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)

When DJ Cyber asked me to fill in for him this week I was only too happy to jump at another chance to play loud trance this weekend. Synaptic Sandwich has been on-air even longer than Trancendance, filling the 9-11pm (PST) Saturday Night time slot on CiTR 101.9fm.

Tonight’s show got started about a half hour early at about 8:30 with some of Christopher Lawrence’s live set from Burning Man 2007. DJ Quake brought us across the 9 o’clock hour getting us warmed up for my live mix.

dj Smiley Mike Psynaptic Mix

Tracklist:

Ovnimoon – Galactic Mantra (Liquid Soul Remix)
Ovnimoon – Sunset
Nok & Nok – Breaking Point (Vice Remix)
ARW – Time is Not Free
Vice – Royal Shadow
Aquafeel – Pure Imagination
Ritm’o & Ritmo – De Festa
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside (System Nipel Mix)
Suntree – Private Guide (Album Edit)
Suntree – Inside
Nerso – Outer Space
Suntree – Back to the Source
Earsugar – Bonfire
E-Clip – Reactor
Ovnimoon – Sacred Earth

dj Smiley Mike Retro Mix

Tracklist:

Quadra – Pulverturm 3.0
Quadra – Cyberfunk
Dapanji vs. Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music [Madonna Remix]
Quadra – Back Again [Renegade Masters Remix]
Quadra – We Shall Overcome
Alien Project – N.R.G. [Energy 52 Cafe del Mar Remix]
Save the Robot – What the Funk [Funkagenda / Fatboy Slim Remix]

This week was as indecisive as I’ve been in a long time! I’ve got ideas percolating for a classic anthem set, and olskool rave set and a Top 10 Eve Records set – and I just couldn’t decide what to play right up until the show started this week.

Good friend Morgan from the Spirit Circle dropped by this week too, although he somehow managed to duck out at just the right time to avoid being on air! I found out that Morgan got turned on to electronic dance music the same way I did, by listening to CiTR back in the early 90s when shows like Homebass with DJ Noah, Synaptic Sandwhich with DJ Cyber and, drum roll please… Digital Alarm Chronometer with DJ Vadar were ruling the airwaves! Little did Morgan know, I became a regular fixture on Digital Alarm Chronometer starting in about 1994!

dj Smiley Mike Retro Psytrance Mix

Ephedrix – Evolving Moods (Chronos Remix)
Quadra – Chase the Sun
Quadra – Pulverturm 3.0
Quadra – Cyberfunk
Save the Robot – She Came
Bamboo Forest – Voyager (Solar System Remix)
Mekkanikka – Black Jack
Dapanji vs. Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music
Quadra – Back Again
Quadra – We Shall Overcome
Alien Project – N.R.G.
Alien Project – Deeper
XSI ∓ Mad Maxx – Bass Monkey
Save the Robot – Feel Like a Star
Save the Robot – What the Funk
Broken Toy – Nu Metro
Quadra – Chase the Sun

dj Smiley Mike Encore Mix

Nick Rowland – Galactica (dj Smiley Mike Edit)
Geezk & G.R.G. – Madcake (dj Smiley Mike Edit)
Activa vs. eGYPT – Transmission of Spoken Words (dj Smiley Mike Epicane Mashup)
Outdare! – Live Today (Parks & Wilson’s Annexe Dub)
Phil Reynolds & Ben Bennet – Progress (dj Smiley Mike Epicredible Bootleg Mix)

What a deadly show! You guys helped with the tracklist (join the Facebook page if you don’t know what I’m talking about) and you said you wanted it dark – and so here it is! This week’s show features several tracks from Alien vs. The Cat as well as some Sesto Sento. Two great suggestions from fans this week.

Part 1 – Dark Psytrance Mix

Mekkanikka & Vibraddict – Ookikabuki (Studio Mix)
Alien vs. The Cat vs. Shanti – Trick Track (Alien vs. The Cat Mix)
Timelock – Radioactive
SubConsciousMind – Essenz
SubConsciousMind – Past Be Past
Mekkanikka – Sweet Afghani Delicious
Cybernetika – The Outer Reach
Magic & Witchcraft – Superstructure
Mad Maxx – At the End of the Rainbow (Remix)
Mad Maxx & XSI – Creeping
XSI – Dominion (Original Mix feat. Lucid)
Shayning – Lobotomized

Part 2 – Fullon PsyTrance Mix

Alien vs. The Cat vs. Dino Psaras – Shokata (GMS Remix)
Alien vs. The Cat – Hear the Noise
Alien vs. The Cat – Space Jam (GMS Remix)
Alien vs. The Cat vs. Shanti – The Purist (Lifestyle Remix)
Save the Robot – I am a Robot (Alien vs. The Cat Remix)
Alien vs. The Cat – Hear the Noise (Quadra Remix)
S.U.N. Project – Wicked (Sesto Sento Remix)
Sesto Sento vs. Systemic vs. Aquatica – No One Can Stop Us Now
Aquatica – Place of Panic (System Nipel Remix)
Aquatica – Place of Panic (System Nipel Remix) – Doubled Up
Mekkanikka – Black Jack
Broken Toy – Nu Metro
GMS – My House (Ari Linker & Avi Algranati Remix)
S.U.N. Project – 380 Volt (Slackjoint Remix)
Slackjoint – Cybersex

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)