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Jeff Barker becomes Station Manager
Team News Update!
Jeff Barker has accepted a role as our new Station Manager! Over the last 12 months Jeff has become more and more involved with House Nation UK. Jeff has pushed the brand forwards through social media and sourced new talent and guest mixes to give you, the listener, more content. As a result it was only right that we recognised the work he has done and create a new role for the station of Station Manager. This is the first role of its type and will allow us to grow the brand further while increasing engagement with our listeners and followers.
Huge thanks goes to Jeff for all his efforts and we look forward to the future!
Is Trance Coming Back?
I for one certainly hope so. Why do I ask though? It’s been almost 20 years since Trance music was at its peak and has never achieved the same heights since.
Recently on the station I have been playing a few remixes of classic trance tracks such as Robert Miles – Children, Binary Finary – 1998 and System F – Out of The Blue! All of these recent remixes which have all been released around the same time have held true to the genre of old. Maybe not quite the same fast tempo, but we cant have it all, right? We hear big long risers, epic breakdowns and a sense of euphoria that really made the genre.
So why is this? Classic Trance has not been a genre I have heard remixed that much over the years. A few versions of Cafe Del Mar, most notably one from Out of Office in around 2007 (that was a banger!), but not much else. Most remixed records are house classics and not trance, for example Robin S – Show Me Love seems to get 57* new versions a year!
For me it’s something that’s really been missing in some music quarters, big festivals and main stream radio to name a couple. It has continued of course with Armin Van Buuren a State of Trance show and Above & Beyond’s Group Therapy shows and tours leading the way.
Trends have been moving over the last two years back to a big room trancy sound with more synths, long risers and builds. The hit Cola from CamelPhat kick started this and things have really developed there returning major festival dance floors to trance esque rather than tech house.
One concern I think a lot of producers would have had is doing justice to these records when remixing them as they mean so much to so many people. Maybe thats why its taken this long, but, it was worth the wait! Ilan Bluestone, Tinlicker, Shadow Child and Tom Staar have all recently remixed a classic:
I have played all of the above recently and had really good feedback from listeners on our house music radio station. I hope to hear more tracks of this type coming out soon. It’s also made me think about dusting off my own trance vinyl collection and doing a show. Watch this space…
*ok maybe not quite that many