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TFSF One Year Anniversary Celebration at South Beach Park in San Francisco | Food drive for San Francisco Food Bank | 4.30.2011

Skills ETD POP2012 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA on March 31st 2012. A video by TranceFamily SF featuring Dash Berlin, tyDi, Sander van Doorn, and the amazing people that make up the TranceFamily of San Francisco Bay Area ” In Every Beat, We Are Closer.”

Rarely does fate smile on an artist to be fortunate enough to enjoy the gift of longevity.  Especially in an industry as relatively new and “here today gone tomorrow” as ours, staying afloat and relevant is quite a task.  Adapting and evolving while not falling victim to growing trends is key.  This, ladies and gentlemen, is the key to aging gracefully.  Nobody has done this in such a noteworthy fashion than German trance duo Kyau & Albert; who happen to be one of TranceFamily SF’s favorite acts.  Recently they have released their “15 Years: The Album” chronicling their long spanning career across two generations of trance music with some of their most famous singles receiving rework treatment from some of today’s trance heavyweights such as Tritonal, Mat Zo, and Arty.  The compilation also includes some of their most recent singles to demonstrate their staying power.

It is about 7 pm in Miami, Florida and the world’s #1 voted DJ David Guetta is just about to jump off the decks for the night’s closing headliner of the final day of the world famous Ultra Music Festival; perhaps the most revered EDM festival in the world.  After a crowd of thousands have been rocked by about an hour of the pop-hip hop-electro heavy sounds of Guetta and hours of other house juggernauts before him, the night’s closer was…a trance act?  A couple of things could already seem a miss by the casual EDM concert goer who just happened to stroll in to Miami on this particular weekend.  Seeing as how  Ultra is a showcase of the who’s who in EDM, why would the #1 DJ in the world NOT be the headlining closing act?  Why would the final artist of the night be a stylistically different sound of music than the previous acts throughout the day on the main stage?  And if you’re this casual EDM concert goer, you may ask yourself “why should I stay to watch this?”. Well the answer is simple.  This headlining artist is no ordinary DJ. It’s none other than the mighty Armin van Buuren.

1. Rank 1 – Airwave (Original Mix)
2. Gaia – Tuvan (Original Mix)
3. Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan – Silence (Tiësto’s In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
4. Dash Berlin – Till The Sky Falls Down (Original Mix)
5. DJ Tiësto – Adagio For Strings (Original Mix)
6. Armin van Buuren ft. Sharon Den Adel – In And Out Of Love (Original Mix)
7. Motorcycle – As The Rush Comes (Gabriel & Dresden Sweeping Strings Remix)
8. Paul van Dyk – For An Angel (Original Mix)
9. DJ Tiësto – Elements Of Life (Original Mix)
10. System F – Out Of The Blue (Original Mix)
11. Gareth Emery feat. Lucy Saunders – Sanctuary (Original Mix)
12. Sasha – Xpander (Original Mix)
13. Armin van Buuren Feat. Justine Suissa – Burned With Desire (Original Mix)
14. Oceanlab – Satellite (Original Above & Beyond Mix)
15. Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford – Sun & Moon (Original Mix)
16. Paul Oakenfold – Southern Sun (DJ Tiësto Remix)
17. DJ Tiësto – Traffic (Original Mix)
18. Veracocha – Carte Blanche (Original Mix)
19. Energy 52 – Cafe Del Mar (Original Mix)
20. Armin van Buuren – Communication (Original Mix)
21. Chicane – Saltwater (Original Mix)
22. Andain – Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden’s Unplugged Mix)
23. DJ Tiësto – Flight 643 (Original Mix)
24. Armin van Buuren – Sail (Original mix)
25. Above & Beyond feat. Andy Moor – Air for Life (Original Mix)