Recent content by Macker

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    2025 has been the best year for Trance since 2010

    That’s very kind of you to say mate, appreciate it. I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t been keeping up having just had a second child. My house is frankly, fucking mental right now. the track that stood out to me in that solarstone set was Bjerkestrand - Skyfritt. Brilliant stuff. Another...
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    2025 has been the best year for Trance since 2010

    Wholeheartedly agree. I left a comment on SolarStone’s soundcloud (pure trance radio 459) as I was just blown away by the sheer quality of every track on it. Felt the same about lots of other sets recently too.
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    Tiësto - Bring Me To Life [Musical Freedom]

    This isn't trance. It is EDM pretending to be trance.
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    Conservative or liberal (politics)

    It's surprisingly easy when people can talk about it rationally - and disagree with one another, without getting personal. I have a "friend" (much emphasis on those quotation marks!) who I just can't get into any political discussions with (and neither can any of my other friends) because he...
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    Conservative or liberal (politics)

    I'd call myself anti-conservative. [edit] That's anti conservative policies/ideology in general, not people.
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    Unpopular trance/electronic music opinions

    Yeah I'd largely agree. Burned With Desire was pretty good, and his remixes of iio - Rapture and Moogwai - Viola are absbolutely amazing but sadly the production on them hasn't stood the test of time.
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    Your favorite album/release artwork? (any genre)

    There are a couple of vinyls I have that I’ve always loved the artwork from… Sasha & Emerson -Scorchio Sasha - Xpander EP conversely I’ve got a vinyl of Armand Van Helden’s funk phenomenon (great tune) which is a full vinyl sleeve of a baby crying, and it’s just awful to look at.
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    Breakbeats, Big Beat, IDM, Garage, Post-Breaks, 2-Step etc

    Puglist - Future Retri Proper.
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    Shocking stuff that destroys what was once our trance scene

    Reading through this thread has been fun. I think most of us simply miss "the glory days". I could turn on the radio and hear trance. I could go to a record store and buy trance. The community due to the likes of trance.nu, tranceaddict and the fact that it was in vogue was massive. But the...
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    Software Sales and Deals

    Hope this doesn't count as promotion/spam; just trying to save fellow producers a few £££... SSL are selling (just this weekend I believe) their channel strip and bus compressor plugin bundle for ~£47 with the code NATESS4999 (usually £300) Just purchased it myself. I do believe you need an...
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    ASOT Top 1000 Trance Tracks Of All Time.

    Just reading through the list shaking my head. LSG – Netherworld (Oliver Prime Remix) at 323 lmao. Salt Tank – Eugina (Michael Woods Remix) at 987! Fucking kids voting on this shit man.
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    Tiësto - Adagio For Strings (Incl. Remixes) [2005]

    Gonna weigh in here with what might be, but shouldn't be an unpopular opinion. For all the incredible music he produced; Tiesto's version of adagio for strings is trash. Ferry Corsten's remix is the one. There is no other.
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    Halon's: 'What is the last thing you ate/drank?' 2.0

    Kicked the evening off with a corona beer, then a bottle of Bread & Butter chardonnay, followed up with a Carnivor Cabernet Sauvignon (both shared with my wife) and now on a Porthleven Pale Ale,
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    The 'Currently Listening' Thread

    Been one of those days where I'm kind of drifting around the house doing various bits/nothing at all and have had this on as it popped up on my soundcloud... Have to say, it's pretty bloody fantastic exhibition of the deeper side of prog trance.