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Hybrid, Dissappear here, Break my Soul & Dreaming Your Dreams

Friday, March 19th, 2010

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!

moguai, nyce – mau5trap

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Nyce 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.

Ruff Driverz – Dreaming – Various Remixes

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Another great bootleg, it’s really the season for it.

The original Ruff Driverz track was a pretty cheesy house track with it’s Spannish Vocal and faux flamenco guitar, yet it’s had staying power as a commerical cross over tune.  Any treatment is going to have to be tongue in cheek to not get the DJ laughed off the floor.

Aptly named, the Hoxton Whores give it a great, camp, re-work which won’t be heard on the coolest dancefloors, did bring a smile to my face.  I could see the track actually getting  some hands in the air at a more commercial venue or perhaps at an Nu Rave type affair.

Keeping the cheesy tribute vibe alive and at a slightly more trancey BPM comes the Beltek remix complete with bikini-clad bird on the video. Not the sort of thing I’d blog about normally but we all need a light-hearted comedy tune now and again don’t we.

PQM – You are sleeping – PQM Meets Luke Chabal mix – Yoshitoshi Recordings – Progressive House

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

This track has been around since at least 2003 and has been picked up in DJ sets from people as diverse as Pete Tong & Hybrid and has been on a few albums, most notably GU10 from Global Underground.  Although very much a progressive track it did cr0ss-over into the house scene pretty well and enjoyed some success in the Ibiza season of 2003.

The tune features a wicked vocal depicting a bloke’s demise at the hands of a smack addicted prostitute (rare for a dance track to have a story!) The vocal is really well filtered and the track bounces along well.  As with truly good progressive tracks it hasn’t really aged much since 2003 and still sounds decent today.

For really technical, and very good, review of this track check out Progressive Sounds

Salt Tank – Eugina (Sargasso Sea) – Lost Language – Trance

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

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I’ve often wondered which came first with this track, was it the main release or was it Sargasso Sea?

Starting off with a very long, uplifting intro, this tune builds into quite a banging trancer, which, given the intro, is quite unexpected.

Towards the middle of the track the pace changes in a really cool way going back to it’s most simple melody and basically just playing out for about 1.5 mins, before looping the vocal sample back into a nice beaty out-tro.  Many DJ’s lost patience in the breakdown and mixed out, but it often turned into a bit of train crash.

Chill out Version (Sargasso Sea)

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The perfect post club chill-out track and great little addition on the B side of the original.  This track is a great example of the small though not insignificant Ambient Trance sub-genre of the mid 90′s, other artists in the category included Chicane & Future Sound of London

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Monday, March 23rd, 2009

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