'Cycles 8' Mixed By Max Graham

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…

by Tim Stark

Orkidea - Harmonia - The Deluxe Edition

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…

by Tim Stark

‘Grotesque 250’, Mixed By Ram, Sean Tyas & Vini Vici

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…

by Tim Stark

Paul van Dyk & Ronald van Gelderen ft. Gaelan and Eric Lumiere - Everyone Needs Love

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…

by Tim Stark

Cosmic Gate Release New Tracks ‘Dynamic’ (With Ferry Corsten) & ‘Halo’ // Materia Album Out 20/01/17

With the latest single ‘Fall Into You’ hitting the #2 spot on Beatport, picking up airplay from Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Hardwell, W&W and many more along the way, the ‘Materia’ flame has been well and truly lit. Now, further setting the stage for their (per DJ Mag) “impressive”…

by Tim Stark