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York presents Best Of on Armada Music


York – Best Of pre-order now!

York – Best Of pre-order now!
November 29th, 2011

In 1992, German producer Torsten Stenzel founded the legendary Planet Love Records. A new era of future dance classics begun. Throughout the years, the label became out to be a realm for those in search of quality dance releases, and the home base for Thorsten’s projects like Taucher, York and DJ Sakin & Friends.

In November 2011, Planet Love joined forces with Armada Music. Next to new projects like the upcoming York album, Planet Love also started the digital release of their back catalogue, with many world famous classics. As a kick off to the new partnership, Planet Love and Armada Music are proud to present the first release of the Planet Love Classics series, with ‘York – Best Of’!

Including classics ‘Yesterday’, ‘The Awakening’, ‘On the Beach’, ‘Addicted’ and many more, this York album is essential to everyone that’s ever wanted to have these timeless track in high quality digital format. …

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Wez G - Snake in my Head

About 18 months ago I was walking along the street in my local village in south wales when I felt a large snake's skull on the back of my head. I have occasional Shamanic experiences. I couldn't get the thing off me and went on a bit of a mad journey where I went off several huge cliffs into some serpent nests and in a shamanic state, to help me out, I linked up with some other medicine men across the globe. I ended up in an African tribal village where they chopped the head off the snake but the guy who did it warned me that the thing would stay with me for a while. So I thought I'd revert to the beat of the drum and try and drive the damn thing out with a nice session on the wheels of steel. Have a listen and do battle with the reptile with me. Whack it with a stick or something... (By the way - Wez G IS NUTS!) But I speak the truth, honestly!!! In my world it never gets dark...

TRACKLISTING
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To say 1999 was the year of trance is quite the understatement, over half of the chart entries that i had in my diaries were trance tracks and my 1999 spotify playlist mirrors that.

The Full 1999 Playlist HERE

FULL TRACKLISTING

Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
Blur – Tender
Barenaked Ladies – One Week
Sonique – It Feels So Good
DJ Sakin & Friends – Protect Your Mind - (Braveheart)
Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
Mr. Oizo – Flat Beat
Armand van Helden feat. Duane Harden – You Don't Know Me
Busta Rhymes – Gimme Some More
The Offspring – Why Don't You Get A Job?
Basement Jaxx – Red Alert
Jamiroquai – Canned Heat
Geri Halliwell – Look At Me
Shania Twain – That Don't Impress Me Much - Dance Mix
Madonna – Beautiful Stranger
Orbital – Doctor?
ATB – 9PM - Radio Mix
Blank & Jones – Cream
System F – Out Of The Blue - Original 12" Version
Sasha – Xpander
Yomanda – Synth & Strings
Signum – What Ya Got 4 Me - Extended Vocal Mix
Art Of Trance – Madagascar - Original 12"
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I would like to present you some of my favorites classic electronic hits (Techno, Dream, House, Big beat...).

This list does not include Trance tracks (or a few), i have done a separate list ( http://www.lastfm.fr/user/MiTcX/journal/2008/06/15/20wu21_my_best_trance_hits_%28top_150%29)


Pills - Rock Me
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
Air - Sexy Boy
Bob Marley vs Funkstar De Luxe - Sun Is Shining (Radio Deluxe Edit)
Aphex Twin - Iz Us
Daft Punk - Da Funk
BT - Satellite
Moby - James Bond Theme
Daft Punk - Rollin'& scratchin'
The Prodigy - Breather
Nova Nova - Tones
Underworld - Rez
Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
Madonna - frozen
Laurent Garnier - crispy bacon
Chemical Brothers - Here we go
The Prodigy - Smack my bitch up
Pills - Fun-K-tronic
fisherspooner - Emerge
Faithless - God is a DJ
The Prodigy - Firestarter
Alan Brax - Intro
Jaydee - plastic dream
Cassius - 1999
Underworld - Born slippy
Chemical Brothers - Come with us
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THE TRANCE JOURNAL - (PART 2)
THE BIG COUNTDOWN - MY 150 GREATEST TRANCE TUNES (92-07)

Ok, so let's imagine someone new to trance, the type of person I euphemistically describe as the "outsider", has stumbled across PART 1 of this trance journal. They may now understand a bit better how trance works. Hopefully, it's dispelled a few myths. They may even be interested in giving the genre a try. But where the hell do you begin? While the concept is growing year on year within trance, the genre itself is not really based around the idea of the "artist album", so it's not just a case of getting a list of "reputable" trance producers and downloading their albums. Nor do I think it's enough to get one of the countless "best of" compilations that are released year on year as, despite the obvious stuff, they'll probably be missing material that has never entered the mainstream or been picked up on by the larger, compilation pushing labels. …

MUSIC ACCORDING TO ME

To me, if there’s one thing that highlights how difficult it is to imagine being someone else its music. As much as it is possible to find those that have very similar tastes in a very general sense, taste in music is such an individually unique thing. Although, it is just universally accepted that one man’s meat is another’s poison, when it comes to music I’d just love to know why that actually is. Is it just what you grow up with? Is it because of biology or chemical brain composition? Or are we just a bunch of incessant bandwagon jumpers who just always stick to their guns, buying into an image that a certain type of music is meant to create? Nature, nurture or society? I think most would concede it’s probably a mixture of all three. It just baffles me how one person can get so excited over something that someone else finds genuinely annoying, to the point where it gives them a headache. In a similar sort of way, what I write here…