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Oh, and by the by, Mr. E-Vangelist...
Just a thanks for helping a guy in the middle of trance nowhere stay connected to the scene. 
In a year or two I'll be able to find my way to a place where this liquid audio manna flows live and alive every weekend... But until then, I've got no complaints at all with a community on the Internet that transcends (no pun intended) any other global music community. The best beats are always flowing digitally across the globe, 24/7, and the best of the best are giving their time and effort to spread the damn word!
I think what really makes trance (and electronica in general) so damn special is the obvious joy the artists and up-and-comers take in sharing their ideas and work to create a true team of musicians who push the bar and create and innovate. It's not work, it's fun. It's life and it's fun for these guys. I mean, where else would you see the same song released at two different stages of its evolution like Armin did with Birth of an Angel and Shivers? How about Gareth Emery making Mistral in a couple of weeks traveling Europe on his laptop? And the remixing and collaboration work makes for even greater diversity in the music.
I love it. It's how all communities should be.
And then, even better than that is how the very best of our best are not like the very rich and famous rock stars and rap kings, but rather are still connected to the fan base and interact with them on an eye-to-eye level. Sure, there may be exceptions, but thanks to the mindset of folks who truly love trance music, people like Armin and you and Freezel and Menno are friendly and available and seem to be (coming from someone afar) genuinely good folks who give a shit about other people...
When the scene was alive down here in my neck of the desert southwest, USA, I ran into a few big-name DJs, and it was just awesome how easy it was to approach them and just bullshit with them. I met a guy named Doran Chambers at one of the big desert parties out here, and he ended up coming back a few times to Tucson because he loved to do the sunrise sets. He's from L.A., and collaborated with Joshua Ryan a bunch and was always on the trips and tickets with Christopher Lawrence. Anyway, I e-mailed him from his website's link, and he remembered me and my friend Matt. Every time he'd come to town, we'd go kick it with him. Then, about a year later at probably the last good club event in this town - and when everyone thought it was dead for a few months anyway, he showed up. My buddy and i didn't know about it until that night (I was on a crazy work/school schedule at the time), but we went down there to the place and found him outside at the second stage. We weren't even planning on going in, because we didn't have any money on us, but he told us to come in and he'd get us in!
So we went to the door, and the staff let us in for free and we went back and kicked it with Doran and the guys from Deepsky for a couple of hours (and listened to some sick, sick beats). Now... That's just cool. Doran didn't know us from a crack in the ground, but because we were there on the speakers for his full two hour set at sunrise, dancing like morons - he went to all that trouble anyway.
I mean, I'm a pretty cool guy  , but I'm not THAT cool. LOL!! He's just one good dude, is the long and the short of it.
What it comes down to is that there's a general attitude among us that I can feel despite not even being directly connected to the scene anymore. It's beautiful. Have fun, work hard, play harder, be nice and then, have more damn fun. It's that simple, and I can't wait to get back to a place where I can see and feel this stuff in person and get down like the funky white boy I is.
So thanks, E, and all the rest of you (I'm stone cold sober right now too, K THX ) and TA and all that jazzle..
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