in the end I signed up to djpassion which hosts them and also has a link to trackitdown (it also shows us a partner site!)

Dance Music Website – Free DJ Mixes & DJ Profiles – Mix Hosting

managed to upload a short mix – sounded reasonable other than a glitch in the audio at one point (caused by leaving the WLAN and bluetooth active on my netbook and probably a virus checker update or similar traffic)..

GL’S First Trance Mix – Free DJ Mixes & DJ Profiles – Mix Hosting

The stuff played on the daytime radio (both in UK and NL) is pop dance rather than uplifting/euphoric trance, which if it does get played on legal radio is only in the evenings. Even Tiësto’s show is balkanised to some random time on Friday night on 538 which is the Dutch equivalent of Vibe/Kiss – most of the time you tune in and get the same crappy pop dance intermingled with ads for washing powder and cars.

And this is in a country where dance artists are viewed as much of a national asset as the top painters etc, in one of my online Dutch courses they have a list of famous artists/scientists/entertainers from NL and Rembrandt, Vincent Van Gogh, Armin van Buuren and Tiësto are all listed together, you wouldn’t get that in English lessons for foreigners. Tiësto’s name comes up quite often in Dutch lessons as the ë in his name is a special letter so you pronounce his name corrrectly with i and e longer as ie on its own is a different vowel sound …

Uplifting / euphoric trance was the original EA underground rave sound, particularly in Essex/Suffolk border areas before hard trance, and a lot of people my age prefer it and feel it made the atmosphere at parties better..

TBH I think I’ll use djpassion for the mixes and soundcloud for any original stuff I do (working on a jingle for PV radio). Even on here we’ve had takedown requests from XL records, one of Biotech’s mixes had to be removed 😥

I think the labels what work with djpassion are more clued up as they also link to buying the tunes legit, and sell the wavs at £1.75 rather than £1.99 like other places..

a lot of big labels now own the indies, although the one I was most worried about was the bootleg of a Japanese anime theme as they tend to be backed by big companies (a young dude in Hong Kong made it!) and the Japanese media get paranoid about what is basically kids TV being linked with drugs (mind you ITV had a lot of tunes in the 90s pulled because of the samples)

this is the series the theme tune comes from.. similar to transfomers but the robots turn into trains rather than cars (maybe they are trying to be more eco-friendly)..

The Brave Express Might Gaine – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I remember both Ofcom and NHK (Nippon Broadcasting Service, the Japanese BBC) ended up getting loads of animé re-edited due to the risk of
photoepileptic seizures….

I sent Sky Flight the link to PV so hopefully he can sign up here.

I think HK and South China do have quite a good club scene (and even in some harsher nations like SG and MY) but people have to be careful about not being blatantly out of their heads on the street and causing ruckus like clubbers do in England…

its now easier and cheaper to get a rave licensed in some areas of China than England..