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youtube.com/watch?v=euBcZVzFE3g attachment.php Over the last 3 years Sneijder’s a man who’s been as tagged, labelled and dubbed as much as anyone in electronic music. Everything from ‘nu-skool leader’ to ‘hard-trance saviour’, the genre’s ‘2.0’ and even ‘the Second Coming of Irish trance’ have been laid at this door. With the release of his highly anticipated debut album, the end of 2015 sees the lionized Irish DJ/music-maker re-qualify those designations and perhaps affect a few new ones in the…

Pure-Trance-Vol.-4-500x500.jpg Rewind, just 5 short years, and the expression ‘Pure Trance’ was no more than one artist’s encapsulation of his own output. Over the course of the following 12 months that solidified into his mission statement, before he catalysed it into a scene-wide, ‘brighter day’ battle cry. It tapped into the fans shared consciousness, caught the current and nailed their prevailing mood: Pure Trance had become pure zeitgeist! With rolling-boulder momentum, it gathered pace, hi…

Subculture-The-Residents-Two-500x500.jpg It’s been 11 months since John O’Callaghan rolled out his first fan entrancing, press-applauded ‘Residents’ mix-comp. In that interim Subculture’s lodestar has again been 360-ing the world, bringing the sounds & sights of his electronic music marque to clubs, arenas & festivals. Now, the news that that trance lovers of most persuasions will have been waiting to hear… October sees O’Callaghan’s return to the mix-comp platform for another epic journey into …

1177601627.jpg New Singles & A Musical Direction, A New Record Label, Late 2015 Artist Album, New Mix-Comp Series & Radio Show + Merchandise Line & Reloaded Website Launch: Durand Unveils The Full Range & Scope Of His Sonic 2.0! Today, (29/09), Richard Durand, one of the principal players in the trance scene over the last decade, unveils his long-planned restructuring, with a root-and-branch change-up to all areas of his musical province. Launching today, Reloaded will become the Dutchman’s new …

youtube.com/watch?v=g13T5JFbRSg soundcloud.com/blackholerecord…skies-solarstone-pure-mix Black-Hole-750-0-500x500.jpg The next single to be taken from Orkidea’s latest long-player, ‘Harmonia’ sees the Fin reteam with Petri ‘Lowland’ Alanko - the visionary behind the ‘Classical Trancelations’ series. Having first collaborated together 11 years ago (on the release of the now minor classic ‘Helsinki In Trance’), the pair have been in regular studio contact ever since. ‘Glowing Skies’ though sees th…

F15teen-Years-Of-Goodgreef-500x500.jpg Standing the test of clubbing time, the name Goodgreef has long since passed into the electronic music Hall of Fame. Having last year spot-lit the club’s tomorrow tracks with their MIXMAG Album of the Month-bagging ‘Goodgreef Future Trance’ album, this month sees the north-of-England’s finest mix-comp-commemorate their F15teenth anniversary. To get the righteous (& doubtlessly riotous) F15teenth revelry underway, they’ve enlisted the help of three DJs - eac…

Trance-Nation-Markus-Schulz-sq-500x500.jpg You spoke. They listened! In a break with their established annual-release tradition, October 2015 see Ministry of Sound heed the call of the scene with - for the first time in a decade – a second Trance Nation outing for the year. A testament certainly to its position as the most clamoured-for trance series of all time, this release is every bit as much about the man now stood at its wheelhouse. Secured at long last, to skipper a ‘Trance Nation’ is the…

Farewell-Solaris-International-Welcome-Pure-Trance-Radio-500x500.jpg As both its lodestar and foremost crusader, the last three years have seen Solarstone (Richard Mowatt) ‘reinfranchise’ huge swathes of the scene’s once disaffected fans through the Pure Trance dogma! Last week the producer, DJ & composer announced on Solaris International - his long running weekly radio show, that the broadcast would be his last. All is not lost though! Far, far from it… Today he’s delighted to reveal that, in …

youtube.com/watch?v=3yEFvquuLWE WSTLNDR-ATMOSTOPIA-500x500.jpg Who, or what even, is WSTLNDR? Well, simply put, it’s a new project from Bolier (pka DJ & producer Leon Bolier) - one which has no preordained genre conditions, arrives without a pre-set agenda and is free of any restrictive endgame. Envisaged as a ‘no walls’ audio-venture, WSTLNDR is one, which is slave only to its own freeform musical architecture. An ‘audio ATV’ that allows its producer supreme latitude for production roam, with n…

Audio-Noir-Artificial-Star-Bonzai-Progressive-500x500.jpg Halfway through the second decade of the 21st century, you have to hesitate some before reaching for artistic descriptions like “mysterious” or “enigmatic”. Atypical is the new typical; it’s all been said; it’s all been done before, right!?How else though do you depict an artist who, over a good few years and now dozens of productions, has never bared his own face to camera, nor shown himself ‘unmasked’? An artist who opts instead for a s…

youtube.com/watch?v=U7b5LQo-zT8 soundcloud.com/vanditrecords/a…son-chris-north-pluck-you open.spotify.com/track/5lwj3UKCjjKjPGwA1ilNsK Ali-Wilson-Chris-North-Pluck-You-500x500.jpg Here at VANDIT towers, we’ve been dealing with a case or two of ‘the mucky mouths’ of late! Most recently that’s meant Ben Nicky’s Beatport Top 10 rocketing ‘680’ ‘outburst’ getting slapped with a very NSFW warning. Frankly, following that, we were braced for an outbreak! Happily, with a cheekily well-placed spoonerism…

SOLARSTONE-IKO-----ONCE-ALEX-M.O.R.P.H.-IKO-REMIXES-500x500.jpg Once for ‘Once’ was never going to be near enough! With his own ‘Pure Mix’ scaling sales charts, assailing radio playlists and grafting hard on floors for DJs including Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Aly & Fila and Markus Schulz, Solarstone opens up two new mix-fronts for ‘Once’. Everyone’s favourite trucker-cap-wearing trance-master Alex M.O.R.P.H. has put his studio boxes into overdrive, bringing an even clubbier angle to the si…

POD3-Cover-LIGHTS_12c_FINAL_Radio1-500x500.jpg ‘Lights’ is the next single to be taken from Paul van Dyk’s seventh artist album, ‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’. Following (per MIXMAG) the “captivating” long-player’s release in May, ‘Lights’ established itself as a frontrunner favourite with PvD devotees and its single release, as Paul states, is “simply my response to their response!” The single’s release is completed with a trance translation from Giuseppe Ottaviani, Wee-O’s irrepressibly upliftin…

youtube.com/watch?v=VsKMTDwr50o soundcloud.com/vanditrecords/s…n-empire-alan-banks-remix VANDIT15Y-EP-VAN2181-SecondSun-copy-500x500.jpg To commemorate the 15th year of Paul van Dyk’s hallmark record label, over 2015’s coming weeks and months VANDIT will be taking a fair few trips ‘back to the future’. In doing so, it’ll be presenting the Trance Family with fresh visitations & variations of the music that collectively made the stable the institution it is today. Kicking off the run of rewires, t…

youtube.com/watch?v=hxxUOIj6-co soundcloud.com/bennicky/ben-nicky-680-original-mix-preview open.spotify.com/album/68sgjtXiXXaPhDI34O0uhJ Ben-Nicky-680-Original-Mix.jpg Over the last 12 months ‘Brave Heart’, ‘Air’ and ‘Heart Go’ have provided a whopping 1-2-3 of floor-waxing, speaker-spanking, club-amping entries to VANDIT’s august discography! The man behind ‘em all is Mr. Ben Nicky and he now adds a 4th, every-bit-as locomotive number to that list. When Ben finds inspiration somewhere, the UK-b…

youtube.com/watch?v=Mhc-DJvqMUw In-Search-Of-Sunrise-13.5-Amsterdam-Mixed-by-Richard-Durand-BT-500x500.jpg If, from its sequentially un-synched ‘13.5’ numerals, you were to guess that change was afoot with the mix-comp line that MIXMAG calls “the greatest trance series of them all!’, well… you might be right. Since the reigns passed from his former mentor Tiësto to Richard Durand, the I.S.O.S. helmsman’s search has sailed him to South Africa & Australia; to settings as contrasting as India & Veg…

Oliver-Englafjord-Myrki-Heima-500x500.jpg ‘Myrki Heima’ by Oliver Englafjord is an album like no other. Its metamorphosed from late-night sonic-sketching, through YouTube beta testing on to an alias-donned/fully-fleshed 13-track body of work… 3 years in process, ‘Myrki Heima’s epic passage to album-hood culminates this July. The by-chance brainchild of Sweden’s Marcus Schössow, ‘Myrki’s embryonic moment occurred in Iceland, a half decade ago. Blinking ‘Oliver Englafjord’ into existence, it was a…

Airwave-In-The-Mix-001-Progressive-Sessions-Bonzai-Progressive-500x500.jpg Down through the electronic ages, across the grand span of progressive and trance imprints, a special level of reverence is reserved for the name Bonzai Records. Renowned as the label birthplace of many of the twinned genres’ track & producer greats, its delivered the celebrated, scene-seizing likes of ‘Universal Nation’, ‘The First Rebirth’, ‘Sunrise At Palamos’, ‘Silver Bath’ and dozens upon dozens of others. All but sy…

Orkidea3-500x333.jpg Underground Knight and longstanding hero of many, Orkidea’s new album ‘Harmonia’ is out, about and taking few prisoners! As with his previous long-play outings (‘Taika’, ‘Metaverse’ and ‘20’), it’s once again proved a delight for trance & progressive lovers who have a taste for the more involved, immersive and cultured side of the sub-genres. The inspirations, references, influences, alludes and asides which line his music have long played a substantial part in their ongoing…

youtube.com/watch?v=ImuTL1BWrq8 soundcloud.com/blackholerecord…pure-mix-black-hole-719-0 Solarstone-IKO-Once-500x500.jpg Plucked from The Twilight Saga’s OST, 2014’s ‘Heart Of Stone’ from English indie-rockers IKO was filtered to club floors globally through the remixing hands of Pure Trance chieftain Solarstone. The Devonshire two-piece’s first brush with the electronic music scene, it was a interpretation that won wide praise from fans, media and DJs alike. Now, a year and a month on, Solarsto…

youtube.com/watch?v=pkVpxnnsqHk soundcloud.com/vanditrecords/frank-dueffel-adiabatic Frank-Dueffel-Adiabatic-Original-Mix-Master-500x500.jpg ‘Adiabatic’ may be his debut signing to VANDIT, but unlikely this is the first time you’re hearing the name ‘Frank Dueffel’. In a little over 3 years the producer has amassed a disc & remixography as wide in range as it is high in quality! From his home base in Wesseling, Germany he’s inked his master-blasting productions and reworks to a litany of European…

Magic-Island-CD-03-300x300.jpg Over its lifetime, the Magic Island series has come to typify the antithesis of the phoned-in ‘Ibiza’ compilation, which crowd-out stores throughout summer. They’re a now 7-year and - as of this month - 6-release endeavour on the behalf of their creator Roger Shah, to fold the spirit, aura & essence of the Balearic way into a compilation series.Through the collecting & mixing of supreme music - regularly encompassing live instrumentation and drawn from the widest b…

youtube.com/watch?v=0954Cdii3Ts soundcloud.com/vanditrecords/paul-thomas-blunk open.spotify.com/album/3j9hM9SjbZCF8HccqNYxFb Paul-Thomas-Blunk-500x500.jpg Ready for a slice of full-bore, double-barrelled testosterone-trance!? Well, either way… it’s coming at you! Thanks to the ever-industrious production mind of Paul Thomas, this month it’s time to get good ‘n’ ‘Blunk’! Adding to his rapidly expanding VANDIT canon - one which now includes the ‘Zoundz’ & ‘Lucir’ collaborations, and in solo mode ‘…

RAM-Forever-Love-web-res-500x500.jpg RAM: three always-capitalized letters that scene-wide, for the last five years, have become synonymous with emotive yet ballistic trance. A man who has Amsterdam all-but running through his veins, his home city has provided the base from which to triangulate his Grotesque record label, parties and weekly radio show. Through an unstinting run of high-profile gigs and 7 successive Beatport Top 10 hits, the Netherlander has expedited his way through the ranks, e…

Cosmic-Gate-STF-Deluxe-498x500.jpg With an outcome the scale of which few could predict, June 2014 saw Cosmic Gate land their sixth artist album. Not so much ahead of the curve, as straight-up setting it, it ushered in a new era for Nic & Bossi. Featuring an all-star cast of co-producers & singers - Ørjan Nilsen, Emma Hewitt, Jerome Isma-Ae, Eric Lumiere, KhoMha, Jonathan Mendelsohn, Alexander Popov & JES among them, worldwide, the album shot straight into the top 10 of iTunes’ dance charts. MIX…