CiTR -- Trancendance

I was in a hurry after a day of skiing and just grabbed a set with a bunch of my fave tracks in it.

Wow, I wasn't feelin' it when I came into the studio today and I really didn't think my set was going to flow together, but maybe, just maybe - it turned out pretty well! I'm hesitant to say because sometimes when I think it went well and give it a 2nd listen, it's not as hot as it felt in the moment. But I'm excited to give this one another listen. It's a real mix of new and old trance artists. Happy Sunday!

It's time to bring out the old tracks while we ask for your donations to help support the station. You can donate at citr.ca/donate These are some fave tracks from the 90s including some hardcore rave breaks like Acen and Hackney Hardcore!

Not a lot of time to put a show together this week so I just threw some tracks in the crate and hoped for the best. Turned out to be several old recognizable names in the mix with several of the artisits having been producing electronic music for 20+ years!

Sandra Collins used to be (and still is) one of my favourite DJs. Long, slow mixes where you could barely tell where one track started and the next begun. That's how I felt playing this week's set. Now, sometimes when I finish a set feeling really good, a second listen proves otherwise, but fingers crossed this one will have you melting into your chair.

Driving epic trance with a slightly darker edge and lots of breakdowns.

Tracks that I felt like listening to from a range of genres. Some trance, some techno, some bounce. Happy New Year!

DJ Solitare and I both agree... New School or Old School - good music is just good music. Try not to let trends and opinions colour your own feelings about the music that moves you! Then we both played some tracks. They were psychedelic.

Is that even a thing? Time for a new niche genre? I don't think so. It's all just trance!

Last week I rediscovered my love for deep trance and I was excited to play more. This week features some of the same tracks as last week mixed in with a number of new ones that I picked up right before the show.

Not a perfect set but enough solid mixes to reignite my love of this style of deep dark driving trance! You can bet there will be more sets like this in 2020!

Is that even a thing? Most of this is a little more dark/techno influences rather than the bleepy psychedelic stuff.

Picked up some new electro house tracks just before the show and mixed 'em in with some old faves.

My all-time favourite compilation series is Goa Culture. All the tracks in tonight's set are from Volumes 25, 26, and 27. If you like what you hear, please show some support and pick up a track or an album to support the artists! :)

Long overdue, Nyx was in the studio several weeks ago. Sorry the podcast is so slow to get published!

Playin' some music because... that's what we do here!

Retro ish trance

Slow-ish Trance

Melodic progressive psytrance

Breakbeats and Techno

Back in the studio after just over a year, DJ Solitare chat's about playing in Belgium and plays some new school Goa Trance on Trancendance.

Bit of a re-hash of last year's Parkproof set as I attempted to play something slightly more mellow ;)

In my crate, I use a colour coding system for my tracks. It used to be more complex, but now I basically just colour kick-ass tracks in blue. This week there's no new stuff. Nothing that might be mediocre. It's all blue, all the way through!

A few fave progressive pay tracks.

After weeks of psytrance and techno, this deep epic trance set came together beautifully! Like a modern day symphony...

A few new tracks tossed on with some of my current faves

Uptempo melodic psytrance

Well, I've been away for 3 weeks in a row, and I think it's been even longer since I pushed a podcast out... glad to be back after what's quite possibly been the longest hiatus that Trancendance has had in over 15 years! Still didn't have much time for new stuff this week, but managed to pull together some progressive psy faves on short notice and had myself some fun to wind up a great Father's Day!

For the first part of this week's show, we sample a few tracks from some of the local live electronic artists that will be playing at Open Studios on April 21, 2018.

This week I was tired of see-sawing back and forth between the same old genres, so I dusted off some old breaks tracks and picked up a few new ones. A little rusty at first but was having a blast by the end!

I'm a week late on getting this one published... Can't even remember what I played! Uptempo pay-tech?

Not even sure what blend of genres this is. Some of it seemed to be labeld Bounce which I'm not even familiar with. Some of it seems to be classified as minimal or deep techno and some of it is tagged as psytrance, albeit pretty low tempo compared to most of the psytrance I'm used to.

This week I looked up from a mix to see someone grooving away outside the studio window and it took a minute before I recognized it was Scottie! I even convinced him to come on air and chat a bit about how he migrated from a club in Halifax to the Vancouver rave scene!

I've been raming up the tempo from week to week, and I'm starting to push into the faster stuff that I haven't played in awhile. Not quite up to full on speed yet, and I don't usually hit forest tempos, but still packing some energy. I think there's a few filler tracks in here, and a couple less than excellent mixes, but still a fun set.

After 3 weeks away over the Christmas and New Years holidays, and an extra week away due to technical problems at the station, Trancendance is back! And we start the year off with some up-tempo progressive psytrance!

We'll be away for the next THREE weeks (totally unprecedented) which makes this the last show of 2017! Some of my fave psytrance tracks along with a handful of new ones, including several off of DJ Fabio's new Therapy album! Happy New Year! See you in 2018!

There are a few mixes this week that clash, but that's what happens when you span decades and genres in an on-the-fly mix. There's brand new stuff in here mixed up against some old faves from the late 90s and early 2000s. Overall there's more that I like than I don't. Perhaps this set will get rearranged a little to smooth out the kinks in the new year!

I don't even know how tonight's show came to be... a wild adventure through several genres including techno, progressive psytrance, vocal trance, acid techno, trance, and I think even a breakbeat track. Definitely some stuff in here that I don't normally play!

After 2 weeks off, I still had no plan and just winged it... this is what came out...

DJ Solitare is back in the studio to share stories and part of his set from the Zna Gathering in Portugal.

Causeway is the trance persona of Alexander Hamilton, who has been "threatening" to play an all vocal trance set for almost 5 years. FINALLY he brings it with a seamless back-to-back mix of all vocal trance. Not only that, but he brought an actual platter of cheese into the studio to mark the special occasion! I tried (for a whole 10 seconds) to dig up my own vocal tracks to go head-to-head with, but alas, I couldn't do it, and resorted to some bangin' techno!

Dark Arps joins me in studio to talk about Live Electronic happening at Sequential Circus 21 coming up on Oct 7th at Open Studios in Vancouver. And then there was techno.