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.
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.
Nalin & Kane – Beachball 2010 – Myon & Shane 54 remix
Friday, October 8th, 2010Beachball is one of my favourite tracks from back in the days when Paul Oakenfold used to bash it out to a packed courtyard each week at Cream in Liverpool.
Beachball is also one of the tracks I think is best suited to a series of modernising remixes, which is exactly what it’s had on the varous Beachball 2010 releases.
Rather than plumping for one of the excellent progressive house remixes of the track which I’m sure will be a hit in all the usual places, I’ve actually plumped for the trancier Myon and Shane 54 remix.
The remixers have done a sensible job of not overcomplicating the modernisation, and have kept in the distinctive bongo, bird sounds and riffs. And while first time around the instrumental version stole the show, the vocal in this instance is really well worked and doesn’t sound at all dated.
Another noteworthy mention has to go to the excellent Joris Voorn remix which first alerted me to the track.
Here’s a link to the original beachball. Just to prove even the best tracks can be completely ruined, here’s Tall Paul murdering beachball.
moguai, nyce – mau5trap
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Nyce has been getting DJ support from all the big names in progressive house; Jody Wisternoff, Nick Warren etc. and I think it’s going to be one of the biggest progressive house tracks of the summer. Massive Electro beats deliver a really strong bass bin shaking rhythm while a catchy distinctive synth riff takes care of the top end and the two together deliver great contrast. This track will fly!
This track really reminds me of Jody Wisternoff’s track Cold drink, Hot Girl.
Summer here we come.
Tom & Jerry feat. Abagail Bailey – Touch me
Sunday, October 25th, 2009I can sniff out a decent bootleg at a thousand paces and this track from Tom & Jerry is a great re-visit of Rui Da Silva’s Touch Me.
Tom Novy and Jerry Ropero bring the tune right up to date with a great trancey late-summer kind of vibe. Abagail Bailey has been around the scene for a number of years and is an acomplished vocalist.
Her DJing is taking off well too. There’s a great unplugged verision of the vocal of this track on her Myspace Player which is pretty cool.