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.

Wu Wei / Be Yourself EP is out!

Didn’t release any EP since 2019, so it’s time for a new one! Two psy-ish tracks of different flavours coming on Aftertime Records. Wu Wei is somewhat melodic trancer with subtle goa feel, while Be Yourself is more of a mainstage banger with a big yet simple lead. I’m very proud of these.

Beatport

Juno

Apple Music

Spotify

On the message of song names: Wu Wei here means “do not force”, don’t try too hard and let the things unfold on their own. Ironically I tried hard to wrap up this track, including completely redoing the final melody once it was almost finished. Now, Be Yourself means… you know what it means. This mainstage banger leading somewhere between tech trance and hard trance is nothing like myself.

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 🙂

The Beauty of Darkness out now!

While I’ve been on holidays in Kenya (absolutely amazing!), another tune got released. Now need to keep the listeners updated 😉

The Beauty of Dakness is a nod to older dark trance anthems that used to be popular in 2000 – 2010 period, but seemingly got forgotten in favour of banging uplifters. Still, Aftertime Records, usually releasing my psytrance tunes, seems to be interested in this kind of sound. So here it is!

Hear it on Spotify or Youtube.

Get it from Beatport or Juno.

Spring Mix 2021

Can you feel the spring already?

Well, where I live I can’t yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, so I recorded this mix for the first day of spring. Enjoy over two hours of progressive vibes fading from deep house to uplifting trance.

Tracklist:

The Making of: Full Moon Remix

The remix of “Full Moon” by Matthias Bishop got quite some range and positive feedback. It was also an occasion to record a video about sound design for this track. The video is my most popular episode on Youtube by far, go check it out:

Recorded back in the summer, recently edited with great (and free!) DaVinci Resolve 16. That certainly is quite an advancement since early episodes, but I won’t stop here!

The Video features Reaktor Blocks, now with awesome Toybox expansion which suddenly became my favourite tools of trade. Feels nice to use, looks great, but most importantly, sounds gorgeous. Indeed there’s something about all these “analog” and analog emulations.

Matthias Bishop – Full Moon (Warmonger Remix) is out!

A second remix for producer and label owner Matthias Bishop. This time it’s meant to be funky and progressive, but ends up with familiar uplifting lead. The only 138 trancer in this single, as you might have expected:

Spotify

Beatport
Juno
Apple Music
Traxsource

Grab it now and enjoy the music!

New remix coming in January

Well, January is still far away, but at least I got release confirmation and a nice cover.

My remix of “Full Moon” by Mattias Bishop is coming on his new, but already popular Aural Sonic label. Although still trance, it has an unusual progressive / funky feel inspired by some of my favourite classics. You may want to follow me on Facebook as I’m going to tease some of inspirations during the time before the release.

Take a look at the cover:

Also, it’s a beefy release coming in 7 version in total. Something for everyone’s taste for sure 🙂

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.