TranceSounders around the world, I invite you Saturday the very 29th of January 2011 for a special show of TranceSound Session, the 156th episode where we do have the guest already invited, so we are having again the well known Darude from Finland delivering a guest mix for 2 hours. This is not his very first appearance on the show, but this is a great approach advertising the forthcoming exclusive interview I am going to have with the Finnish Producer/Dj. Enjoy a new TranceSound Session episode with Your beloved artists, on weekly basis, so get ready to TRANCESOUND on several radio stations, such as Party107, Wave FM, 1Mix Radio, Anthem FM, ODU FM, PureSound FM and other stations around the world.

    The concept of a yearmix has a rich history in the music industry. Over the years many of the big names have taken up the baton to musically review a full year in the past. And now for 2010, First State takes up the challenge and releases a unique double mix compilation entitled “Crossroads Yearmix 2010”, highlighting the best tracks as featured in his successful Crossroads podcasts. The debut episode of the Crossroads podcast appeared in November 2009 and has since drawn the ever-growing attention of fans from all over the world. Dedicated listeners that follow the weekly episodes get an exclusive peek in First State’s record bag and hear first hand what he likes best and will use during his live DJ sets. With that notion in mind, First State a.k.a. Sander van Dien took no chances when he prepared himself for the “Crossroads Yearmix 2010” sessions and secured a total of 27 tracks, compiled across two mixes.

    In the world of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) talents, there are just a few entertainment powerhouses that have been as commercially successful as Sander van Doorn in the last couple of years. As a Dj, producer and remixer, he has acquired several top major awards and placed himself among the industry’s elite. With "Love is Darkness" he carries on his tradition of vocal abilities and continues to try his own voice at self-producing the track. Yes, as I have said before, this time Sander is showcasing his voice like never before, being the very first time when his fans can listen to his unique performance, being harmoniously sustained by a new female vocalist Carol Lee, all along. Written by Abigail Duran aka VeraNationGirl (TranceSound.net Head of PR)

    VONYC Sessions is more than a radio show. It's a weekly highlight, giving electronic dance music junkies their fix of quality music for over 6 years already. Hosted by internationally acclaimed DJ/producer Paul van Dyk, VONYC Sessions is an understanding that goes far beyond 2 hours of tunes spun together. It's your direct connection with everything happening down the clubs, showcasing new and talented electronic artists and covering all styles - trance, house, progressive, techno, electro, dance and all else that keeps the beloved beat going. The same diversity unfolds on 'VONYC Sessions 2010', the second compilation based on the global phenomenon by Paul van Dyk. All of the stand-out tracks of this past years, road-tested all across the planet and favoured by the radio show fans, are gathered on this 2 disc ride of 2010 memories. Handpicked and mixed by Paul van Dyk himself, VONYC Sessions 2010 presents masterpieces by the likes of Giuseppe Ottaviani, Filo & Peri, Arty, DJs United, Spencer & Hill, Michael Woods, Pryda, Strobe, Jerome Isma-Ae and many other EDM virtuosi.

    Let loose amongst Armada Music’s estimable and much celebrated early catalogue, production whirlwind M.I.K.E. has cherry-picked 14 of his favourites for a new mix comp. Featuring tracks and remixes from, amongst others, Armin, Andy Moor, The Thrillseekers, Fred Baker & Pulser, there is also a whole lot of red-hot material from the trance master himself. Following its creation, M.I.K.E. became one of the first major-league artists to join Armada’s ranks. As a result he’s had a ringside seat with which to observe the evolution of electronic dance music’s most successful label. Now he has reached back into their early history, selected some of his personal favourites and fashioned them into a riveting, gripping 80-minute music mix.

     With the '09 and '10 installments having focused on new dance republics in North America, 2011 sees Markus Schulz's city travelogue comp series return to mainland Europe. Last visiting in 2008 with 'Amsterdam' this new outing sends the series in an easterly direction and homes in on one of Europe's most breathtaking capitals... After stepping off stage at the Czech capital's Transmission - Future Cities event in November, Markus Schulz embarked on a hunting expedition. One that saw him bag, tag & compile the finest, most fitting electronic dance audio available for his 'Prague' album. Now, one month ahead of its release, he's ready to unveil its tracklist... Forthcoming on Armada Music, February 2011

    With the Deluxe Edition of their mega-selling ‘Sign of the Times’ album now released, world-class production outfit Cosmic Gate (Stefan ‘Bossi’ Bossems and Nic Chagall) decided it was time to take a retrospective remix look at the tracks that shaped the first phase of their musical partnership. Fresh 2011 versions of ‘Exploration of Space’, ‘Fire Wire’, ‘The Drums’ and ‘Back To Earth’ from remix production masterminds inc. Markus Schulz, Robbie Rivera, Rank 1, Spencer & Hill, John O’Callaghan and Arty. From there they collectively drew up a wish-list which came to include some of the world’s most respected remixers. There were assembled and began to update the music that played a key part in the first four years of their careers. The albums ‘Rhytm & Drums’ and ‘No More Sleep’ were the musical resources and across the two long-players eight tracks were selected. ‘Back 2 The Future – The Classic From 1999 – 2003 Remixed’ provides the consummate bring-back for the music that set the scene for Cosmic Gate’s illustrious production career. It’s out on January 24th, 2011.

    SuReal's classic 2000 dance anthem ‘You Take My Breath Away’ returns for 2011 with two slamming remixes from hot UK remix outfit Vegas Baby! SuReal AKA Rohan Vernon Heath, Steve Long & Lange caused massive waves in the scene back in 2000 with You Take My Breath Away. Originally remixed to epic proportions by superstar DJs Tiesto and Lange the track earned them huge success across the globe and was a staple in DJs boxes for years to come. Providing an original remix and dub version Vegas Baby! take the track on a distinctly Swedish flavoured 'trouse' trip, not holding back in making this an anthem all over again.

    Logic-courses.com is the latest joint venture from sample boutique Loopmasters and online music production academy Producertech LTD, it is a new website which features two online Logic video courses for beginners, intermediate and advanced level students, which has been designed and delivered by our qualified trainer Rob Jones. The concept of this new website is to allow students of all abilities and locations to login and study online whenever they choose, getting professional instruction and support as modules are delivered. Prospective students can download a free info pack from the site to find out more details, and can watch a free module from each course to judge the quality of content for themselves. The Price is £149/$230 for a single course, or just £225/$360 for both courses when purchased together. Get 20% off any course or combination at both Logic-courses.com or sister site and Ableton Live training resource Live-courses.com with this special promo code: STH20

    Maelstrom Records proudly presents ‘Maelstrom Trance Classics’ mixed by Russia’s finest export Bobina. Featuring 12 of Maelstrom’s biggest releases, past and present – this is the definite collection of trance anthems! Bobina kicks off the album with Beltek’s remix of Alan Connor’s summer smash ‘Sun Went Down’, followed by the sublime Markus Schulz vocal mix of Sia ‘Buttons’. Other highlights include Lange ‘Out of the Sky’ taken from his 2010 artist album ‘Harmonic Motion’, Rapidfactor ‘Wavearound’, Gareth Emery’s remix of Bobina ‘Time & Tide’, Tiesto & Allure classic ‘The Love We Lost’, finishing with Judge Jules & Headstrong’s massive track ‘Could Be Love’. So there you have it 12 trance anthems rammed on to one release mixed by one the scene’s leading figures! Maelstrom Trance Classics is priced at £4.49 available from iTunes.

    T4L, aka the Italian producers Alessandro Carusi and Manuel Toso, have been active in the industry for nearly six years. Passion for electronic music and their friendship created T4L as a project in November 2004. Their first ever release was “Moonwalk/Perfect Blend” on the famous In Trance We Trust label. Many singles followed and after Tiësto secured the T4L remix of “Nyana” for his “Just Be Remixed” album, they quickly rose to fame and now the boys finally present their debut artist album, entitled “Biogenesis”. Those who followed the career of T4L will still remember another early single, entitled “Overland”, which they released on Dedicated Records and of course the remixes they made, for instance, for DJ Jurgen’s “Wicked Waves”, Team SR’s “Leaving London” and Daniel Wanrooy’s “Ocean Terrace”. Over the past year, the Italian producers delivered many more singles like “Biogenesis”, which was used on the DJ SL’s Nordic Edition of In Trance we Trust and “Alternative Route”, “V.I.P” and “Carved”, which successively all found their way to the three editions Mr Sam’s “Opus” mix compilations.

    One of the world’s leading club brands Cream returns to bring you ‘Future Dance’ - a 15-track digital album packed full of clublands biggest releases and future hits! With the iconic clubbing super-brand winning ‘Best Dance Event’ for the 2nd year running at the UK Festivals Awards for Creamfields, plus sell-out parties across the globe including their infamous weekly summer residency in Ibiza at Amnesia - Cream continue to stay at the forefront as the innovators and creators of the scene. The digital release is rammed full of upfront and driving future smashes. Highlights include Gareth Wyn’s stunning track ‘Beautiful’, man of the moment Hot City’s remix of MZO Bullet ‘Casablanca, Robbie Rivera ‘We Live For The Music’ (Funkerman Remix), Paul Morrel feat. Mutya ‘Give Me Love’ (Hoxton Whores Remix), Henrik B’s huge remix of Kris Menace ‘Walking On The Moon’ and BT ‘Forget Me’ – taken from his Grammy nominated LP ‘These Hopeful Machines’.

    Ever since they stormed DJ Mag's Top100 poll last year, brothers Pavel and Vitaly Khavleev a.k.a. Moonbeam can count themselves amongst the biggest music exponents of Russian dance music. The release of their reputation defining first album "Around The World" harvested the hit singles "Song For A Girl", "Breathless" and "Look Around". The two now continue to widen their sonic horizon for their debut mix compilation "Space Odyssey" on Black Hole Recordings with a fabric of different styles. Moonbeam's "Space Odyssey" makes it clear that the boys want to break the boundaries between techno, trance and electronica. From their own hit singles they move to solid, atmospheric techno and smoky, charged trance sounds. And considering the entire mix, the duo clearly cares about being innovative. "Space Odyssey" tells the story of urging rhythms, modulated bass lines and Moonbeam's affection for melody and somewhat eerie vocals; exactly as in their outstanding live performances.

    Andy Duguid's career kicked off in 2007 with the international hit single "Hypocrisy" which got battered out in nightclubs all over the world by Tiësto, Paul Van Dyk and Armin van Buuren. By the time his second single -classed as one of the biggest tracks of 2007- "Don't Belong" came out, Andy Duguid had become a household producer in the industry. For this release, entitled "Miracle Moments", Andy steps out of the studio and takes over the decks to deliver his debut double CD mix compilation. After the hits "Don't Belong" and "Wasted" successively were requested for "In Search of Sunrise 6" and 7, Andy eventually got contracted on Tiësto's Black Hole Recordings label. The deal resulted in the release of his debut album "Believe". In November 2008 "Believe" was released around the world and showcased Andy's diverse production capabilities through an eleven-track seamlessly mixed album, on which Andy collaborated with some of the best vocalists in the business, such as Julie Thompson, Leah, Esmaye and I-Fan.

    Following two extremely successful compilations this year, global superclub brand Godskitchen return to deliver their final album for 2010 in the shape of the digital-only release Godskitchen Pure Trance Mix. Priced at £4.99 this mix features a snapshot of 2010’s biggest and best trance anthems including standout tracks from Bobina "Angel Of The North" (Ali Wilson Remix) BT "The Emergency" (Marcus Schossow Remix), Gareth Emery "Citadel" (Club Mix) and Kris Menace feat Emil's huge hit "Walkin On The Moon" (Adam Shaw Remix). With over 15 tracks seamlessly mixed together, this mix takes you on a journey through the uplifting and euphoric sounds of Godskitchen Pure Trance anthems. Godskitchen Pure Trance Mix is priced at £4.49 available on iTunes.

    Coming strong in 2010, Sunlounger offers the third chapter, a new glimpse of "pleasure island" in his own way. The album, divided in two amazing parts, downtempo and uptempo has the best of intentions to achieve his goal of bringing skills, making similar genre-bending efforts, that simultaneously manages to keep the same sound and style that we all got used to for some good years by now. In a way, Sunlounger and friends comes back, remaining surprisingly the same as we know him, giving thoughtful track names about life in a place that only imagination or dreams can get to, in a world where most listeners would rather live. On his latest full-length offering, "The Beach Side of Life", the Ibiza veteran gladly demonstrates his immense musical skills with otherworldly wisdom reserved for a grown-folks audience. Only Roger Shah can match the sound of Las Salinas, being well known for it for so many years. In the end, Sunlounger keeps it real in ways that many can’t and for that, Trance music with a bit of Balearic is so much better for it. Now, that’s something worth writing about it, therefore I can easily start all over again, but will leave that for some other time, perhaps a 4th album in the making ?

    Pete Thiele is better known as DJ PJ and no he doesn’t sport pajamas, although for the lady listeners it is highly suggested. He takes pride in his appearance as he does his talent. With the releasing his first album, Mayhem, he has every reason to be proud. As one of Charleston, South Carolina’s most energetic DJ’s, PJ favors the more electro-house style, although he has been known to keep some progressive flavor in the mix. Mayhem is a ridiculous combination of 55 tracks from a variety of genres to keep any night flowing well into morning. Each “track” contains roughly four to five singles well within the 5th key range. Although naming each one would take the fun out of truly enjoying the album. Written by: Abigail Duran aka VeraNationGirl (TranceSound.net Head of PR)

    TranceSound Festival 2010 - 5 years of TranceSound.net - The 5th anniversary. This event will occur for 3 days, 72 hours, 1 hour each, from 15th, 16th and 17th of October, being divided in 3 days, of TRANCE & PROGRESSIVE ONLY and every single guest having 1 hour guest mix, something for everyone, with their unique, stylish and off the hook playlist, a top notch list, one of the best of the year !!! The event will be aired/broadcasted during the second weekend of October, on several radio stations, such as Party107, 1Mix Radio, PureSound FM, ODU FM, Wave FM, Anthem FM etc etc, just to name a few... If You will miss the show, no worries, because there is a chance for You to download the whole sets, right after the show, one by one thou. An annual event powered and directed by Cosmin Lukacs, the TranceSound.net admin/founder (CEO) in collaboration with TranceSound.net Djs and various artists.