Rene Stone

Live from New York, it's… Paul Brittain! Sketches include "Harry Reid Rally," "Baby Spanx," "Dream Home Extreme," "WXPD 9 News," "Sign My Cast" (Digital Short), "The View," "Wrangler Open Fly Jeans," "Les Jeunes de Paris," "My Brother Knows Everything," "Ed Vincent's Sex Symposium," and "Googie Rene's Halloween Partially Damaged Discount Basement." Kings of Leon performed "Radioactive" and "The Immortals."

Cycles is Max Graham’s “Yearly Snapshot” of his own musical journey, a collection representing the natural progression in his taste. As always with Cycles the elements of melody shine through this classically mixed compilation (like Graham’s own ‘Redemption’ and his remix of Solid Stone and Jennifer Rene’s haunting vocal tune ‘Not Enough’), but much like his successful career over so many years the mix takes a wide arc of influence as it moves from Tim Penner’s lovely piano opening to Alex Di Stefano’s tough as nails “Black Panther” and back down to a perfectly fitting closing track by Gai Barone entitled “Psycles”. Graham delivers his annual state of the trance nation address and it's far removed from the glowstick-led buffoonery of mainstream EDM iterations of the sound.

This set brings together the finest R&B instrumentals recorded in 1957, putting the spotlight both on long-forgotten records by established artists and fabulous obscurities by long-forgotten ones! It's a cracking compilation from start to finish: Mid-West electric blues, Southern swamp rock, spicy New Orleans rhythms, sophisticated West-Coast productions and East Coast city blues, dominated by guitarists and saxophonists but interspersed with a few organists, accordionists, pianists and harmonicists .

Ennio Morricone was probably the most famous film composer of the 20th century. He was also one of the most prolific composers working in any medium. No exact figure is available, but he scored over 500 films over several decades, plus many dozens of classical works. While his film scores were in almost every imaginable musical style (and for almost every imaginable kind of movie), he was most identified with the "spaghetti Western" style of soundtracks, which he pioneered when providing the musical backdrop for the films of director Sergio Leone. Morricone's palette was extraordinarily diverse, drawing from classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic, avant-garde, and Italian music, among other styles. Esteemed by such important figures in modern music as John Zorn (not to mention contemporary directors like Martin Scorsese), he was frequently placed among not just the finest soundtrack composers but the most important contemporary composers of any sort.

With a vast selection of extraordinary trance records in its ranks, another all-embracing volume of ‘Trance 100’ looms on the horizon. Never forsworn, never untrue, the Trance 100 compilation is loyal to its fans, picking all of its favorites of the year of 2015 and placing them in this full-blown package. Catering to all of your needs at once, the best artists and tunes have been gathered and are on the verge of blowing your mind again. Encapsulating masterpieces from the likes of Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, W&W and a lot more of today’s finest artists, these four CDs are all you’ll need for a long, long time. Listen to Orjan Nilsen ‘Don’, Dash Berlin & Syzz ‘This Is Who We Are’, Andrew Rayel & Alexander Popov ‘Mimesis’, or any of the hundred gems given another chance to shine, just to relive or discover the highlights of the year.