Our latest trance mix for the past year is available for download (57 MB, 39 mins 39 secs).

Tracklist:
Arksun - Arisen (original)
Re:Locate feat Menno De Jong - Spirit (original)
Above & Beyond - Alone Tonight (original)
Mike Shiver - Morning Drive (original)
Temple 1 - Eternal Light (original)
Jonas Steur - Sonrisa (original)

My promo mix for July is available to download. It starts with great trance tunes from the past 4 years and goes on with more from the past 4 months.

Be sure to check out my old project trance-e-motion if you haven't do so yet--there are some more sets for download.

Tracklist:

I became aware of this great singer by the new Thrillseekers single titled "By Your Side" (to be released on 6th March but promos are already available here). Here is the part which made me love this song. Gina Dootson became one of my favourite singers. She is very talented and has terrific voice. Listen to the songs on her website to find out why.

The past (1998-2003)
Thank you System F for the original version of "Out of the Blue".
Thank you Tony Walker for "Field of Joy".
Thank you Paul van Dyk for the "Gallery Turnmill" set.
Thank you Ferry Corsten for the "Essential Mix" set.

The present (2004-2005)
Thank you Kyau vs Albert for all your work, including the album "Here We Are Now", especially for "Falling Anywhere".
Thank you Ronski Speed for all your work, especially for "2day", the remix of "Gran Rey" and the remix of "Follow You".
Thank you Mike Shiver for all your work, especially for the remix of "Home" and the vocal mix of "Arise".
Thank you Danjo & Styles for all your work, especially for the remix of Signum's "Come Around Again" and Activa's "Release Me".
Thank you The Thrillseekers for all your work, especially for "Ultimate Synaesthesia" and the remix of "Safe to dream".
Thank you Mirco de Govia for all your work, especially for "Asarja" with Ronski Speed.
Thank you Sonorous, Menno De Jong, Smith & Pledger.
Thank you Armin van Buuren for "Shivers" and "Burned with Desire".
Thank you Ferry Corsten for most of your work.
Thank you Arctis for trance-e-motion.

Thank you very much guys for helping me define what I call quality trance today.

(inspired by Here Are We Now)

I hate working in silence. Better said, I'd love working in silence if I had water coolers in my PC. What I can't stand is the noise coming out from my PC. So I turn to music.

The first thing that comes to mind is to listen to electronic music, specifically trance. I'm in a trance group so listening to the newest releases while developing web applications looks like efficient, doesn't it? But it just doesn't work. I've tried this so many times and it turns out that I can't work while listening to any kind of commercial music.

Here comes classical music into the picture. It not only helps me to fight the noise, it doubles or triples my efficiency. And I seem to love it. I even tried chillout and ambient; it doesn't work. Don't ask me about the reason. It might be the violins or even the sound itself, I really have no idea.

Gregory Beaver probably knows the answer. He puts an awesome amount of work into the installer infrastructure of PEAR. He is a member of The Chiara String Quartet. I'm looking forward to see them releasing a CD. Maybe Greg's secret is their own music, who knows :) I'm gonna ask him one day.