With such an amazing new track out there its worth releasing a “my favorite tunes at the moment” list again:
1. Arksun - Arisen (Original Mix) [1]
2. DJ Fire - The closest thing to heaven (Trance Mix) [new]
3. Daniel Kandi - Breath (Sunny Lax Remix) [2]
4. Smith & Pledger - White (Original Mix) [3]
Wow, this was a long time since I released my last personal charts, wasn’t it? And yes, it was correct that I did not post any since I really was searching for some pleasing sounds deserving to land in what I would call my “favorite tunes at the moment” but there was hardly anything for me. But lets not talk about the past. Yes, now, finally, there are some tracks around which are simply fantastic and they deliver at least a Top 3 of my favorite tracks:
1. Arksun - Arisen (Original Mix) - new
As mentioned before: One of the best trance tracks of the year. It should at least get an award for the best melody.
2. Daniel Kandi - Breathe (Sunny Lax Mix) - new
There were of course high expectation’s after Sunny’s “Puma” and what can I say: A phenomenal remix of Daniel’s track. While Sunny’s new track “Mira” is in my view not really playing in the same league as “Puma” this here is.
3. Smith & Pledger - White (Original Mix) - new
I guess these guys collected the most chart positions by me. They always deliver good quality.
It has been a long while since I bought my last trance track. But now one of *the* trance anthems of the year was released: Arksun “Arisen”.
This incredible track includes almost everything that defines excellent trance and it comes with a fantastic melody that will stay in your ear for a long time. Now, you could buy this at Audiojelly but if you don’t know the tune the excerpt there is not very good since the main melody is not being played at the part you hear there. So, if you don’t know “Arisen” you can either a) trust my taste and just buy it without listening (but don’t complain afterwards if for whatever reason you don’t like it ;)) or b) go to Arksun’s Myspace page. The music player on that page will play an excerpt of “arisen” right away.
Update, July 20th: Arksun wrote to Audiojelly and asked for a different excerpt. They right away changed the clip to one that includes the main melody. So you might as well stay at Audiojelly now if you want to get to know the track.
As described before the Loveparade Berlin offered some Trance too so I decided to go there again. On my way to the parade I picked up a couple that just arrived downtown Berlin after a 6 hour ride from southern germany and I led them to the parade. My aim at the parade was defined clearly: I wanted to find float no. 1, the finnish club millenium - without question the best float for all people who are into trance music. And luckily at the time I arrived, the parade at that point was only a few floats away from no. 1.
I decided to follow ALt-4, Super8, Miika Kuisma, DJ Tab and the others DJs for a while but minutes turned into more than 2 hours walking behind that truck which had to do with a superb set that these guys delivered. A lot of Anjunabeats tunes and some older but decent tracks like Chicane’s “saltwater” kept the crowd around the float dancing.
Looking at the list of floats at the next Loveparade in Berlin on saturday I only know about 10% of the DJs listed. That might say though a lot about the percentage of trance being played there since I basically listen to trance and know things about that music style. Anyways: The highlight for trance listeners will probably be the Millenium float with excellent finnish DJs like Alt+F4, Super 8, DJ Tab and Miika Kuisma. But interesting too is certainly the float with Mark Norman and Tiesto on it as well as - of course - Paul van Dyk’s float.
Over and over it happens, that DJ’s play very new trance tracks at stations like etn.fm that sound great but no matter how hard you try, you won’t find them anytime soon at the download stores. Now, I know that for instance with rock it’s the same that you will listen to something on the radio that isn’t even out and buyable but I can’t remember waiting such long times for releases as with trance tracks. I don’t know why the labels do that, what is the reason?
It might just happen though that these new tracks are being even played so many times at the stations, that when they actually come out you have no desire anymore to buy them because you heard them often enough.
My favorite tunes - at the moment hardly any good quality tunes come out in my view:
My favorite tunes at the moment:
My favorite tunes at the moment:
My favorite tunes at the moment: