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

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

Trance music

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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

External links

• Tunnel Records
• Tunnel Club page on Wikipedia.de
• Discography on Discog.com
• Release history on Discog.com