I started going to warehouse raves in the early 90s, and quickly found myself travelling around Western Canada to attend outdoor raves and electronic music festivals like Summer Love. My passion for electronic dance music has never wavered, but until this year, I haven’t been out to many shows over the past 10 years. Despite knowing many people who have made the annual treck to Shambhala, it has never been successful at drawing me out of hibernation.
Enter Motion Notion. It was a Trancendance fan who first told me about Motion Notion (thanks Karl!), and as soon as I saw the lineup I NEEDED to go! I’ve been fortunate enough to see the likes of Union Jack, Chemical Brother and Skylab 2000 all play live. But the group that has escaped me for years is The Crystal Method. I’ve been a huge fan of their unique sound since the beginning, and I’ve always wanted to see them. If that wasn’t enough, I’ve become a huge fan of Ace Ventura over the past few years, and watching the photos and videos of his performances from overseas as they get posted to Facebook has left me wishing and waiting for him to play a show close enough to BC or Alberta that I can see him play. John 00 Fleming is icing on the cake.
Last week, after Caddyshack and I had already been buzzing about the potential for a road trip from Vancouver to Golden, BC to see the show, I found out that Motion Notion had asked to sponsor Trancendance for June and July! And so it begins. Over the next six weeks leading up to the Motion Notion festival, Trancendance will feature different artists scheduled to headline the show as well as some of the different artistic aspects of the event. Plus… we’ll be talking about a roadtrip or maybe even a caravan from Vancouver to the Beaverfoot Lodge in Golden.
My post heading is a bit self-centred this week. It doesn’t really reflect Caddyshack’s set at all, but rather totally focusses on mine. At some point it gets hard to come up with a title that covers everything, especially when Caddyshack plays a set like he did this week: a little bit of everything!
dj Smiley Mike Deep Psytrance Mix
Gaudium – High on life
Alion – Free Form
Gaudium – I’ve Got Something
Vertical Mode – Deep Vibration
Gaudium – Blue Lights
Skazi – Warrior (Atmos Remix)
Skazi – Warrior (Dubstep Remix)
Liquid Soul – Devotion (Protoculture Remix)
Vertical Mode – Pull Me Down
Gaudium – A Smile on your Face Makes you More Beautiful
Gaudium -Teknobonk
Vertical Mode – Twist Me Up
Odiseo – Flow (Invisible Reality Remix)
Alion – Bliss
Sub6 – Twenty o Six
Normalize – Brain Damage
Nick Sentience – Sakura
John ’00′ Fleming & Digital Blonde – Planebrain
Injection – Domino Effect
dj Caddyshack Epic Trance Mix
Deadmau5 – Jaded (Caddyshack Edit)
Eric Prydz – 2Night
Pryda – Illusions
Donatello – Traffic
Gareth Emery – Tokyo
Darude – Tell Me
Tiesto – Sparkles (Transa Remix)
Dave 202 – Generate the Wave
Rank 1 – Breathing (Breaks Dub)
Gareth Emery vs. Eurythmics vs. Adele – Rolling in the Sweet Arrival (Christian K. Mashup)
Push vs. Dash Berlin – Till the Universal Nation Falls Down
DJ Tiesto – Suburban Train
Triple Agent – The Operator
Plump DJs – Light Fantastic
Feed Me & Tasha Baxter – Cloudburn
Pryda – Mirage
Posted Monday, January 30, 2012 by dj Smiley Mike . Filed under: Dubstep | Guest DJ
This we we had Vancouver’s own Glassball in the studio for a live guest mix. Glassball plays psytrance and dubstep (although not at the same time). You can follow Glassball on Facebook to keep up with his latest mixes and club dates.
My set is a collection of tracks that just don’t seem to go with anything else. You know the ones. They’re great, they just never seem to fit into the set you’re working on. Well, if you collect them for long enough, you can just mash them all into a set of their own, like this!
Caddyshack finishes things off at 180 bpm and somewhere around 300 wpm (wobbles per minute). If you’re asking yourself, what the hell is a wobble per minute… you should just listen to his set. Between Glassball and Caddyshack, you should have it figured out by the time you make it through this week’s podcast. It’s not for the faint of heart
dj Smiley Mike Trance Meets Dub-Breaks Mix
John ’00′ Fleming & Digital Blonde – Planebrain (00.db Mix)
Plasmic Honey – Here We Go
Liquid Vision – At Long Last
Erander – Boppe (Alucard Remix)
Darth and Vader – Return of the Jedi
Planet Perfecto Knights – Resurection (EC Twins & Remy Le Duc Remix)
Faithless – Insomnia 2010 Unreleased Remastered
Elite Force – Calypso (with Datsik & Excision)
George Acosta – True Love (Save the Robot Remix) [feat. Fisher]
Glassball Dubstep Guest Mix
01. xKore – Magnum
02. Document One ft. Maksim – Locked In
03. Messinian & Boy Kid Cloud – Contraband
04. Habstrakt – Rough (Brown & Gammon Remix)
05. Jantsen – Sultan Of Swing
06. Crizzly – Big Booty Bitchezz
07. Torqux & Twist – H.E.L.L.
08. xKore – Hello
09. Peo De Pitte – Burning Up (Torqux & Twist remix)
10. Torqux & Twist – Obliviate
11. Hulk – Run Train
12. T-Vicious – Give Me What I Want (Helicopter Showdown Remix)
13. Zomboy – Pirate Hooker
14. Zomboy – Game Time
15. DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans – Louder (Drumsound & Bassline Smith Remix)
16. The Qemists – Your Revolution (Reso Remix)
17. Freestylers ft. Pendulum & MC SirReal – Painkiller (Kouncilhouse Remix)
18. Figure & Whiskey Pete – Cut Throat
19. Candyland – Pirates (Mitis Remix)
20. Flux Pavillion – Bass Cannon (xKore Drumstep Redux)
20.5 Flux Pavillion – Bass Cannon (Zomboy Remix)
21. Mark Instinct & Bare – Shodan
22. Chromeo – Night By Night (NEUS Remix)
23. Zomboy – Falcon 6
23.5. Daladubz – Pink Elephants VIP
24. Arkasia – New World Disorder
25. Oscillator Z – Goodbye
dj Caddyshack Drum and Bass Mix
State of Mind – Paint the Walls Black
State of Mind & Subsonic feat 3pm – Somebody Stop Me
Nu:Tone – Balaclava
Netsky – Refuse
Logistics – Warehouse
State of Mind – Punkd (DJ Friendly Version)
State of Mind – Parasomnia (Dub Version)
Netsky – Escape(feat. Darrison)
The Kleptones – Voodoo Sabatoge (The Prodigy vs. Beast)
Adele – Hometown Glory (High Contrast Mix)
I messed up with the podcast this week. You have to download both parts. I’m trying to stitch it into one piece, but not sure how to update the podcast server. In the meantime, here are the two parts:
Posted Monday, October 10, 2011 by dj Smiley Mike . Filed under: PsyTrance
Steve took the opening set this week and I haven’t got a tracklist from him (yet).
dj Smiley Mike Second Slot Psytrance Mix
Liquid Soul – Perfect Day (Aquafeel Mix)
Liquid Soul – Perfect Day (Normalize Mix)
Aquafeel – Gloryland
Aquafeel – Gloryland (Hi Profile Remix)
Timeless & NitroDrop – Night & Day
Liquid Soul – Devotion (Protoculture Remix)
Fatali – Soul Control
Sideform – Chameleon
Sideform – Precept
Krama – Drass
Clufe – Time & Light (Hanzo Remix)
Day Din – Sync Yourself (Krama Remix)
Electric Tease – TV is the New God (Sub6 Remix)
John ’00′ Fleming – Paroxia (00.db Mix)
SynSUN & Insum – Brave Heart
Alien vs. The Cat vs. Dino Psaras – Shokota (GMS Remix)
Save the Robot – What the Funk
Yahel – Soul (KamaSutrance Remix)
Yahel – Soul (SynSUN vs. KamaSutrance Remix)
Dapanji vs. Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music
Mystical Influence – Power for the Warrior (dj Smiley Mike Dubstep Bootleg)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside (System Nipel Remix)
This week I started out with 38 tracks all competing for a spot in my hour long set. After thinning and thinning, and then thinning some more, I was left with 16 freaking amazing tracks that could be thinned out, no more. This set starts out at a throbbing progressive pace and slowly builds to an all out jaw smashing climax.
Volume on 11 please.
Caddyshack dropped some killer tracks too, but I was too busy launching this Wish Your Chores Away Contest to write down anything he played
dj Smiley Mike Super Badass Jaw-Smashing Trance Mix
Freq – The Moon & the Earth
Mental Force – Lost Angels
Philter – ID
Krama – The Lighthouse
Day Din – Sync Yourself (Krama Remix)
ID – ID
Krama – Restless Tides
ID – ID
Cyber Motion – Airborne
John ’00′ Fleming – Fight the Darkness (feat. Sascha Cooper)
John ’00′ Fleming – Frisson
Yahel – ID
ID – ID
ID – ID
ID – ID (dj Smiley Mike Dubstep Mashup)
Yahel – Soul (KamaSutrance Remix)
I know the tracklist is a bit sparse this week. It must be the old school DJ in me… Hit me up on the Trancendance Facebook page if you’re just dying to know one of those missing tracks and maybe I’ll be a little less elusive. After all, I gave away a ton of classic gems in last week’s tracklist
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