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[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The best way to work off all of those extra Thanksgiving calories is to dance them off. Your best option to do that post-Thanksgiving is Lift Nightclub, because on Friday, November 27 they’ll host the second edition of Trancegiving. Last year, they brought Super8 & Tab. This year they’re doubling down with a special appearance by German trance-brothers Cosmic Gate. Over their 16-year career the duo has played hundreds of shows, including a few in Buffalo. They’ll make their return on the heels of a new compilation, the Wake Your Mind Sessions 001. The comp, which features tracks by Cosmic Gate, Super8 & Tab, Azotti, and a bunch of familiar names from the trance music world, which should give you a good feel of what to expect at this live DJ gig. The comp marks a return to form, of sorts. “For both of us it actually started with DJing first, and when we did this for several years, then the idea of writing music started to take over,” the duo told The Public in an interview earlier this year. “For us, trance is simply the most touching music. The music that we feel the most. Trance in our eyes, though, is not only the typical strings kind of tracks. Trance for us is more the feel of a track.” Local DJs Jesse Aaron and Jill Hutch open the show.