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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,