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Sean Tyas's reworking's of Insigma's 'Open Our Eyes' continues to fly with Ferry Corsten HAMMERING the track at every opportunity this week. Galaxy FM mix last Saturday, Tuesday night at Cream Ibiza and perhaps most tellingly he used it in the closing minutes of his Essential Mix, live from Global Gathering on Saturday night. There were a few goosebumps in the office on Monday morning when we listened back on the Radio 1 site!

ATCR's promo mailout of Sean Tyas's monster mixes of Insigma's 'Open Our Eyes' have started to provoke some suitably monsterous reactions. Those Above & Beyonder's spun it on their TATW show last week, while Armin quickly followed suit on ASOT on Thursday. The UK's premier trance DJ Matt Hardwick has also lined it up to feature on his new mixed-live at PaSSion compilation.

While E-TCR take a break for the summer, some news from our long-lost sister label ATCR. Man or the moment Sean Tyas has been busy as hell fashioning a remake of one of the label's greatest treasures. Insigma's 'Open Our Eyes' was championed by Tiesto and Oakenfold through the summer of 2001 and was signed to Virgin's VC label. Sean has craftily kept the essence of what made the track great but has heaped a huge piano line on top of it. ATCR has done a limited promo-only mailout of the track, we'll let you know the reactions as we get them.

Already cited by Ferry as being a"Great Track" with a "sweet feel" and hammered by Above & Beyond on TATW 115 & 116), 'Slipstream' is finally unleashed today.. Available from the usual retailers, if the CD release includes Versions 1 & 2 of the original mix and both of Carl B's excellent reworks.

DAVE PEARCE GIVE'S 'OUT OF SILENCE' THE BIG THUMBS UP!
All hail Dave Pearce who got behind Mark Thornton's forthcoming 'Out of Silence' this week on his Radio 1 'Dance Anthems' show this week. Despite the fact that the Dance Anthems crew managed to make a total of four different spelling mistakes when crediting the play (it's Mark ThoRnton's 'Out of Silence' Skyform VS SpiraL MotionRemix on E TCR), it couldn't fool us! The track is released Thursday 11th of May through the usual retailers.

MARK THORNTON RETURNS!
No sooner is JPL's 'Ilmola' up and running than E-TCR is back at you again with more trance finery and the follow up to Mark Thornton's massive 'Now You See'/'Theme For Star Crossed Lovers' EP. Another double-header, this time we are proud to present 'Out of Silence' and 'Inner Peace'. Already finding favour in its Andy Bagguley version from Above and Beyond (please see below), the EP also comes with remixes from Sunquest and Skyform vs Spiral Story. More info as we get it!

'ILMOLA' HEATS UP THE SCHULZ HOUSEHOLD!
With the full promotional mailout for JPL's 'Ilmola' now done, we've started to get some cracking reactions in. None better though than the one we recieved from Heather Schulz. "If it's the one Markus had me tearing the house apart looking for before he went out to play last Friday, then yes, he loves it and is smashing it!" 'Ilmola' is released on CDR and DD today, available from the usual stockists.

E-TCR JOINS VONYC
E-TCR is delighted to have joined forces with Paul van Dyk VONYC digital download site. From now on you will be able to purchase full quality 320 mp3's from the site. Click the image below to go straight to the site.

...MEANWHILE FERRY AND ABOVE & BEYOND GET STARTED ON THE NEW JPL.
Crossing a few borders and Ferry Corsten and Above & Beyond have wasted no time in starting to spin Joni Ljungqvist's new JPL tune. Ferry dropped us a line to let us know he was in full support while A & B played Antidote's mix on their Trance Around the World show on Tuesday. In other early 'Ilmola' news the track is already slated to appear on the new Matt Hardwick comp 'Trance Revolution 2' and Dreamdance 39'.

VAN DYK CONTINUES TO SMASH 'ISIS'.
PVD continued to champion Sophie Sugar's 'Isis' this week, playing it for the third week in a row on his Radio Fritz show.

AND PVD MAKES THREE!!
With Armin van Buuren and Above & Beyond already canning Sophie Sugar's 'Isis' on their radio shows, Paul van Dyk put his weight behind it tonight, spinning it on his Radio Fritz show.
The track is released on E-TCR DD and CD on Monday the 13th of February through the usual retailers. E'TCR fans should also standby for forthcoming details of the first E-TCR compilation.

ARMIN VAN BURREN LENDS HIS SUPPORT TO SOPHIE SUGAR'S 'ISIS'.
Armin added his put his weight behind 'Isis' when he played it on his 'A State of Trance' show tonight. Other DJ's keeping the E-TCR e-mail hype hotline buzzing include Galaxy's DJ's Andi Durrant and Paul Kershaw, Guy Ornadel, Ferry Corsten, Lange, MIKE and and our eternal supporter Johan Gielen!

ABOVE & BEYOND PLAY SOPHIE SUGAR'S 'ISIS' ON 'TATW'.
A new year and E-TCR are kicking it off in fine style with Sophie Sugar pres Saona's 'Isis'. Above & Beyond were among the first to get on board Sophie's debut for the label, spinning Alex MORPH's revamp on their Trance Around the World show on the 12th of January,

PVD PLAYS CELLEC'S 'EXPLODERA'/
E-STORIES RELEASED.
E-TCR's first compilation of 'E-Stories' is released this week. Available through AUDIO JELLY BEATPORT TRACK IT DOWN AND DJ DOWNLOAD on DD and through BUY THAT RECORD ON CD. In the mean time Cellec's 'Explodera' has come under some pressure from Paul van Dyk. The world's number one spun Celwin Frenzen's powerhouse track 'Explodera' on his RADIO FRITZ show last week. RADIO FRITZ

FIRST E-TCR PROMO VINYL NOW AVAILABLE!
We're delighted to announce that the first 12" vinyl from E-TCR is now available via www.buythatrecord.com. Test pressings of ELEC12001 which features the Original and Passiva remixes of JPL's 'A Place Called Home' and the Ross Assenheim and L.N.Q. remixes of Mark Thornton's 'Now You See' have just gone on sales. Quantity is very limited at the moment so it's first come, first served! Just click the image below.

E-TCR "MY FAVORITE LABEL OF THE YEAR" - JOHAN GIELEN!
Johan Gielen put a massive smile on the faces of the E-TCR staff last friday morning when he named E-TCR his favorite label of 2005. Speaking during his DJ Magazine Interview, the Blond Bomber said he thought our releases were "excellent". God bless you Johan, sir! We'll keep fighting the good fight!

E-TCR VS 12"'!
Following all your e-mails, calls to the office and other forms of exerted pressure, reasonable or otherwise (!) E-TCR is doing the decent thing and caving in! We will be releasing, on strictly limited 500 unit runs our releases on to 12" vinyl on special collectors edition EP's.
The first which should be available shortly before Christmas will feature JPL's 'A Place Called Home' (Original and Passiva remix) and Mark Thornton's 'Now You See' (Ross Assenheim and L.N.Q. mixes). Following that in January will be Summer Sessions feat Michelle Smith (Original and Haylon mixes) and Skyform's 'Infinite' (Original and Sunquest Mixes). More information regarding the release dates when we get it!

SUMMER SESSIONS TAKES THE TATW WEB VOTE CROWN.
After a record (well for us anyway!) five spins on Above and Beyond's Ministry of Sound.com 'Trance Around the World' show, Ron 'Summer Sessions' Bercovitch's massive 'Blossom' won the web vote last week. Described by by the band's Tony McGuiness as his "favourite record of the summer". Massive thanks to all those who voted.

'SUMMER SESSIONS' NEWS.'
Our forth release, Summer Sessions and Michele Smith's epically beautiful 'Blossom' has been creating a stir over the last month. Ferry Corsten popped up on the e-mail to tell us how much he loved the Haylon Mix. The work of Pulser and E-TCR boss Tim Stark, it's their first remix together following their hugely recieved Surface Recordings hit 'Starfighter' from earlier this summer. The track is currently also sitting in Ferry's September top five chart this month. The track already features on The Thrillseekers 'Night Music' compilation and Solar Stone's forthcoming 'Destinations'.

'INFINITE' GETS SIGNED TO FIRST THREE COMPILATIONS.
Across its three separate mixes 'Infinite' has now been compiled on to its first three comps Lange has plumped for the original mix for his 'Global Phases' comp. Steve 'Thrillseekers' Helstrip has put the mighty Sunquest remix on his forthcoming, highly anticipated 'Night Music' compilation. And rounding things up Ministry of Sound Resident John Askew has opened his new compilation with the ace Mark Thornton chillout mix.

'INFINITE' MAKES IVIBES SINGLE OF THE WEEK.
IVibes have made Skyform's 'Infinite' single of the week on their site. Click the link to read Mark 'Watts' Raybone's review here. The single is now available via Buy That Record.com and Juno Records on CD, and Audio Jelly and Beatport for Digital Download.

GALEN BEHR JOINS THE 'E-STORIES' TEAM.

Galen 'Passiva' Behr has joined the 'E-Stories' running order with his killer new tune 'Desert Twister'. The man behind the remix of our first release 'A Place Called Home' will feature un the name 'Earthquake' and tops off a killer EP (if we say so ourselves!) More release info when we get it!

BUYING E-TCR RELEASES.

E-TCR CD releases are now available to buy at a several of the leading online retailers including Juno Records, Dancegrooves and Buy That Record. The 2nd CD from Mark Thornton's 'Now You See'/'Theme for the Star Crossed Lovers' featuring Tiësto fave LNQ and The Galaxy championed CompleXz remixes are available now!

SOPHIE SUGAR SIGNS TO E-TCR.

Following her massive Paul van Dyk championed 'Call of Tomorrow' release on Fundamental subsidury Galactive, we're delighted to welcome the multi talented Sophie Sugar to the label.
She has signed her follow up 'Isis' which will become E-TCR's seventh release, remix details to follow.

The first of the two Mark Thornton CD's (containing the Original, the AVB supported Ross Assenheim mix and MT Chillout mixes) is released today, available thru buythatrecord.com and juno.co.uk. The DDownload is available through Beatport, Audio Jelly, DJ Download and TrackItDown. Elsewhere the 2nd CD of mixes including the LNQ and CompleXz mixes as well as the Above and Beyond supported 'Theme For Star Crossed Lovers' will be out on the 7th August.

Our sixth release on E-TCR will herald the launch of our first 'E-Stories' EP. Israeli duo Zehavi and Rand and Dutch producer Celwin Frenzen are the producers featured on the first release under the guises Sphera and Cellec respectively. More release info as we get it.

Above and Beyond have jumped on our second release, Mark Thornton's sublime 'Now You See'. They spun Ross Assenheim's remix on their Ministry of Sound 'Trance Around The World' show, (episode 66). Elsewhere the blond bomber himself, Johan Gielen, phoned us fresh back from his monster U.S. tour to tell us how massive the track was! And stop the press Armin has played it on ASOT, just as we were writing this!

We're delighted to announce today the signing of internationally renowned trance star Lost Witness and rapidly emerging producer Spanish producer Miguel Sassot to E-TCR.
Together the pair have produced a transcendent summer monster entitled 'Love is Trance' (we can't argue with that!) and we've snapped it up! The tune is in instrumental form at the moment but was always envisioned by producers Si and Miguel as a vocal piece. More info as we get it but you'll shortly be able to preview their masterpiece through this sites player. Roll on the summer!

Promos of our first release will be available through www.buythatrecord.com on the 3rd of June. JPL's huge 'A Place Called Home' with the massive Passiva remix will be available as a download through Beatport, Audio Jelly, Track It Down and and DJ Download two weeks later on the 17th.

E-TCR MAKES ITS FORTH SIGNING AS SUMMER SESSIONS AND MICHELLE SMITH JOIN THE CAMP.

We have great pleasure in announcing our forth signing to E-TCR. Rising Canadian star Ron Bercovitch (who is already inked to Bonzai under his Sunquest guise a and as Electric Pulse to Blackhole) joins us this week under new moniker Summer Sessions. His sensational first track 'Blossom', already described by The Thrillseekers as 'soooo beautiful' features the haunting vocal strains of Michelle Smith. Remix therapy will come from new mystery act Haylon. More release details as we get closer to summer.

Johan Gielen has made JPL's massive 'A Place Called Home' single on the week on his syndicated Radio show on Fresh FM. The Blonde Bomber commented simply that it was "An absolute monster"!

E-TCR's second signing Mark Thornton has done the impossible and landed a second monster on out doorstep. All before his first has been promoed! We've snapped up Mark's 'Theme For The Star Crossed Lovers'. Release details are yet to be confirmed, and the boss is playing this close to his chest. He is saying that that it has a "bootleg edge" to it, and is of the "classiest, most classical kind". Ooohh fancy!

Ferry Corsten has compiled 'A Place Called Home' on to his new compilation 'Passport'. No word yet on which mix he's spinning, but as soon as we find out we'll let you know!

Armin played the first E-TCR track 'A Place Called Home' by JPL on his A State of Trance show on syndicated di:fm show. The blonde bomber opted for Passiva version! More playlist info as we get it

Over the last four months we've been scouring every nook and cranny of the trance planet to find those most talented of individuals that will make up our opening roster of artists. With three artists/tracks now signed up E-TCR is just about ready to go! Our first release by JPL entitled 'A Place Called Home' will be promoed at the end of April 2005 and over the coming months we will look to bring you the absolute cream of the crop in terms of trance music.

On April the 6th E-TCR's website went online for the first time. You'll notice that one or two of the interactive elements of the site (search functions/mailshot sign up etc) are not functioning. We hope to have this corrected withing the next two weeks.

The worlds most on-the-ball trance fansite picked has picked up the first news of E-TCR. Trance NU and Surface Recordings A&R man Ralf Elfving covers the story. Follow the link trance nu e-tcr news to get his verdict!

E-TCR: Electronic Trance Communications went under starters order last night as our website launched last night. Through this site you will find all the information you need about our artists and activities. You will find links to Buy That Record where you can purchase CD copies of our tracks and Beatport where you can legally download them.

We hope you enjoy our tracks, please feel free to feedback via our contact section!