Derek Ryan - Fulla Stars
DJ Derek Ryan, DJ Sets, Melodic Trance, Prog. House, Prog. Trance
Fulla Stars
Whoa. Just moments ago I was yet a mere guest DJ and now I have been initiated into the hallowed halls and clandestine logins of the secret order of the Beatery.
And man, am I stoked to be here!
I’m honored that Cor, Jay, and Matt have welcomed me in to be part of the family!
I’ll be giving some major love to the realms of progressive, trance, and my secret dark lover drum n bass, so stay tuned…
I was planning for my first post as a resident editor to be super bangin, but then I got all spacey…^_^
I spent last weekend in bliss, dancing and DJing under the stars.
Out near Willits, in the middle of the forest, there’s no light pollution (except for the trippy lasers on the dancefloor!), so the whole of the night starscape is your playground — surrounded by swirling rhythms and flashing lights on the ground, then you look up and the vault of the heavens expands in every direction.
Then when your body tires, nothing beats laying down on the grass, looking upwards, and letting the vastness consume you.
This mix was made just after returning, and is born out of that feeling — of staring at the nocturnal sky in awe.
Derek Ryan - Fulla Stars (right click and “Save as…” to download)
8 tracks of bliss at mixtape side length:
1) Haylon - Starfighter (Observer & Heatcliff remix)
2) Gareth Emery - Metropolis
3) Oliver Smith - Restless
4) Dakota - Sin City (Rex Mundi remix)
5) Basil O’Glue - Invidia (Grube & Hovsepien remix)
6) Synthika - Lilacs
7) Rex Mundi - Opera of Northen Ocean (Phynn remix)
Remember Me - Ben Preston (Daniel Kandi’s Flashy Tribute mix)
welcome to the beatery, derek! don’t let my anti-trance reputation get under your skin (i take a lot of flack for being a hater on this blog, but i’m really more open-minded than they give me credit for). i’m especially looking forward to hearing what you have to offer in the D&B arena, as it’s one of my not-so-secret favs as well!!
hi! is that a c- for Cara?
whassup!
great to be here…have all sortsa goodies in store!
definitely excited to post about good dnb stuff as well, but…mark my words — before we’re through here I’ll getcha rethinking everything you know about trance ^_^
xoxo
yay derek welcome!! it’s great to have your happy enthusiasm for all music genres (trance in particular) represented on the good ol’beatery. I will take a plate of progressive with a huge side order of cheesy trance please!
uh oh derek, that sounds like a challenge!
(and yes, this is cara)
Welcome Derek! It’s great to have a progressive specialist in the blog, since Jay hasn’t brought the proggy stuff in quite a while (That’s right, I said it. Where’s it at, Jay?) And with you posting the Drum n Bass too, I think we’ll finally have a well-rounded music menu on the blog.
And b, the thing I love about the trance Derek plays is that it’s NOT cheesy. If it’s cheese you want, maybe Mars would be willing to record us a podcast…
Derek!!
So happy I can open this radness and play it on my Droid whenever I need a little trance “bump” in my day 
Once again rockin’ my world! So happy to have you on here
cara - yup, you better believe it’s a challenge!
lil b - glad to provide! I know you love it — I’ll do what I can to feed the hunger.
cor - makasete (leave it to me!). and yeah, not so cheesy on my end.
Liz - zomg hart! <3 much love atcha!
Welcome Derek, pleasure to have you on board! I can’t wait to check out the set and your posts. I’m sure you’re gonna bring a lot to the table.
@ Cor - Didn’t I just post the new Sahsa track? That not proggy enough for you? I’m actually working on a follow up to Searching so maybe that will sate your elusive progressive appetite
Gonna have to wait ’till I get back though.
~ j from Buenos Aires
Nope, Sasha track wasn’t proggy enough for me. That track is some house, down to the wah-wah guitar that plays through the entire thing.
A Searching follow-up will do nicely though. Look forward to hearing it.
Enjoyed the set, derek. Thanks for posting some trance goodness!
cor i like TranceVanCheese of course. derek has a secret ‘van’ in his name, don’t you know? speaking of sasha did any of you listen to that track he posted to his website?
@jay ooh, can’t wait to hear the next Searching…
@thebaron rock on! glad you like…how you doin anyways?
@lil b - I think I might…I do tend to like alot of Dutch artists, but that’s hard to escape in modern trance. not too cheesy on my side tho ^_^.
i meant cheese as the highest compliment of course
your mixes just bounce Derek!!
Gave this a listen on a very long and foggy commute Tuesday morning, Enjoyed the set very much.
Thanks muchly! I can see these tunes going quite well in the fog ^_^