Summary: Liquid Trance Mission. On a Trance Mission! If you do not like trance, be it a 120 or 140 bpm, keep well away! You are warned! But if you are missing those days, download or stream and DO NOT SCROLL, this set is a Journey !!! Once upon a time in Melbourne, Australia, there was an underground dance collective called “Liquid”. It was a private, somewhat secret, dance club, which, once every two months, would send an sms to its members and announce on the day where the next reunion would be. Members were co-opted, with a one gig trial, whence if you did not fit, you were blacklisted with no second chance. Liquid was all about the music and the dance. What Liquid was NOT about was the clothes, the stilettoes, the designer hand-bags and the pre-requisite to “get sorted beforehand” (it was not about that either.). The only pre-requisites were: a bottle of water, good comfy trainers, a positive attitude and an able pair of dancing legs.. This community was diverse: the occasional pre-nekos mixing it up with the fluo & vinyl trance heads, the baggy tracksuit crowd and the somewhat more stylish goers. Yet, for all its diversity, it was a sharply homogenous group sharing a love for dance and music between like-minded peaceful people. They would not really hang out socially but for those few Liquid nights, it was strictly all about the DANCE! The music was mainly Trance (the 80s/90’s Ibiza style), not the hard crap but more the classical/vocal happy trance and what we did not know at the time was going to become Progressive House. The night was always a journey and when the DJ was dropping the 135 bpm + tunes, we were just soaking it in as it was only delivered at the very peak off the journey. This was SO last century.. 15 YEARS AGO. This set is the soundtrack of what a "Liquid" night could be, if held today! If anyone of those by-gone years read and hear this ( I won’t name and shame any of us) this is for YOU and ME! Playlist 2011 Thing Called Love (Arkum Filmscape vs. Andrew Mayer vs. PROFF vs Above & Beyond Clum Remix) [Xtian Mash-up and Edit w/Senheuser Samples & Pads). Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford 2006 No One On Earth (San Francisco Mix). Above & Beyond. 2011 Promises (Myon & Shane 54 Summer Of Love Intro Mix). Andain 2009 Lonely Girl (Gareth Emery Remix). Above And Beyond feat. Oceanlab 2009 Lonely Girl (Original Mix vs PROFF Remix) [Xtian Edit]. Above And Beyond feat. Oceanlab 2011 Love Is Not Enough (Original Mix) {Xtian Grooved Edit). Above & Beyond & Zoe Johnston 2008 The Ones that Get Away (Lost Love Dub vs. Extended Intro Mix) [Xtian Mashed Edit]. Arnej 2008 Take Me Away (Re-Ward Dub). 4 Strings 2011 Falling Away (Armin van Buuren Remix) [Xtian the DJ is Calling Me Edit]. Hannah 2011 Feels So Good (Jerome Ima-Ae Remix). Armin van Buuren feat Nadia Ali 2011 Pressure (Clokx Extended Commercial Remix). Alex Kenji, Starkillers, & Nadia Ali 2011 We Control the Sunlight (Original Mix). Aly & Fila feat Jwaydan Highlights: “No One on Earth” and “Love Is Not Enough” two A&B tracks are a cut above the rest, both courtesy of Christopher Doyle. I added Synth & pads but the structure of both tunes is so classical, the vocals so pure, this is Trance heaven. “Lonely Girl” is a catchy, hands up in the air Trance jam and will undoubtedly feature in my NY set. Armin’s “Fallen Away” being such a rip off (surely intentional and credited) of 4 Strings ‘ “Take Me Away”, they had to follow each other in spite of my original intention not to use tunes I knew. As for Nadia Ali, well, I cannot go into Trance/Progressive House and not include something of Nadia. Finally, “We Control the Sunlight”, I could see with Viv & the kids when I played the set for them that such a frantic pace was pushing the boundary but(continued)
