I arrived home from North Carolina to find A Trip In Trance waiting in my mailbox. I had to order this from Hi-Bias Records in Canada. I bought it when I heard it playing on Digitally Imported, my favourite internet radio station. It is a two disc compilation, with Hiver & Hammer mixing the first, and DJ Esquille on the second.

The tracks that caught my attention when I heard it on DI, were U.S. (Unidentified Sound) by DJ Peke, and Emotion by Trancepulse Inc, which I wasn’t aware were separate tracks until I received the CDs. Unfortunately, those are two of the best tracks in the collection. Often buying a compilation based on only hearing a few tracks works — it didn’t really in this case. Oh well.

Two notables on the first disc are Nothing (Hiver & Hammer Remix) by Holden & Thompson, and 5 Million Miles (H&H Differentgear Mix) by Hiver & Hammer Featuring Javah. Nothing is not my usual sort of track, it starts out as a sort of hard dub, but morphs into trance. 5 Million miles is some great vocal trance.

There are other good tracks, but many of them are well known (to me at any rate). At least there is truth in advertising, every track is basically trance at its core. Some are vocal, some are hard, some progressive, a one or two are even of the melodic variety.

I love foreign commercials. Check this clip out for this collection. I’m assuming it is in Swedish, but it is so odd when the English comes blasting through. blah blah blah blah Non-Stop DJ-Mix, blah blah blah.