The 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.
When 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.
Agora 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 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.
Kyoto 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.
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.
After a hiatus in blogging due to, frankly not hearing any good records. A holiday has been the perfect excuse to download and listen to lots of mixes so I now have a load of tunes to write about.
First off is this corker featured on lots of mixes from Caro is significantly cooler, more cross-over and versatile than my fragile 30 something brain could ever understand. She seems to be up there in the Paris house scene, which while never being Zeitgeist has always been a world to watch.
Soldiers is a very versatile track that’ll do well from the dancefloors of Ibiza and Cannes to the student unions of Preston. In the modern dance music game it seems to me that versatility is the name of the game. For a track to truly dominate it needs to work at a range of BPMs. Soldiers is no exception. My first listens keep drawing me back to the Ben Watt remix as the most useful for a DJ wishing to mix things up, though I’m not sure it’s my favourite mix.
Hybrid Dreaming Your Dreams is my favourite progressive breaks track and arguably my favourite dance track. I played Dreaming your Dreams at my wedding, have DJ’d it a hundred times and spent two years tracking down a copy on Vinyl.
Then came a wilderness time. Hybrid put out a couple of albums Morning Sci-Fi and I Choose Noise, and yes they had their moments, but nothing came close to the rip-roaring amazingness of Wider Angle. Then it all changed. They’ve come back to their centre; bollock clenching orchestral amazingness. The Disappear Here album is the only thing I’ve actually got excited about for ages breaks wise. I think Disappear Here is going to be the best track on the album, but Break My Soul is very very good, if a little cinematic for my liking. However what it is, is a masterclass in dance music production. It’s completely flawless, big – live orchestra, excellent and haunting vocals.
God I’m excited about this album.
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Just to whet your whistle a bit further, here’s a preview of the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra doing their thing for Disappear Here.
ALBUM SAMPLER – it just gets better, it’s produced better than the average MOS album!
Dirty South and Mark Knight are pretty big names in house so you know you’ve got a corker of a track on your hands, and Stepover doesn’t disappoint. On the slightly housier end of progressive this heavily influenced tech tune is a real builder.
A solid build with great chunky bass gives way to an epically progressive breakdown with a great filtered synth vocal combo building up really nicely. It’s a record I fully expect to be an Ibiza anthem, not least because of it’s flexibility on any dancefloor from bar to club. Anooyingly I’ve had to link to the official toolroom one, which has some twat telling us off about piracy throughout the tune.
Privilege by Estiva has been doing the rounds for a while getting play from people like Markus Schultz and AVB, and it’s the main track on the recently released Friends & Enemies EP. It’s REALLY good. Trackitdown categorises the track as progressive trance, which while I don’t agree with the term, can see where they’re coming from. A nice chunky but still melodic bass gives out to an amazing epic breakdown, with strong sub bass and synth stabs. Proper spine chilling stuff. The break gives way to an un-hurried and melodic end section of the track, which to be honest is a little bit slow. This part of the track does feel a bit trance-slowed-down. I’d still buy it though.
