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no clear winner between the two, though. Deliciously dark-hearted, either will smash it.
Giuseppe Ottaviani & Eric Lumiere
Love Will Bring It All Around Black Hole Recordings 8.0
Ottaviani paints the opening minutes of his mix from a deep, brooding sound palette. Thundery drums and moody, atmospheric FX mark out this purposeful, but palpably minimal trance-progressive set-up. Eric Lumiere’s contribution brings the track’s light-bulb moment. Set against the understated production, his vocal stream-of-consciousness (akin to his turn on ‘Anthem’) makes the track snap.
Purple Stories
Surface Tension ITWT 7.0
Estiva & Jeera Lert
Come Home Enhanced Music
9.5
There’s very little that’ll prepare you for how hands-down bloody brilliant ‘Come Home’ is. Sure to go down as one of Enhanced’s great all-timers, the track moves from atypical funky-chunky summer-house percussion through scene-stealing pads, chords and key-changes, up to sky-kissing synths almost before you know it. Jeera Lert’s simple, imploring vocal, meanwhile, will not leave a dry eye in the house. If you only buy one track this month...
Aly & Fila feat Chris Jones
Running Out of Time FSOE 9.0
First release from the new album, and a stated “new direction” from Egypt’s finest. If that direction is this type of more deeply cultured trance, we’re all for it. Coming from the very highest end of A&F’s quality scale, the ‘Original Mix’ pulls out every stop, with an inventive sound or nuance rarely more than 30 seconds away. Chris Jones, too, has never sounded better, and the ‘Uplifting Mix’ brilliantly increases the trance tempestuousness.
Armin van Buuren feat Trevor Guthrie This Is What It Feels Like
(Remixes) Positiva 7.5
Quite the cause célèbre on release, the ‘non-trance-one’ still comes with
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plenty of the sub-genre’s trimmings. Most, though, it has to be said, in the remix dept. Reasonable notes for Giuseppe Ottaviani, whose mix is only missing that killer lead line. No such issues for W&W, though. Their rework keeps (more than) one foot in the stompy tough-trance camp, and makes the best possible use of Guthrie’s poppy vocals.
Chris Porter
The Sky At Night Borderline 8.0
A release as notable for being Borderline’s best in the last 12 months, as it is for carrying the first Menno de Jong studio work in recent memory. The ‘Original’ is a balls- out, hammer-and-tongs offering, which occasionally sequences into some psy-acidic squall. Comeback kid Menno’s remix is frankly extraordinary, with its pacey tempo, judiciously robust feel and melodic- through-euphoric tone all faultlessly judged.
Ger Gleeson
Evolve Full Tilt 8.0
Hopefully signalling an end to the Full Tilt drought in my inbox, here’s Ger Gleeson with a brilliant piece of sleek, linear, but never-less-than- thrilling Prydz-y prog-trance. On their remix, Full Tilt give it a touch more floor stride with the drums, and a pinch more atmospheric distinction in the drop. There’s
There’s been a resurgence of highly-strung dramatic symphonica in trance recently. There are a few moments on ‘Surface Tension’ when you wonder if the needle on the Old Spice-o-meter is sailing towards the red. Before the orchestra takes over wholesale, though, the track re-channels down a less ponderous, more genuinely uplifting course. Fortified by some stabbing, driving tech-trance notes, its conclusion is solid to say the least.
Richard Durand
Trancematic Magik Muzik 7.5
Starting around the 100mph mark and leaning on the accelerator pretty firmly thereafter, there’s no missing this release’s peak-time objectives. Aggressively filtering, phasing, warping and juggling its strong key sounds around, its occasional euphoric synth-line interludes appear more incidental than anything else. What we’re here for is blunt force beats, and FX with bite, on which ‘Trancematic’ roundly delivers.
Cosmic Gate
Storm Chaser Black Hole Recordings 8.0
‘Storm Chaser’ has been lurking surreptitiously in the Cosmics’ sets since serving as a Global Gathering anthem last year. Tardy release excused, the track wastes no further time marshalling breezeblock-heavy beats, astutely distorted bass and tweaking, oh-so-tense synth lines. On the remix, KhoMha throws some heavier tech rhythms into play and works the pitch wheel like a producer possessed. All told, title-appropriate dark, thundery business.
Mike Sonar
Hallotron Infinity 7.0
Nice new release from Infinity here. Mike Sonar’s latest is half trance, half progressive and (at the very least) half decent.
Alexander Popov
Lost Language Armind 7.5
Steely like a girder, Alexander exerts an early prog-trance thrall over ‘Lost Language’ (a tribute, perhaps?). When it comes, the euphoric upturn is almost a surprise. Highly effective track.
Mark Pledger & Rake feat Sabrina Feel You In The Sound
(Original Mix) Melodika 8.0
With an early show from a stabby, buzzing bassy intro riff, Mark’s latest makes a scant attempt at
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Transatlantic appeal. By the break, though, we’re back in familiar melodic drop/uplifting vocal/kick- ass leadline territory. No complaints!
Super8 & Tab L.A.
Anjunabeats 9.0
Following their Enhanced stopover, S8&T are back at Anjunabeats with pure magic in hand. If ‘L.A.’’s objective is to unashamedly crowd-&- fan-please, well... mission accomplished. What a month for trance!
York Farewell To The Moon (Alexander Popov
Remix) Planet Love 8.0
The first classic York bring- back couldn’t be a better affair. Popov elevates ‘Farewell’’s castaway feel perfectly for the 2013 floor to appreciate.
COSMIC GATEBLACK HOLE RECORDINGS
01. COSMIC GATE ‘Storm Chaser (KhoMha Remix)’ Black Hole Recordings “One of our fave producers of the moment, Colombia’s KhoMha remixed our track.”
02. PRYDA‘Power Drive’ Pryda “Mr Prydz has done it yet again. Maybe a bit more techy here than usual, but simply
another beauty from the man whose productions never seem to fail.”
03. MOGUAI, DIMITRI VEGAS & LIKE MIKE‘Mammoth’ Spinnin’ Records “Maybe our track of the year so far, rocking every dancefloor around the globe. It’s
simply one of those tunes that everyone would have loved to have produced.” 04. COSMIC GATE & ANDREW BAYER ‘Nothing Ever Lasts (Nitrous Oxide
Remix)’ Black Hole Recordings “One of our personal favourites from our ‘Wake Your Mind’ album, it gave us the chance to work together with the multi-talented Andrew Bayer.”
05. FERRY CORSTEN ‘Black Light’ Flashover Recordings “Our man Ferry is bringing his and Markus Schulz’s New World Punx style to the table
here. A dark and pounding track for the later hours of our sets.”
06. RANK 1‘Floorfiller’ High Contrast “Rank 1 combining trance and progressive/electro elements for a guaranteed floor
filler!” 07. ARMIN VAN BUUREN FEAT TREVOR GUTHRIE‘This Is What It Feels
Like (W&W Remix)’ Armada Music “Armin’s most non-trance single ever, with a great remix by fellow Dutchmen W&W.”
08. OMNIA‘The Light’ Coldharbour Recordings “After creating one of the biggest tunes in the trance scene with ‘The Fusion’ in 2012,
Omnia is back with another killer.”
09. ORJAN NILSEN‘No Saint Out Of Me’ Armind “This Norwegian wizard is not a saint.”
10. FIRST STATE ‘Humanoid’ Magik Muzik “First State with his new single, and no compromises allowed. BOOM!!!”
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