Tunnel Records
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Tunnel Records is a record label
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 founded by DJ Dean
DJ Dean
DJ Dean is a German Euro-Trance/Hard Trance DJ, producer, and current, longtime resident DJ of the Tunnel dance club in Hamburg, Germany...

. It is based in Hamburg
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, Germany
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Tunnel was once home to X-Dream
X-Dream
X-Dream are Marcus Christopher Maichel and Jan Müller ; they are also known as Rough and Rush. They are producers of psychedelic trance music and hail from Hamburg, Germany...

, a German trance
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 project.

Tunnel have been running their long standing 'Tunnel Trance Force' compilation CDs for over a decade, the first release dating 1997. The latest edition, Tunnel Trance Force 57, has been released in Germany on May 6th, 2011. The Tunnel Trance Force series is based on the current "sound of the Tunnel", i.e. the music that is played in the very famous club 'Tunnel', owned by Tunnel Records and located in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

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Tunnel Records also publishes a number of other trance compilations such as Time Tunnel, Tunnel goes Ibiza
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, DJ Networx, and Best of Tunnel.

Tunnel Records was home to other artists such as DJ Dean
DJ Dean
DJ Dean is a German Euro-Trance/Hard Trance DJ, producer, and current, longtime resident DJ of the Tunnel dance club in Hamburg, Germany...

, Gollum + Hunter, DJ Yanny, Accuface, DJ Shane, DJ Shoko, Waveliner, DJ Krid-Kid, Dj C-Bass & DJ Merlin, Ziggy X, Patrick Bunton, and Gary D, among others.

Tunnel Records has two sublabels: Push Up Records
Push Up Records
Push Up Records is a sublabel of Germany-based Tunnel Records. Under its flag were released almost only 12-inch singles, from 1999 to 2003.-External links:* *...

 and Red Light. Under the latter were released six editions of Tunnel Red Light, techno mixes on CD, from 1996 to 1999.

Tunnel's CDs and Vinyls can almost exclusively be ordered through amazon.de, but a limited selection of their music can also be purchased for download with programs such as iTunes
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tunnel.de is the official website to Tunnel Trance Force


Release history

Tunnel Trance Force release history:
Number Year Mix CD1 Mix CD2
01 1997 Cosmix Planet mix
02 1997 Venus mix Mars mix
03 1997 Space mix Orbit mix
04 1998 Saturn mix Jupiter mix
05 1998 Moonmix Sunmix
06 1998 Cyber mix Shuttle mix
07 1998 Gold mix Diamond mix
08 1999 Light mix Dark mix
09 1999 Lovemix Flowermix
10 1999 Watermix Summermix
11 1999 Milenium mix Dark mix
12 2000 Alpha mix Omega mix
13 2000 Cool Side mix Fresh side mix
14 2000 Moon mix Saturn mix
15 2000 Xmas mix Sylvester mix
16 2001 Odyssee 2001 mix Lost in time mix
17 2001 Sunshine mix Refreshing mix
18 2001 ISDN mix DSL mix
19 2001 Winter mix Snow mix
20 2002 Celebration mix Ceremony mix
21 2002 Cool waters mix Hot nights mix
22 2002 Hands up mix Jump around mix
23 2002 Frozen mix Ice mix
24 2003 Deep blue mix Silver acid mix
25 2003 Purple power mix Yellow party mix
26 2003 Green Grass Mix Yellow Dust Mix
27 2003 Red Nose Mix White Snow Mix
28 2004 Black Velvet Mix White Pearls Mix
29 2004 Sunrise Mix Sunset Mix
30 2004 30.1 Mix 30.2 Mix
31 2004
32 2005 Outa Space Mix Inner Flame Mix
33 2005 Skywalker Mix Darth Vader Mix
34 2005 Barbarez Mix Van Der Vaart Mix
35 2005 Cruise Mix Flight Mix
36 2006 Miami Mix Orlando Mix
37 2006 Saturn Mix Venus Mix
38 2006 Wild Romance Mix Space Trigger Mix
39 2006 Red Apple Mix Black Pearl Mix
40 2007 Black Attack Mix (78:01) Silver Liquid Mix (78:50)
41 2007 Summer Rain Mix Summer Sky Mix
42 2007 Time Tunnel Mix Time Travel Mix
43 2007
44 2008
45 2008
46 2008 Burning Fire Mix Blue Space Mix
47 2008 Purple Haze Mix White Widow Mix
48 2009 Black Attack Mix Blue Magic Mix
49 2009
50 2009
51 2009
52 2010 Yellow Dust Mix Black Power Mix
53 2010
54 2010
55 2010
56 2011
57 2011 Purple Haze Mix White Widow Mix
58 2011
59 2011

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