Young Marco Proto-trance compilation

Hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly cel­e­brat­ed the deep and colour­ful world of late ​‘80s and ear­ly ​‘80s Ital­ian house via the pop­u­lar Wel­come To Par­adise com­pi­la­tion series, Safe Trip has now turned its atten­tion to the roots and for­ma­tive years of trance music.

Plan­et Love: Ear­ly Trans­mis­sions 1991 – 95 show­cas­es the roots and for­ma­tive years of trance via 13 loved-up, psy­che­del­ic, colour­ful, melo­di­ous and sur­pris­ing­ly var­ied dance­floor exper­i­ments from Europe, Aus­tralia and the Unit­ed States.

The com­pi­la­tion includes pio­neer­ing pro­to-trance and ear­ly trance tracks from the likes of Hawke (AKA influ­en­tial San Fran­cis­co pro­duc­er Gavin Hard­kiss), Epil­son 9, Spooky, Oliv­er Lieb, Holy Ghost Inc, Mor­gan Wild (an out­fit whose mem­bers includ­ed ear­ly NYC tech­no titan Damon Wild), Mijk van Dijk, Glam and Paul van Dyk.

Packed with must-have cuts, slept-on gems and sought-after rar­i­ties, Plan­et Love: Ear­ly Trans­mis­sions 1991 – 95 main­tains the loved-up, lis­ten­able vibe of Wel­come to Par­adise while broad­en­ing its musi­cal hori­zons. It is not a defin­i­tive his­to­ry of trance music’s ear­ly years, but rather a colour­ful, life-affirm­ing cel­e­bra­tion of the var­ied strands that came togeth­er to cre­ate one of dance music’s most pop­u­lar and endur­ing styles.