Tonight
DJ Czech – Rockin’
Kimball Dekkard – Lifted (Dekkard Dub)
Energy 52 – State of Mind
The Grid – Swamp Thing
The House Crew – Euphoria
Sydney Blue – Senses & Mind
LSG – Can You See the Yellow Turtles

Notes: Energy 52 is Kid Paul and Cosmic Baby, The House Crew is Floyd Dyce and Acen, and LSG is Oliver Lieb.

dj Smiley Mike Deep Vocal Trance Mix

Deadmau5 & Chris Lake – I Said (Original Mix)
Deadmau5 & Chris Lake – I Said (Sergio Fernandez Remix)
Habersham & Numinous – Rhetorical Question
Chris Vaux – PaRaid
Deadmau5 & Chris Lake – I Said (Michael Woods Remix)
Lish – Running Away
Jonathan Allyn – Near You (Jaytech Remix)
Tenishia – Everything
Max Graham feat. Ana Criado – Nothing Else Matters
Andrew Bennett feat. Sir Adrian – Run Till U Shine (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Markus Schulz – Dark Heart Waiting (Jochen Miller Remix)

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)