Special Mix Tape: Trance Showdown
Mixing: Derek Moxam, Music Supervision: Cliff McGoldrick
This month, we have two very special guests contributing to the mix tape. Friends to many of us in the Alternavox family, Derek and Cliff bring you ‘Trance Showdown,’ a compilation of classic and cutting-edge trance tracks that celebrate a special and unique time in electronic-music history. A time when everything was exciting and the possibilities were endless. Everything seemed new, particularly the music and after-hours was simply a way of life. If you lived in Toronto in the late 90s and at the start of the last decade, and you were “in the scene,” you will remember the clubs, the warehouses, the impromptu parties, the promoters, the djs, but most of all you will remember the music; dancing with your friends, meeting new ones and watching the sun come up. We thank them for reminding us what it is all about and hope we’ll be hearing more mix tapes from them in the future.
Turn this shit up and take it to the next level!
- Universal Nation - Push
- Cream (ATB Remix) - Blank & Jones
- Stop the Rock (Gigolo’s Stop the Jocks Remix) - Apollo 440
- Mr. Brightside (Blank & Jones Remix) - The Killers
- Trance Indicator (Plastic Boy Remix) - Push
- Everytime (Nalin & Kane Remix) - Lustral (XO)
- Ligaya ( Ferry Corsten Remix) - Gouryella
- Kathy’s Song ( Ferry Corsten Remix) - Apoptygma Berzerk
- Barber’s Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix) - William Orbit
- Feel Free - Yves Deruyter
- 1998 (ATB Remix) - Binary Finary
- Cafe Del Mar (Paul Oakenfold Mix) - Energy 52
- Beautiful Day - Hypertrophy
To listen to this mix click below:
Author: 
Publisher-Creator Mikhail Saavedra began life down by the deepest tip of southern Latin America. He started life with a deep curiosity for all things, with music and books being at the forefront, a curious child by all accounts. As he grew and opened his eyes to the world, he developed a sense of justice and dignity in part as a reaction to growing up in a military dictatorship. Alas, this did not fill him with fear or cynicism but a more rebellious spirit, which led him to being incredibly popular at the principal’s office and the local riot police department….
Then came Canada and it was here that he was able to formulate his deep desire to learn about the world, with Toronto being the kind of multicultural soup that could engage his need to know and embrace. It started with writing, then moved on to what became Toronto’s first Latin Alternative radio show, followed by an all-English show in the same vein. It was this desire to find the true “crossover” among people, which led him to the concept of “Alternavox”
He is a lover of wine, good food, Neruda, Eduardo Galeano, rebel music, revolutionaries, dancing, family and beautiful people. Believes that kindness in this much too cynical world is revolutionary, that you are a better person when able to give a little without asking for the change and that on the same token you should laugh at yourself and the madness surrounding you as often as possible as you set out to change the world bit by bit. 
the memories, ohhh the memories… thanks so much for this…
this is the quintessential driving mix. gave it a whirl on my way into the city yesterday, and it’s really uplifiting. hard to believe how may people went in and out of that apt on dundonald…we were def youth gone wild. memories for a lifetime.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times sometimes, but it was OUR TIME and I will never forget it. Friendships flourished and memories made. We WERE IT!!!! A magical time xoxo
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I really like The Killers they are without doubt one of my top rated bands. Still I’ve got to say I ran across this first class mr brightside cover version on Youtube . com a few days ago and i think I prefer it more than the classic version!