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I have been listening to “Lullaby” by _Ghost for a few weeks now and find my self coming back to it. It really only has the one idea but it’s not bad one. Everything in this piece revolves around the voice and it’s ethereal treatment. The chime tones are pretty and the washes in the [...]

The Morrighan are great, no two ways about it. I stumbled across them last year and was totally blown away by the energy this band develops. But, lets start this review somewhere back in our childhoods…
Remember the buzz you got at Christmas when you discovered the biggest package under the chrissie tree had your [...]

Artist: Greg Baumont
Website: http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/greg.baumont/ or http://www.greg-baumont.com/
Track Name: Light A Rainbow (featuring Tukan)
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes
Today we will have a look at Greg Baumont and his remix using Tukan’s acapella of “Light a Rainbow”. A slick and sophisticated arrangement that oozes craft. The backings are so understated and yet so musically intriguing especially with [...]

Artist: The Morrighan
Website: http://www.morrighan.com/ or http://www.myspace.com/themorrighanband
Track Name: Wilderness
Playback: flash
Download?: No
I honestly have no idea how I stumbled on this, but bloody hell this band could solve the energy crisis. I was totally floored when I discovered this was actually a band, not just some guy in his bedroom with a ton of toys (nothing [...]

Artist: Armin van Buuren
Website: http://www.myspace.com/arminvanbuuren or http://stage.arminvanbuuren.com/
I was chatting with a friend of mind earlier in the week about trance and he had never heard of Armin van Buuren. So we chatted about how he worked as a producer and a DJ and how he has the prettiest MySpace site that I have seen for [...]

Artist: Ambient Teknology
Website: http://www.ateknology.co.uk/ or http://www.myspace.com/ambientteknology
Track Name: The Devil’s Toxin
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

The Devil’s Toxin comes from the album of the same name and is the latest creation of Ambient Teknology. This album drives at 100 miles an hour, and when it slow’s down it’s an exploration of the dark and mysterious places [...]

A bit of a departure today.
While researching up some more contenders for the weekly Chill section I found the amazing tranceportal.org.
They are a trance music collective based in San Francisco, California, who host a regular music show called Trance Tuesday which they then turn into a podcast.
You can subscribe to their podcast from their [...]