m.i.k.e (Bonzai)

i have recently (re)discovered the bonzai sound, and ordered a shitload of bonzai vinyl yesterday (at a great price too!!!). i am into techno of all varieties in a big way and have been for years, but lately have found myself drifting back to my roots!! i grew up with trance, and what with techno, harder trance etc over the last few years have slipped away from the sound i loved so much!! i have just bought an Allen and Heath Xone 62 and suddenly my passion 4 progressive and tech trance has sprung back to life!! is any1 else on this forum into bonzai style trance?? i also like uplifting trance (i know bonzai can be uplifting but im talking about armin kinda stuff), but am very picky with it!! if any1 has any suggestions on labels i should check out to discover new tribal techy trance, i would very much like to hear from you. i have some money to blow at the moment and i plan to cain alot of it on trance!!! any help would be great!! cheers.... Bayley

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Originally Posted by bayley

i have recently (re)discovered the bonzai sound, and ordered a shitload of bonzai vinyl yesterday (at a great price too!!!). i am into techno of all varieties in a big way and have been for years, but lately have found myself drifting back to my roots!! i grew up with trance, and what with techno, harder trance etc over the last few years have slipped away from the sound i loved so much!! i have just bought an Allen and Heath Xone 62 and suddenly my passion 4 progressive and tech trance has sprung back to life!! is any1 else on this forum into bonzai style trance?? i also like uplifting trance (i know bonzai can be uplifting but im talking about armin kinda stuff), but am very picky with it!! if any1 has any suggestions on labels i should check out to discover new tribal techy trance, i would very much like to hear from you. i have some money to blow at the moment and i plan to cain alot of it on trance!!! any help would be great!! cheers.... Bayley

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Love the Bonzai sound mate! To be honest i would class all of Bonzai as Uplifting Trance. I have just been buying loads of Old Skool Hard Trance lately, nothing too old, the sound i love most is prob from the earliest 99 - 2004 (top end)
Purchased some minters from the likes of (Labels) - Propeller, Phonetic, Harem, Bonzai and Sonar to name a few.
Where did you snap up your Bonzai stuff and for how much?

mate i get them from chemical records... www.chemical-records.co.uk check it out. there are a load on there for under 2 quid each!! stupid prices!! mine arrived today!! really enjoy mixing trance!! i suggest u get in there before its too late!!!

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Originally Posted by bayley

mate i get them from chemical records... www.chemical-records.co.uk check it out. there are a load on there for under 2 quid each!! stupid prices!! mine arrived today!! really enjoy mixing trance!! i suggest u get in there before its too late!!!

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Nice 1 geeza ;)

m.i.k.e. has always been one of my fav producers, quality melodic trance at its best! :)

bonzai rule

Yea ive just a couple of old ones.

Old is the best if you ask me

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Originally Posted by djfase

Yea ive just a couple of old ones.

Old is the best if you ask me

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There all good but yes the old are the classics. "The First Rebirth" What a tune! :rambo:

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Originally Posted by bayley

mate i get them from chemical records... www.chemical-records.co.uk check it out. there are a load on there for under 2 quid each!! stupid prices!! mine arrived today!! really enjoy mixing trance!! i suggest u get in there before its too late!!!

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Checked them out mate, gonna order some tonight! Shame there wasnt more of the better one's for those prices but still cant complain!! Some of them are from 1995!!

M.I.K.E is on at The Gallery on the 1st Sept,at Turnmills in London.

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Originally Posted by man_D

M.I.K.E is on at The Gallery on the 1st Sept,at Turnmills in London.

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sweet .. would love to go to that, but cant be assed to drive to london.. such a mission from here. i saw him play at global gathering a few years ago, and was a cracking atmosphere!! i am gonna start attending more trance events.. im a bit sick of the same old round here,, hardstyle is boring the shit out of me now, apart from a very few little numbers... and there is no trance played in hereford whatsoever!! but we are planning to go to sensation white next yearr!!

MIKE is immense, im not overly into his uplifting sound now. It seems to have been the same for years, but his techier/grungier stuff Im really into.

Most releases on Club Elite are ace!

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Originally Posted by bayley

i have recently (re)discovered the bonzai sound, and ordered a shitload of bonzai vinyl yesterday (at a great price too!!!). i am into techno of all varieties in a big way and have been for years, but lately have found myself drifting back to my roots!! i grew up with trance, and what with techno, harder trance etc over the last few years have slipped away from the sound i loved so much!! i have just bought an Allen and Heath Xone 62 and suddenly my passion 4 progressive and tech trance has sprung back to life!! is any1 else on this forum into bonzai style trance?? i also like uplifting trance (i know bonzai can be uplifting but im talking about armin kinda stuff), but am very picky with it!! if any1 has any suggestions on labels i should check out to discover new tribal techy trance, i would very much like to hear from you. i have some money to blow at the moment and i plan to cain alot of it on trance!!! any help would be great!! cheers.... Bayley

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Trance imo worth checkin out in the techier field are.........

divini and warning - 4lb
rk - plastic fantastic
signum signal - back at ya
Signum - wat you got 4 me 06 mix and supersonic
Anything by Mac Zimms
Mac and Mac
Dj Shog - jealousy (Marcel woods rmx)
Dj Preach - Broken inside (nice crossover toon)
Jowan - Face plant
Dj Montana - Platinum
Club Scene investigators - Direct Disko (Sander van doorn rmx)
Joy T Suko - Distincto
Valo K - Club sensation anthem (Peetu s rmx)
Mallorca lee and David Forbes - Close your eyes
Eric Sneo - Ghostbuster


all that kinda techy sound or crossing over into trance or techno.

Awoooooooga

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Originally Posted by Paul Nisbet

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Originally Posted by bayley

i have recently (re)discovered the bonzai sound, and ordered a shitload of bonzai vinyl yesterday (at a great price too!!!). i am into techno of all varieties in a big way and have been for years, but lately have found myself drifting back to my roots!! i grew up with trance, and what with techno, harder trance etc over the last few years have slipped away from the sound i loved so much!! i have just bought an Allen and Heath Xone 62 and suddenly my passion 4 progressive and tech trance has sprung back to life!! is any1 else on this forum into bonzai style trance?? i also like uplifting trance (i know bonzai can be uplifting but im talking about armin kinda stuff), but am very picky with it!! if any1 has any suggestions on labels i should check out to discover new tribal techy trance, i would very much like to hear from you. i have some money to blow at the moment and i plan to cain alot of it on trance!!! any help would be great!! cheers.... Bayley

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Trance imo worth checkin out in the techier field are.........

divini and warning - 4lb
rk - plastic fantastic
signum signal - back at ya
Signum - wat you got 4 me 06 mix and supersonic
Anything by Mac Zimms
Mac and Mac
Dj Shog - jealousy (Marcel woods rmx)
Dj Preach - Broken inside (nice crossover toon)
Jowan - Face plant
Dj Montana - Platinum
Club Scene investigators - Direct Disko (Sander van doorn rmx)
Joy T Suko - Distincto
Valo K - Club sensation anthem (Peetu s rmx)
Mallorca lee and David Forbes - Close your eyes
Eric Sneo - Ghostbuster


all that kinda techy sound or crossing over into trance or techno.

Awoooooooga

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Paul that tech-trance demo from you is absolute masterpiece trance!! The best trance i have heard in along time and also one of the bestg mixes i gave heard in a while. Been meaning to ask you for a tracklist mate?

Cheeeeeeeeeeeers dood.

Glad your feeeeeelin it.

Hereeee ya go

1) Airbase - Escape - Intution recordings
2) Lange vs Gareth Emery - Three - Lange recordings
3) Sander van doorn - Pumpkin (SVD Rmx) - Oxygen Recordings
4) Shocksteady - Take a ride (Brazilian wax rmx) - Liquid
5) Re:Locate - Remorse - Galactive
6) Fred Baker vs Greg Nash - System Activated (Fred Baker rmx) - 2 Play
7) Sandra Fly - Rockin - Midway Recordings
8) Ferry Corsten - Whatever (Marcel woods rmx) - Tsunami
9) Substate - Horizon (Mac Zimms rmx) - Liquid
10) Dj Shog - Jealousy (Marcel Woods rmx) - Logport
11) JOY T SUKO - Electric - Outstanding recordings
12) Benjamin R - Hybrid - Druck

Hopefully speak to ya sometimes on msn when you dont confuse me for greg (where is he anyways?)

;-)

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Originally Posted by Paul Nisbet

Cheeeeeeeeeeeers dood.

Glad your feeeeeelin it.

Hereeee ya go

1) Airbase - Escape - Intution recordings
2) Lange vs Gareth Emery - Three - Lange recordings
3) Sander van doorn - Pumpkin (SVD Rmx) - Oxygen Recordings
4) Shocksteady - Take a ride (Brazilian wax rmx) - Liquid
5) Re:Locate - Remorse - Galactive
6) Fred Baker vs Greg Nash - System Activated (Fred Baker rmx) - 2 Play
7) Sandra Fly - Rockin - Midway Recordings
8) Ferry Corsten - Whatever (Marcel woods rmx) - Tsunami
9) Substate - Horizon (Mac Zimms rmx) - Liquid
10) Dj Shog - Jealousy (Marcel Woods rmx) - Logport
11) JOY T SUKO - Electric - Outstanding recordings
12) Benjamin R - Hybrid - Druck

Hopefully speak to ya sometimes on msn when you dont confuse me for greg (where is he anyways?)

;-)

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Nice 1 bud!! Yeah will catch ya on msn Paul, no worries!!
Last time i spoke to Greg was on msn a few weeks ago, he doesnt come on here as much now.

Speak soon, take it easy

Just seen this thread just now. M.I.K.E. is without a doubt, one of, if not, the greatest trance producer. Maybe I'm slightly biased seeing as I worship the guy, but I just think you're hard pushed to find a producer who has consistantly delivered the good's with as much quality as him. Even the likes of Oliver Lieb, much as I appreciate his stuff, I just don't think anyone comes close.

I'm not really so keen on some of the more techy stuff he's done of late, but I just got the Plastic Boy remix he did of his tune Slavation, off his Perfect Blend album and it's a belter. Probably just as good as Live Another Life or Twixt!!!!

Also, recently, I heard a sample of the Push Dub Remix of Alex Bartlett - Amnesia. I don't know when it's supposed to be coming out but it's f**kin' class. Just like his old stuff. Hopefully, there's gonna be more Plastic Boy/Push stuff coming in the near future. Finger's crossed!!!!

Also, If you go onto the djmixes bittorrent site, the address is http://mixes.dfx.at/rules.php and register for free, there is a torrent that's still up on their site that has about 1.8 Gig's worth of M.I.K.E's sets.

The set's are as follows,,,,,,

01-m.i.k.e-armada_night__asta_the_hague_(fresh_fm)-radio-02-29-2004-mim.mp3 236.16 MB
01-m.i.k.e-electronicult_at_radio_bu_israel_08-08-2002-1real.mp3 153.99 MB
01-m.i.k.e-live_on_jjj_the_club-fm-02-25-2005-doc_live.mp3 65.70 MB
01-m.i.k.e.-the_vanishing_point_011_(party107)-27-02-2006-1king.mp3 69.77 MB
01-m.i.k.e._-_live_at_rotationz_(topradio)-cable-09-17-2005-hsalive-djmixes2k.com.mp3 68.74 MB
01-m.i.k.e._aka_push_-_live_at_club_riverside_24-07-2005-djmixes2k.com.mp3 199.71 MB
01-M.I.K.E._Global_DJ_Broadcast_Party_931_03-01-2005_Part_1.mp3 76.41 MB
01-markus_schulz_presents_(M.I.K.E._guest_mix)-global_dj_broadcast-26-05-2005-itwt.mp3 80.19 MB
01_m.i.k.e._-_rotationz_mix_session_17-12-2005-hblive.mp3 66.12 MB
02-M.I.K.E._Global_DJ_Broadcast_Party_931_03-01-2005_Part_2.mp3 76.89 MB
ASOT 090 - (2003-03-27) - XXL Part 2 (MIKE Non-Stop In The Mix).mp3 88.15 MB
ASOT 090 - (2003-03-27) - XXL Part 3 (MIKE Special).mp3 62.64 MB
ASOT 132 - (2004-01-22) - Part 2 (MIKE).mp3 78.73 MB
M.I.K.E. @ Club Elite - March 2006.mp3 82.50 MB
M.I.K.E. @ Global DJ Broadcast on Party 931(02-09-2004).mp3 78.86 MB
M.I.K.E.-Tranceescape_live_at_to_see_club-(03-05-03).mp3 157.50 MB
m.i.k.e._-_live_on_99esc_radio-sat-12-10-2004-hsalive.mp3 81.66 MB

I used to go the site a lot, but to keep using it, you have to configure your router to allow folk to upload from you. I'm too f**kin' dumb to be able to do this!!!:laughing: but even if you can't manage to set up your router for this, you'll still be able to grab the lot of the M.I.K.E. set's before your ratio goes too low. Just if any of you's are interested. I just looked on it and there's still about 9 people seeding the files, so you should get them no bother!!!!!!:;

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Originally Posted by michael00elder

Just seen this thread just now. M.I.K.E. is without a doubt, one of, if not, the greatest trance producer. Maybe I'm slightly biased seeing as I worship the guy, but I just think you're hard pushed to find a producer who has consistantly delivered the good's with as much quality as him. Even the likes of Oliver Lieb, much as I appreciate his stuff, I just don't think anyone comes close.

I'm not really so keen on some of the more techy stuff he's done of late, but I just got the Plastic Boy remix he did of his tune Slavation, off his Perfect Blend album and it's a belter. Probably just as good as Live Another Life or Twixt!!!!

Also, recently, I heard a sample of the Push Dub Remix of Alex Bartlett - Amnesia. I don't know when it's supposed to be coming out but it's f**kin' class. Just like his old stuff. Hopefully, there's gonna be more Plastic Boy/Push stuff coming in the near future. Finger's crossed!!!!

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Deffo an immense producer, and i would say Scot Project is in this same league regarding production and consistancy.

Yeah hopefully more work under his 'push' name, love his older stuff more!

Cherrymoon Trax - Alternation, Moon Project - Glow. Do it for me everytime.