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Name: Twan van Loon / Dance Mania
Home Page: http://www.myspace.com/twann0
Member Since: Oct 14, 2001
Rank: 6129
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.96, 612 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (3.91, 11 votes)
Rated 1310 releases, average: 4.15
Location: Asten, the Netherlands
Profile: My interest in music already started when I was a little kid. Since the mid 80's I'm addicted to music and since the early 90's I started to collect CD's and vinyls.

In September 1993 I started working for a local radio station in the south of the Netherlands. First the show was called 'Bassline', but after a few years we decided to name the show 'Dancemania'. 'Dancemania' is a weekly show and we play all kinds of electronic dance music in it such as house, club, progressive and trance.

I also worked as a DJ in local bars / clubs for over 10 years, but medio 2008 I decided to stop with DJ-ing, so right now I'm only DJ-ing for the radio station.

I'm also working for Trance.nu as a contributor. I write news-items, party reviews, CD reviews, but most people might know me because of the many interviews that I've done for the website (plus our radio show as well). In the last couple of years I did interviews with lot of well known DJ's and producers such as: Tiësto, Ferry Corsten, Paul van Dyk, BT, Markus Schulz, Geert Huinink, Bart Claessen, Leon Bolier, Breakfast, Junkie XL, Laurent Véronnez (L-Vee), Arnej, Joni Ljungqvist, Gabriel & Dresden, Mark Norman, Sander Kleinenberg, André Tanneberger (ATB), Ben Liebrand, Marcel Woods, Phynn, Ralph Barendse (Ralphie B / First State), Menno de Jong, Paul Moelands (Re:Locate), Rank 1, Marco V, Benjamin Bates, Jonas Steur, Marcus Schössow, Super8 & Tab, Tritonal, Adam Sheridan, Envio, Mark Otten, Jochen Miller, Dumonde, Mojado, Cor Fijneman, DJ Dazzle, Johan Gielen, Ron van den Beuken, Eelke Kleijn, Jes Brieden, Hemstock & Jennings, Tom Harding, Joris van der Straten (C-Quence), Rafaël Frost,Lemon & Einar K, Blank & Jones, Ernesto vs Bastian, Ronald van Gelderen, M.I.K.E. (Push) and many, many others.

And last but not least, I work at Dance Therapy Productions, which is the management / bookings company of Ferry Corsten, Breakfast, Lange, Solarstone, Bart Claessen and Rafaël Frost. I'm taking care of the content for all websites and I'm also responsible for various things for his labels Flashover Recordings and the sublabels Moody Moon Recordings, Levare Recordings, Aleph Recordings and Boom Tsjak.

My music collection:

My vinylshelves (on the left) and on the right you can see my CD wall

My vinyl collection (2 shelves) and on the right you see my CD wall.

I am ignoring ALL MP3 requests!

Normally I do NOT sell anything from my collection, unless somebody makes me an offer that I can't refuse! ;-)

Seller Rating:

100.0% positive (174 ratings)

Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (335 ratings)

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Michael Jackson - 25-Jun-09 04:56 PM
A very sad day in music history. Michael Jackson, The King Of Pop, died of only 50 years old. A couple of weeks before his many concerts in the O2 Arena in London. I grew up with Michael Jackson's songs, I got Thriller on LP and played it over and over, I went to his fantastic concert in Amsterdam in 1996 and bought all his albums etc. The worlds biggest and most famous entertainer ever is dead... Much too young!

rip

DJ Carl B.* - In Trance We Trust 013 - 19-Feb-09 11:20 AM
The CD starts with the great Cliff Coenraad & Thomas Hagenbeek Repimp of Cor Fijneman’s latest release ‘Disappear’. Together with the beautiful vocals of Melissa Mathes I think this is a perfect opener for this compilation. The second track is a brand new Carl B. production: ‘On Short Notice’. A nice instrumental trancey track that is followed up by the beautiful ‘Simple Pleasures’ from Belgian based producer Jonas Steur. A great production with a super sweet melody in it! The next track on the CD is a track that I’ve heard for the first time in the summer of 2008: ‘Cygnes’ from Mr Sam featuring clAud9. I loved this track from the minute I’ve heard it and I still love it! So I was happy to see this one in the tracklisting here. Next one up is a special Carl B. mash up: ‘Breathe In The Radar’, which contains First State’s ‘Off The Radar’ and Alex Kunnari’s ‘Breathe In’. The result is really cool and I think people who never heard both original tracks, have no idea that this one is actually a mash up!

After this one it’s time for 2 Carl B. collaborations; the first one is ‘Take Off’ together with Chris Renzl, a very nice and energetic trance track, followed up by ‘Orchid Blossom’, a great new production from Carl together with Joni Ljungqvist under his ‘JPL’ alias. This track was finished just in time for the compilation! And that’s good news, since ‘Orchid Blossom’ is a very nice euphoric track that shows that those 2 young Swedish producers know what they’re doing!

More energetic stuff follows with ‘Defination’ by ‘Virtual Vault’, but not straight from the beginning. First we hear a short orchestral piece and then it’s time for a lot of energy! Another beauty is ‘Sunshower’ by ‘Existone’, which is al alias of Russian producer Sergey Zarubin .’Sunshower’ is a very powerful trance track that recently was released on the ITWT label. Then we have ‘Renegades’, a collaboration between producers Thomas Sagstad and Tyler Michaud. On remix duty it’s ‘Elevation’, who delivers a great remix on this one. After ‘Renegades’ it’s time for a more tech orientated track; ‘Sticky Tape’, a cool production by Patrick Plaice and Frank Ellrich.

Track 12 on the album is a collaboration between Dutch top producers Sied van Riel and Geert Huinink. The sweet balearic guitar in ‘Sunrise’ makes me forget about the cold and wet Dutch winter we have right now! Carl decided to make a nice combination of the ‘Topher Jones Remix’ and the original version, which works out really well! Definitely one of my favorites on the album! Next one up is a track from Fred Numf, a Dutch producer who’s around in the music business for a very long time already. His contribution to the album is the track ‘Directions’, which is a vocal trance track combined with a nice guitar and some pumping beats! The last track on the album is ‘Tropical Shores’ by ‘Setrise vs Braend’. This one is a collaboration between Melle Bakker and Jens Wendel-Hansen, two new, young (both 17!!!) and very talented producers. Keep an eye on these guys! ‘Tropical Shores’ is a very warm, summer-ish track and a perfect one to end this compilation!

After various great releases and remixes for famous artists such as Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Markus Schulz and others, this CD is another highlight in the career of the young Swedish producer. Carl B. made a perfect selection of great, new tunes, mixed perfectly into 78 minutes of pure listening pleasure!

As always the CD comes with really nice artwork.. In Trance We Trust volume 13 is a beautiful, high quality mix compilation with lots of fresh and energetic tracks on it! A must have for all trance lovers! So … who said that 13 was not a lucky number?

U2 - Staring At The Sun (Brothers In Rhythm Remixes) - 17-Sep-08 05:40 AM
The Brothers In Rhythm Remixes of the U2 track "Staring At The Sun" started life as a bootleg, made of a live version from a U2 concert. When the band got to hear the mixes, they decided to give approval for a promo only release. So unfortunately the mixes never got a full / official release. This 12" vinyl got released in December 2002 to promote U2's "Best Of 1990-2000" compilation.

So this vinyl is a must have for real U2 fans! :)

System F - Out Of The Blue - 24-Apr-08 05:19 AM
This track is known nowadays as one of the most famous trance classics ever. Almost everybody knows the amazing riff, the cool synthesizer lead sound and the pumping beats of this track. ‘Out Of The Blue’ also inspired a lot of other people to start making music as well!

Another true story about the Out Of The Blue white label promo’s: Paul Oakenfold has also got a white label, but for some kind of reason he did not listen to it or he lost it. When he heard about the track and knew that a friend had it, he gave him 1.500 Dutch Guldens (now about € 750,-) for it!

As we all know, this release became a huge hit world wide!

Ferry Corsten - Infinite Euphoria - 02-Feb-08 08:02 AM
I absolutely love the unique concept of this double album! Since the release I have this beauty in my collection, but this weekend a friend reminded me how beautiful this album really is! I almost forgot about it, so I played it over and over again today and I'm just not getting bored of it at all!

On this album you can find some nice combinations and "strange" transitions, like "Barber's Adagio For Strings" by William Orbit into "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy, mixed into each other! Who could ever think of that? Two tracks of totally different genres and it works perfect! Same for the beautiful unplugged version of "Cry" from Ferry's project "System F", mixed into "No One On Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)" by Above & Beyond.

Note: CD 1 starts with a very special (never released) version by Moonman's "Galaxia". I believe this version was used during Ferry's wedding in May 2002.

A must have for every Ferry Corsten fan! :)

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