Trance is not a dirty word!
Let's face it, most of us go out at the weekend to fall into one anyway yet when it comes to music and club culture, Trance has attracted an unwarranted stigma in recent years, none more so than in the city that once celebrated it with such fervour and abandon; Brighton.
It's hard therefore to know where to start when you want to change that. There's an enthusiasm and apprehension about it that makes it feel like you're trying to change the world. It becomes baffling because you know that what is on offer pales in comparison.
And yet the horse still won't drink.
The task at hand becomes so important to you that in many ways it feels insurmountable. It's a situation analogous to, and not helped by, Brighton's decaying club scene.
As both a DJ and a clubber, this is something both I and many others find ourselves becoming increasingly passionate about. It's a passion driven by the knowledge that there is demand for change. This is what drives us.
In response to this passion and in recognition of the demands of the discerning clubber, we have come together to bring you Ethos; a celebration of the very best trance and club music. However,it's success depends upon you. If you're fed up with the West Street influence, the stag do's, the hen parties, the limousine lifestyle and the endless cacophony of shit music put out by promoters and managers hamstrung by the climate of late-night licenses, then come and show your support at El Duomo on the 23rd. Its the perfect intimate venue to recapture that familiar atmosphere where we've engineered a blistering sound system for you so we can all revel in the music we love.
Come and celebrate the renaissance.
Join us.
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Ahead of my post-warmup set that will take us to the midnight hour at Brighton's new trance night Ethos, I'm taking it down again a little bit with this enchanting progressive trance set.
A perfect winter warm up, this is what you can expect from me at the Ethos launch party.
November 23rd, El Duomo, Pavilion Gardens, Brighton, UK
Tracklisting:
Agoria - Scala
Darin Epsilon - Shine The Light (Ryan Davis Reconstruct)
Frankie Dep - A Radio In My Head
Booka Shade - Love Inc (Hot Since 82 Remix)
Veerus & Maxie Devine - Cars
Baboop - Split Horizon (Cid Inc Remix)
Guy J - Seven
Cid Inc - Divine (Hernan Cattaneo & Soundexile Remix)
Tweak & Brains - Lunar Eclipse
Christopher Vassilakis - Turquoise
Ivan Lu - Window In The Sky
Sergio Domingo - Taking Off
Gary Delaney - The Nightmother (You Are My Salvation Remix)
Incolumis - Point Blank
Luke Porter - Sardonica
The Digital Blonde - Noc2one (Midnight Mix)
Ethan - Hestia (Hivanova Remix)
Narel - The Machines Were Dreaming (Airwave's Sleepy Robots Remix)
Vorticity Volume 53
Now that Hush vs Transition has come and gone, I thought I'd share my mix from that night.
This is 2+ hours of dark, driving, progressive trance that occasionally soars into deep goa and is held together by pulse-pounding techno. Featuring tracks from Lyctum, Fleming, Airwave, Ovnimoon and Monolock, this is a mix that shifts from gear to gear at an unrelenting pace.
Enjoy!
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relaunch - eternal light
moshic - evil inclination part 2
union jack - papillon
crystal verge - invasion (psy progressive mix)
nicholas bennison - sulfur (heavy mix)
duotekk - zlow
the digital blonde - rain song
cosmithex - alchemy
cosmithex - projection
ace ventura - genesis (flegma & nerso remix)
e-clip - existence
skinny - betty cat
polaris - time for 6/8
brainiac - inside your brain
burn in noise - vuuv festival celebration
mind paradise - trip inside yourself
union jack - red herring (ainur remix)
art of trance - octopus
project purity - karnac
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noizehaze - dense fog
aerospace & sunseek - restoring normality
freq - sunglider
liquid soul - colours
failsafe - trance driver
john merki - second chances
x-noize - no mishaps
indecent noise ft. ridgewalkers - full moon fever
shaun williams - digital communication
o.b. vs. nyx - backfire
tripleone - out of the shadows
ashley smith & josh - far away
bryant baker - combustion
alex boboc - super storm
nr32 - l.m.y. (ian betts remix)
frank dueffel - hybrids (myk bee remix)
juventa - dionysia
grigory prometey - history of fire
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quadran - rectangle
basil o'glue - cosmogony (relaunch remix)
felix pot - autumn storm
santerna - under protection (dub mix)
basil o'glue - dropout (david granha remix)
ava mea - in the end
laurent garnier - our futur
airwave - atlas winds
protoculture - cobalt
bevan miller - illusions (akira kayosa remix)
cristian paduraru - doartu doamne (inspring edm mix)
protoactive - spiritual reaction
john 00 fleming - baphomets horn (cj art remix)
vibrasphere - autumn lights (oliver prime remix)
adrian orellano - trancestral
orkidea - lifetime warranty
push - daylight
three drives - carrera 2
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corn flakes 3d - harmony of waters
sean j morris - earth
magnus - hypnotic
marc simz - forbidden city (indecent noise remix)
front line assembly - shifting through the lens
matt skyer - bad trip
2012 - invisible world
spectra sonics - ufo ride
inlakech - cielab
john bishop & costa pantazis - endgame (dj audy remix)
dermot bateman - insomniac
matt watering - moonlock
blazed - global crises
braniac - the healer
pzy chi - andromeda
iain cross - music maker
front line assembly - hostage
phil reynolds & costa pantazis - continuum
