The Force Factor - Trance and Hard Trance Podcast

This month, with a holiday and the big celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee here in the UK I haven’t been able to spend the usual time on my favourite pastime - choosing & buying new trance tracks! - so I’ve had a dig around and chosen some belters from a year or 2 ago which I love but haven’t heard in a while. Hope you enjoy!

01. Thomas Bronzwaer - Galaxyrise
02. Bryn Whiting - Out of the Dark and Into t...

A quality-packed Force Factor this month including one of my favourite tracks at the moment - Indecent Noise’s insane remix of Forbidden City by Marc Simz which is just exploding with retro-sounding energy. Plus dusting off two fantastic records from a few years back from the incredible Vinylgroover & The Red Hed. 

01. Inertia - The System (Sean Tyas & Tom Colontonio remix)
02. Matt Bowdidge - No Room To Breathe<...

Fifty shows!! Celebrating half a century of pumping out trance & hard trance belters month in month out - and number 50 is no different! Stormers from Johan Ekman, Mark Leanings, & loads more. Thanks for listening, here’s to another 50 :-)

01. John O'Callaghan & Heatbeat - Las Lilas
02. Sean Truby & Craig Purvis - Beyond The Horizon
03. LTN - Out Of This World (James Dymond remix)
04. Johan Ekm...

Spring is here so get the car windows down, volume up, and pump out some of this tech & hard trance to help your neighbours’ gardens grow! Some huge tunes from Jason Cortez, Luke H and many more!

01. Sound Players - Baiana (Paul Miller vs Ronald de Foe remix)
02. Jason Cortez - Lil More Luv
03. John O'Callaghan - Raw Deal
04. Simon Patterson - Backstab
05. Jase Thirlwall - Whopper
06. Neutr4l Numb...

Tech trance time! February’s Factor gets the rave juices flowing but - for this episode - doesn’t stray over into the territory of hard dance… this is 100% gritty trance from the likes of Askew, Patterson etc (my favourite kind!). Hope you agree!

01. Monada - Turbulence 
02. Lee Miller - Deception (Oliver Brooks remix)
03. Running Man - Sorrow (Trance Arts remix)
04. Indecent Noise pres. Mental Asy...

Lots of bootlegs/remixes/mashups in this one, so if you like that sort of thing you’re in for a treat! A few producers including the awesome Bryan Kearney kindly distributed some excellent productions over xmas so I’ve included a few to get the year off to a banging start. Plus a great guest mix from up & coming Vancouver based DJ, EYC. 

01. Whiteroom vs Ferry Corsten - White Love (Bryan Kearney’s Passionate m...

My set for Afterhours.fm’s End of Year Countdown was a 2001 special, a nostalgic look back at the big trance hitters 10 years ago, so in case you were too busy stuffing yourself with spuds & sprouts to catch it on Xmas day, here’s the uncut version for your downloading delight :-)

01. Lange feat. Skye - Drifting Away
02. Solid Sessions - Janeiro
03. Insigma - Open Our Eyes
04. DJ Tiesto - Suburban Tra...

If you want a big soundtrack for your xmas party, look no further! :) Loads of great new trance plus some cheeky remixes of Lost Tribe, Armin Van Buuren and even Rihanna! Have a great xmas and don’t forget my “2001 special mix” for Afterhours.fm’s End of Year Countdown - midday on Christmas Day!

01. Gareth Emery ft. Mark Frisch - Into The Light (Alex M.O.R.P.H. remix)
02. Sean Tyas - Lift (Des McMahon r...

My set from this year’s UK In The Mix 005 event on Afterhours. 

01. Indecent Noise - Grim Reaper
02. Lee Miller - Inception
03. Brian Cameron - Engage
04. John Askew - Bastard
05. Simon Patterson & Greg Downey ft. Bo Bruce - Come To Me
06. Will Atkinson - Breathe It
07. Cosmic Gate - Human Beings (Daniel Kandi’s Humane Society remix)
08. Too Many Artists - Get Exact Blackout (Indec...

A massive guestmix from up & coming producer Lee Miller follows some rather large new tunes from the likes of Will Atkinson with Breath It and Brian Cameron with Engage, two of my fave tracks at the moment. Plus (by complete coincidence) another great remix of Paramore’s Crush, this time with Costa Pantazis on mix duties.

01. Luke Terry - Counting Stars (99 Returning Remix)
02. Will Atkinson - Breathe It
03. Jam...

Better late than never hmm?! So.. Paramore in a trance mix?!! I came across an American tech-trance DJ called Fei Fei this month and I’m loving her sound, see what you think!

01. Talla 2XLC vs Paul Miller - Extravaganza
02. Martin Libsen - Sirius
03. Fei Fei - Hellion
04. Bryan Kearney - Stealth Bomber (TrancEye remix)
05. Paramore - Crushcrushcrush (Fei Fei’s Feided remix)
06. Peetu S...

Great new releases from some of the big guns of trance make it a storming September! Plus on the harder side, Costa Pantazis/Ashley Waters and April manage to keep their full-throttle sound melodic & uplifting - love it. But Indecent Noise’s “Grim Reaper” has to be my favourite track for bloody months - incredible. As the Aussies like to say… banging like a dunny door in a thunderstorm.

01. Peter Sawlan...

So as you probably know by now I love the old skool sounds and August’s mix is chock-full of them! A new remix of the 1997 Lustral classic ‘Everytime’ by Kipster, Amen UK’s 'Passion’ from 1995 remixed by Neon Lights, plus the old-skool flavour that runs through Rob O.T.T’s This is the Time. Hope it gets your rave juices flowing! 

01. Tom Colontonio - Longport (Uplifting mix)
02. Gold...

Two for the price of one this month! Your usual dose of Force Factor tuneage, plus a fantastic hour-long guestmix from someone whose fast-paced trance productions I’ve been banging out for ages, so you’ll already be familiar with his sound - Burak Harşitlioğlu. Thanks for the mix Burak, & enjoy everyone!

01. Akira Kayosa & Will Watson pres. Osaru - Osaru
02. Martin Libsen - Deep Reflections
03. Indecent...

Making up for last month with a big fat dose of the fast stuff! Some great tracks around right now including a fantastic mashup if you like Chase & Status, and loads of huge new hard trance, perhaps my favourite being ‘Popcorn’ from C&D Project - amazing tune. Thanks to all you folks on Facebook for all your birthday messages this month! Enjoy the mix! 

01 Nick Callaghan & Will Atkinson - Let Go

This month’s mix is a big bag of tunage fresh from the large trance department, energetic as ever, but without much hard trance due to a lack of good quality new hard trance tunes when I recorded it earlier this month. Probably some of you will be pleased with that while others will miss the hard stuff, so I’ll be interested to hear your opinions!

01 Martin Libsen - Capsule
02 Sied Van Riel feat. Nicola McKenna - St...

Podcast only extended mix! The excellent remix of ‘Ayla’ in this month’s set came out too late for the Afterhours set but it’s included here as a special treat for you podcast subscribers :) Other highlights include a great new version of the classic Cygnus X - Superstring, plus a short burst of Felix’s “Don’t you want me” dropped in briefly too…

01  James L & Thomas Coastl...

Quality fast-paced techy trance sounds from the off, including what has become one of my favourite tracks ever, Daniel Kandi’s remix of Cosmic Gate’s “Human Beings”, love that track! Also watch out for a new remix of Armin’s classic “Shivers”.

01 John O'Callaghan - Talk To Me (Activa pres. Solar Movement remix)
02 Cosmic Gate - Melt To The Ocean (John O'Callaghan remix)
03 Lee Mille...