Party Favorz is dropping the fourth and final volume of the Ultimate Trance Classics series — a tribute set that's been in the works for over a year since the original release in 2010. Other than the fact that these sets are mixed much better than the original — they expand the original's reach delivering a memory trip for those club kids who were at all the raves dancing their assess off until the break of dawn. One caveat is the closing 'Sunchyme' by Dario G — a song that holds a very special place in many a heart. I opted not to go with the original (which worked) but found the official remixes that accompanied this release lacking. Club 69 (a.k.a. Peter Rauhofer) tried to remake the wheel for this song and it fell flat. The same can be said for Sasha who also contributed an official remix. The familiar choir hook lifted from 'Life In a Northern Town' by Dream Academy (1986) set across an uplifting instrumental with piano wasn't something you wanted to stray too far from. Enter the Mastermix 'Diffusion Remix' from 2006. This version was included because not only did it stay true to the original, it's the only other remix this song should have received. By bumping up the BPM and adding a deep bassline to the original version, this remix (which borders on Eurodance) would have been the definitive dance floor version had it been released at the time, thus its inclusion. I don't think anyone will be disappointed because it just makes sense. I hope all our little Trance-loving kids enjoyed these sets as much as I've enjoyed bringing them back to life. I was pleasantly surprised at how well this all came together after struggling to create the original series in 2010. I'll be back next week just in time for everyone's Spring Break with some party music fair. Until then...ENJOY! As many of you may not know, Party Favorz hosting is up for renewal in a few days and it would be helpful if you could help pitch in to cover the costs. This is a once-a-year ask for donations but is not mandatory. I want to give a shout-out to Gene R. ($10) for his generous donation. We're just under $100 shy of reaching our goal. Album: Ultimate Trance Classics | Volume 4 Genre: Trance, Progressive House Year: 2022 Total Time: 04:19:00 1. BT - Flaming June (BT & PvD Mix) 2. Blank & Jones - After Love (Club Mix) 3. Armin van Buuren vs. System F - Exhale (Extended Mix) 4. Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun (DJ Tiesto Mix) 5. Dido - Here With Me (Jonny Vicious Mix) 6. Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Armin Van Buuren Universal Religion Mix) 7. Sash! - Encore Une Fois (Dancing Divaz Club Mix) 8. Push - Strange World (2000 Remastered Remake) 9. DJ Jean - The Launch (Yomanda Remix) 10. Airscape - Pacific Melody (Svenson Goes Amsterdam Mix) 11. Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford - Sun & Moon (Above & Beyond Club Mix) 12. Faithless - Salva Mea (Way Out West Mix) 13. Jes - Lovesong (Cosmic Gate Remix) 14. DB Boulevard - Point Of View (Lange Remix) 15. Luminary - Amsterdam (Super8 & Tab Remix) 16. Robert Miles - Fable (Message Version) 17. Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence (DJ Tiësto's In Search Of Sunrise Remix) 18. Fragma - Toca Me (In Petto Vocal Remix) 19. Agnelli & Nelson - El Niño (Matt Darey Latino Remix) ...

Party Favorz is serving up a twofer Saturday with the remaining volumes of the Ultimate Trance Classics series. These are coming at you hard and fast with the cream of the crop stuffed into 8 hours+ of euphoric trance in its finest moments. Buckle your seatbelts... Album: Ultimate Trance Classics | Volume 3 Genre: Trance, Progressive House Year: 2022 Total Time: 03:42:30 1. Brainbug - Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix) 2. Blank & Jones - The Nightfly (Original) 3. Tiësto - Adagio For Strings (Extended Mix) 4. Andy Moor & Somna feat. Linney - More Than Love (Craig Connelly Remix) 5. Gouryella - Gouryella (Extended Mix) 6. Chicane feat. Maire Brennan - Saltwater (Tomski vs. Disco Citizens Remix) 7. Armin van Buuren feat. Sharon den Adel - In & Out of Love (Extended Mix) 8. Sonic Inc. - The Taste Of Summer (Original Mix) 9. Robert Miles - Children (Dream Version) 10. Whiteroom - The Whiteroom (Extended Mix) 11. Tiësto feat. BT - Love Comes Again (Extended Mix) 12. Olive - You're Not Alone (Oakenfold & Osborne 12" Mix) 13. Cygnus X - Superstring (Rank 1 Remix) 14. Olive - I'm Not In Love (DJ Skribble & Anthony Acid Trance Club Mix) 15. Rank 1 - Airwave (Extended Mix) 16. Reflekt feat. Delline Bass - Need to Feel Loved (Thrillseekers Mix) 17. Sash! feat. La Trec - Stay (2 Phunky People Remix) 18. The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia (En Motion Mix) 19. System F - Out Of The Blue (Extended Mix) 20. Randy Katana - Play It Louder (Original Mix) 21. Jonah - Sssst... Listen (Junior Vasquez Dub) 22. Darren Tate vs. Jono Grant - Let The Light Shine In (12" Original Mix) 23. Trouser Enthusiasts - Sweet Release (Trouser Enthusiasts 12" Full On Mix) 24. Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel (PVD E-Werk Club Mix) 25. Robert Nickson - Spiral (Extended Mix) 26. Hypertrophy - Beautiful Day (Extended Mix) 27. Catapila - Void (I Need You) (Medusa Remix) 28. Cosmic Gate - Exploration Of Space (Original Mix) 29. Robert Nickson - Spiral (Extended Mix) 30. U2 - Beautiful Day (Quincey & Sonance Remix)

Party Favorz is back with volume 2 of the Ultimate Trance Classics series and boy oh boy is this a HOT one! This set is packed from start to finish with some of the biggest Trance tracks from the 90s and early millennium. One notable exception is the uncredited trance remix of 'Thank You' by Dido. Anyone attuned to the radio or who was a club kid during the early 00s remembers the massive success of this woman who happens to be an inductee into our Diva Hall of Fame. She's also the sister of Faithless member Rollo who is prominently featured in this tribute series. She had already been riding high off of 'Here With Me' and after Eminem sampled 'Thank You' on his massive single 'Stan,' she exploded on MTV and radio taking the song to #1. The trance version was taken from an unofficial Russian EP that had official remixes from her album 'No Angel' but never had an official release. It's not clear if this is an original remix or a mashup but it's so good that it's worthy of inclusion because it's timely and fits right in with everything else. Keep in mind that Johnny Vicious had created a full-blown trance remix of 'Here With Me' that was already huge in the clubs so including this song just made sense. Otherwise, this set has got so many massive trance tracks included — it reads like a who's who of the DJs and artists who fueled the genre. I have to admit that I dreaded re-doing this series and expanding on it because these songs are not the easiest in the world to mix. Most have no intro nor outro and clock in at a neck-snapping average of 138 bpm. Needless to say, I've been pleasantly surprised at how well this is all falling together — certainly better than my first effort in 2010. Frankly, I've exceeded my expectations. Volumes 3 and 4 will be dropping next week, which will finish out this series before we jump into Spring Break madness. Until then...ENJOY! As many of you may not know, Party Favorz hosting is up for renewal in a few days and it would be helpful if you could help pitch in to cover the costs. This is a once-a-year ask for donations but is not mandatory. I want to give a shout-out to Paul S. ($25) and Casper Y. ($50 ) for their generous donations. We're about $100 shy of reaching our goal. Album: Ultimate Trance Classics | Volume 2 Genre: Trance, Progressive House Year: 2022 Total Time: 04:08:24 1. Future Breeze - Why Dont You Dance With Me (Club Mix Version) 2. Gouryella - Walhalla (Vocal Extended) 3. Push - Universal Nation (Extended Mix) 4. Planet Perfecto Knights - ResuRection (Paul Oakenfold Full On Fluoro Mix) 5. Dido - Thank You (Trance Mix) 6. William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix) 7. Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx) 8. Wayne G - Twisted (Original Mix) 9. Scott Bond vs. Solar Stone - 3rd Earth (Original Re-Mastered) 10. Scooter - Trance Atlantic (Original Extended Mix) 11. Ruff Driverz - Waiting For The Sun (Extended Mix) 12. Nalin & Kane - Open Your Eyes (The Child You Are) (Original Mix) 13. Lustral - Everytime (Nalin & Kane Remix) 14. Nalin & Kane - Beachball (Tall Paul Remix) 15. Sash! feat. Tina Cousins - Mysterious Times (Original Maxi) 16. Above & Beyond feat.

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from the British new-age music scene and the early 1990s German techno and hardcore scenes. Trance music is characterized by a tempo generally lying between 120–150 bpm (BPM), repeating melodic phrases, and a musical form that distinctly builds tension and elements throughout a track often culminating in 1 to 2 "peaks" or "drops". Although trance is a genre of its own, it liberally incorporates influences from other musical styles such as techno, house, pop, chill-out, classical music, tech house, ambient and progressive house. Now that we got that out of the way, Party Favorz is finally dropping the Ultimate Trance Classics that we've been teasing out for over a year now. We covered 90's House Classics, 90's Eurodance, and now a long overdue and updated Trance Classics. Because the genre grew out of the techno scene in the early 90s and was fueled by pop-up raves in the UK, which quickly spread to the U.S. — it gets a classification all its own. Like most popular dance music genres, Trance eventually became mainstreamed by corporate music because why waste a good thing that can be aped, recycled, polished, and pushed to the masses in a more palatable form? Other than the genres listed in the Wikipedia description that were incorporated into Trance — the ground-breaking Progressive House scene was the most influential to Trance, which brought us Faithless, Perfecto and yes, even Club 69 who after riding the house train for years, abruptly transitioned into some hard-hitting tribal, electronic sounds the likes of which no one had heard before. It wasn't uncommon for DJs to incorporate some of these influences into their sets to offset some of the monotony of straight-up euphoric Trance. The first set showcases that intermixing, while the second set is straight up Trance. The third and fourth sets should lean more toward Trance with some progressive tracks that fit nicely but didn't quite fit into the 90's House Classics series that was recently completed. One other thing about this series is the 90s and 00s were mixed in together reflecting Trance at its peak. Unlike the original series that was released in 2010, these newer sets not only deliver the big hits that everyone knows but the ground-breaking tracks that fueled the genre from the ground up. There's a lot of territory to cover so the biggest artists were limited to 2 - 3 songs from their back catalog. All the big names are presented in this four-set series including Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Matt Darey, Above & Beyond,

1. Sash! feat. Rodriguez - Ecuador (Original Extended) 2. DJ Jean - The Launch (Yomanda Remix) 3. Push - Strange World (2000 Remake) 4. Faithless - Insomnia (Monster Mix) 5. Gouryella - Gouryella (Gigolo Remix) 6. Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Armin Van Buuren Universal Religion Mix) 7. Darude - Sandstorm (Original Mix) 8. DJ Tiesto - Suburban Train (Way Out West Remix) 9. Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Three 'n' One Remix) 10. Jonathan Peters pres. Luminaire - Flower Duet '99 (Jonathan Peters Club Mix) 11. Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Scumfrog Vocal Mix) 12. BT feat. Tori Amos - Blue Skies (Paul van Dyk's Blauer Himmel Mix)

1. Faithless - God Is A DJ (Original 12'') 2. Scooter - Trance Atlantic (Original Extended Mix) 3. Blank & Jones - Cream (Original Mix) 4. iiO - Rapture (Armin Van Buuren Remix) 5. Annie Lennox - A Thousand Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Techfunk Mix) 6. Above & Beyond - No One On Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Remix) 7. Chicane feat. Bryan Adams - Don't Give Up (Original Mix) 8. The Roc Project feat. Tina Arena - Never (Past Tense) (DJ Tiesto Remix) 9. BT - Remember (Sasha's Remix) 10. Conjure One - Center Of The Sun (Pete Lorimer 9 Palms Remix) 11. Fragma - Toca Me (In Petto Vocal Remix) 12. Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence (DJ Tiesto In Search Of Sunrise Remix) 13. Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (Signum Remix) 14. Weekend Players - Into The Sun (Riva Remix) 15. U2 - Beautiful Day (Quincey & Sonance Remix)

1. DB Boulevard - Point Of View (Lange Mix) 2. Madonna - Drowned World-Subsitute For Love (BT & Sasha's Bucklodge Ashram Remix) 3. William Ørbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix) 4. Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx) 5. Perpetuous Dreamer - The Sound Of Goodbye (Armand Van Buren's Rising Star Remix) 6. Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun 2000 (Saturday Mix) 7. ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) (Signum Remix) 8. Jonah - Ssst....Listen (Junior Vasquez Dub) 9. Sonique - It Feels So Good (Serious Remix) 10. Chicane feat. Maire Brennan - Saltwater (Tomski vs. Disco Citizens Remix) 11. Robert Miles - Children (Dream Version) 12. Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky (Peter Luts Remix) 13. System F - Out Of The Blue (Original Extended)