0692 - Never be Alone

Cosmic gate have been on my radar for quite some time, so seeing an Andrew Rayel remix of Alone got me really excited!  This song has such beautiful vocals from Kristina Antuna, mixed in with a really killer tonal drop.  I couldn't resist holding onto this one during the hiatus and am so excited to share it with you now!

Cosmic Gate - Alone (Andrew Rayel Remix)

0690 - Don't Lose the Beauty

Pierce Fulton continue to make stellar with his track Losing You.  With great use of horns and other instruments, this one feels like it was recorded live and has that jazzy-house vibe that I have really come to love.  I feel the vocals are a bit much, but overall they do add something special to the track.  Enjoy this one!
Second up on this Monday is a track that I feel the title really captures the nature of the song.  Everything is Beautiful by Disfunktion and Husman features beautiful vocals, great and catchy tonality through the entire track, and the drop is heavy enough to be danced to while still feeling relaxed and beautiful.  This one is just really well done, and I enjoyed the simplicity and wonder that it inspired.

Pierce Fulton - Losing You

Disfunktion & Husman - Everything is Beautiful

0665 - Heading Up Technology

First up for you today is another track of Armin Van Buuren's new album called Heading Up High featuring Kensington.  I love this one because it has such a rock feel to it, a bit different from the usual Trance that Armin puts out.  The song is catchy as hell and the rock/trance hybrid really makes for a unexpectedly wonderful track. (Look for Hardwell in the Music Video!)
Also, I have a track from BlackGummy called Plucking Technology.  This big bass track features a catchy and very well put together tonal array, that makes the song feel very futuristic.  I really love it and I hope you do too!

Armin Van Buuren feat. Kensington - Heading Up High

BlackGummy - Plucking Technology

0638 - Restart Just Once More

Once More from Luke Bond and CARTEL is a beautiful trance song that really grabbed my attention from the second I heard it.  It has beautiful melodic segments, amazing vocals during breakdowns leaving them as the only sound (powerful), and a drop that is catchy and extremely dancable.  Give it a listen and enjoy what these two artists bring to the table!
Also up on the trance menu for today is a track from KhoMha called Restart.  This one is a little more continuously upbeat, and I honestly think an extremely well put together Trance song.  It's catchy, has vocals that stick with you due to the harmony, and a tonality that really had me replaying the song to make sure I remembered it!  These two songs are the embodiment of why I love Trance, they provide the club tracks that keep tonality and don't sacrifice it for that crap big room sound!

Luke Bond vs CARTEL - Once More

KhoMha feat. Mike Schmid - Restart

0620 - We Can Not Loose

This banger Wednesday features two songs, the first comes from Vigel and is edited by Tom Swoon called Nothing To Lose.  A pretty entertaining track that does a lot things right.  Mixing the vocals in with the build, using really catchy and memorable melodic sequences, I enjoyed this track a lot (didn't love it but enjoyed it enough to share with you all!).
Second up is a dubstep song from Au5 and Fractal called Ison.  Overall, dubstep is not my favorite genre but I did really enjoy this track.  I hope you enjoy what it has to offer!

Vigel - Nothing to Lose (Tom Swoon Edit)

Au5 & Fractal - Ison

0559 - U Know What Time It Is

So there is a Gareth Emory song that gives me chills, and honestly as an artist he has an amazing talent to do that pretty consistently.  U featuring Bo Brice is a spectacular song, the build is phenomenal, the progression is on point, the drop is not too much, and vocals give me chills every time I listen to it.  I really hope you listen to this one and just let the energy of the song take you over.

Second up today is PIXL, who never seems to put out anything bad.  This track is big with heavy bass, and great tonality running through the entire thing.  It is not really dancy, but overally has a great flow and is good to rock in headphones.  I hope you enjoy today's songs and I will see you back here tomorrow!

Gareth Emory feat. Bo Brice - U

PIXL - This Time

0490 - Something Strange Comes to Westeros

Before we get to the song for today I want to share a really interesting piece of music.  We all know Game of Thrones has exploded over the past years, so remixes of the theme song had to come eventually, and today I found one from Trance Legend Armin Van Buuren.  I'm not sure how I honestly feel about it but it is pretty cool to hear the reimagined version.  Give it a listen and tell me what you think!

Today's real song comes from Elephante, an original titled Temporary Love.  Driving bass, vocals that work really well into the rhythm, and a really catchy drop make this into another quality Elephante track that I have come to know and love.

Ramin Djawadi - Game of Thrones Theme (Armin Van Buuren Remix)

Elephante feat. Brooke Foreman - Temporary Love (Free Download)

0481 - Hide The Bass

A little trance for you, since I have recently started changing my opinion about the genre.  This track really surprised me, which may have just been my general opionion about trance in general.  The track is solid though with beautiful tonality, chord progression, very catchy, and seamless vocals that fit the song beautifully.  Also up today is an electro track from Ispolins titled Yeah Bassh.  Its got a great bouncy feeling to it, and really does a wonder with hitting you with the bass.  To be honest, I am not a huge fan of the middle but really enjoyed the beginning and the end of the track.  It just didn't really fit in my opinion.

Ben Gold feat. Eric Lumiere - Hide Your Heart

Ispolins - Yeah Bassh (Free Download)

0396 - The Heat Is Not Dead

Sorry this one is so late everyone, was at an ACT conference all day with no access to a computer.  Today's track comes via Armada Music's Youtube channel.  This is one that maybe has a good track in every 100, MAYBE.  I really like this one though, it comes from Heatbeat and is called Berserker.  It is quick paced with actual tonality, a rare feature from this site.  Its catchy and a little bit glitchy as well.  I really enjoy it but the final decision is up to you guys, what do you think?

Heatbeat - Berserker

0362 - Welcome Back!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and weekend!  So this weekend marked the last home game for Ohio State, and as many of you know they employ me to DJ their dance parties.  Most of the music is not songs I am in love with but it has changed how I view this music.  It doesn't matter that I hate it, what matters is that someone loves it.  Music is all about power, emotion, and standing up on that stage and seeing how people react to big room or top 40 had me in smiles.  It has made me so happy and I am blessed to have had the opportunity.

Lets kick the day off with a just overall good feeling electro track.  Pheeno gives us Open Up, a track that on first listen seems to be all over the place, but after another it all meshes together.  It has very smooth melodic sequences with very glitchy sounds mixed in.  Very happy, very unique, and a phenomenal way to kick off the sad return of Monday.

Numero Dos is a strange Trance/Prog House hybrid track.  From MOGUAI, this one features many aspects of both genres, including classic trance tonality and the progressive house build up structure.  Its a very cool track, one that usually sways entirely toward one genre or another and this one seems to take the best of both to combine them into a really sweet track.  A great way to get this long week underway!

Pheeno - Open Up

MOGUAI - K I X S

0338 - Elemental Reverie

Two big tracks for you today on this day before Friday.

Been doing more delving into non-vocal stuff and I think I have found two really great things for you.  The first is a Trance song from Lush & Simon and Uforik called Hydrogen.  Usually trance strikes me as generic and all the same but this one spoke to me very clearly.  It has great tonality and an overall exceptional flow.  Bass in all the right places mixed in made this a very surprising track!

Up second on the docket of today's musical agenda is a great progressive house track from Pessto and Drik B.  I had honestly never heard of them until this track, but this will for sure keep them on my radar.  A great tonal track with a driving theme to it, Reverie has a sense of urgency that gives it a really great energy!

Lush & Simon, Uforik - Hydrogen

Pessto & Dirk B - Reverie

0202 - Electrifying Freedom

Charlotte Hanning has been featured on many tracks, with artists like Insan3lik3, Ramses B, and Teqq.  While now she is back and on the vocals for the new track with Xilent called Free Me.  The track is stellar, starting out really melodic and almost acoustic feeling.  Then it builds up to a nice tonal drop that focus more on melody then bass, which seems hard to find these days.  Check it out!

Trance is a strange genre in my book, some of it seems so generic yet some of it is so incredibly moving that I fall in love with it.  I subscribe to Armada on youtube, and I will be honest some of the stuff they release gets moved to the trash within 30 seconds of listening, but I try to give them all a chance.  This one really tugged at my musical heartstrings though: good bass, great melody, and pretty good progression.  Let me know what you think!

Xilent - Free Me (feat. Charlotte Hanning)

Digital X - Electrified

 

0113 - Music Mends Even the Deepest Wounds

Usually I am not a huge fan of trance, but every once in a while a trance song comes along that just melts my heart.  It started with my friend Sandy, and all the trance music she gave me at our huge music swap when we worked together last summer.  True, this one does have some very house elements, but still has the chill trance feel that just makes music flow seamlessly and has a very natural feeling.  If there is a better side of trance I plan to find it, because if there is more like this then I really want to find it, and trust me you will be the first ones I share it with if I do.

Omnia feat. Everything By Electricity - Bones

Bonus Track: This one I just couldn't wait.  Everyone loved Wake Me Up by Avicii because it was different and highlighted the awesome direction that electronic music could take if it really wanted to get away from stuff like big house and minimal trance.  Well his album True is perfectly a reflection of this (If you haven't heard his new album you can stream it here), and this remix is a nice reflection of the two different worlds, the house and synth world mixed with the country twang style that mixes so well with it.

Avicii - Hey Brother

079 - Story Time

Every once in a while you find an artist that really surprises you.  For me, that song recently has been KhoMha.  And there is a good story behind this too.  KhoMha is a really talented artist, but his style of electronic is a bit different than what is considered the norm.  Instead of just building up to a drop, he does a sort of "reverse drop" or anticlimax in some of his songs.  Honestly, I started out as not a huge fan of it but I am liking it more and more as time goes on.  There is a story about a song, and then another of his songs that I want to share with you.

STORY TIME:  So I was driving to do some errands yesterday, and was rushing home in order to meet the candidates that we are working with in order to try and find a new roommate.  Enter HUGE traffic jam on the highway, and when it is about to clear up this song comes on.

The jam starts to clear and we start moving, and of course I am rocking out in my car because thats one of my favorite things to do.  Next thing I know I look to my rear view mirror and see police lights, and look down to my speedometer: 86 in a 65.  Oops.  The cop comes over and asks me all the standard questions and I explain to him my situation, he is very understanding but still mad that I was driving so fast.  He asks why my phone is sitting on in the seat next to me, and was I texting and driving.  I said no and explained how I was playing music through bluetooth to my stereo.  He was so confused to see such a nice stereo in such an old car (1996) and started laughing.  *at this point i knew I could get off without a ticket because laughing cops are nice cops and are therefore considerate cops.  He cracks a joke or two about my car being so old and the stereo looking so "out of place", and then another about how "I must have been listening to techno beats or something".  At this point I lost it.  Started laughing uncontrollably.  Most likely it was nervous laughter but still, I figured since he was laughing it was cool if I did too.  He asks to hear what I was listening to out of curiosity and I put on Cyclone by KhoMha (not his best, but a nice anticlimax).  He says I should listen to something a bit slower in order to keep the car at a certain speed, tells me to stay safe, have a nice day, and he returns to his car.  I nearly jumped for joy.  Make a cop laugh and kiss his ass and occasionally everything works out in your favor.

But enough about my run ins with the police, lets get to some music.  Since I mentioned it, I will link Cyclone at the bottom of the post.  But my favorite song by KhoMha is Dimensional, which I honestly found through youtube comments (surprisingly some of the people who talk shit know what they are talking about).  This is a great face paced, in your face track track that doesn't stop and really drives it home with a very "stuck in your skull" mentality (another great music blog btw).  Enjoy it and I will see you back tomorrow for free/funky/kawaii friday, haven't decided which one yet (one coming up I will try to do all 3 in one day!).

079 - Khoma - Dimensional

002- Everyone wants to hear their name

Happy Tuesday everyone! I am sorry this link is coming late, I spent a night with my friends playing computer games and didnt get home until just now! This song is perfect for the beautiful Summmer weather that we are having, and I hope you enjoy the two in unison as I did! As always, this is a great trance Trance song from Morgan Page, who never seems to put out anything bad. Enjoy!

002 - Morgan Paige - Call My Name