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
Posted Sunday, July 6, 2008 by dj Smiley Mike . Filed under:
Hard Dance
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!
Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 by dj Smiley Mike . Filed under:
Epic Trance
Maybe it was the fact that I wrote about being a selfish DJ last week that finally got me to shorten up my mixes a little bit, or maybe it’s the fact that after hosting the show four weeks in a row I’ve had a bit more practice – but I’m pretty happy with this mix. So far I’ve only listened to the first hour, and it has a few wobbles, but all in all I like the flow of the tracks.
In the first hour I only played six or seven records, weaving back and forth several times. I will try to update this post with at least a partial track list, but it will be hard to figure out the order because I played different parts of the records several times with at least one main theme record running through most of the set.
Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 by dj Smiley Mike . Filed under:
Hard Dance
A good friend of mine asked me to make a CD as a prize for their caravan heading to Burning Man this year. It’s been years since I made anything more polished than a podcast as family life has chipped away at my free time, so a new CD is long overdue.
This is just a first take but it’s a little rough. After a second listen it wasn’t as bad as I first thought, but there’s a few spots where the beats slip. The first block is about 45 minutes (of Smiley Mike) featues some Nukleuz records and after the break there’s another 90 minutes or so featuring some of the same Tidy Trax and Eve records from the May 4 podcast but at a slightly slower pace (still pounding though).
Caddyshack was busy reorganizing his shoes this week.
Posted Sunday, May 4, 2008 by dj Smiley Mike . Filed under:
Hard Dance
This is the best set we’ve had in awhile and that makes it the perfect podcast to start off the new gaming site. (More about the new site to come soon…)
Caddyshack starts of the night for the second time in history while Smiley Mike finishes cooking a roast. The first hour is a lot of hard acid trance with a considerable amount coming off the Transient record label. Smiley Mike follows in the second hour with bangin hard trance from Eve Records and Tidy Two – a branch of the highly successful Tidy Trax label.
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