{"id":5612,"date":"2023-09-17T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T09:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:11:02","slug":"pearsall-presents-eurotrash-9-old-skool-hard-trance-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-9-old-skool-hard-trance-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearsall presents Eurotrash 9 [Old Skool Hard Trance Mix]"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9.jpg 460w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/et9\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9.mp3\">Pearsall presents Eurotrash 9<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>right-click, save as to download<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1618354377&#038;color=%23e0d206&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sonicrampage\" title=\"Pearsall\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Pearsall<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sonicrampage\/pearsall-eurotrash-9-old-skool-hard-trance-vinyl-mix\" title=\"Eurotrash 9 [Old Skool Hard Trance Vinyl Mix]\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurotrash 9 [Old Skool Hard Trance Vinyl Mix]<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mixed in Berlin, July 2023<br \/>100% Vinyl<br \/>(87:00, 199 MB, 320 KBPS MP3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/et9\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9BIG.jpg\">Big cover<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/et9\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9.cue\">Cue file<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Direct link to the mix:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/et9\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9.mp3\">https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/et9\/Pearsall-Eurotrash9.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracklisting:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"1\">\n<li>Earthquake &#8211; Noxious Guy [Red Alert]<\/li>\n<li>Slot Machine &#8211; Flashback [Slot Machine]<\/li>\n<li>D-Factor &#8211; The Collective [Tri-Lamb]<\/li>\n<li>Pro-Active &#8211; Dominator (Talla 2XLC Remix) [Suck Me Plasma]<\/li>\n<li>Acid Phase &#8211; Cadence [XYZ]<\/li>\n<li>Nuclear Hyde &#8211; Persuader [Noom]<\/li>\n<li>Flux &#8211; Strange Feelings [Tetsuo]<\/li>\n<li>Panama &#8211; Logical Device [Red Alert]<\/li>\n<li>The Power Glove &#8211; Morphing [Nitric]<\/li>\n<li>Troop &#8211; Homecoming [Noom]<\/li>\n<li>Zone One &#8211; Eye Believe Do You? [Forever Forward]<\/li>\n<li>Aeroplane &#8211; Amplitude [Sub Records]<\/li>\n<li>Pearsall &#8211; Undertow [Sonicrampage]<\/li>\n<li>JFS &#8211; Praxis [Tunnel]<\/li>\n<li>Olmec Heads &#8211; Lift Off [Time Unlimited]<\/li>\n<li>Code 26 &#8211; Alarm (Cyborg Mix) [United Ravers]<\/li>\n<li>Master Density &#8211; Give Me A Base [Pirate]<\/li>\n<li>Sound Structure &#8211; Reality [DJs Present]<\/li>\n<li>DJ Energy &#8211; Believer [Energetic]<\/li>\n<li>X-Ite &#8211; Cyberworld [Spaceflower]<\/li>\n<li>Planet Fuse &#8211; Innocent Game (Egoist Mix) [Fuse]<\/li>\n<li>Lab 4 &#8211; Liquid Space [Fragile]<\/li>\n<li>M-Zone &#8211; On The Spot [UK44]<\/li>\n<li>Dual Mount &#8211; Magma [Tesseract]<\/li>\n<li>Ray &amp; G.O.D. &#8211; Target Planet [Time Unlimited]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This train just keeps rolling and rolling \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I did my first Eurotrash mix in the spring of 2006; I&#8217;d recently returned to London after several years in New York and I was just getting to grips with mixing again after a long break (I never brought my decks and records to New York), and I wanted to put a mix together of some cool older European hard trance tunes to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>So, without much planning or forethought, I made <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-1\/\">Eurotrash 1<\/a>. I can&#8217;t really remember what I thought, but I guess I wouldn&#8217;t have imagined that the series would still be trundling on 17 years later.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/117_1755.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/117_1755-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5615\" style=\"width:640px\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/117_1755-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/117_1755-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/117_1755-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/117_1755-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/117_1755-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Me, spring 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<p>17 years! It seems like an eternity ago &#8211; it was before I met my wife (I met her in 2007), before I grew a beard (I grew it late 2006), before I started this blog (I kicked it off in 2008). I was still five years away from being a dad, and career-wise I was doing something completely different from what I am doing today. I was still a smoker, still a binge drinker, and a fair bit thinner than I am today (my hair didn&#8217;t change too much fortunately!); it was just a very different life stage.<\/p>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t so different, however, is my passion for this music. The first mix established what I&#8217;ve always wanted this series to be about: delving into the incredibly fertile territory of (mostly) 90&#8217;s European hard trance and (to a lesser degree) hard and acid techno, in order to build up a catalogue of mixes that illuminates the best of this era. In some cases that has meant mixes that are a bit slower (like <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-8-old-skool-european-hard-trance\/\">Eurotrash 8<\/a>), mixes that are very fast (like <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-5-high-speed-emotions-old-skool-european-hard-trance\/\">Eurotrash 5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-6-the-780-project-part-1\/\">Eurotrash 6<\/a>), mixes that take the listener on a long journey (like volumes <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-2\/\">two<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-3-new\/\">three<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/pearsall-eurotrash-4\/\">four<\/a>), as well as a mix that was more strictly acid techno, <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/pearsall-presents-eurotrash-7\/\">Eurotrash 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/Pearsall-Eurotrash1.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The series has aways been about showcasing the highlights of this particular era; and part of the reason for that is that there was a lot of terrible music released during this time! It&#8217;s not like 94\/95 jungle, where overall standards were very high \u2026 the German labels in particular released a huge amount of music, just an avalanche of stuff, much of which is frankly better off not being spoken of. However, the good stuff is, well, incredible, and that&#8217;s what Eurotrash is about: that particular combination of energy, intensity, and melody. Is it cheesy sometimes? Sure, I can agree to that, but it&#8217;s a good cheese! An honest, wholesome, mature cheese; a cheese appropriate for all ravers!<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s up with this mix, then? The 9th in the series, 17 years after the first one, it&#8217;s a typical builder of mine, kicking off at around 140 bpm before ratcheting up over time to a nicely energetic 160 bpm. I&#8217;m not breaking any new conceptual ground with this one, but is that necessary? If it works, it works.<\/p>\n<p>And what about the tunes? What do I mean by &#8216;European&#8217; hard trance, anyways? I&#8217;ve always defined &#8216;European&#8217; in this series as meaning records released on labels based on the European mainland, although that&#8217;s more of a guide than a hard rule. Honestly, I&#8217;ve always been flexible about including UK tracks if I felt they fit the vibe that I wanted to achieve. And so on this mix that means that I&#8217;ve included two tracks from British hard trance master M-Zone as well as a track by the legendary live act Lab 4 \u2026 all of which fit perfectly! Oh yeah, and I also included my own track Undertow, self-released two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>What else is on here? Well, to be honest most of the tracks on here are from German labels such as Noom, Time Unlimited, United Ravers, Tunnel, etc but I&#8217;ve also included a track from Spain (the Master Density track), a few Italian tracks (from the Red Alert label), a Dutch track (the Dual Mount track on Tesseract), and a track from the Belgian label Nitric. Pan-European vibes in effect!<\/p>\n<p>I recently moved and am not set up to record yet in my new flat, but I&#8217;m hoping that I can record a Eurotrash 10 some time before the end of the year. Until then, enjoy this mix!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you liked this \u2026<\/h3>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve linked the other Eurotrash mixes above, but here are a few other mixes that you might enjoy if you like this one:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/pearsall-presents-original-basement-vibes-the-sound-of-chocis-chewns\/\">Original Basement Vibes<\/a>: My tribute to the legendary London acid trance label collective Choci&#8217;s Chewns<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/pearsall-presents-running-into-neon-a-nuclear-hyde-tribute\/\">Running into Neon<\/a>: My tribute to the amazing German production crew Nuclear Hyde (and their various pseudonyms)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/pearsalls-tribute-to-escape-from-samsara-part-1-the-780-project-part-20\/\">Pearsall&#8217;s Tribute to Escape from Samsara Part 1<\/a>: My attempt to capture the sound and atmosphere of famous and long-running South London party Escape from Samsara<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News update<\/h3>\n<p>We moved last month from Wilmersdorf to Schoeneberg, and my home office \/ mancave \/ music room isn&#8217;t set up yet in the new place, so before we moved I recorded a bunch of mixes so that I would have a selection of stuff ready to release over the few months where I wouldn&#8217;t be mixing (I will probably be back up in mid-October).<\/p>\n<p>That means that I still have some unreleased mixes to come!<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;ve done my first ever trip-hop \/ downtempo mix, which I plan to drop in about two weeks<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve done a tribute to my favorite artist o the last 10 years: Om Unit<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve done a guest mix for The Worx podcast series<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s already been premiered on Sub FM, but I&#8217;ve done Half Shelf Dubby Dip 2 for Begrime and will put it up \u2026 some time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides those unreleased mixes, there&#8217;s also the two guest mixes I&#8217;ve done recently:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>My guest mix for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/pearsall-atmospheric-jungle-selection-7-days-of-summer-mix-drop\/\">Certain Sounds<\/a> crew<\/li>\n<li>My guest mix for <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/digital-distortions\/brawlcast-377-pearsall-mysterious-sixes\">Digital Distortions<\/a> (I didn&#8217;t do a blog on that yet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More music soon, then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearsall drops the ninth edition of his long-running series of old skool European hard trance mixes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,9],"class_list":["post-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixes","tag-eurotrash","tag-hard-trance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}