Pharmacy Radio

Special Guest: Jonathan Allyn (Pharmacy / Los Angeles).Gearing up for his first episode of Rush Hour since moving back to Los Angeles, Christopher has a huge two hours of trance in store this month. In the first hour, Christopher features a live mix from his recent show at Vision on Chicago with new tracks by label mates Steve Birch, John "00" Fleming, plus Corona, Tazix & Allya and John Askew.This months special guest is DJ and producer Jonathan Allyn, who continues to be recognized by the media, its artists and crowds across the nation for his tough yet melodically progressive, techno trance DJ style and productions. DJ::Producer, Jonathan Allyn continues to be recognized by the media, its artists and crowds across the nation for his tough yet melodically progressive, techno trance DJ style and productions.As one of the nations fastest up and coming artists, Jonathan has been recognized in DJ Mag's 2009 prestigious Top 100 poll as Christopher Lawrence's sole "Breakthrough DJ/Producer for 2009". His producti

Special Guest: Ismael Rodriguez (1015 / San Francisco).In the midst of his 'Rush Hour' compilation series tour of North America, Christopher brings you this hard hitting episode for August featuring new tracks from Mallorca Lee, Corona, Poaris and Journey and Talla 2XLC.Christopher also presents a special guest mix from San Francisco hard trance favorite Ismael Rodriguez, whom Christopher Lawrence describes as "One of the Best DJs Out There". A Bay Area favorite, Ismael pushes his unique selection of quality trance, techno and house throughout the cities thriving trance scene at some of the cities top clubs including 1015 Folsom, Ruby Skye, DNA Lounge, Space 550, Sound Factory, Temple. Visit the podcast episode page to find out more information, with links to artists featured in this podcast.

Special Guest: Jordan Stevens (Perfecto / Las Vegas). Jordan Stevens has been DJing since 2003. Starting off in the West Coast USA rave scene he quickly became an underground favorite. In 2005 he decided it was time to make the jump to the club scene, landing his first residency at Las Vegas's #1 afterhours, late night Empire. From there he went on to open for the likes of Christopher Lawrence, Judge Jules, and Eddie Halliwell. He was a mainstay in the club until 2008 when Empire Ballroom closed its doors for the last time. Jordan's career soon kickstarted into full force starting with openings at Godskitchen in the trance show scene with ATB, 4 Strings, and Above and Beyond to name a few. Jordan soon captured the attention of Mike Fuller at the Palms and was brought into play all the major dance music events, including Paul Oakenfold's "Perfecto" and Goodlife Sundays at Moon. Voted "Best House/ Electronica DJ" by Las Vegas's City Life in 2010, at 26 years of age, the sky is the limit for this up and coming D

Special Guest: Sub6 (Israel). Gearing up for huge summer internationally, Christopher Lawrence returns to the Rush Hour airwaves in June with a huge show. Featuring new tracks from Psychoholic, Graham Gold, The Commercial Hippies and more..This months special guests are Sub6, who are brothers Golan and Ohad Aharony. They started making electronic music in 1999 and have become one of the biggest trance acts in the world. After collaborating with UK singer Michele Adamson on two big dance floor hits - "Ra he'ya" and "7th son", They released their debut album - "Who needs love songs" (titled as "Album of the year 2004" by the Israeli DJ magazine), which is marked as a milestone in electronic dance music as it forms an ultimate fusion between club oriented trance music and rave power creating an inspiring journey through Psychedelic Trance, Tech-house and club trance fused together on top of 'juicy' baselines and an uncompromising drive using vocals and crossovers between trance and house elements.This new style

Guest Mix: Steve Birch (J00F / UK). Anyone who has listened to Christopher Lawrence's Rush Hour will be no strange to the name Steve Birch.Steve Birch is a DJ, producer & the label owner of Spacedout Recordings UK. Steve's music career kicked off after being signed to John 00 Flemings Joof Records, which is the home for his more experimental/psy tranceHe later released more mainstream tracks on labels such as, Deep blue, Five Am, Propulsion ,Total Digial, SPX, under alias such as, Lucid dreamer, Saltwater , Flux, Luka(Steve Birch Vs Jonathan Allyn) & 2CB-(Steve Birch Vs Jay Cox).Steve also started his own label Spacedout Recordings UK, which has gained the support of most A list DJ's and is continuing to grow with every release. Visit the podcast episode page to find out more information, with links to artists featured in this podcast.

Feat. Judgement Sunday (WMC 2010) / Antwerp is Burning' (Belgium 2004).Back from the Winter Music Conference in Miami, where he played a record number of shows for 2010, including Judgement Sundays, AM Only's 'One Night Only', Nikki Beach and the IDMA's Afterparty, Christopher Lawrence presented a massive 'Rush Hour' in April 2010.In the first hour, Christopher features his set live from Judgement Sundays at WMC. Christopher joined the line up of Judgement Sundays as it celebrated its 10th year of being Ibiza's busiest night with a special Miami WMC party featuring resident Judge Jules, Sean Tyas and Second Sun. Located at at La Folie D'Amour in South Beach, this was a fantastic night with industry A-listers and fans coming together to enjoy one of the best trance line ups of the Conference.For the guest mix of this months Rush Hour, Christopher has dug into the vaults and found a rare live recording from the Belgian festival Antwerp Is Burning. Antwerp Is Burning was the largest youth event in Antwerp betwee

Guest Mix: Danny Powers (Nu Depth / UK).The journey started for Danny Powers back in the summer of 1998, his first encounter of proper trance music was coming across the Gatecrasher Black Compilation, the rest as they say 'is history'. This led him onto buying the next two in the series and really kicked his trance passion into gear. Listening to this style of music while he was 15 seemed weird as it was a break from the chart trash flying around at that time. He instantly got hooked on those riffs, how could an instrumental based form of music get him so hooked?! His first club experience was the good ol' Mezzaine in Wolverhampton, hearing the likes of Flat 6's 'It's too late' on a loud system for the first time was something he wasn't going to forget as a young clubber. Next up was regular visits to Godskitchen at the newly opened venue Air, then Gatecrasher events at the NEC. This then led onto a passion for his first favourite DJ, this being the Dutch trance maestro DJ Tiesto. After buying the DJ Tiesto

Guest Mix: Dirty Loud (Spintwist / Brazil).Dirtyloud: a bouncing subconsciouness-touchy dance music duo from Brazil.Eduardo was a bass player and Marcus had been a dj for a long time. Both have passion for music. Right after they first met, the now "duo" began putting their knowledge together. Eduardo with his hard & funky music background (RHCP, Brothers Johnson, Chic, P-Funk to name a few) and Marcus with his dancefloor smashing experience (Progressive House/Trance) and the huge affinity they have in front of a computer screen were essential to result in a fresh and exciting dancefloor music experience. The first gig happened in March 2009 when more than 3000 dancers attended the venue. Their first release in September/2009 reached #3 on Beatport's Electro-House downloads with the track "Disco Recordz" (Charted by Dave Aude, Gary Caos and PANTyRAID). Right after the huge success, they were requested to work with Atlantic Records and are collaborating with labels like Spintwist Records, Big Fish Recordings a

Guest Mix: Save the Robot (H20 / Israel).Save the Robot is a cybernetic 2 piece, electronic component ensemble. A world first in the world of electronic, audio experiments. Save The Robot is the remarkable project world known producers Alien Project and Quadra. Having topped in the last decade the global Trance scene, this restless duo has been hard at work in the studio and has entered new uncharted territories. After reaching the highest point in the Trance scene this remarkable duo have begun seeking new & exciting directions, a place to expand & develop, the result is massive... Save The Robot also produced music for Sony Computer Ent. Inc. - Grand Turismo 4. Their music was also featured on the successful Hollywood film - Man on Fire (20 Century Fox), Feat. Denzel Washington. Lufthansa flyers can find the Save The Robot sound on their music on demand channels. In the next few months this mystery will be unveiled in the form of a multitude of new & exciting, blasting releases... The time has come to enter

Guest Mix: Magnus (Pharmacy / USA).This month's special guest is Magnus, a previous 'Rush Hour' guest and trance prodigy from Seattle who has several releases under his belt on Christopher Lawrence's label Pharmacy Music.A Maryland native, Magnus has called Seattle, Washington home for the past 9 years. He got his start in 2002 by playing out around the area at club events and parties under the DJ name of "Magnus". Magnus has had several releases on Pharmacy, JOOF, and Audacious in addition to tracks appearing on CD compilations by Ministry of Sound and Moist Music. Also producing frequently under his "Michael Lee" alias, he has seen releases on Discover with his tracks supported by Aly and Fila, Sean Tyas, and John Askew. Magnus has an upcoming Michael Lee release on Discover entitled Everblue with a remix by Adam Foley. His greatest accomplishment to date was winning the Sean Tyas Melbourne remix competition in 2009.Magnus's style is somewhat of a crossover between trance and psytrance, incorporating chara

Guest Mix: Mr & Mrs Smith [DJ Side Project].Famous for his tough trance sound, Christopher Lawrence joins forces with his wife Sara for a new DJ side project 'Mr + Mrs Smith'. The pair, who have worked together behind the scenes for fifteen years have brought their joint efforts into the public eye with this new DJ duo, which debuted at this years Burning Man festival.Christopher laughs "I've been noticing there's a lot of DJs working in pairs lately. I've often thought it would be nice to have a wingman up there, although in this case, it's actually a wingwoman. I don't know of any other mixed sex DJ duos, let alone any husband and wife teams, so I think we're definitely breaking some new ground here".Christopher continues "Mr + Mrs Smith' is an opportunity for me to play music that I couldn't normally incorporate into my trance sets".So what is the sound? "I would describe it as electro house meets techno" says Sara. "But we'll play any genre, we don't care what it is as long as it's tough and sexy, with a

Guest Mix: Psycoholic (Moscow / Psy Spy).Back from Burning Man and a three week tour of Asia, Christopher has a fantastic episode of Rush Hour lined up for October.Christopher is excited to present a guest mix from Psycoholic, whose tracks have featured prominantly in Christopher's sets over the past year, in particular 'Acid Rain'.Psychoholic (aka M.Pravda) is a project founded in Toronto Canada in 2004. Currently based in Moscow, Russia, Psycoholic became highly respected as producer and DJ through his unique style, determination and unforgettable live performance. He always trying to experiment with the sound and collaborate various styles of music in his production.In his carrier regularly played alongside heavy hitters or headlined his own gigs all over the world: from Canada to Brazil, Russia and Europe. Guest of famous festivals such as: World Electronic Music Festival (WEMF) in Canada, "Kazantip" in Ukraine, "Kokum Koya" in Brazil and many others.After his debut album "Trance World Order" released on

Guest Mix: Carlo Calabro (Fektive / Poland).Kamil Kwiatkowski (AKA Carlo Calabro) - born in 1986 in southern Poland. When you ask his parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, friends and ex girlfriends a question "was there any indication Kamil would take up music?", everyone will give you the same answer: "Nothing at all!". A producer? In 2006 he accidentally came cross a compilation of music people around called "trance". After hearing a first record Kamil felt like listening another one and another, and another... Couple of months passed when he shouted loud like a small child: "I wanna make such music!". And then it all begun... When the field was sufficiently recognized and he knew "which buttons to press" he started pressing (that is: producing). His first track made only by himself fitted for..... release! A small label and the track didn't turn out to be a hit, but... who cares! Carlo Calabro got a massive shot of motivation for further work. "You want, you can", right? Things Carlo Calabro did in the se