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 3Genre: Trance, Progressive HouseYear: 2022Total 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 form start to finish with some of the biggest Trance tracks from the 90's 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 00's 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 really 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 own expectations. Volume 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. If you would like to donate you may do so below. Every little bit helps. https://partyfavorz.com/donate/ Album: Ultimate Trance Classics | Volume 2Genre: Trance, Progressive HouseYear: 2022Total 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. Richard Bedford - Thing Called Love (Above & Beyond Club Mix) 17. Tiësto - Elements Of Life (Extended Mix) 18. Perpetuous Dreamer - The Sound Of Goodbye (Armin Van Buuren's Rising Star Remix) 19. Annie Lennox - A Thousand Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Techfunk Mix) 20. Veracocha - Carte Blanche (Original Mix) 21. Airscape - L'Esperanza (Svenson Goes To The Love Parade) 22. Blank & Jones - Cream (Long Version) 23. ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) (Signum Mix) 24. Signum feat. Scott Mac - Coming On Strong (Extended Mix) 25. Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun 2000 (Club Mix) 26. iiO - Rapture (Tastes So Sweet) (Riva Remix) 27. Armin van Buuren - Blue Fear (Extended Mix) 28. Sonique - It Feels So Good (Serious Remix) 29. The Prodigy - Firestarter (Empirion Mix) 30. Age Of Love - The Age Of Love (Paul Van Dyk 'Love Of Ages' Remix) 31. Matt Darey's Mash Up feat. Marcella Woods - Beautiful (Original Mix) 32. Binary Finary - 1998 (Gouryella 1999 Remix) 33. Saltwater - The Legacy (Alphazone Extended Remix) 34. Ian van Dahl feat. Marsha - Castles In The Sky (Wippenberg Remix)

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 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 90's and was fueled by pop-up raves in the UK, which quickly spread to the U.S — it gets a classcification all it's own. Like most popular dance music genres, Trance eventually became mainstreamed by corporate music because why waste a good thing that can be aped, recyceled, 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 infulential to Trance, which brought us Faithless, Pefecto 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 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 90's and 00's 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, Chicane, Armin Van Buuren, Sasha, Blank & Jones and more. While no stone was left unturned in putting this series together — we don't want to hear what's missing or what shouldn't have been included. This is a massive undertaking where just compiling and then culling the track list takes longer than actually mixing them. So if you can do better, go for it. Volume 2 is already in the bag so you can expect it to drop on Sunday. 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 Dirk S. ($50) and Glenn A. ($10 ) for their generous donations.  If you would like to donate you may do so below. Every little bit helps. https://partyfavorz.com/donate/   Album: Ultimate Trance Classics | Volume 1Genre: Trance, Progressive HouseYear: 2022Total Time: 03:27:42 1. Sasha - Xpander (Extended Mix) 2. Hybrid - Finished Symphony (Extended Mix) 3. Faithless - God Is A DJ (Extended Mix) 4. Gaia - Tuvan (Extended Mix) 5. iiO - Rapture (Armin Van Buuren Remix) 6. The Age Of Love - The Age Of Love (Jam & Spoon Remix) 7. Chicane feat. Bryan Adams - Don't Give Up (Original Mix) 8. The Roc Project feat. Tina Arena - Never (Past Tense) (DJ Tiësto Remix) 9. Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Scumfrog Vocal Mix) 10. Dido - White Flag (Scumfrog Extended Mix) 11. Conjure One - Center Of The Sun (Pete Lorimer - 29 Palms Remix) 12. SM-Trax - Got The Groove (SM In Motion Mix) 13. Sash! feat. Rodriguez - Ecuador (Original 12") 14. Faithless - Insomnia (Monster Mix) 15. Andy Moor vs. Orkidea - Orbithing (Extended Mix) 16. Sunscreem - Catch (Andy Ling FOC Vocal) 17. Airwave - When Things Go Wrong (Original Mix) 18. Tiesto - Suburban Train (Way Out West Remix) 19. Jon Of The Pleased Wimmin - Give Me Strength (Slammin' Mix) 20. Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars (DJ Tiesto's Full Vocal Remix) 21. BT feat. Tori Amos - Blue Skies (The Delphinium Days Mix) 22. Grace - Not Over Yet (BT's Spirit Of Grace) 23. Dat Oven - Chelsea Press 2 (Crystal Mix) 24. Kevin Aviance - Din Da Da (Club 69 Future Mix) 25. iiO - At The End (Scumfrog Remix) 26. Matt Darey feat. Kate Louise Smith - See The Sun (Aurosonic Remix) 27. Above & Beyond feat. Zoe Johnston - We're All We Need (Extended 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)

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)