Safety harnesses securely fastened? Good. For this ride, you will need them…

Sied van Riel’s first compilation rocket is on the launch pad and set, at the end of August, to break into dance music’s upper atmosphere.

Sied’s had, by any measure, a stratospherically large last 12 months. He’s released one floor-igniting anthem after another (amongst them ‘Rush’, ‘Closer to You’, ‘MME’ and ‘Contrasts’) and fanned the flames with a legion of equally-smashed remixes. He’s also become a DJ necessity at the biggest dance festivals, events and club nights around the globe. In April he played an extraordinary…

Trance music is now the world’s biggest dance music genre. In the UK, Calvin Harris has taken the sound to No.1, and in a OJ-mixed form, trance regularly tops the compilation charts. When it came to choosing who should revitalise their legendary Trance Nation series, Ministry Of Sound had only one outfit in mind – Above & Beyond.

Officially Britain’s most popular DJs, Above & Beyond were recently voted Best Group at the International Dance Music Awards, ahead of the likes of Daft Punk, Soulwax, Justice, and Pendulum. Now ranked No.4 in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs Poll, their largest…

Exactly 15 years after the first Push release, the legendary guise of Belgian producer Mike Dierickx returns with a new album on June 23rd 2009. Suitably called ‘Global Age’, this artist album kicks off a new phase in Mike’s career. A career that covers more than a hundred releases and 6 albums over more than 60 different aliases. Growing, aging and gaining more experience with every track he’s produced, Mike has grown out to be one of the most esteemed producers the dance scene has to offer. Though every release he’s had is a perfect example of his versatile sound,…

Above & Beyond were recently voted Best Group at the International Dance Music Awards, ahead of the likes of Daft Punk, Soulwax, Justice, and Pendulum. This significant award for their musical output sits neatly beside their No.4 ranking in the Top 100 DJs Poll.

OceanLab ‘Sirens Of The Sea Remixed’ brings together 20 (including 9 specially commissioned) club mixes of tracks from OceanLab’s iTunes dance chart topping album of last year, plus a handful of Oceanlab classics including UK Top 20 hit ‘Satellite’. Anthemic mixes from Anjuna artists including Above & Beyond, Oliver Smith, Jaytech, Michael Cassette, and 16 Bit…

This week sees the much-awaited release of Paul van Dyk’s ‘best of’ album Volume plus his specially designed DJ Application for the iPhone / iPod Touch.

VOLUME encompasses track selections from his massive 15-year catalogue and includes classic cuts from studio albums 45 RPM (1994), Seven Ways (1996), Out There And Back (2000), the Grammy-nominated Reflections (2003) and In Between (2007). The HUGE van Dyk classic For An Angel features in a very special 2009 remix alongside 1997 hit Forbidden Fruit, Connected (that was also used on a Motorola ad campaign) plus the massive We Are Alive that achieved worldwide…