What is your all time favourite mix and why ? Specifically, how did it affect you and your your interest in dance music ?

gonna have to go with two cuz one is just too hard.

1.) Ferry Corsten mixed live @ Spundae- Show was just amazing from start to finish. I was in the slideshow, the inside cover, out on the dancefloor singing PUNK and just all around encapsulated at this show. The music played that night was off the charts and the mixing was just ridiculous.

2.) As much as I hate to say Tiesto, his live at energy 2000 set is still one of the best live sets i've heard to date. The energy and killer mixing in that set was one of the first to really turn me onto trance music and wanting to be a dj.

Mauro Picotto's Essential Mix 2000 - Wow!!!! That was amazing! First time I ever heard of Mauro. The entire mix is banging from beginning to end. This mix is responsible for getting me into Mauro.

TIESTO's Essential Mix Debut 2001 - This is what got me into Tiesto. Awesome set from beginning to end. Flawless too.

Sasha in Russia 1998. WOW... The set that got me into Sasha.

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Great sets posted.

I would say to this day my favorite mixes are tied between Tiesto's Magik 6 and Magik 7. Personally I feel as if they are one large journey, insane tracklists...great vibe in audience and the old tiesto that we knew at his best! I usually listen to them on long trips and away from home, always back to back!

1. Sasha & Digweed Live @ Delta Heavy Tour Miami 2002

Insane mixing...and great tracks.


2. John Digweed - Fabric 20

Completely converted me from a trance head to a prog head.

3. Ferry Corsten Mixed Live @ Spundae

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Wow, this is so hard! i've heard so many good sets, it's hard to come up with just one!

I'd have to say DJ Tiesto - Magik 1: The First Flight. The first track, Sunday Club - Healing Dream, instantly converted me into REAL dance music, not that euro-dance trash that I was listening to at the time (ie: DJ Mystik ). The overall mood of the set is very dark and serious, but not sinister.
I would listen to this set over and over on a road trip that I went on last year. That mix never gets old!

1. Ferry Corsten 1999 Rosemontage rave
Hunting set....
2. Judge Jules live @ Qontact 2001(i think)
Have this EVIL ENERGY IN IT......luv it

Tiësto - Energy 2000
James Zabiela - Essential Mix, 22.02.04 (I made the switch from Trance the second this ended)
Sasha & Digweed - Live at Delta Heavy Tour Miami 2002 (It's just... Damn)

Wow there are so many. I became heavily interested in the music after getting my hands on a bunch of oakie essential mixes from 2000. The ones that come to mind are live@gatecrasher, shadow lounge, the rojam in china, and especially the mix from havana, cuba.
Fav mix froma few years ago is gotta be the gtr promo mix.
Fav mixes recently are sander k live@ fokus and avb asot 200XXL <--- that mix is gangster!! Flashbacks from the past 5 years! Armin even plays gamemaster thats freakin awesome.

i feel like such a noob seeing all these sets from the 90s

my alltime favorite is easily Disc 2 of Nyana from Tiesto...got me into trance in the first place...2 tracks on there (catcher - destiny sunrise and, especially, holden & thompson - nothing [93 returning mix]) are still 2 of my favorite all time

As far as a mix CD goes, Tiesto's Magik 5, Beyond Heaven. Although now I figure Tiesto to be a cheesy, train-wrecking dj, he is actally responsible for my love in trance and the urge to become a DJ. His magik series are all good, however, there is something else with magik5. The mixing is so solid and the track selection is pretty good and yeah THERE IS NO VOCAL cheesy tracks. All time favorites usually come from the first mixes you hear and switch from whatever you listen to that mixe's style. When I first bought the magik series and listened to them, I will never turned back from EDM. As for more of recent times, I also love Sasha's AirDrawnDragger(not really mixed but whatever). It is made with computer, but it's simply beyond human capability. I will listen to these 2 cd's anytime and will enjoy them 100%.