Rave Podcast with Daniel Lesden

I apologise for the radio silence from me for the last couple of months, and I appreciate you bearing with me. I know many of you have been asking and waiting for a new Rave Podcast episode, so I brought you a fresh mix packed with deep, proggy trance gems, blending new discoveries with some timeless classics. Enjoy!

🎵 Tracklisting:

00:00 Seo John – Dive (Original Mix) [Goddezz]
05:57 Hoopoe – Aryaduta (Original Mix) [Hedjog Rec...

The underground trance scene is thriving right now, with incredible releases dropping one after another. The sound of this makes me remember why I fell in love with trance music three decades ago! Here’s a fresh slice of that world, straight from my DJ oven.

🎙️ About the show:
Rave Podcast is a monthly music radio show, hosted since 2011 by Daniel Lesden, an internationally recognised DJ, producer, label manager at JOOF Recordi...

After months of quite intense episodes, this time we're diving into a deeper, darker, and more laid-back progressive and techno sound that really locks into the groove (with a few unexpected twists, of course). Enjoy!

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Opuswerk — IUW (Original Mix) [Suara Records]
05:14 Insert Name — Bacopa Monnieri (Original Mix) [JOOF Recordings]
09:24 Rino Cerrone, Deraout — Waiting For The Ufo (Stanny Frans...

This month, we have an outstanding showcase of the 'Raw Trance' sound, featuring music from some of my current favourite producers like Mikkel Rev, Asca, Omformer, Oprofessionell, Whirloop, Sioc, Alan Backdrop, Lucinee, and more. I'm delighted to see the rise of this raw, deep, and hypnotic sound, which truly represents the essence of underground trance right now.

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Mikkel Rev — So S...

This episode continues to blend raw, deep, and hypnotic sounds, full of emotional trance vibes and frisky hard grooves. I think it's safe to say it perfectly highlights where I am musically at the moment.

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Mikkel Rev – Insula (Original Mix) [A Strangely Isolated Place]
05:37 Kareem El Morr — Safaa (Original Mix) [Umay] 
08:37 L-3P — Yhoran (Original Mix) [Space Trax] 
12:31 Maruwa...

In this episode, we shift gears towards the trancey soundscapes I promised last time. Trance is one of the most diverse music genres, spanning many different sub-genres and styles. Today, I'd like to highlight a specific, emerging sound that is fast-paced, heads-down, and sits somewhere between early 90s trance and the psychedelic scene. We call it Raw Trance, and this is where the most forward-thinking and underground trance ...

Continuing with the theme of the previous episodes, this edition of Rave Podcast is all about the exploration of techno soundscapes. The first half features a deep and hypnotic trancey sound, while the second half showcases some serious, pounding grooves. I absolutely love this sound at the moment, and I hope you are too! If you're a trance-head, no worries, a trance-focused episode will be coming soon too :-)

🎵 Trac...

This episode is all about proper Techno: groovy, slamming, heads-down, and sometimes melodic too. I feel that nowadays many people use the word ‘techno’ to describe something entirely different, sometimes they call progressive house tunes ‘techno’, sometimes trance tracks are mislabeled as ‘techno’, and there is, of course, a whole ‘melodic techno’ thing which rarely does anything to do with techno. So enjoy this proper, real Techn...

The March episode of Rave Podcast is here, and this time we start with banging 140 BPM straight away! A lot of hard grooves in the first half and a cosmic trance towards the end.

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 David Moleon — Back To Moleon (Original Mix) [Transfiguration Recordings]
05:14 Introversion — Nostalgia (Original Mix) [Arts] 
07:56 Name_Less, JBILO — Blaze (Original Mix) [Tronic] 
10:04 Sera J — Rainbow (...

The February podcast is here, bringing you a lot of heads-down grooves. This is the kind of sound and the tempo I really like now, and I hope you do too! The show also includes a couple of unreleased tracks from JOOF Recordings and Be As One, so plenty of fresh music here from the names like Wata Igarashi, Atlas, Coyu, Talfelt, DJ Dextro, Kashpitzky, Villa, Nordic Echoes, Alan Backdrop, and more.

🎵 Tracklisting:
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To start 2024 on a high note, and as we also get almost to the Rave Podcast’s 13th anniversary, I decided to make this episode 2 hours long. Expect a blend of raw, deep, and hypnotic techno and trance with a psychedelic twist. Enjoy the journey!

🎵 Tracklisting:
0:00:00 Whirloop — Departure (Intro) [JOOF Recordings]
0:01:13 Fabio Florido — Galactica (Luigi Tozzi Remix) [Runa] 
0:05:23 Vladw — Teppou (Original M...

This episode starts deep and hypnotising but gets almost uplifting closer towards the end. Expect both fresh and old (but still gold) tracks from Ambeam, Marco Bailey, Hedustma, 27Club, Ectima, John 00 Fleming, Tom Hades, Alan Backdrop, Maike Depas, GiGi FM, Axel Karakasis, Deco 5000, Quinnbond, Dynamic Forces, Ferdinger, Introversion, and Chris Flannigan.

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Ambeam — Mindfield (Original Mix) [Misti...

The Rave Podcast is back and is now available on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Patreon. I’m really enjoying such a deep, heads-down, groovy sound now, and I hope you’ll like it too. Enjoy!

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Roby M Rage — A Quiet War (Original Mix) [Oscillator Music]
06:15 Ness — Flesh Of The Gods (Original Mix) [Navigare Audio] 
10:37 Gabriel D'Or & Bordoy — Eternal (Original Mix) [Dynamic Reflection] <...

Enjoy the June podcast selection with a blend of driving techno and raw underground trance towards the end!

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Basement Jaxx, Pig&Dan — Express Yourself (Pig&Dan Eclectic Mix) [Atlantic Jaxx]
06:39 Alan Fitzpatrick, 3strange — Truths (Making Moves) (Extended Mix) [Armada Music]
10:12 Camea, The Reason Y — Elevation (Original Mix) [Kompakt Extra]
14:06 Diego Infanzon — Go Back To ...

This month’s show is all about deep, hypnotic atmospheric sound, so get ready to be hypnotised!

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Anima Mundi — Mountain Night (Original Mix) [On The 5th Day]
03:46 Regal — From Other Sounds (Original Mix) [Figure] 
05:39 Enlusion, Slavlotski — Inferno (Original Mix) [JOOF Recordings] 
11:14 Blazej Malinowski — At The End (Original Mix) [Inner Tension]
16:29 Pico Boulevard — Society...

This month we shift gears for pretty uptempo music, from old-school groovy techno and some raw underground trance from Phara, David Moleon, KaioBarssalos, Kay Barton, Omformer, Hypnum, Vaya, Whirloop, and many more. Enjoy!

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Phara — The Fleshy Part Of The Thigh (Original Mix) [Phaaar]
03:36 Alessandro Grops — Mistrality (Original Mix) [Tronic] 
06:22 David Moleon — Toma Ya (Original Mix) [Transfigura...

Enjoy this month’s selection with deep trance tunes blended with dark and pounding tech-house grooves. Music from Jamie Baggotts, Elias Erium, Hollen, Harvey McKay, Sasha Carassi, Alberto Ruiz, Jordan Gill, RNX, Second Sine, and more.

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Jamie Baggotts — Found (Original Mix) [Forescape Digital]
05:54 Optimuss — Barbados (Extended Mix) [Toolroom Trax] 
10:00 Blake Walker — The Highlands (Elia...

This episode turned out to be quite Trancey, featuring four exclusive premieres from JOOF Recordings. Enjoy!

🎵 Tracklisting:
00:00 Joseph Dalik — Manipulated Structures (Shaun Mauren Remix) [Naughty Pills Records]
05:32 Dubiosity, Pjotr G — Scraping (Original Mix) [Lateral Fragments]
09:03 Airwave — Simply Deep And Dark (Original Mix) [JOOF Recordings]
13:30 Rick Pier O'Neil — Dark Tribal (RPO Part 2)...

Happy 2023! In this first episode of the year, we kick things off with a quite fast-paced, groovy House and Techno with a pinch of old-school vibe. Enjoy!

Tracklisting:
00:00 DJoko, Kolter — Secret To Happiness (Remastered) [DJokoCamp]
03:52 Ronnie Spiteri — Red Zone (Original Mix) [We Are The Brave]
08:11 Aaron Rutherford — Retract (Original Mix) [Hot Haus Recs]
12:44 Pagano — Carpe Diem (Original Mix) [Tr...