I’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.
Frisky Radio is a decent web-based radio station and annoyingly for them, their content turns up all over the net. In this case I think that the fact Jody Wisternoff himself has posted this into his soundcloud profile makes it okay to repost.
Enjoy an hour of really upbeat progressive house, and convince yourself it’s August still. I’m still working on a tracklisting can’t seem to dig one out anywhere, but I’ve dug out an id for my fave track which I’ll repost in a minute.
Updated with with a Tracklist
1 – Origin Unknown – Valley of the shadows ( snippet )
2 – Decimal – Forgotten Requiem
3 – Ian O’Donavon – En Verano
4 – Moorcheeba – Blood Like Lemonade ( Maetrik rmx )
5 – Chymera – Dreamrunner ( Funk Dvoid rmx )
6- Lee Curtis – I can hear you Arthur
7 – Ian F & Aneuria – Lepa
8 – Roberto Rodriguez -Thank you ( Part 2 )
9 – Petar Dundov – Distant Shores
10- Disclosure – The law of One
Beachball 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.
The Daily Telegraph is renowned as the voice of right wing England so it’s the least likely place in the world to find good dance music content. Or so I thought.
One of their music bloggers Dancesaurus has done a great job of defining exactly what progressive house actually is, producing a decent showcase mix and even giving comparisons between trance remixes and progressive house remixes of particular tracks. Loving his work.
The mix itself is pretty decent, and if you were to ask me to pull out 12 tunes to illustrate progressive house as a genre then I’d choose something similar.
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!
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!
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.
JVA Autobahn is currently on limited release on Beatport to be released generally next week. It’s a totally amazing progressive house track. The word Autobahn had me shuddering at the thought of shitty Kraftwerk remixes, but no fear, this is ace. JVD is a Dutch chap apparently and Autobahn has been getting quite a lot of northern european DJ support.
I can only find the radio edit on Youtube so here’s samples on the Big and Dirty sit. From the samples I think that the PM mix is the one to download.