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Paul-Oakenfold-Dreamstate-Volume-One-300x300.jpg Fresh from throwing the highest party in the world on Mt. Everest , the legendary artist Paul Oakenfold and Insomniac’s dedicated trance brand, Dreamstate, teamed up to release a monumental 20-track compilation, Dreamstate Volume One. Acting as the brand ambassador and an influential figure in the trance space, Paul Oakenfold rigorously curated and mixed the perfect culmination of sounds that will prepare listeners for Dreamstate’s West Coast retu…

1177601742.jpg He has been earmarked by Markus Schulz as one of the key rising players in the trance scene for 2017, and Dave Neven embarks on his most important composition to date; marking his first vocal piece in the process, titled ‘Breathing Again’. Following a string of impressive and heavily supported instrumental productions such as ‘Drifter’, ‘Counter Strike’ and ‘Darkside’, Neven sought a collaborative touch from vocalist and fellow Southern California resident Nuttalya, whose own care…

Solarstone-photo-credit-Julian-Erksmeyer-300x200.jpg Clues, cues, codes and a breadcrumb trail of dots and dashes - they all lead to the intriguing, fascinating opacity of Solarstone’s new artist album ‘. - - - -’, which arrives today. No finer time to take a closer look at what he’s been up to all these studio months then! ‘. - - - -’ begins in a manifestly cinematic style, with ‘Leap Of Faith’s cursively sweeping synths and analogue/sci-fi-esque FX. Complete with its narrative-style vocal, ove…

yes, it will come physically, but only after the Chapter.Two edition

Paul-van-Dyk-Touched-By-Heaven-300x300.jpg With his ensemble single ‘Everyone Needs Love’ still visible in the release rearview, March sees PvD swiftly back into the production swing. By contrast to ‘Everyone’ though, new single ‘Touched By Heaven’ finds him in solo, instrumental mode… and reflective, introspective mood. Life is the ultimate inspiration, something that Paul is ever more acutely aware of these days. Following the events that he experienced in February of 2016 - as many will quick…

Cosmic-Gate-Tim-White-The-Deep-End-300x300.jpg youtube.com/watch?v=wrdHHsN8zTU Talk about setting 2017 up the right way! January’s release of ‘Materia - Chapter.One’ wowed fans, blazed streaming & sales charts, scooped major press acclaim and packed clubs along the US leg of its tour. Flipping one singles ace after another, it’s seen ‘am2pm’, ‘Edge Of Life’, ‘Fall Into You’, ‘Dynamic’ and ‘Halo’ enter the Cosmic Gate lexicon. That receives another entry today, as ‘The Deep End’ gets its single r…

Solarstone-A-State-of-Mind-300x300.jpg youtube.com/watch?v=mBnD1bN70ME Listen/purchase here: blackhole.choons.at/astateofmind Tracklist 01: Solarstone – ‘A State Of Mind’ (Original Mix) 02: Solarstone – ‘A State Of Mind’ (Pure Mix) solarstone.co.uk twitter.com/richsolarstone facebook.com/solarstonefanpage soundcloud.com/solarstone blackholerecordings.com soundcloud.com/blackholerecordings facebook.com/blackholerecordings twitter.com/BlackHoleRec

Markus-Schulz-presents-Dakota-Koen-Groeneveld-Mota-Mota-Extended-Mix-300x300.jpg The hissing vent of the open hi-hat, the smack of the clap, metal-on-metal percussion - something wicked this way comes. Going by the name ‘Mota-Mota’, its deeper bass frequencies underpin prowling rhythms, cut with truculent synths, which are spliced in turn with ethereally warped hunting horns. It doesn’t exist in any tech/trance node or tech-house crawlspace. This is the most out-and-out techno Dakota’s dealt in …

Mark-Sherry-Outburst-500-300x300.jpg Time flies. Especially when you’re doing what you love, and that’s undeniably the case for Mark Sherry and his radio show. Weekly, for nigh on 10 years, his Outburst outreach has done more than any other to develop and advance the nexus between trance and techno. Mark has been assiduous in his calibrations - edging its tonal needle back to emphasize its sometimes-overshadowed techno end. This judicious approach has paid righteous dividends, marking him out an…

attachment.php There’s no one who lives, breaths & personifies the electronic music underground like John 00 Fleming. In 2014 he mixed and released the second of his epic 4hr-long JOOF Editions music compilations. Described by MIXMAG as “a musical journey with no genre rules, but many twists and turns”, the magazine hailed it as “the sound of the underground”. Over the following twelve months, the release established itself as the ne plus ultra in breaking the fourth wall and liberating the dusk…

attachment.php Of late, Rich Solarstone & Giuseppe Ottaviani have been having knocking down those debut ‘firsts’ like ninepins. When they’ve not been title-checking Hollywood a-listers (ala ‘Scarlett’), they’ve been receiving sanction to cover the work of OSCAR winning composers (‘Secret Of The Sahara’). Their first official remix - Marmion’s immortal Schöneberg - found (says DJMag) “the perfect balance between the classic and new” and now - with only their fifth release, the Pure NRG boys deliv…

youtube.com/watch?v=Ksc0CBW0btA attachment.php After a year of preparations, the much awaited ‘Cycles 8’ has landed. To carry on with the tradition, Max Graham delivers another journey through darker musical corridors and rooms, with intimate vibes and those all-important shades of trance, techno and progressive. For it, Graham’s recruited a top-notch crew for its 77-minute journey. From artists already a-party to previous episodes, to series neophytes and cool collabs, they’re all there for you…

attachment.php If there’s a term that captures to the nth degree the music of DJ, composer and master-producer Tapio ‘Orkidea’ Hakanen, it’s ‘retrofuturism’. Passing from simple terminology to his own personal genre playground, its past-meets-the-future melange is the driving ethic behind every piece of music he sets his mind to. It sees him inhabit a remarkable and singular position in electronic music. Remaining anchored to its underground, he nonetheless enjoys the type of reverence typically…

youtube.com/watch?v=-ygtZyezK10 attachment.php Holland’s leading party troupe returned to Rotterdam’s 100-year-old Maassilo complex to pull off another extraordinary showstopper of an event. Inside the historic silo, with their final epic party of 2016, 15 DJs and 5,000+ clubbers musically celebrated Grotesque’s big 250. Arguably their most impressive show/experience to date, three of ‘250’s DJs have teamed up to commit all the energy, excitement and electricity of the night to a triple disc mix…

attachment.php Against considerable personal odds Paul van Dyk’s still managed to land some of 2016’s heaviest hitting trancers. Most recently he collaborated with Alex M.O.R.P.H. on the month Beatport #1 chart slam ‘We Are’, delivering in the process summer’s most truly trance moment. This December, with anthem-in-the-making ‘Everyone Needs Love’, PvD returns for his last musical dispatch of the year. For it, he’s assembled an impressive vocal & production cast. Side by side in the studio with …

Cosmic-Gate-Materia-Chapter-1-500x500.jpg - New album ‘Materia’ released 20.01.17 - Featuring tracks with Ferry Corsten, Ilan Bluestone, Eric Lumiere, Julie Thompson and others (full tracklist below) - New ‘Materia’ single ‘Fall Into You’, with JES out 16.12.16 (info details below) - Chapter.One of a two-part 2017 Cosmic Gate album release - ‘Materia’ pre-order online now: smarturl.it/CGMateriaChapterOne “We didn’t set out to create the most definitive Cosmic Gate releases ever”, imparts Nic Cha…

attachment.php Concluding an extraordinary 2016, Stockholm-born/LA-based producer Danny ‘Novaspace’ Coggin has received his first platinum disc award. The most recent signing to Markus Schulz’s Schulz Music Group has been recognized for his work on the 1 million selling / 6 million streaming ‘Redefined’ radio smash, which he produced & engineered for Australian artist TyDi. Awarded annually by Sirius XM, the disc is given by the station for the #1 US Dance Airplay Record of the Year. ‘Redefined’…

attachment.php Hints, teasers, allusions and clues - they’ve all been out there. Today though, Cosmic Gate make the word official: their 7th artist album will be released on January 20th, 2017! Cosmic Gate fans already started guessing about a potential new album two months ago when this little video appeared on Nic & Bossi’s Facebook timeline. (bit.ly/2eFg4Hu) And as of now we can also make it official, the follow-up album to ‘Start To Feel’ will be titled ‘Materia’. Also revealed today is phas…

youtube.com/watch?v=FnD6z0UyHyc soundcloud.com/blackholerecord…ttaviani-aurora-onair-mix open.spotify.com/album/4i29nf7aXW6sKI5ptPnHG5 attachment.php Through the Christian Burns-sung ‘Brightheart’, the maverick ‘Slow Emotion’ and the ‘ALMA’ album complete, Giuseppe Ottaviani’s once again been creating electronic music waves most tidal! Through the dazzling ‘Aurora’, that’s set to continue into autumn, as the Italian maestro imparts ‘ALMA’s third, exceptional heart-of-the-dancefloor strike. The b…

VANDIT-Winter-Night-Show-1-352x500.jpg Due to unprecedented entrance demand, this year’s VANDIT Winter Nights has doubled in size! With tickets for PvD’s annual seasonal Kesselhaus knees-up selling out before October end, this week Paul’s added a second VANDIT Winter Nights show at the Kulturbrauerei. Taking place for the first time on back-to-back nights over the pre-Christmas weekend, December 16th will see Paul deliver a tour de force 5-hour performance. With Chris Bekker in support, he’ll be…

youtube.com/watch?v=Ofp4nVtFfcA attachment.php Great studio minds meet over the Atlantic, as Holland’s Sied van Riel and Argentina’s Roberto Raul Reynoso team up for the first time. The release also marks the VANDIT Records debut for both producers, as ‘BOW’ sees them through the door of Paul van Dyk’s legendary imprint. Count on any/all autumn blues to be blown to the four corners, as the pair drop a pulse-quickening, then rafter-blasting trance elevation that’s set to put club-floors on lock r…

attachment.php On August 7th, 2006, Andy Moor’s highly praised, singular vision for two genres crystalized into one record label. It was called AVA Recordings and by the end of that year, the progressive and trance fraternities weren’t talking about much else. ‘Hot’, doesn’t come close to touching it - AVA was lava. With infinite stylistic balance and the zeit-i-est of zeitgeist timing, Andy’s first salvo of AVA releases spanned the divide between the two stylistic tenements. 10 unstinting relea…

youtube.com/watch?v=wnnnE2xCEW8 attachment.php With his debut album and accompanying book now on full release, today Eco follows up with the first single to be lifted from the tracklist of his extraordinary ‘Wolves’ undertaking. In title and tone, ‘Darkness In The Light’ personifies the New Jersey-based producer’s more existential and artistically thoughtful approach to the genre. Get some ‘Darkness In The Light’ here: blackhole.choons.at/darkness The Extended Mix further develops the album vers…

youtube.com/watch?v=p6bF-vEqoG4 attachment.php It stands as Europe’s leading indoor event dedicated to trance music. Once again this October, all roads lead to Prague for the spectacle (and decade-reaching milestone) that is Transmission. Throughout its 10 year journey, Markus Schulz has been pivotal every crucial step of the way. As well as becoming the premier ambassador for Transmission on the international stage, Markus’ contributions go beyond simply the DJ performance. Through the creation…

youtube.com/watch?v=fb6yCv1Krwk attachment.php Life. There are few guarantees. A Pure Trance event however is one of them. Indeed one you can bet your night on. Zero genre hybridizations, no clunky stylistically convulsions and an outright ban on artistic vanity - all fitted as standard. And, as ever, maintaining the highest vigilance over this virtuosity is P.T.’s mastermind and arch arbiter of trance purity, Solarstone. Year on year for the last five, his movement has shifted tectonically from…