The Force Factor - Trance and Hard Trance Podcast

Finally the summer’s heating up…. and so are the tunes! Enjoy! 01. Nitrous Oxide & Adam Kancerski pres. Husaria - Poznan 02. Gareth Weston - Temptation 03. Ashley Smith & Josh Kayn - Far Away (Touchstone remix) 04. Mark Leanings vs. Space Rockerz & Tania Zygar - Whatever Happened to Puzzle Piece (John O'Callaghan mashup) 05. Blank and Jones - Cream (Chris M

This month, with a holiday and the big celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee here in the UK I haven’t been able to spend the usual time on my favourite pastime - choosing & buying new trance tracks! - so I’ve had a dig around and chosen some belters from a year or 2 ago which I love but haven’t heard in a while. Hope you enjoy! 01. Thomas Bronzwaer - Galaxyrise

A quality-packed Force Factor this month including one of my favourite tracks at the moment - Indecent Noise’s insane remix of Forbidden City by Marc Simz which is just exploding with retro-sounding energy. Plus dusting off two fantastic records from a few years back from the incredible Vinylgroover & The Red Hed. 01. Inertia - The System (Sean Tyas & Tom Colontonio r

Fifty shows!! Celebrating half a century of pumping out trance & hard trance belters month in month out - and number 50 is no different! Stormers from Johan Ekman, Mark Leanings, & loads more. Thanks for listening, here’s to another 50 :-) 01. John O'Callaghan & Heatbeat - Las Lilas 02. Sean Truby & Craig Purvis - Beyond The Horizon 03. LTN - Out Of This World

Spring is here so get the car windows down, volume up, and pump out some of this tech & hard trance to help your neighbours’ gardens grow! Some huge tunes from Jason Cortez, Luke H and many more! 01. Sound Players - Baiana (Paul Miller vs Ronald de Foe remix) 02. Jason Cortez - Lil More Luv 03. John O'Callaghan - Raw Deal 04. Simon Patterson - Backstab 05. Jase Thirlwall

Tech trance time! February’s Factor gets the rave juices flowing but - for this episode - doesn’t stray over into the territory of hard dance… this is 100% gritty trance from the likes of Askew, Patterson etc (my favourite kind!). Hope you agree! 01. Monada - Turbulence 02. Lee Miller - Deception (Oliver Brooks remix) 03. Running Man - Sorrow (Trance Arts remix)

Lots of bootlegs/remixes/mashups in this one, so if you like that sort of thing you’re in for a treat! A few producers including the awesome Bryan Kearney kindly distributed some excellent productions over xmas so I’ve included a few to get the year off to a banging start. Plus a great guest mix from up & coming Vancouver based DJ, EYC. 01. Whiteroom vs Ferry Corste

My set for Afterhours.fm’s End of Year Countdown was a 2001 special, a nostalgic look back at the big trance hitters 10 years ago, so in case you were too busy stuffing yourself with spuds & sprouts to catch it on Xmas day, here’s the uncut version for your downloading delight :-) 01. Lange feat. Skye - Drifting Away 02. Solid Sessions - Janeiro 03. Insigma - Open O

If you want a big soundtrack for your xmas party, look no further! :) Loads of great new trance plus some cheeky remixes of Lost Tribe, Armin Van Buuren and even Rihanna! Have a great xmas and don’t forget my “2001 special mix” for Afterhours.fm’s End of Year Countdown - midday on Christmas Day! 01. Gareth Emery ft. Mark Frisch - Into The Light (Alex M.O.R.P

My set from this year’s UK In The Mix 005 event on Afterhours. 01. Indecent Noise - Grim Reaper 02. Lee Miller - Inception 03. Brian Cameron - Engage 04. John Askew - Bastard 05. Simon Patterson & Greg Downey ft. Bo Bruce - Come To Me 06. Will Atkinson - Breathe It 07. Cosmic Gate - Human Beings (Daniel Kandi’s Humane Society remix) 08. Too Many Artists - Get Exact