I’m a big fan of Cosmic Gate and of Lizzie Curious. Although the other Cosmic Gate remix makes more of Lizzie’s great voice, it’s the dub mix I prefer the most, not least as like most trance tracks the lyrics mean bugger all. Lovely break, nice build, yet more intelligent trance….
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Robbie Rivera feat. Lizzie Curious – Departures (Cosmic Gate Dub Mix)
Monday, January 24th, 2011Judge Jules – The Greater Good – Marcus schossow remix
Monday, January 24th, 2011Not since Stix and Stoned Outrageous have I associated The Judge with a decent trance track, but bugger me, that’s just what he’s done here.
The original mix is just about okay and I’d skip it to be honest, the Marcus Schossow remix is where it’s at with a much more proggier and sophisticated angle. I love a hands in the air breakdown, but with so much trance music it doesn’t really sit comfortably with the rest of the track. This tune is ace.
Steve ‘bear’ Sas – Strings of life (jaimey mix)
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011Short and to the point blog post.
Get some cheesy but brilliant house. Strings of life was one of the biggest tunes of my youth, and here’s a wicked, though short, remix.
Steve Bear Sas – Strings Of Life (Jaimy Remix) [Mile End] by DJJaimy
TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos – The Deep End (Album version)
Monday, November 29th, 2010The Deep End is an atmospheric house track with a strong breakdown and a great riff; not to mention a mellow and warm breakdown. For me it’s worth hunting down the Album Version as it’s a slightly more dancefloor friendly than other mixes. Having said that the tune structure isn’t your traditional four to the floor so some half decent mixing skills are needed.
I have to admit to not really having noticed much from Nuno Dos Santos before, but on the strength of this track alone I’ll keep an ear to the ground.
TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos – The Deep End (Album version) by Nuno Dos Santos
Hybrid Disappear Here, remixes
Monday, November 22nd, 2010When Hybrid released Disappear Here a few months ago, it fell slightly below my expecatations. It’s a great album to listen to at home with wonderful, rich orchestrals, but it didn’t have dancefloor or live performance stand-out in my view. So it’s great to see this latest batch of remixes of the title track, disappear here.
Disappear Here – Trance remixes
Maor Levi – this is the best trance remix and probably my favourite all together tance treatment.
Andy Moor has done two mixes, the ecomix and a dub, and while good, neither bkows my socks off. The Dub has no vocal, and the ecomix cheeses it up a bit too much, but only a little bit. Although I’d love to see what it would do to a dancefloor; good things I think.
Disappear Here – Progressive mixes
Hybrid Soundsystem. Most Hybrid stuff, Disappear Here included is made for progressive house and breaks lovers, so it’s no surpruse this is where the tune works best. It’s full of classic hybrid twists and details. A slight air of menace in the riff, great production and an awesome breakdown.
Antix Mix. Weaker of the prog remixes for me, but still very listenable. I’m just not sure about the vocal snippets.
Disappear Here – Breaks
Losers remix. Losers remix really doesn’t cut it for me; far too down tempo and a bit slow for the first two mins before it gets going properly. When it does get going it’s messy and a bit rough around the edges.
Orchestral Armchair Version. This very downtempo version appeared on a few of the early album lauches and really demonstrates what Hybrid do best; epic orchestrals, with great crossover appeal.
Thomas Gold – Agora – Size records
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Agora has the single minded simplicity of a late 90′s tech house track but with bang up to date 2010 progressive house production. Thomas Gold has done a cracking job.
A well built intro phrase gives way to one, very simple, building break down. No frippery with a little intro break down in the first quarter of the track; no just a stonking break in the middle, like in the olden days.
Sander Van Doorn – Intro – XX bootleg
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Anthem alert!
Sander Van Doorn has been using his bootleg remix of the XX’s track to introduce his live performances for a while (I seem to rembmer hearing it nearly a year ago). The track is now fully produced and has just been released on his Doorn label. This track has been a huge anthem this summer getting played by a broad church of DJs.
I like Sander Van Doorn’s stuff, it somehow feels more intelligent than a lot of house and trance which just gets banged out. His attention to detail is fantastic.
Sander Van Doorn – Intro (XX Booty Mix) by Free House Music
Here’s the original guitar track
Kyoto – Senegal – Flashover Recordings
Monday, October 25th, 2010Kyoto or Hans Raaijmakers to his mates has been producing tunes for just a few years, but this track certainly has a maturity of a much more experienced producer.
Senegal follows a standard prog/trance structure which is no bad thing. A well produced riff gives way to a gentle building break which is just the right length and intensity for the pace of the track. I do think that the break could’ve been a bit more epic, but I’d still buy this tune and really like it as a mid set prog tune, or a builer in a trance set.
Oliver Koletzki & Fran Arrow & Bow
Friday, October 15th, 2010According to Resident Advisor this track peaked in August which puts me bang on schedule to discover it just after it’s been popular, go me.
Arrow & Bow (Marek Hemmann Remix) by marekhemmann
Wicked vocal progressive warmer of a record. Listened to it about three times this morning and it’s made me smile every time. Sure it rocked every dancefloor it was played over the summer. Love the Mark Hemmann treatment.
I’ve even thrown in the artwork
Roberto Rodriguez – Thank You (part two) – solardisco recordings
Monday, October 11th, 2010I’ve hear this track a few times recently but by far the best remix is the one on Jody Wisternoff’s October Intensified (see next post). This really groovy house track wears it’s funk bassline well, and the cute ‘I want to thank you’ vocal sample reminds me a bit of the petshop boys.
The track is firmly in the house end of progressive house, but I feel it’s a really versatile track which would suit a variety of different DJing styles. The breakdown doesn’t really go anywhere, but the vocal carries it just fine, at nearly 9 minutes I don’t think I’d play the whole track but its simple structure gives it a load of mixing options.