The way of a deejay; DJ Way McMillin

Top 5, 2004

? - Sweet Harmony (Kosmas Epsilon & Zorz 'Northern Light' Remix)
Petter - Modern Eternity (Original Mix)
Alter Ego - Rocker (Original Mix)
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Mix)
Rex The Dog - Prototype (Original Mix)

Time for another top few

MOS - Elektrify (Original Mix) [Pissed off Recordings]
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Holden Mix) [Border Community]
G Pal - 3rd of July (Enjoy Edit) [Swift]
Kosmas Epsilon - Playground [Deep]
Luciano & Quenum - Orange Mistake [CDR]
Chloe Vs Simon Says - Flick Of The Switch (Simon Says Remix) [CDR]
Dextro - Do You Need Help (MFA Help Mix) [Border Community]
Mathew Jonson - Ultraviolet Dream [Minus Inc]
Josh Wink - Sprung Minimism [Ovum]
Avus - Breeder Of Psychosis (Smithmonger Remix) [Poodle]

Wow, I got 10.

Summer

Summer must be on it's way. Massive tracks seem to being released week after week.

It's a very good time to be a progressive DJ.

September Top 10

It's time to bust out that top 10 I was talking about a while ago.

Kosmas Epilison - Feed Me Acid [EQ Grey]
SCSI-9 - Mini [Kompakt]
DJ Koze - Speicher 20 [Kompakt Extra]
Guido Schneider - Unterwegs Mit Guido Schneider [Pokerflat]
DJ Koze - The Gekloppel Continues [Kompakt]
ORN - The Decision [Sexonwax]
The MFA - Two Billion Year Journey [EQ Grey]
Trafik - Echoes (Petter Remix) [Global Underground]
Secret Planet 004 - Secret Planet (Chris Micali Remix) [Secret Planet]
Synergy - Pacifier (Flash Brothers Mix) [Blue Planet]

A variety of minimal, techno and progressive

New CD is almost completed in other news. All that's left is to find one more track. It's looking like it's going to sound very chilled out, something I'm excited about putting together!

Flowing

I'm back from Europe, and I'm starting to put together my next demo. This is going to be disc 2 of a 2 part series created by a peer of mine. It's a great honour to be invited, and I look foward to releasing it.

There will be download access setup for it, once it's created.

I'm also itching to get a top x out there again :)

It's good to be home!

MFA - Motherload T-shirt

Keeping with the MFA T-shirt theme, I got their next t-shirt. It also rules :)

The track MFA - Motherload (which I've got on CDR Promo) is an awesome track, up there in the top 10 of the year. It's going to be a hard, and exciting year to call IMO.

Anyhow enough crapping, here's the shirt:-

Stella

Got some stellar tracks over the last few weeks. So much/many I think I can make a top 7; the lazy man's top 10.

+ ? - Sweet Harmony (Kosmas Epsilon & Zorz 'Northern Light' Remix)
+ The MFA - Motherload
+ Nathan Fake - Watlington Street EP
+ The PQM Project - Aenema
+ Lostep - Burma
+ A. Matsumoto & DJ Yoshi - Dreamer
+ Moshic Da Silva - Deeper then Rivers

8 coz I can

Andrew K & Simuck - Clouds Go By
Steve May - Open Day
Alexander Church - Sound Advice
Mark Martini - Highway One (Chris Micali Mix)
Petter - 6 song EP
Ficta - Eli
RND - Nova Satori
Madoka - Dub be Good to me

April was a bit of a Deep month for progressive, May appears to be popping out the Melodic stuff. Great to see. The Trance is still being played, just REALLY slowly baught.

PS Is a DJ the new-aged musician?

Melbourne Music

Whilst down in Melbourne the weekend just gone by, I did a bit of shopping.

I heard Armin van Buuren's Universal Religion CD in one shop, and Global Underground 22 CD 2 in another.

Maybe I should go shopping more in Syd to hear such music, or man ++ to Mlb :)

5 for Thursday

Here's another 5 doing it for me. Doing my best to keep up a list of hot tracks once a week, not doing too bad.

Jay Tripwire & Grant Dell - Cosmic Kebab EP
Gill Norris - Forme
Halogen vs Nash T - On a Bridge Pt 1
Rapid Eye - Santa Cruz
Marscruiser - One Night in Bangkok

^^^ A nice mix of trance and chilled progressive (mostly vocal, but not cheesy)

When the dex come back I'm planning on a few demos
1)Progressive House - Melodic Progressive
2)Melodic Progressive - Uplifting Trance
3)Uplifting Trance - Tech Trance
4)Deep House/Progressive - Progressive House - Melodic Progressive - Techno

Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock

Is currently playing on TV. That's so funny how commerical it's got. It was new in about October last year. Go Ferry being able to appeal to both markets!

A pity the TV station down here has him called "Ferry Corstens". lol.

Somethings (his name ;) ) is sacred.

10 for a few weeks ago

Flash Brothers - Deep Love EP
G pal remix is where it's at. Progressive house @ it's finest, with a G pal melody making it trancey as all hell. Sit out on the deck chairs and wait for the vocals to hit you.
Noel Sanger - Carry On (sultan remix)
A bit darker and houser the I thought. A cute little 5 key melody played through the track, with a little voice popping in every few phrases. Quite a few dark sounds in this. Really sets the mood for a dark setting. Have been placing it in the middle of sets to start the mood again.
Subsky - Albino
a blipy bloppy track, with a panning bassline. builds and builds and builds, to a bit of a weird breakdown, building on the blips, which is where you realise the blips are the beauty
Ben Camp - Syndrome
A scary release on Silver Planet. A bit of a tribal touch about it, with hawks crying in the background, which morphs into delayed/filtered/echoed vocals. Dark as fcuk
Super 8 - Alba
This is the uplifting trance I like. Hands in the air, emotional and pumping
Paul Oakenfold - Zoo York (Leama & Moor Mix)
Has been described as Oakies best work to date. The Leama and Moor remix puts the nail back into this old school Oakie track.
Echomen - Spirit
Standard echomen; Highest quality prog house track. Fresh sounds, at a nice speed. Very head fcuky "spirit"
Jamie Stevens - The Night Before
From Infusion. The dirty Infusion Basslines, with a melody that sounds like it's come from a triangle you'd use in primary school. Sounds a lot better then I can describe it
Rouzbeh Delavari - Inner Structure (petter remix)
Really relaxing prog house, summer stuff, with spanish guitars(a side) the petter mix, brings things up the extra level adding a heap more excitement and energy that makes the break down that bit bigger.

Classics
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Ashtrax - Helsinki (Sander K Remix)
Sasha - Cloud Cuckoo (Luke Chable Remix)

Five for Last Friday

Dreas Presents Havannah - Havannah (Original Mix)
A nice summery trance track. Uplifting with a nice rolling kick. It doesn't break down for ages, but has a nice lead over the whole track

Wink - Fill me With Acid
The title says everything about it. It's Acid and it's great

Matthew Dekay - Higher Thoughts (Original Mix)
A track being cained by Sasha, Digweed, Steve Porter, all the big guys. A prog house track, as per all Dekay tracks (I'm aware of); nice highs nice bass lines, but a break down that makes the track. It's about 3 mins long, funky and dirty, with a massive drop and euphoric kick back into it

Indigo Child - Underwater
This track has it all, a deep house, progressive, trance and techno sounds. It's dark and scary, light and melodic, pounding and relaxing, catchy and cruisy. Something you'd expect to see signed to Silver Planet

Classic:-
Main Element Feat Kyla - Take Me Down (Lemon8 Rmx)

Set of the week

A nice Sasha set is the set of the week, easily. Quite a few fresh tracks from Sasha, a return to the guard in that respect.

Sasha- Tracklisting

01. Invisible Inc. - Stars (Ambient Mix)
02. Phil K & PQM - They Just Wont Let Me Be
03. Matthew Dekay - Space Mountain Ride
04. Trafik - Your Light (Luke Chable Dub) [GU Music]
05. Quivver - Space Manoeuvres Part 3
06. Rowan Blades & Chris Lake - Untitled
07. Phil Kieran - I Love You [Yoshitoshi]
08. Alex Dolby - Psiko Garden (Sasha Stretched Limo Edit)
09. Matthew Dekay Band - Higher Thoughts (Original Mix)
10. Rouzbeh Delavari - Inner Structure (Petter Deep In The Loop Mix)

Every track is a stand out track!

5 for Friday

5 for Friday
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Unkle - In A State (Sasha remix)
A HUGE melodic remix by Sasha. Original is a POS, and orignally I wrote this of as well. Sweet and cute
Blackwatch & Quivver - Loveless
A veryt dary, mopey track. Sounds like Fm or something just as
Peter Martin - Perfect Wave (Markus Schulz Edit)
Long and rolling bass lines sound like waves in summer. Melody is very happy; a nice major chord. Maybe Epic Progressive-Trance?
St John vs Locust - Mind Circles (Locust Remix)
enchating vocals, more summer
PQM - The Flying Song (Markus Schulz Remix)HUGE sound scape. Just grows and grows, with a tad of darkness, and more chilled vocals

Classic
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Telepopmusic - Breathe

Five For Friday

Five for Friday
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Ferry Corsten - Right Of Way (Tsunami)
Another wikkid track from Ferry, shows he still knows good trance, and how to make it, after a nice change with Rock Your Body Rock. A very nice track leading up to PTM

Herrmann & Kleine – Leaving You Behind (Without Knowing Where To Go)
One of the weirdest tracks this year. Makes me feel like I'm in a foriegn country, yet so static and beautiful

Luke Chable & Danni Bonicci - Ride (Alternative Route)
Chable has shown once again he's the master of cute summer melodies. This track IS huge already

Andain - Beautiful Things (Photon Project Remix) (Blackhole)
Everyone knows this track. Old School Tiesto Remix. 'Nuff said

Old Skool
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Sun Decade - I'm Alone (Ronski Speed Mix)

5 for friday

5 for Friday
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Perry O'neal - Breaking Away
Peter Martin - Perfect Wave
Ferry Corsten - Right of Way
Chris Fortier - Whatever

Classic
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Rank 1 - Symsonic (Original Mix)

5 for this friday

5 for Friday
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Austin & Bloom - Vicinity (Original UNIFY Mix) [CDR]A track I've got from a duo of Melbourne producers. This is a really nice Epic trance trackJase From Outta Space - Do What You Want (Infusion's Sky Mix) [nine09 records]One of my tracks of the year. Beautiful build up, full of emotion, beautiful lyrics, and slightly sexy. Prog HouseMatt Hardwick Vs Smith & Pledger - Day One (Above & Beyond Rmx) [Anjunabeats]Killer track from Hardwick, with A&B's rmx, how could it do wrong?Evanescence - Hello (G&D Bootleg) [CDR]Gabriel and Dresden remixed this puppy turning it into a really soothing, progressive trance track. Soft and sweet is the feeling

Classic
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Blank & Jones - Nightfly

Five for Friday

Five for Friday
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Origene - Sanctuary (Harry Lemon Remix)(Bandung)
A nice new remix of this track by Harry. Has that old sound, with a much more trancey/driving movement
Underworld - Born Slippy Nuxx (paul oakenfold remix)have a listen before u pass judgement....best thing oaky's done since the 90's if u ask me (thanx PK )
Echano - Feels like Flying (John O'Callaghan's Airborne Remix)an awsome start of a trance set, border line hands in the air.
Hybrid Feat Peter Hook - True To Form (John Creamer & Stephan K Mix)
Hybrid track with an awsome remix. Think of Hybrid with their awsome strings and vocals, with the depth and the heart. Add a splash bass to get it moving
Dirt Devil - Music is Life (jono grant vs. POS remix)
hopefully doesn't come the next "the drill"

Classic:-
Accadia - Into the Dawn (James Holden Remix)
Got this on vinyl this week Thanx to trovert

Five for Friday

Five for Friday
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Firewall - Sincere (Pulser Remix)
AvB - From the Heart
Envio - Touched by the Sun
Epsilion 9 - Lifeformation (Infirnal Machine Mix)

Old Skool:-
Rank 1 - Airwave

5 for Friday

Holden – The Wheel [Pass 1] (Border Community)
Gill Norris – Forme ( SWEAR that Gwill Morris)
Conjure One - Centre of the Sun (Junkie XL vocal mix) (Nettwerk)
Questia - Crystal Clouds (Asot)

Old School
Armin van Buuren - Blue Fear

Five for Friday

Five for Friday
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+Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Border Community)
+Johan Cyber - Unknown Title (CDR)
+Haak - Frenzy (MK-S Remix) (CDR)
+Armin van Buuren feat Justine Suissa - Burned With Desire (Rising Star Dub) (United)

Old Skool:-
+James Holden - Put out the Light

The Effects of Tracks

After a massive weekend with I felt a few things I'd never felt before; something I HAD to write about somewhere.

Normally after or on a big night I just don't hear or see things the way others do. Last night listening to tracks in a quite place with two mates spinning and me on the floor I was seeing and hearing things. It was just an incrediable experience just like being on MDA. I'd close my eyes and I was in the club from the previous night, or Halcyon, or in the clouds, a plane, I thought it I was there, it was real in sound and space. And when I opened my eyes the table was not just wobbling but dancing with the tracks. An amazing experience and thankyou for listening to my detour ;)

CDs

I've bought A LOT of cd's in the last week....

Gatecrasher Resident Transmissions 2
Gatecrasher Digital Trance
Gatecrasher Experience
DJ Tiesto - Nyana
Armin Van Buuren - Sunburn (to get access to 76)
And the best of all

Rank 1 - Symsonic (+ Dvd)
The DVD contains some of the most beautiful tracks ever produced.

Progression to Progressive?

I think my tastes are widening the world of Music. Of late I've found myself buying a LOT of/more progressive records. When I'm mixing, I'm spending about 1/2 my time mixing a style of progressive trance, and finishing with top trance.

Some tracks I've been buying that fit this genre are as below:-
Veit - Sky (tiesto)
Junkie XL vs Sasha - Beauty Never Fades - JXLNF01
John Digweed - MM II (The Triple Pack Album) (Bedrock)
A Trance Communucations Classic (pulser, insigma, rapid eye)
Main Element - Take me Down (Lemon 8 remixes)
Tiesto- In my Memory
Schatrax - Misspent Years
Atlas - Compresserror
Lyric & Natali - over emotion
Lustral - Broken
Odessi - Beautiful Malika

Nice Relaxed, Uplifiting Set

Chicane - Live in Palladium (22.01.2000)

Rocking my world

Blank and Jones - The Mix CD 2.
01 - Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender
02 - Allure - No more tears
03 - Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun
04- The Thrillseekers - Dreaming of you
05 - Andain - Summer Calling
06 - Paul van Dyk - Autumn
07 - EN-Motion - Getting away with it
08 - Riva - Time is the healer
09 - Ralph B - Massive
10 - Blank and Jones - After Love
11 - Tour de Trance - Wan Wu
12 - Mirco De Govia - Things that matter
13 - Solid Sessions - Janeiro
14 - Mega Lo Mania - Emotion
15 - 040 feat. Erica Baxter - Dreams
16 - Lange feat. Leah - Don't think it (feel it)
17 - H 2 J - East & Central
18 - Sun Decade - I'm alone