#18 Feat. Staff Picks in Trance (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic)

'These Are My People' is the latest record by Glenn Morrison, a spiralling melodic progressive trance record with a stunning atmospheric vocal breakdown & all the while juxtaposed with a warm pumping baseline. Classically trained and with a formal background of music from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Glenn was already competing in piano competitions from the age of 7 years old. You could say his early formative days laid the ground work for his career on the worldwide stage as an accomplished and award winning international touring musician. Glenn has a wide range of styles and compositions in his work, from recent support with having the opening record on Sasha and Digweed's Coachella live show at the Yuma tent, to having recently hit Number 5 on the Apple Music Poland Charts for his classical piano album 'This Time Around', Glenn is jumping from one musical achievement to another - all with the grace and humility to appreciate the position he is in. Being able to create in a comfortable space and studio is a blessing when you observe the chaotic world around you. We hope you enjoy this latest single and please make sure to follow Glenn on all of his social media and online websites, where we have limited edition vinyl merchandise and baseball hats for the season.

Glenn Morrison

#88 Feat. Staff Picks in Trance (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic)

Keeping the train on the rails as we head ever further into an uncertain future, TT4 comes with another six tracks, once again gaily stretching the genre term to it's meaningful limits, mixing up new with old, fast with slow, deeper stuff with bangers. Ton TB (half of Three Drives / Greece 2000) opens proceedings with a rushy, linear, late night stomper 'Hurt You', before an OG progressive friend (first whites appeared in 92'... we signed it in 94/5' ) Frontier Man returns with a spritely hypno-tech rework from fellow, erm, man, Australian post lo-fi swashbuckler Fantastic Man. Talking of old friends, CM's 'Dream Universe' always occupied a slightly unique position within the Hooj Pantheon: as we've mentioned before, in his 1998 review of the track, DJ Mag's Ronnie Randall wrote that this was "a proper journey... but maybe all the journey's have been made now?", and we knew he was right, as far as we were feeling it... we never signed another trancer to Hooj, and never looked back (last bit = patently untrue, obvs). In early summer, Irish heavyweight Ciaran McAuley took the 2021 HEO electronic/orchestral cover and added a swathe of gleaming Emerald Isle energy, to create a fizzing, no frills peak-timer for his own sets, before passing on for our admiring gaze. Making a swift return after TT3 , Glenn Morrison has ratcheted up his and Aaya's own 'Twenty Something' into the propulsive neo psy-banger it was always meant to be, whilst welcome newcomer to the the label Jay Farina, fresh from a spring Hot Creations debut, dial things down a bit with the rolling, zoned in Balearica of 'Supernova'. Another TT3 veteran, Hansgod, rounds thing off on an altogether gentler note, as Heya bumps and builds into a hazy, MFA reminiscent throbber.

Frontier Man, Ton TB, HEO, Glenn Morrison, AAYA, Quinzi, Jay Farina, Hansgod