Andy Jay Powell (@andyjaypowell)
Composer+Producer Of Electronic Music / HIVE-Blogger From Passion Feel The Force Of Liberty!
📷 Bike Ride to the Miltenberg Fair
Hello dear friends, Right now, the fair is back in our beautiful neighboring Bavarian town of Miltenberg. Even though the rides there haven’t really changed much, we still enjoy stopping by once or...
🔊 Sunflow 2026 - The Return Of A Trance Classic
Hello dear friends, The new trance label Arive Records recently launched with the single “Andy Jay Powell & Basslovers United – Turn Off The Light.” You can find an article about it on my HIVE acco...
📷 Mushroom Moments '26
Hello dear friends, My personal mushroom-hunting season usually begins in early summer, when it’s realistic to expect the first finds of chanterelles—arguably my favorite mushroom in terms of taste...
📷 Construction Work and the End of the Heat Wave
Hello dear friends, Well, it seems to be over now. The consistently high summer temperatures—steadily above 30 degrees Celsius—have apparently been a thing of the past for this year since August 17...
📷 Tour of the Franconian Savannah
Hello dear friends, Yesterday, I set out once again for Trennfeld (Bavaria). However, I didn’t take the direct route; instead, I chose the path along the Main River into the area known as Himmelrei...
🔊 Run Baby Run (Clubbticket Mix)
Hello dear friends, Regular readers of my blog know that I don't just compose and produce trance music, but have also been making a lot of “Hands Up” music since the early 2000s. Not least since 20...
📷 Water Levels
Hello dear friends, My family and I are enjoying the wonderful summer in Germany this year. For the past two months, we’ve had nonstop swimming weather here in Franconia. Fortunately, it still gets...
🔊 Mirror On The Wall (Hardtrance / Hypertechno)
Hello dear friends, https://youtu.be/F2oOeOEHyao A few days ago, I released a new single in collaboration with DJ Frankforce One. It’s another faster-paced track—so not uplifting trance. The releas...
📷 Rainbow over Wertheim
Hello dear friends, I haven’t been posting much on this blog as an author in recent weeks. But I’m far from done with Hive. Over the past few months, I’ve cycled thousands of kilometers to take pho...
🔊 Turn Off The Light
Hello dear friends, A new trance label from Germany has arrived, and fittingly, it’s called ARIVE Records. Arive Records is a sublabel of Munix Music, which also owns Hands Up Freaks Records—the la...
📷 9 Years Here On HIVE
Hello dear friends, And another year has gone by. Nine years ago, I signed up for the blockchain that later became HIVE. As far as I can remember, it must have been May 17, 2017, when it happened. ...
📷 Hemmerich - Where Freedom Lives
Hello dear friends, Although I often ride my eMTB in the area around Triefenstein, I haven’t yet managed to thoroughly explore Lengfurt’s “local mountain,” the so-called “Hemmerich.” Yes, I’ve ridd...
🔊 Run Baby Run (new release)
Hello dear friends, I think it’s time to give a sign of life in the form of a post. I’ve finally gotten around to producing new tracks again, after my work at the beginning of the year consisted al...
📷 Along the Old Trade Route into Spring
Hello dear friends, The past few weeks have been pretty tough on us/me. I already touched on this in my previous blog post, “Lost What Had In Me 2026.” But life goes on for us here, so this year I ...
🔊 Lost What Had In Me 2026
Hello dear friends, Sometimes things happen suddenly and almost out of the blue that can completely shift your focus. And then, when, for example, a loved one is called home, you realize once again...