Derek Sanders

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Vocal Elysium 09 MP3

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Vocal Elysium 09 CUE

Tracklist
Nitrous Oxide featuring Sean Ryan – Come Into My World (Original Mix)
Loverush UK! featuring Carla Werner – Give Me Your Love (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix)
Walsh & McAuley featuring Antonia Lucas – Sea Of Lights (Simon Pitt Remix)
Super8 & Tab featuring Alyna – Delusion (Original Mix)
Sean Truby featuring Susie Ledge – Supremacy (Original Mix)
Julian Vincent featuring Jessie Morgan – Shadows The Sun (Daniel Kandi’s Bangin Mix)
Blue Tente featuring Stine Grove – Emptiness (Sunny Lax Remix)
John O’Callaghan – Don’t Look Back (Sly One vs. Jurrane Remix)
Blue Tente featuring Stine Grove – Heading Home (ReOrder Remix)
Poshout featuring Victoria Raznyh – Fallen World (Ilya Soloviev Remix)
Perpetuous Dreamer – Dust.wav (Rex Mundi Remix)

Rapha – Dark Temptation (Reminder Remix)
SHato & Paul Rockseek – Granny’s Fitness (Original Mix)
Ilya Soloviev – Mercury (Original Mix)

Elysium is returning to the Internet radio waves on February 17th at 4pm ET. It will be starting anew on www.etn.fm, and will air regularly on the 3rd Thursday of every month. I made the decision to reduce the show to once a month because I will begin to have less time to devote to this hobby in the near future, and would rather keep it consistent from the beginning. ETN.FM has a nice lineup of both trance and house deejays, for which they provide separate streams for the respective genres. They also provide different qualities for the streams, specifically there is a 256kbps MP3 stream. I know I had complaints about the quality of the last station’s stream, so hopefully that will quell any quality concerns.

The journey continues!

Dash Berlin featuring Emma Hewitt – Disarm Yourself (Club Mix)
Michael Angelo featuring Danny – Test Drive (Nitrous Oxide Dub Mix)

Abstract Vision & Elite Electronic – Sophia (Sequentia Remix)
Vitodito & Soulforge – Ancient Whisper (Chapter XJ Remix)
A.R.D.I. – Landscape (Vol Deeman Remix)
Simon O’Shine – Miss You (Original Mix)

Andrew Rayel – We Never Came Back (Abstract Vision & Elite Electronic Remix)
Sean Truby – Now Or Never (Dan Stone Remix)
Daniel Kandi – Promised (Emotional Mix)
Russo – Analog Boy Digital Girl (Original Mix)

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Vocal Elysium 08 MP3

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Vocal Elysium 08 CUE

Tracklist
Jo Micali – Flying (C-Systems Vocal Mix)
Alpha Duo & James Kitcher featuring Emma Lock – Beautiful Dream (Original Mix)
Jon O’Bir featuring Julie Harrington – Never Enough (Original Mix)
C-Systems featuring Van Dresen – Embrace (Jason Van Wyk’s Offshore Vocal Mix)
Estigma featuring Irena Love – Cinnamon Sunday (ReOrder Sunrise Mix)
Signum featuring Kate Louise Smith – Liberate (Original Mix)
Adam Kancerski featuring Aneym – It Takes Time (Original Mix)
C-Systems – Daylight (Trance Arts Remix)
Matias Lehtola featuring Gina J – Burning Bright (Original Mix)
Tom Colontonio featuring Michele Karmin – Colors Of A Tear (Suncatcher Remix)

Sean Tyas – Banshee (Original Mix)
Freakhouze – Dream Catcher (Elias B Remix)

The radio station that Elysium has been airing on since 2008 is closing shop, and this means an end to my regular releases of it. I could potentially do two more shows, but I have been needing a break for quite some time and so I will use this opportunity to explore some extended play mixes. I will be looking for a new home for Elysium, but it will be only a once a month show when and if it returns. I have been considering for a long time to discontinue Elysium for a variety of reasons. The main one being that it became more of a chore to do the show than I was having fun. The return to my EP mixes will mark a return of higher quality listening experiences, and better forethought to how I want you, the listener, to feel. I used to think Elysium should be a showcase of the best new songs out there, and while I think I did a very good job of that, the mixes became less about the listening experience and more about how can I arrange these new tracks in the least annoying manner. If Elysium the radio show doesn’t return I think will move it into a quarterly mix for each season of the year (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter). Anyways, I will keep everyone posted.

A happy new year (and decade) to everyone. To celebrate the new year, and give us something to remember 2010 by, I created an Elysium 2010 year-end mix. I wanted to bring together all of my favorite uplifting tracks from 2010. I think I could have kept adding to it, but I settled on 120 tracks for an 11 hour 44 minute mix. It is encoded with VBR, but it still comes to roughly a 1.2GB file, so this might not be for those of you under bandwidth constraints.

I thought I would also give a mention of some of my favorite producers from this year. By far I think the guy who impressed me the most was Ciro Visone. I heard some really nice work from the Italian producer late in 2009, but he really stepped up in 2010. Suncatcher also had a really nice year along with SoundLift, and group The Flyers & Mike Sonar. Some guys who are relatively new in 2010 (to me at least) that also stood out where Myk Bee, Hoyaa, Juventa, the duo Simon O’Shine & Sergey Nivone, and Imperfection.

I also got pretty heavy into progressive trance and house, though my mixes don’t reflect it. Audien had an amazing year from that style of trance, Arty/Alpha 9 did pretty well too, but I am not really familiar with enough of the artists to give any good synopsis of the genre for 2010.

The radio shows will be continuing as normal for now. Vocal Elysium 08 is scheduled to air on January 12, 2011 and the next airing of Elysium will be January 16, 2011. Sadly, I think I will be reducing Elysium to once a month, it is becoming too time consuming even doing it at twice a month. The costs of doing these shows is also becoming a factor, buying thirty new tracks each month begins to add up.

As for my other series of CD’s. I am going to begin work on Vocals Volume 6 (and 7) this month, which will be my favorite tracks from the last eight Vocal Elysiums. Probably by the end of March a new Grilled Sessions will be out, and I have a few other project mixes I want to get out.

Thanks for listening,
Derek