Spring Mix 2024 Classic Edition

There are only two kinds of music – good music and bad music. And you won’t find the latter here.

Every year since 2006 I try to prepare a sepcial set for the first day of Spring. After a break in 2023, I come back with this extra-long set full of classics, that have a common theme: chilled, progressive tunes and gentle melodies easy for an ear.

Tracklist:

1. Telepopmusik – Breathe
2. Chicane – Offshore (Original)
3. Underworld – Two Months Off (King Unique Sunspots Vocal Mix)
4. Pharmacy Of Sound – Searching For Substance
5. Sascha Funke – Mango
6. Hybrid- Finished Symphony
7. Synergy – Hello Strings
8. Sasha – Xpander
9. Cerf, Mitiska And Jaren – Light The Skies (Original Mix)
10. Benz & MD – Turning the Curve (Original Mix)
11. Seyton – Vikingfjord (Micah’s Alaisiagae Battle Chant Remix)
12. Blue Room Project – Pure (Original Mix)
13. Milan Lieskovsky – Elenya (Original Mix)
14. Ridgewalkers feat. El – Find (Andy Moor Remix)
15. ATB – 9PM (Till I Come) (9PM Mix)
16. Andy Moor vs. Orkidea – Year Zero (Orkidea’s Metaverse Remix)
17. Headstrong feat. Tiff Lacey- Symphony Of Soul (Original Mix)
18. Salt Tank – Eugina (Marcel Woods Remix)
19. Way Out West – Killa (Orkidea Remix)
20. Humate – Love Stimulation (Paul Van Dyk Love-Club-Mix)
21. Albion – Air (Original Mix)
22. Cape Town – Proglifter (Original Mix)
23. Perpetuous Dreamer – Dust Wave (Armin Van Buuren Rising Star Remix)
24. Sarah McLachlan – Fallen (Gabriel & Dresden Anti-Gravity Mix)
25. Lost Witness feat. Tiff Lacey – Home (Mike Shiver Catching Sun Remix)
26. Aven – All I Want (Ferry Corsten Remix)
27. Above & Beyond – No One on Earth (San Francisco remix)
28. Arksun – Arisen
29. Madonna – What It Feels Like For A Girl (Above & Beyond Remix)
30. Super 8 & DJ Tab – Suru
31. Airbase – Tangerine (Original Mix)

Today’s classic turned quite eclectic, blending many styles and eras of music. It includes hits knows to everybody from a radio, universally acclaimed trance bombs and some niche recommendations found here and there. Surely you will be suprised more than once 🙂 It was great fun to amass a ton of various tracks and just let it flow, then discover where key progression gets me.

Also, check the other one: Spring Mix 2015 Classic Edition

All I want for Christmas is music

Times change, and so does the way we listen to the music. Streaming services are nothing new at this point, but for a long time I’ve been reluctant to them, as I’m rather used to hoarding uncountable numbers of mp3 hand-picked and catalogued on a hard drive. Such habit developed a long time ago when I ran the radioshow on weekly basis and needed to have all the tunes accessible at my disposal.

Recently I dicovered – or rather re-discovered after 15 years – DI.FM radio. It evolved quite a lot since I listened to it the last time somewhere in the high school. Tons of different channels and playlists, carefully selected by curatorst with seemingly good taste – all available on demand. Shortly speaking, the best place to listen to the trance music right now. Despite the large number of channels and diverse content, just a few are enough: I sit at Epic Trance, Progressive, Progressive Psy or Melodic Progressive from time to time and don’t have enough for hours.

Spring Mix 2022

Long overdue, but nevertheless it’s here just like every year. This episode contains more uplitfing that progressive, unlike others. Either way, I am very satisfied with this mix and hopefully so will you 🙂

Freebie: Warmonger – 42

Hello, it’s another freebie I share with you as an overdue X-mas present 🙂 Free for download from Soundcloud.

Yep, it’s an unsuccessful attempt at creating melodic and orchestral uplifting trance. Quite a misadventure in terms of composition as I relied too much upon Orb Composer.

Still, it’s a solid production, so maybe sometone with an ear for unusual tunes will find it interesting.

Also, it’s the first and only production where I tried to use Tone2 Rayblaster 2 – an unique synth based on impulse modeling engine, with a very distinct and pleasant sound.

The Realm Never Dreamed out now!

This release in a fine melodic / uplifting trance tune with epic breakdown. Powerful yet smooth, as I wanted.

Beatport
Juno
Apple Music

Also, certainly my best yet. Having done that, I need to tthink about producing some tunes more in line with commercial standards. It’s not a matter of technical skills anymore, it’s a matter of style.

What to compress and what not

My approach to applying compression across the different parts of the mix.

Valor is out now!

New single just got released on my home label Tecnomind Music.

This tune turned out be be a successful attempt to combine hard-tech banger with cinematic strings. Unique and catchy, enjoy!

Beatport

Juno

Apple Music

This milestone marks 20th tune released on a label. And I’ve got more yet to show!

Nostalgia hits

(Ambiguity in the title intended)

Recently I had to remind myself older DJ sets recorded over 10 years ago. And guess what: they’re amazing, especially when one doesn’t remember what track gems are hiding there.

So I uploaded 7 new (old) sets to Mixcloud.

2007 – 2010 Yearmixes were originally broadcast on pure.fm radio. The radio appears dead now. Back when it started, it hit over 300 listeners. Good old days.

Now, the “follow-up” mixes contain all the stuff which didn’t fit in the 2-hour radioshow. These tend to be suprising and original tunes, often one-of-a-kind, spanning a wide variety of styles and genres. Definitelly worth checking.

The Making of: Supercontinuum

It was an old idea, probably 8 years old by now as I got it back at the university. “Supercontinuum” means, in layman’s term, a rainbow laser. So that’s pretty much what you can see on the cover:

 

It’s quite an ephemereal phenomenon unlike anything observed in nature, and so is the sound design for this track. Not a single subtractive synth was used in the making of “Supercontinuum”, and samples were very sparse too. Main lead is string morphing smoothly into flute thanks to Harmor. Bassline comes from newly purchased FM8. Pseudo-acoustic instruments is Chromaphone 2, some atmoshperes come from Iris 2 and Ableton Operator is also there.

Last, but not least – all the melodies and harmonies were created by AI. It’s all Orb Composer, and in fact I started to create this track immediately after I purchased the tool back in 2018. Took me many months and three attempts to get anywhere with it. In fact, I been adding final touches in August 2019. Even though the track was signed immediately, it still took several months to get the remixes done by Sublitrance and LTM.

Spring Mix 2020

Been doing these since 2006, so it’s already 15th edition. Amazing. Also, makes me feel very old.

Chilled, progressive and positive vibes to welcome the new season.