I apologise for the radio silence from me for the last couple of months, and I appreciate you bearing with me. I know many of you have been asking and waiting for a new Rave Podcast episode, so I brought you a fresh mix packed with deep, proggy trance gems, blending new discoveries with some timeless classics. Enjoy! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 NeV-r, WorkForJoy – Dance Science (Original Mix) [Lightspeed] 05:25 Impulsive Force – Banal Orekanal (Original Mix) [Anatta] 09:10 Germain CLS – Zeit (Bliss I...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 158
I apologise for the radio silence from me for the last couple of months, and I appreciate you bearing with me. I know many of you have been asking and waiting for a new Rave Podcast episode, so I brought you a fresh mix packed with deep, proggy trance gems, blending new discoveries with some timeless classics. Enjoy! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Seo John – Dive (Original Mix) [Goddezz] 05:57 Hoopoe – Aryaduta (Original Mix) [Hedjog Records] 11:22 Cosmithex – Enigma (Original Mix) [OLD SQL Recordings] ...
Feb 16, 2025•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 157
The underground trance scene is thriving right now, with incredible releases dropping one after another. The sound of this makes me remember why I fell in love with trance music three decades ago! Here’s a fresh slice of that world, straight from my DJ oven. 🎙️ About the show: Rave Podcast is a monthly music radio show, hosted since 2011 by Daniel Lesden, an internationally recognised DJ, producer, label manager at JOOF Recordings, and music curator at Beatport, based in the UK. The show unveil...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 156
After months of quite intense episodes, this time we're diving into a deeper, darker, and more laid-back progressive and techno sound that really locks into the groove (with a few unexpected twists, of course). Enjoy! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Opuswerk — IUW (Original Mix) [Suara Records] 05:14 Insert Name — Bacopa Monnieri (Original Mix) [JOOF Recordings] 09:24 Rino Cerrone, Deraout — Waiting For The Ufo (Stanny Franssen, Soren Aalberg Remix) [Loose Records] 15:23 Sin Sin — Sunken (Original Mix) [...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 155
This month, we have an outstanding showcase of the 'Raw Trance' sound, featuring music from some of my current favourite producers like Mikkel Rev, Asca, Omformer, Oprofessionell, Whirloop, Sioc, Alan Backdrop, Lucinee, and more. I'm delighted to see the rise of this raw, deep, and hypnotic sound, which truly represents the essence of underground trance right now. 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Mikkel Rev — So Surreal (Repulsive Force PB Mix) [Translusid] 05:19 Asca — By Proxy (Original Mix) [Anatta Rec...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 154
This episode continues to blend raw, deep, and hypnotic sounds, full of emotional trance vibes and frisky hard grooves. I think it's safe to say it perfectly highlights where I am musically at the moment. 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Mikkel Rev – Insula (Original Mix) [A Strangely Isolated Place] 05:37 Kareem El Morr — Safaa (Original Mix) [Umay] 08:37 L-3P — Yhoran (Original Mix) [Space Trax] 12:31 Maruwa — Midnight Caller (Original Mix) [X-Kalay] 15:56 Dave Alyan — Future Visions (Original Mix) [Bla...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 153
In this episode, we shift gears towards the trancey soundscapes I promised last time. Trance is one of the most diverse music genres, spanning many different sub-genres and styles. Today, I'd like to highlight a specific, emerging sound that is fast-paced, heads-down, and sits somewhere between early 90s trance and the psychedelic scene. We call it Raw Trance, and this is where the most forward-thinking and underground trance currently is, in my opinion. Enjoy! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Peppe Amore...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 152
Continuing with the theme of the previous episodes, this edition of Rave Podcast is all about the exploration of techno soundscapes. The first half features a deep and hypnotic trancey sound, while the second half showcases some serious, pounding grooves. I absolutely love this sound at the moment, and I hope you are too! If you're a trance-head, no worries, a trance-focused episode will be coming soon too :-) 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Alexskyspirit — Sentient Being (Original Mix) [Derailed Records...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 151
This episode is all about proper Techno: groovy, slamming, heads-down, and sometimes melodic too. I feel that nowadays many people use the word ‘techno’ to describe something entirely different, sometimes they call progressive house tunes ‘techno’, sometimes trance tracks are mislabeled as ‘techno’, and there is, of course, a whole ‘melodic techno’ thing which rarely does anything to do with techno. So enjoy this proper, real Techno mix (with a couple of trancey tracks). 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 F...
May 19, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 150
The March episode of Rave Podcast is here, and this time we start with banging 140 BPM straight away! A lot of hard grooves in the first half and a cosmic trance towards the end. 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 David Moleon — Back To Moleon (Original Mix) [Transfiguration Recordings] 05:14 Introversion — Nostalgia (Original Mix) [Arts] 07:56 Name_Less, JBILO — Blaze (Original Mix) [Tronic] 10:04 Sera J — Rainbow (Original Mix) [Warg] 12:45 Faster Horses — 21 (Original Mix) [Dancefloor Impact Research] 16...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 149
The February podcast is here, bringing you a lot of heads-down grooves. This is the kind of sound and the tempo I really like now, and I hope you do too! The show also includes a couple of unreleased tracks from JOOF Recordings and Be As One, so plenty of fresh music here from the names like Wata Igarashi, Atlas, Coyu, Talfelt, DJ Dextro, Kashpitzky, Villa, Nordic Echoes, Alan Backdrop, and more. 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Sigha — Black Massing (Wata Igarashi 'Dusk Falls' Remix) [Token] 04:25 Atlas ...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 148
To start 2024 on a high note, and as we also get almost to the Rave Podcast’s 13th anniversary, I decided to make this episode 2 hours long. Expect a blend of raw, deep, and hypnotic techno and trance with a psychedelic twist. Enjoy the journey! 🎵 Tracklisting: 0:00:00 Whirloop — Departure (Intro) [JOOF Recordings] 0:01:13 Fabio Florido — Galactica (Luigi Tozzi Remix) [Runa] 0:05:23 Vladw — Teppou (Original Mix) [Node Recordings] 0:09:31 Bastian Bux — Neopisivo (Original Mix) [Suara Records] 0:...
Jan 12, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 147
This episode starts deep and hypnotising but gets almost uplifting closer towards the end. Expect both fresh and old (but still gold) tracks from Ambeam, Marco Bailey, Hedustma, 27Club, Ectima, John 00 Fleming, Tom Hades, Alan Backdrop, Maike Depas, GiGi FM, Axel Karakasis, Deco 5000, Quinnbond, Dynamic Forces, Ferdinger, Introversion, and Chris Flannigan. 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Ambeam — Mindfield (Original Mix) [Mistique Music] 05:54 Marco Bailey — Nocturno (Original Mix) [Materia] 08:59 Hedust...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 146
The Rave Podcast is back and is now available on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Patreon. I’m really enjoying such a deep, heads-down, groovy sound now, and I hope you’ll like it too. Enjoy! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Roby M Rage — A Quiet War (Original Mix) [Oscillator Music] 06:15 Ness — Flesh Of The Gods (Original Mix) [Navigare Audio] 10:37 Gabriel D'Or & Bordoy — Eternal (Original Mix) [Dynamic Reflection] 14:28 Sigvard — Catalyst 04 (Original Mix) [Nebulon] 16:56 Incolumis — Angelic (Re-Master) [J...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 145
Enjoy the June podcast selection with a blend of driving techno and raw underground trance towards the end! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Basement Jaxx, Pig&Dan — Express Yourself (Pig&Dan Eclectic Mix) [Atlantic Jaxx] 06:39 Alan Fitzpatrick, 3strange — Truths (Making Moves) (Extended Mix) [Armada Music] 10:12 Camea, The Reason Y — Elevation (Original Mix) [Kompakt Extra] 14:06 Diego Infanzon — Go Back To The Basics (Original Mix) [Tronic] 17:04 Drunken Kong — Let The Sun Rise (Original Mix) [T...
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 144
This month’s show is all about deep, hypnotic atmospheric sound, so get ready to be hypnotised! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Anima Mundi — Mountain Night (Original Mix) [On The 5th Day] 03:46 Regal — From Other Sounds (Original Mix) [Figure] 05:39 Enlusion, Slavlotski — Inferno (Original Mix) [JOOF Recordings] 11:14 Blazej Malinowski — At The End (Original Mix) [Inner Tension] 16:29 Pico Boulevard — Society (Nomas Remix) [Forescape Digital] 21:36 Basis Change — Metanoia (Original Mix) [Affin] 24:37 Sl...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 143
This month we shift gears for pretty uptempo music, from old-school groovy techno and some raw underground trance from Phara, David Moleon, KaioBarssalos, Kay Barton, Omformer, Hypnum, Vaya, Whirloop, and many more. Enjoy! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Phara — The Fleshy Part Of The Thigh (Original Mix) [Phaaar] 03:36 Alessandro Grops — Mistrality (Original Mix) [Tronic] 06:22 David Moleon — Toma Ya (Original Mix) [Transfiguration Recordings] 10:17 Raffaele Attanasio — Quasar (Original Mix) [Mutual Ryt...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 142
Enjoy this month’s selection with deep trance tunes blended with dark and pounding tech-house grooves. Music from Jamie Baggotts, Elias Erium, Hollen, Harvey McKay, Sasha Carassi, Alberto Ruiz, Jordan Gill, RNX, Second Sine, and more. 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Jamie Baggotts — Found (Original Mix) [Forescape Digital] 05:54 Optimuss — Barbados (Extended Mix) [Toolroom Trax] 10:00 Blake Walker — The Highlands (Elias Erium Remix) [Forescape Digital] 14:04 Hollen — Kalypso (Original Mix) [Deeperfect] 1...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 141
This episode turned out to be quite Trancey, featuring four exclusive premieres from JOOF Recordings. Enjoy! 🎵 Tracklisting: 00:00 Joseph Dalik — Manipulated Structures (Shaun Mauren Remix) [Naughty Pills Records] 05:32 Dubiosity, Pjotr G — Scraping (Original Mix) [Lateral Fragments] 09:03 Airwave — Simply Deep And Dark (Original Mix) [JOOF Recordings] 13:30 Rick Pier O'Neil — Dark Tribal (RPO Part 2) [Garbage Records] 16:27 Enrico Sangiuliano — Moon Rocks (Original Mix) [Drumcode] 20:54 Hollen...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 140
Happy 2023! In this first episode of the year, we kick things off with a quite fast-paced, groovy House and Techno with a pinch of old-school vibe. Enjoy! Tracklisting: 00:00 DJoko, Kolter — Secret To Happiness (Remastered) [DJokoCamp] 03:52 Ronnie Spiteri — Red Zone (Original Mix) [We Are The Brave] 08:11 Aaron Rutherford — Retract (Original Mix) [Hot Haus Recs] 12:44 Pagano — Carpe Diem (Original Mix) [Tronic] 17:29 Pig&Dan — Aptitude (Original Mix) [Break New Soil Recordings] 19:23 Hertz ...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 139
In this last episode of 2022, we shift gear from fast and pounding beats that we had a couple of previous episodes to a deeper and slow-paced progression and sound. Enjoy! Tracklisting: 00:00 Sasha – Out Of Time (Instrumental Mix) [Kompakt] 07:02 Filterheadz, Marco Bailey – Mansion (Original Mix) [Bedrock Records] 11:26 Fe Malefiz, Martin Merkel – Fahnenkind (Vocal Mix) [Traumwelten] 15:53 Kalden Bess, Mountain Radio – Stoned (Original Mix) [Ground Factory Records] 20:45 Andrew Meller – Woodman ...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 138
This month’s podcast kicks off with some of the most hypnotic tunes, followed by trancey techno and then some banging old-school rave-style stuff. Enjoy! Tracklisting: 00:00 Deepbass, Ness – Les Planes (Original Mix) [Dynamic Reflection] 03:54 Joachim Spieth – Luminophor (Original Mix) [Affin] 07:54 Basis Change – Entanglement (Original Mix) [Edit Select] 11:20 Beat Bizarre – Role Model (Original Mix) [Iboga Records] 16:11 Torsten Kanzler – Coconut (A Paul Remix) [TK Records] 19:05 Metodi Hristo...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 137
October’s edition of the podcast is already available on Soundcloud, YouTube, Spotify playlist, and Patreon (on Patreon, it appears a week prior to the premier, with higher quality and no voiceovers). Enjoy! Tracklisting: 00:00 Pig&Dan — Particles (Original Mix) [Elevate] 06:00 Timewave — The Essence (Relaunch Remix) [Mistique Music] 09:30 Loco & Jam — Back To The Warehouse (Original Mix) [Arcane Music] 13:30 Eric Sneo — Mine (2021 Remastered) [Remain Records] 17:52 Ricardo Garduno — Sen...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 136
A new long-awaited edition of the podcast is already available on Soundcloud, YouTube, Spotify playlist, and Patreon (on Patreon, it appears a week prior to the premier, with higher quality and no voiceovers). Enjoy! Tracklisting: 00:00 Dubiosity — Denying The Antecedent (Original Mix) [Planet Rhythm Records] 03:35 Elias Erium — Keep In Touch (Original Mix) [Aletheia Recordings] 09:28 Pig&Dan — Mojo Man (Original Club Mix) [Toolroom Records] 13:26 Hollen — Sleeping Dogs (Original Mix) [Code ...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 135
For years I’ve been known as a very diverse DJ, playing from some of the deepest music up to fast, pounding, banging tracks. And it’s always quite challenging to showcase all of my musical taste in a single mix or even a gig, for example when my set is in the peak time in the middle of the event, I just can’t play some slower tunes because usually it’s a duty of a warm-up DJ, but I just love doing both: playing deep and pounding, and especially making progression between the two. So, today I’d l...
Feb 11, 2022•2 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 134
As you probably know, the last couple of episodes were quite rough, dark, and pounding. You know, the usual stuff. But today, after the Winter holidays, I wanted to give you something lighter, and brighter, more housey, more melodic. Just some positive vibes. This is not the kind of music I usually play, as generally speaking, I’m leaning more towards the dark side of things, but even shadow needs the light, and I needed that too. Tracklisting: 00:00 Andro V — Triton (Kostya Outta Remix) [Balkan...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 133
The last episode of this year features some of the deepest and most hypnotic tracks, a heads-down journey of lush pads and pounding beats. Enjoy! Tracklisting: 00:00 Seraphim Rytm — Sumaritma (Edit Select Remix) [Edit Select] 05:06 Joachim Spieth, Reggy van Oers — Undulatus Asperatus (Original Mix) [Affin] 07:55 Svarog — FF3 (Original Mix) [Edit Select] 10:45 Hedustma – Existence (Original Mix) [Iono Music] 13:33 Procombo — Freedom (Pig&Dan Remix) [RX Recordings] 16:34 Frankyeffe — My Beat (...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 132
This episode features groovy tech house, hypnotic techno and even goa trance. And also dozens of little unexpected mashups that helped make the mix even more interesting. Tracklisting: 00:00 Markus Homm — Back At It (Chus & Ceballos Remix) [Kenja Records] 04:31 e-Dancer — The Rise (Original Mix) [Drumcode] 07:34 Gabriel D'Or & Bordoy — Diamond (Original Mix) [Bla Bla Records] 10:20 Egbert — Dezelfde Weg (Original Mix) [Gem Records] 13:43 Carara — E La Luna (Darmec Remix) [Blue Monkey Rec...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 131
Unlike the previous episode, this mix is much more melodic and housey. Enjoy! Tracklisting: 00:00 James Grow — Faith (Original Mix) [Kenja Records] 04:38 Simon Doty — Party With A Purpose (Extended Mix) [Realm Records] 09:31 Enlusion — Crystaldee (Rick Pier O'Neil Remix) [Forescape Digital] 13:06 Hardfloor — TB Continued (Original Mix) [Hardfloor] 16:55 Wilber — Heartdrive (Original Mix) [Kenja Records] 20:29 Frank Robusch — Tapestry (Lank Remix) [Crashing Waves] 24:08 E-Click — Symbiosis (Origi...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 130
This one is probably the most hypnotic episode I have ever mixed, total heads-down. Immersive and trancey. Enjoy! Tracklisting: 00:00 Joachim Spieth — Luciferin (Original Mix) [Affin] 04:03 Luigi Tozzi — Tender Is The Night (Original Mix) [Non Series] 07:57 Spacebeat — Spiritus Spatium (Original Mix) [Fluro Music] 10:29 Manu Riga — Everything Comes To An End (Solar Fields Remix) [Bonzai Progressive] 13:15 Matt Lange — Abrakalimba (Original Mix) [mau5trap] 16:15 Steam Shape — Artefact (Original M...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 129
