Welcome to our newest weekly feature, Thuggish Thursdays with Theo. If anyone is qualified to decide what is thuggish enough for a Thuggish Thursday, it is the man we have selected for the job. Enjoy!
This feature is all about those soulful hip-hop joints that you may have inadvertently slept on, or forgotten. It’s O.K. that you missed them! It’s not your fault. That’s why I’m here. I’ve dug into the archives and sifted out the most necessary gems, guaranteed to summon your inner swagger. So, shut up, adjust your bass, light the blunt, and press play. BANG, BANG.
Now that we're starting to get a hang of this whole blog thing, Digital Dankness is looking forward to adding several daily features, and lucky for you today is TRANCE TUESDAY.
First up we have a huge track by Ost & Meyer that has been widely supported throughout the trance community, most notably Above & Beyond. Amazing track, really gets good around the 25 second mark. Here's Antalya: Ost & Meyer - Antalya by Anjunabeats
Eric Prydz, a name you may recognize from his classic track "Call On Me", has been in the game for a while, and knows what he's doing. His recent EP "Pryda" was hugely successful, and definitely ventures more into the realm of trance than his "Call On Me" days. Before the EP's release earlier this year, he released this beautiful, 8 minute melodic track entitled "Melo". Do yourself a favor and turn this up and listen through to learn how the pros do it. Even better, you can download it free here
Next up, a track that was officially released yesterday on Beatport, but has already been loved by many including the legendary Armin Van Buuren on ASOT 560. Heatbeat goes hard on "Chow Mein":
Also off of A State of Trance 560 is Rafael Frost's latest hit "Channel 4". The track starts off kind of hard, then the melody pulls you in around 3:00. Give it a listen and download it free here.
Last but definitely not least for this week's Trance Tuesday is an edit of Denzal Park's banger Amarok. The track builds up softly until the 1-minute mark where Park comes in with some nice hard synths, just when it seems like it's too good to be true, at around 2:20 the real melody begins its smooth ascension. Below we have an edit by Felix Leiter who chops it up nicely near the end, but otherwise this version is almost the same as the original, except this one is free. Check it out! "FREE DOWNLOAD" Denzal Park - Amarok (Original vs. Felix Leiter Northern Hemisphere Mix) [Enigma! Mashup] by Enigma!
And that's it for the first ever TRANCE TUESDAY here at Digital Dankness. I hope you enjoy it, and for those of you not as familiar with trance: give it a chance and you will see why millions around the world have fallen in a trance for this beautiful type of music. That was a really bad pun, I don't apologize.
