A few days ago I spoke to Tiësto for an exclusive interview for Trance.nu.
I spoke to him about his brand new mix compilation In Search Of Sunrise, his career, the highlights in his life, internet forums and much more!


The interview is online now: http://trance.nu/v4/news/exclusive-ti-sto-interview-online

Happy reading!

Last Friday I went to Amsterdam for an interview with Tom Holkenborg a.k.a. Junkie XL. His brand new "Booming Back At You" album is out now and because of that, I did an interview with him. Oh, he also recently remixed the new Madonna track "4 Minutes".

The interview is online now: http://trance.nu/perm/interview/23529

Happy reading!

Tomorrow! I'm going to interview the electronica legend Brian Transeau a.k.a. BT!

BT is a true dance music legend, one of the few producers that is worthy of the title 'genius'. He is an electronica pioneer, his productions stand the test of time, and he is still pushing the musical boundaries with the release of his last album 'This Binary Universe', being one of the first producers to embrace DVD-V technology.

This was swiftly followed by a re-release of his superb album, 'Emotional Technology' on Black Hole, including several new tracks and a bonus disc of remixes. He has also recently teamed up again with Tiësto on his new 'Elements Of Life' album.

His previous opuses, IMA, ESCM and Movement In Still Life stand up dance music milestones and he is behind some of the biggest trance classics ever including Flaming June, Libra – Calling Your Name and Jan Johnston – Flesh. As well as this he is behind masterful film scores such as 'Monster' and 'The Fast And The Furious'.

Tomorrow I will be interviewing BT, and we collected your questions... maybe, if you think of another good one, we might throw it in! Just reply in the thread...

Link:
http://trance.nu/v3/news_show.php?id=3685

German based DJ / producer Jam El Mar (real name Rolf Ellmer) is one of the brains behind successful EDM projects such as Jam & Spoon (Stella / Right In The Night / Be Angeled), Dance 2 Trance (Power Of American Natives / Warrior), Storm (Time To Burn / Stormanimal), B.G. The Prince Of Rap (Colour Of My Dreams / Rock A Bit), Tokyo Ghetto Pussy (I Kiss Your Lips / Fly Me To The Moon) and many others.

Jam El Mar worked a lot together with his studio partner Mark Spoon, who died in January 2006. Together they produced many hit records in the past and furthermore they also did lots of remixes for artists such as Paul van Dyk, Dr. Alban, Moby, Technotronic, Enigma, Deep Forest, Age Of Love, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and many more ...

I'm going to do an interview for Trance.nu with Jam El Mar pretty soon! If you have any questions, please post them here: http://trance.nu/v3/news_show.php?id=3737

One month ago (On Friday March 16 2007) the Tiësto 'Elements Of Life' album tour started at a luggage hall at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. When the ticket sale for this party started, the location for the event was still kept as a secret. The ticket sale went very good, since the tickets were sold out already weeks before the date of the party!

I had to luck to get tickets, so a made a party report incl. pictures and movies!



You can find the whole report / pics / movies here: http://trance.nu/v3/news_show.php?id=3702

Happy reading!


Twan

Last night I went to Trance Energy in Utrecht and it was GREAT! Too bad I couldn't see all DJ's / acts, but I saw (a part of the) sets from Mark Norman, Sander van Doorn, Markus Schulz, Cosmic Gate, Ronald van Gelderen (Live!), Gareth Emery, Joop, Paul Oakenfold and Jochen Miller.

Of course I made a few pictures and movies, so ... here we go:

Mark Norman @ Futurestage

Sander van Doorn @ Mainstage

Paul Oakenfold and me @ Mainstage

Clubstage

For all pictures: Click here!

Movies:
Mark Norman : BT - Somnambulist (Mark Norman Remix)
Sander van Doorn
Markus Schulz : Bart Claessen - Playmo (1)
Markus Schulz : Bart Claessen - Playmo (2)

More movies made by me: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=sirsmirnoff



Enjoy! 

BTW, nice meeting you all! I had an amazing time!  :)

Oh yeah! What an amazing night it was last night in Club Asta, The Hague!
The Intuition Winter Event with DJ's Menno de Jong, Jonas Steur, Orkidea, Andy Moor and Airbase was wicked!

The nice thing on their events is that a lot of people who are making music, are on those parties as well! Besides the DJ's who had to spin, I saw and spoke to Robert Nickson, Galen Behr (Passiva), Joni Ljungqvist (JPL / LNQ), Ruben de Ronde, Leon Bolier (Subsphere / Mindsensation), Misja Helsloot, Robert Burns, Thomas Bronzwaer (Arizona), Paul Moelands (Re:Locate / Octagen), Joost van der Vleuten (Latigidi), Maarten van Bergen (Amphiby) and Jan Waterman (Yanave).

All pics: http://www.sirsmirnoff.tk

My review can be found on the website of United Recordings and also on Trance.nu. Here are the direct links:

http://trance.nu/v3/article_show.php?id=207
http://www.unitedrecordings.com/news_details.php?id=528&action=thisweek

Thanks to Menno de Jong for the guestlist spots!