Out April 3rd!

Ultra Music Festival 2012 is taking place during the March 23 – 25 weekend in Miami, Florida. They have reunited with Winter Music Conference this year to occur during the same week.

If you were planning to go then hopefully you already got tickets, because it’s sold out! They expect over 200,000 people to attend.

The Phase 1 lineup includes Tiesto and Armin van Buuren. Hopefully more Trance names are added in the Phase 2 lineup, but maybe the best places to find trance are the Above & Beyond Group Therapy show which takes place on Thursday March 22nd or ASOT 500.

Full details can be found at www.ultramusicfestival.com

We’ve heard the album, and it really is awesome!

Check out their full review here.

This latest one is called ‘Mozart’. The video isn’t quite stellar, but the track sure is! You can hear it on Daybreak FM.

Check out the video…

Lange Interview:

Kelvin Ramirez: Your new album “Lange Remixed” features some of the most popular vocalists trance music has to offer: Emma Hewitt, Sarah Howells, Jennifer Karr, Kirsty Hawkshaw and more. Are there any you haven’t worked with yet that you’d love to or one you eagerly want to work with again?

Lange: There are quite a few vocalists I hope to work with at some stage, probably too many to mention. I’m about to start writing my 3rd artist album and already have some great songs lined up, including some vocalists from outside the trance/edm genre. That’s something I always enjoy doing where possible; introducing new talent into the scene.

Kelvin Ramirez: You also include some of trance’s best artists like Andy Moor, Mat Zo, Kyau & Albert, Tritonal, Myon & Shane 54, Dash Berlin and more. When creating a compilation such as this, do you have a list in your head of talent you would like to have on the album even before you start?

Lange: Yes, I had a good think about which existing mixes i wanted to include and which artists i wanted to get on board for the new remixes. This was a very interesting project for me. The plan was for me to include some of the best existing remixes that feature on Lange Recordings along with a whole bunch of newly commissioned remixes of my own productions that have also featured on the label. CD one is Lange the artist ‘remixed’, CD Two, showcases more of the label.

It was always my intention to make 2 Dj mixes from the available remixes, so not knowing exactly how all the remixes would turn out added a further twist! It actually turned out to be one of the easiest compilation tracklists to ‘program’ and there’s a great diversity of mixes too as I deliberately chose quite a wide spectrum of remixers.

Kelvin Ramirez: “Lange Remixed” contains a variety of your biggest hits throughout the years, remixed. Arguably your best track to date is missing from that list, “Drifting Away“. Did you originally consider having this tune remixed and put on the CD or is it possible some classics were never meant to be remixed?

Lange: This album only features music released on Lange Recordings so “Drifting Away” was never going to be considered for this project.

Kelvin Ramirez: Your record label Lange Recordings prides itself on focusing on quality rather than quantity and that can’t be more true than with the wide array of established and up and coming talent on the 2nd disc of your new album. One name that stuck out to us is a fan favorite for both of our stations, Tritonal. What was it about their music that made you want to work with them?

Lange: They’ve fine tuned their sound over the past 18 months, and I thought they’d be perfect for a remix on the Steve Brian & Noel Gitman track. They did a great job on it!

Kelvin Ramirez: You were recently mentioned in a Tweet by Armin van Buuren congratulating you and Mark Sherry on Mark’s remix of your 2008 hit, “Songless“, which was played on ASOT Episode 525. As fans know, you were also a part of the global trance celebration that was ASOT 500 a few months back. What was it like being a part of electronic dance music history?

Lange: I’ve been involved in so many exciting moments of Trance history over the past decade and ASOT 500 was a special event. I enjoyed ASOT 450 the previous year, but the 500 celebrations definitely took the event to a new level. What was really surprising was the global online response to the events. My twitter was literally on fire with feedback on my set. The South African crowd’s were great fun, and i look forward to returning there at some stage.

Kelvin Ramirez: Once “Lange Remixed” is released, what will you be focusing on next?

Lange: It’s out on 17th October, but once my promotional work is done I’ll be firmly focused on studio work for my next album. As I said earlier I’ve already got some great vocalists lined up so I’m very keen to make a start at writing album number 3!

Thank you

For more information, be sure to check out Lange on Facebook, follow Lange on Twitter and check out the Official Lange website.

The pyrotechnics to follow is quite awkward.

Regardless of anybody’s opinion on who should have won, booing should only be done on Halloween.

Take it for what you will. The DJ Mag Top 100 is often criticized as being a popularity contest, but regardless, here are some other DJ’s of interest! The top 25 was dominated by trance!

Tiesto #3

Above & Beyond #5

Dash Berlin #8

Markus Schulz #9

Paul van Dyk #11

Gareth Emery #13

ATB #15

Sander van Doorn #16

Ferry Corsten #18

Aly & Fila #22

Arty #25

See the complete list here

Above & Beyond return to Australia in September 2011 bringing along Jaytech & Mat Zo!

Each show includes local talent from each city.

View the lineups below..

09.09.11 – Metro City, Perth
Above & Beyond
Jaytech
Mat Zo
GeRmAn
Illuminor

10.09.11 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Above & Beyond
Jaytech
Mat Zo
Arbor
Nathan Cryptic

15.09.11 – HQ Complex, Adelaide
Above & Beyond
Jaytech
Mat Zo
DJ Frost
Solace vs Andrew Howlett

16.09.11 – Family, Brisbane
Above & Beyond
Jaytech
Mat Zo
F&E
Angus

17.09.11 – Festival Hall, Melbourne
Above & Beyond
Jaytech
Mat Zo
MaRLo
Trent McDermott
Papa Smurf

For tickets click here.