Interview with The Scumfrog about his new album ‘In Case We're All Still Here’ on Armada Music. 25 years after his first DJ gig, and 10 years since his first successful album, Jesse Houk, aka The Scumfrog, continues to do exactly what he feels like doing; recording his most personal album to date “In Case We’re All Still Here”. Going back to his roots of psychedelic and deep influences, mixed with a wink at sci-fi and a deep understanding of what makes a solid underground groove. Jesse teams up with Armada Music for a journey into Deep House and Tech House. Beside his widely acclaimed song with Sting “If I Ever Lose My Faith”, the album features collaborations with Static Revenger, Vince Elliott, Vassy, and Christian Burns, while other tracks on the album contain Jesse’s own signature vocals.

Interview with Mark Meeuwissen, A&R at Black Hole Recordings. We continue our quest to get to know the hard work involved behind the scenes within the hectic world of a record label with our second interview focusing on the globally known record label ‘Black Hole recordings’. They have amazing artists on their roster including Tiesto, who is one of its founders, with his amazing unforgettable classics, along with Arny Bink, Cosmic Gate BT, JES, Julie Thompson, Andy Duguid, Richard Durand and many more. The music released on the various sub labels stay true to the credo “Captivate, Communicate and Celebrate”!

For our second interview we chose to talk with Mark Meeuwissen, A&R at Black Hole Recordings, well known as DJ and producer in his personal career under the name Mark Green. Mark talks about how he ended up working with Black Hole Recordings, and the work he does at Black Hole headquarters.

Interview with Hugo de Graaf, label manager for Wildlife, Rub A Duck at Black Hole Recordings. Black Hole Recordings, founded in 1997, started with the release of Tiësto’s hailed “Magik” mix compilations. The instant success of the series made it possible to expand, and in 1998 Black Hole Recordings added two new labels to their imprint: “In Trance We Trust” and “Songbird”, which became the label of choice for Tiësto’s “In Search of Sunrise” series.

By 2001 another label was added to the roster: “Magik Muzik”. Initially used for Tiësto’s singles, the sub label expanded quickly and also released material from other artists. Throughout the early days of Black Hole Recordings, many now famous DJs and producers got their first opportunity to release a DJ mix compilation. Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren, DJ Montana, Cor Fijneman, Johan Gielen and Ton TB were amongst them, and up to this day a lot of new talent took the first steps in the industry on Black Hole Recordings.

Interview with Blufeld about his album ‘Thoughtscapes’ out on Green Martian/Bonzai Banshee. For Blufeld, electronic music is the pulse of life. Evocative of all genres, yet guided by a set of dynamics and instrumentation very much of its own unique identity, it breathes a type of emotion to a degree that can only be reached via the imaginative use of synthesizer and drum.

Blufeld has been captivated and completely mesmerized into a three dimensional world of sound, and endeavours to maximize all levels of the sonic and emotional spectrum so as to reach and tug at the heartstrings of people who love electronic music.

Blufeld is a craftsman with a deep sense of care and love for the output and quality of his productions; a producer who works solo to use sound and imagination to output everything that’s inside his heart and mind to create some of the most complex and deepest emotive tracks in progressive trance music.

Interview with Manuel Le Saux about his album 'First Light' out on Discover Records. Living in Rome, and championing the sound of full-on euphoric trance across Europe, Manuel Le Saux has become known for uplifting peak time trance. His vast list of productions and remixes speak for themselves, with releases on Recoverworld, Discover, A State Of Trance, Nu Depth, Enhanced and Digital Society Recordings.

Manuel has built up a huge live following aided in no small part by the popularity of his Extrema radio show.
With over 1,000 shows already aired, it’s no wonder that he is continually booked to play Europe’s big trance events including Quest 4 Trance, Luminosity, Tomorrowland, Entrance Festival, Technoclub and Gatecrasher to name just a few. He has also graced the stage in Australia, Argentina, and Mexico - in fact just about all four corners of the globe!