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PRE-SAVE HERE: https://blackhole.lnk.to/Satellites ‘Beside You’, Somna debut artist LP, arrived in spring 2020, fully equipped with all the elements necessary to ensure the artist’s big leap forward. Tour-ready and near enough bags-packed, Benjamin was set to take ‘Beside You’ to all the places he’d designed it to rock. Unfortunately, something else arrived in the spring of 2020, and that threw a mighty spanner in the DJ/producer’s works. Where there was a will, there was a way though, so Somna laterally adapted ‘Beside You’s plan … It is somewhat fitting ARRIVING MAY 12:  then that its follow-up, ‘Satellites’, pays tribute to the saving grace of its forerunner… And in a word, that was Streaming. Benjamin explains: “while all the physical proximity had been lost, the ability to reac

PRE-ORDER HERE: https://blackhole.lnk.to/prism4 It’s crept up on three years since we last received a mix-comp transmission from Planet Outburst and the science of hard has been left just a touch wanting ever since. However, as April beckons, that drought breaks, and Mark Sherry pours three new mixes through the ‘Prism’. For ‘Vol.4’s, well, DJ-wise it’s a case of the established, the new … and the returning. The Outburst boss has brought Ireland’s Renegade System in to helm one of its discs, while after Vol.1, arch techno-logist Alex Di Stefano is back, making a second guest-mixing appearance in the series. Collectively the trio bring a mass of toughened sonics to its fore, with the release pushing upwards of seventy tracks over its near-four-hour runtime. In and amongst all that highly c

HAVING SINGLES-TRAILED IT THROUGHOUT ‘22, THAT MAN RAM INJECTS THE SPRING INTO THE SPRING, WITH THE DROP OF HIS SECOND ARTIST ALBUM ON MARCH 17 Wanderlust noun The wish to travel far away, and to many different places PRE-ORDER HERE: https://blackhole.lnk.to/wanderlust It’s hard to remember a time when DJing and travelling hasn’t gone hand-in-hand, or think of a time when it wouldn’t … And then 2020 happened. Suddenly, DJs from all musical quarters got a swift reminder in what it was, that many in our globalised world might’ve started to take as given. Amongst others, this refocussed RAM’s mind on the wonder of it all. To such a degree in fact, that it’s became the inspiration for his second artist album. Over a spectrum of references, ranging from the super-subtle to the all-out o

PRE-SAVE THE ALBUM HERE: https://pure.complete.me/oscillate A creative outlet must be one of the healthiest aspects of our existence, so, it would stand to reason that a creative outlet of a creative outlet could only amplify that. That, in essence, is what Robert Nickson’s done with RNX – an alter-ego/altered state that he’s been dipping in and out for a decade or more. Blood runs deeper-than-deep between Robert/RNX and Solarstone’s Pure Trance Recordings. Since the latter’s formation, Robert’s aired no fewer than 17 productions through the label. Among them have been RNX mega-sellers ‘Colorado’ and ‘Atoms’ and his RNX revision of Solarstone’s ‘Rain Stars Eternal’. Memorably, Robert co-mixed ‘Pure Trance Vol.6’ and between his two monikers, he’s long been the label’s bestselling ar

PRE-SAVE AND ORDER HERE: https://blackhole.lnk.to/mosaiik2 MARCH 3 SEES ‘MOSAIIK CHAPTER TWO’ REACH STORES AND FLOORS ! // ALBUM INCLUDES THE SINGLES ‘HEAR ME OUT’, ‘FOLLOW YOU ANYWHERE’, ‘WE GOT THE FIRE’ & MORE // NEW LIVESTREAM AND CG SINGLE DETAILS ALSO REVEALED Sometimes you can be having too much fun! ‘Chapter One’ of Cosmic Gate’s ‘MOSAIIK’ album series touched off a post-lockdown tour, bigger and more extensive than anyone (not least Nic & Bossi!) could’ve imagined. A subsequent pinch on studio time, and … well … you can guess the rest! Promise is a promise is a promise though and the GRAMMY-nominated act are delighted to start the new year with the announcement of the now-imminent arrival of ‘MOSAIIK Chapter Two’. March 3 isn’t that far away, but it’ll seem much closer s

PRE-SAVE HERE: https://blackhole.lnk.to/OnwardsUpwards Long before lockdown, Dennis Sheperd was way ahead of the conversational curve, addressing the areas of mindfulness and mental wellbeing through his 2015 album, ‘Fight Your Fear’. Given that six years elapsed between that LP and 2021’s ‘Find The Sunrise’, you could be forgiven for a sense of surprise at the speed with which he’s achieved ‘Sunrise’s follow-up. It’s not been an exactly quiet 365 for the producer from Essen, Germany either. Aside from peppering its course with precursor singles, he’s also mixed an ‘In Search of Sunrise’ disc, co-hosted this year’s Trance Retreat @ ADE and toured all four corners of the globe. Some of the follow-up’s rapidity however may have been born of necessity. Artistically, stylistically and

FINAL PRECURSOR SINGLE ‘ON AN OCEAN’ FEATURING JEFF RONA AND LISA GERRARD ARRIVED NOV 11. LISTEN HERE: https://blackhole.lnk.to/permissionexhale This month sees Ciaran McAuley poised to release his hotly anticipated debut longplayer … After a dozen years as a recording artist and five since he became a standalone operator, few would deny him … ‘Permission To Exhale’! The completion of a first artist album is an epochal moment in every producer’s career, and one that marks the conclusion of a long list of artistic, stylistic and collaborative choices. For Ciaran, that’s meant working alongside a uniquely talented, but also uniquely individual cohort of co-writers. Among them are Hollywood composer Jeff Rona, world renowned motivational speaker Eddie Pinero, estimable singer-songwri

Pre-order/bookmark here: https://blackhole.lnk.to/isos-18 Promoted Post Crowning high summer in the time-honoured (and frankly only decent!) fashion, this year’s ‘In Search Of Sunrise’ is on the none-to-distant horizon. Its 18th expedition, the series that MIXMAG dubbed “the Superbowl of mixcomps” and “the greatest trance series of them all” returns for more epic, sun-questing exploits. With both hands firmly on its stylistic yoke, Markus Schulz delivers his fifth from the lead-mix position. Stuffed to capacity with exclusives, first-hears and bespoke-created studio work, as fluidly as ever its sonics travel the innerspace of progressive, trance and euphoric techno. If any electronic music compilation album can lay claim to having its very own lane, it’s ‘ISOS’. Defined more by its feel,