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...

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,...

Psychedelic Trance meets the Big Apple A fresh territory I was introduced to the trance scene in Tokyo in 1994 and knew right away that it would have a profound impact on my life. I did not quite realize that within a couple of years I would take the decision to move to London...

A reminiscence of some fantastic music-related adventures in 1999 Can I have some change? As August ’99 neared, I knew that my time in Japan was drawing to a close – my visa was expiring and I had grown weary of the energy-draining lifestyle prevalent in Tokyo. I desperately wanted to head to Europe...