The Phil-Harmonic Podcast Episode 17

Here we are again. Back with more electronic dance goodness from the depths of my CD cases.

Episode 17 drops on a Friday this time around. I’m making a welcome return to Nation in Liverpool on Saturday for Cream’s 19th Birthday celebrations. And since it’s a 6am finish, I envisage being buried six feet under my bed covers on Sunday. So, here it is a few days early.

This week we repeat for the last time a concept I have done twice before already. Episodes 2 and 6 of this podcast were both rip roaring rides through the more pulsating end of trance’s spectrum. Both were wall-to-wall euphoric oldies. And here we do it all again –as I say, for the last time. Why for the last time? Well, quite frankly, as great as it is to have these ambles down memory lane, any more of them and I’ll run out of truly big oldies to play at the end of normal episodes. I don’t want to overdo it.

What’s been great about these episodes though is that it’s given me chance to play out some of my all-time favourite trance records. And by ‘all-time favourite’ I don’t necessarily mean all the well-known classics like Silence or Airwave or Gouryella. Those records are obviously amazing – defined a genre. They’re everybody’s favourites. But I think all trance fans have a set of very personal records that aren’t quite so obvious but hold an equally special place in their clubbing ‘soul’.

Take Big Sky, Arctic Globe, Beautiful Sunshine, A Life Elsewhere and Memories from Episode 2, take Killa, Guanxi, Bulldozer and Candida from Episode 6 and Castamara, Typhoon, Feel 4 You and Child from this Episode, and you have a fairly rounded rundown of my quintessential trance records – records that will never fail to raise the hairs on my neck.

The only difference with this week’s instalment is that it actually gets harder and faster than its older siblings. It ends on 4 absolutely huge hard dance records. Those include Lee Haslam’s Liberate, a record that I played every single time I practiced when I was first learning to DJ, Jason Cortez’s Tranzition, one of Cortez’s best from a period when he was just churning out ridiculous tunes with Nick Rowland as his engineer, and Colin Barratt’s Rinsed remix of I’m In Control, with its killer, funky, broken beat breakdown.

And that’s all there is to it really. Take the ride and judge for yourself.

THE PHIL-HARMONIC PODCAST 017

1. The Thrillseekers feat. Gina Dootson - By Your Side (Martin Roth Remix) [Adjusted Music]
2. Bissen – String Theory [Flux Delux Digital]
3. Lennox – Servant Of Justice (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix) [Mondo Records]
4. Giuseppe Ottaviani feat. Stephen Pickup – No More Alone (John O`Callaghan Remix) [Vandit]
5. Daniel Kandi – Child [Anjunabeats]
6. Rollerball – Albinoni (Super8 Remix) [Anjunabeats]
7. Super8 & Tab – Irufushi (Sean Tyas Remix) [Anjunabeats]
8. Thomas Bronzwaer - Look Ahead [A State Of Trance]
9. Re:Locate – Typhoon [Galactive]
10. Ian Van Dahl – Castles In The Sky (Wippenberg Club Mix) [NuLife Recordings]
11. The Mystery - Feel 4 You (Dub Mix) [RR Records] <<<(Phil's Tune Of The Episode)>>>
12. Giuseppe Ottaviani – Through Your Eyes [Vandit]
13. Jonas Steur – Castamara [Intuition Recordings]
14. Temple One - Forever Searching (Orjan Nilsen's Synthetic Remix) [Enhanced Recordings]
15. Marc Dawn - Expander (Flutlicht Remix) [Logport Recordings]
16. Vincent De Moor – Fly Away (Sean Tyas Remix) [Combined Forces]
17. Lee Haslam - Liberate [TidyTwo]
18. Jason Cortez - Tranzition [Nuklearpuppy Records]
19. Ingo & Lee Pasch present Turbulance System - Osaris [Riot! Recordings]
20. Jon Bishop - I'm In Control (Colin Barratt Remix) [Tidy Traxx]

Back to normal episodes in 2 weeks. Got some belters (plus an unorthodox beginning) lined up for our next outing. Until then, keep safe!