The Phil-Harmonic Podcast Episode 49

"The time has come to show people that nobody is nobody."

Hello all,

I don’t want to ramble on too much this week. One because life is hectic at the moment and, after getting royally smashed up by Bryan Kearney at The Energy Box last Saturday (and then going to MoS again the following Friday), beauty sleep is in high demand. And secondly, because I was lording it up about gigs and special episodes, I wrote enough last time out to cover two or three blogs. So let’s keep it short and sweet for Episode 49.

I have to hold up my hands up this week and say this particular episode is a little rough around the edges. Maybe just a few mistakes here and there that might be more noticeable than usual. But it more than makes up for that in terms of the tunes on offer. 22 tracks coming in comfortably within my current 2 hour marker; this episode is jam packed!

Episode 48 was a while in the making; I had a lot of big tunes building up in the background while we prepared the collaboration. In the end, I had an absolute f*ck tonne to choose from, really scaling the big room EDM spectrum from front to back. There are tunes in this that I’ve been patiently waiting to unleash for quite a while.

A fitting touch this week comes in the form of Skyfall as our opening track - since the DVD of the film was released very recently and Adele managed to pick up an Oscar for the music last weekend. I’m not really a fan of Adele’s output generally and I thought the film was generally quite overrated. But, this theme is a cracker and a stirring way to start the episode.

Other personal highlights are W&W’s new single with Ummet Ozcan (a lot of debate amongst the group about that one recently), a great return to form by Ferry Corsten with Kudawudashuda and the inescapable A State Of Trance 600 anthem. A slightly shorter uplifting part this week, but with some absolute gems all the same.

We end on a couple of belting, unmistakable classics, the second of which I've been trying to sneak into the podcast as our ‘final oldie’ for something like a year. Finally I've got it in. The ambient version of Voller Sterne has been my wake up alarm for a while now. It breaks my slumber at 6.30am every weekday. The Super8 remix is, for me, a defining and timeless trance record, one which elevates this episode onto another plane.

THE PHIL-HARMONIC PODCAST EPISODE 49

1. Adele - Skyfall (Mark Eteson Remix) [CDR - Free Download]

2. Jochen Miller - Damnit [Big & Dirty Recordings]

3. W&W & Ummet Ozcan - The Code [Revealed Recordings]

4. Sebastian Krieg & Jerome Isma-Ae- M1 [Jee Productions]

5. Beat Service feat. Neev Kennedy - Not This Time [Beat Service Audio]

6. EDU - Evil Inside [Alter Ego Progressive]

7. Lange - Hold That Sucker Down [Lange Recordings]

8. Ferry Corsten - Kudawudashuda [Flashover Recordings] <<<(Phil’s Tune Of The Episode)>>>

9. Mark Sherry - Trailblazer [Reset Records]

10. Matt Davey - Neutrino [A State Of Trance]

11. Skytech - Out Of Nowhere [Coldharbour Recordings]

12. Richard Sander - Divorced People (ReOrder Remix) [Insight Recordings]

13. Johann Stone - Proton [NTR Blue]

14. Bjorn Akesson - Gunsmoke [Future Sound of Egypt]

15. Armin Van Buuren & Markus Schulz - The Expedition (ASOT 600 Anthem) [Armada]

16. Natlife – Space Colonization (Dima Krasnik Remix) [Redux Recordings]

17. Sonic Element & Solar Movement - Icewall [Borderline]

18. Robbie Van Doe - Drop Out [Discover Digital]

19. Chris Cockerill & Phil-Lee - Nobody Is Nobody (Darren Porter Remix) [Monster Tunes]

20. Matt Bukovski feat. Ellie Lawson - Breathe In Breathe Out (Uplifting Mix) [Adrian & Raz]

21. Ron Van Den Beuken - Sunset (Ron Van Den Beuken Remix) [Liquid Recordings]

22. Mirco De Govia - Voller Sterne (Super8 Remix) [Euphonic]

That’s all I’m saying this time around. You may be shocked to hear that this is in fact the last ‘regular’ 2 hour episode I’m doing for the foreseeable future. There will be many more podcasts; there will be 2 hour mixes among that. But the format is changing. If you haven’t already guessed, I will explain all in 2 weeks. See you then!