One of my dreams come true in my involvement in the trance scene has been seeing some tracks that have meant the most to me be released. Having been involved with DAT Records from the beginning, I was thrilled to see the lost Crop Circles album released (it was my having seen the promo cassettes...

The first compilation that I have co-compiled on DAT Records with label owner Federico Draeke is available at the DAT Records website. The CD features 9 alternate mixes of classic tracks from the 90s, only one of which was previously available (but extremely rare), the others of which were incredibly hard to come by even...

When I first got exposed to the psychedelic trance sound of 1994 in the autumn of that year, each party was a unique event where I went to experience music in a way I had never encountered before. One of those formative events was hearing Tsuyoshi perform as a DJ at an Odyssey party...

For several years, I highlighted on my old website my favourite tracks of each season. I stopped doing this when the music got really boring and I didn’t have enough nice things to say. While I think that there is much more high-quality music these days, I haven’t yet picked up making my lists...

 The boundary-breaking, genre-crossing electronica project Juno Reactor has excelled itself with their eighth album. The Golden Sun of The Great East is a stellar release that is at the apex of both Juno’s output and electronica as a whole, featuring a diverse blend of both real-world and otherworldly sounds. As with the best of...

A report for Dream Creation magazine about one of the first mega-trance parties that I went to, in February 1997. In many ways it highlighted, for me, the strengths and weaknesses of the trance movement, and the challenge of getting it to a larger audience – and I think that what I wrote still...

This is a report of what promised to be an incredible breakthrough in the trance scene: An Issey Miyake Fashion show, clothes designed by Organix, music played by Tsuyoshi, in Paris in 1997. It was submitted to Dream Creation at the time but not published. Issey Miyake Fashion Show Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris...

A review I wrote for Dream Creation of an incredible event …   The Valley, Suffolk July 18-21st, 1997 That the best things in life are free and unplanned should be known to most. It is nice, however, to see this in action. The ambient festival at the Valley was certainly not free –...

This was absolutely one of the most amazing parties I have ever been to. While Olli’s Fuji party of 1995 is the ‘real’ Fuji party for me, this one too was amazingly transformative. Rainbow 2000, who organized the party, became known as Raincoat 2000 because of their bad luck with the weather. This was...

Well, not much I can say about this that isn’t in the article…Adventures like this make life worth living! This was in November 1997… You never know… Life is full of surprises, and you never know what’s going to happen. This was brought home when, as the result of a meeting a new acquaintance,...