Germany’s Paul van Dyk is looking for producers to remix his track with Giuseppe Ottaviani, Far Away, on Beatport.
The remix competition is open to producers from all genres, as van Dyk is looking for innovative, cutting-edge and thought-provoking mixes of his track.
You can download two of the track’s parts for remixing for free. To get [...]

DJ/producer Paul Oakenfold has scored the upcoming video game Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy.
Oakenfold follows a long string of electronic music artists, including NIN & Amon Tobin, to score video games.
“It was a rewarding experience to score The Bourne Conspiracy video game — I have always been a fan of the series and the pace [...]

iiO has a new release out, Reconstruction Time - The Best of iiO Remixed.
For fans of DJ remixes, Reconstruction Time may offer the ultimate versions of iiO’s music. The CD features the remixes of iiO’s music that helped make iiO a name in clubs around the world.
You can view the video for iiO’s Rapture, below. [...]

 

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ReFX has updated Nexus to version 1.3.0. Two new expansions - Store’n’Forward with UK Trance sounds and Hardstyle with Hardstyle/Hardtrance/Rave sounds have also been released.
You can preview the Nexus with the Blade Runner-esque demo, below.
New features in v1.3:

New master effect: distortion has been added.
New arpeggio-mode: poly has been added.
Internal limiter has been added.
Several ‘locks’ have [...]

 

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Eastwest has announced the debut of Zero-G and Xfonic’s SoundSense Series. The series features four sample libraries: Ambiosis, Trance Inducer, Technomatik, and Chilled Grooves.
Descriptions:

Ambiosis is a great resource for producers who need to apply texture, mood, and ambience across a wide variety of genres. Ambiosis was created by highly acclaimed electronic musician and samplist Ian [...]

Ueberschall has released Trance ID, a new sample collection that offers a huge variety of sequences, lead sounds, basslines, pads, atmospheres and fx, as well as hundreds of drum and percussion samples and loops.
Responsible for the production of Ueberschall Trance ID are Mike Koglin, Marc Steinmeier, Steve Baltes, and Ole Cramer. This team has produced [...]

Peace Love Productions (PLP) has announced the release of Trance Mutation, a collection of loops and samples was designed specically for Hard Trance, Ambient Trance, Euro Club, Hard House, and Techno.
“This is the most authentic construction kit to date.” according to Jason Donnelly, lead sound designer of PLP.
PLP Trance Mutation Consists Of: 600mb 530+ 16bit [...]

komposi003 is the third compilation from Positron! Records, and features tracks from Aizome, Amish Rake Fight, Atomica, Bounte, Micronaut, Milkfish, s.sturgis, and Scanalyzer. It also includes the debut of “The Things You Do” by Eric Powell’s new project, Graphic, Chris Randall’s first solo song, “Be There Tonight,” as well as the last Sister Machine Gun [...]

Peace Love Productions, a provider of royalty free loops and music samples, now offers new downloadable loop packs direct from their web site.
In anticipation of the release of ACID 6, Peace Love Productions is offering downloadable loop packs. The genres cover Reggaeton, Hip Hop, Trance, Break Beat, Latin House, Euro, Electro, Country, and Dj FX.
Each [...]

As polished dance records go, Ashley Jade’s Dreaming sets a high standard. Jade, a UK actress and singer, has found success in Europe and hopes to duplicate it in the world dance market.
The tracks on Dreaming are pop vocal trance numbers that are expertly produced and well written. Standout tracks are Dreaming, Let Me Be [...]

Costa Rica’s electronica scene is heating up. Rogelio Jimenez reports on the hot-as-hell S.U.N Project Halloween bash at Club 360.
The doors opened at 10:30 pm. Some people were waiting since 9:30 pm for the opening to enter in to the club. Lots of fans have been waiting three years since the last visit of S.U.N [...]

Costa Rica is a small country in Central America. It’s a country without an army. Some know it as a banana country, a country of great beaches and forest, or even a great place for surfing and surfing competition. Some people even think it is an island, which is not. But have you heard [...]

Underwater Music has updated its site to include free MP3s from its roster of electronica bands.
Underwater Music is based out of Poland and promotes electronic, techno, ambient, rock and post-rock. Artists include ESP, E=Motion, Defactor, Solitude, Robbone, Andy Rantzen & Jacek Spruch, Abird, P.E. Gueble, Passive Status, Dorian Przystalski, and S4GE.
There are free downloads at [...]

If you’re looking for a greatest hits of trance package, this may fit the bill. Trance fans, though, may find Pure Trance a little too generic.
Pure Trance has a lot of good cuts. ATB’s “You’re Not Alone” is presented in an Air Play mix. Tatana’s “Global Thinking” is a blueprint for trance/dance cut. It’s got [...]

This album by DJ Sasha is a bit of a surprise. Sasha has already made a name for himself with his dance cuts and remixes, so you might expect airdrawndagger to be full of high BPM dance and trance cuts. Instead, Sasha delivers a wide-ranging set of electronica cuts that will please all types of [...]