Hardtrance megamix 08

06 is down.  08 is sorted.  I've added five more tracks to the list.  I've got another several to add, but I'll work on that over the next few days and they'll start getting sorted in in 09.

I've also found that I have a mismatch between the number of files in my collection and the number of tracks listed on my spreadsheet.  My spreadsheet is missing one!  I'll have to spend a little bit of time figuring out which one soon.  That won't be easy, sadly.  When you're trying to figure out why one is 698 data points and the other is 699, it's not as easy as when it's 6.

• Arome - Visions of Paradize [DJ Scot Project Remix]
• A*S*Y*S - Acid Nightmare [Future Tribes Remix]
• Kai Tracid - Too Many Times [Yoda Remix]
• Dr. Willis - Spice [DJ Wag Mix]
• Mikado - Sex-O-Matic [Club-O-Matic]
• Cosmic Gate - Human Beings [Dave 202 & Phil Green Mix]
• Pulsedriver - Recycle [Club Mix]
• Scooter - Back In Time
• Bytes Brothers - Trancemission
• Jay Walker - I Am Here [Fast Floor Remix]
• A*S*Y*S - Acid Nightmare [Pila's 2006 Update]
• Pacific Link - Espace [Hardstyle Mix 2]
• Kidd Kaos & Joe E - Control Interference
• Demonic Emotions - Stuck on a Spacetrip [Jon the Dentist Remix]

Arome continues to defy the odds and make more appearances than they should.  While noting that of all the A*S*Y*S songs I had, I hadn't got any of the many "Acid Nightmare" versions that I've collected over the years, I now got two in one mix (so obviously, the second had to be skipped.)  Curiously, both are from the 2006 re-release with new mixes—the Future Tribes mix that I'm keeping is (obviously) remixed by Future Tribes, one member of which is Frank Ellrich—founding and continuing (and now only) member of A*S*Y*S himself.  Dr. Willis is an alias of DJ Wag, and Mikado is a duo that contains DJ Wag, so that's too much DJ Wag.  However, I wasn't so strict with Kai Tracid who is also a founding member of A*S*Y*S and with the group for much of their best and early output (including "Acid Nightmare.")  Considering the significant difference in style between Kai Tracid and A*S*Y*S work, I think that's OK.  I really think of A*S*Y*S as Frank Ellrich's pet project, and he just collaborated a bit with Kai Franz for the first several songs.

Scooter is an interesting one; I threw that on on a whim, because I liked it from way back in the late 90s when I bought the (what was then) Scooter greatest hits CD.  "Back in Time" is the B-side to "Move Your Ass" and Scooter is best known, of course, as a late 90s and early 00s Happy Hardcore outfit.  But I always thought that "Back In Time" sounded kind of hard trancey, and sure enough, if you look up the "Move Your Ass" single, which includes both that song (in two versions that are basically the same except for length) and the B-side, the style labels are Hard Trance and Happy Hardcore.  So discogs agrees with me that "Back In Time" is a hardtrancer!  Not that I'm trying to align myself with discogs, of course, but it's interesting nonetheless, to see that we're on the same page.