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As autumn light falls across Museumplein, Mango Alley returns to the Dutch capital for another superlative Amsterdam Dance Event compilation. Inside the Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt's Night Watch steps out of the shadows, its company stirring into life as the contrast between light and dark gives way to strobe and spotlight. Across the square, Van Gogh's Sunflowers blaze in thick golden impasto while Almond Blossom unfurls in pale blue against a turning season. From the Rembrandthuis on Jodenbreestraat to the canal-side studios of the Jordaan, a city that has long painted with brush and colour now paints with sonic splendour – its brushstrokes laid down in beats and basslines by a global fraternity of modern masters. Twenty-two new canvases hang side by side in a gallery without constraint. A white lotus floats on still canal water as meliora reaches for something better, blurring the edges between old masters and new. Sonorous chords ring out en bloc, drawing all who dare to seek deeper into a memory left behind that lingers in the air like a half-finished sketch. Night falls in a nocturne of deepening hues; the skyline glows at its zenith where desire burns at the heart of the club. A vortex of sound pulls towards the inky depths where ripples spread across a round lake and a light shivers and dances on the water. Sound bridges span the Amstel as distant refrains slip quietly into the dawn – a collection of sonic masterpieces, each one meticulously curated by Mango Alley.

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Take a ride on the Dark Side! Pharmacy's label boss Christopher Lawrence shakes things up with his new continuous mix series - Dark Side which explores the shadowy fringes of progressive house and psy-trance. America's most successful underground trance DJ for two decades, Christopher Lawrence is known and respected as an artist who is constantly evolving and pushing the limits. On Dark Side, Christopher Lawrence has faithfully captured the progression and energy of an open to close set split into two separate mixes. Both mixes progress like his sets, building from deep and dark. As the journey progresses the tempo and energy build giving rise to an emotional wall of sound felt on the dance floor. Christopher Lawrence gets back to his progressive roots in the Opening Mix. If you have ever experienced one of his open to close sets you will recognize the slower measured pace with which his sets begin. The creativity of progressive house gives it an unrestrained freedom and expressiveness. From the hypnotic opening with the Matter Remix of Zen by GuyRo feat. Chris Sterio to the uplifting closing Skober Remix of Spektre's Forged In The Heart of A Laserbeam the mix takes a sonic journey. Many of today's most exciting producers and their finest tracks are showcased on this compilation including Digital Mess, Harper & Green, Matteo Monero, Hot TuneiK, Supacooks, Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor, Stan Kolev & Matan Caspi, Th;en & Starkato, Paul Thomas & White-Akre, Rolo Green, Third Party, Pete K & Cory Lasser, Basil O'Glue, Spektre and Skober. The Closing Mix faithfully reproduces the energy and power of Christopher Lawrence's set at the close of the night when he hits the turbo button. Psy-trance is a sound he has long championed and it has recently emerged from the shadows and taken center stage with pure, crisp and powerful productions with a sophistication that has been missing from commercial trance. The mix progresses from the funky progressive psy groove of Solar by Freaked Frequency thru tracks by psy trance's most influential producers including Liquid Soul, Vini Vici, Perfect Stranger & Yotopia, Gaudium, Timelock & High Jacked, Ace Ventura, Pitch Bend, AudioFire, Coming Soon & WAIO, Sonic Species, X-Noize, Volcano, Yar Zaa, Faders, Relativ and of course two collaborations by Christopher Lawrence, the first is Ajna with Fergie & Sadrian and the closing track of mix two titled Horizon with No Comment. Feel the force of the Dark Side with Christopher Lawrence.

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