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Friday, January 19, 2007

Coldharbour...

It's almost the end of January 2007 and it's been weeks of the crappy "standard-formula" trance and passe "paint-by-numbers" hard dance bollocks by the truckload. Finally, comes a decent thought-processed production from the Coldharbour frontman Markus Schulz. With remix works from the likes of Jose Amnesia, Shawn Mitiska (check out his GOODIES) and Mike Shiver, I'll be plugging this to no end once the promo files come in from the label. This is proper vocal material that makes sense instead of "travelling somewhere" or "sleeping satellite". I put my stamp on this (as if my stamp is worth jackshit). Anyway, screw what the public thinks. I'm going to gag them with countless shoves of this. Nice one, Mark.

And this week, Dutchman Perry O'Neil wants to give you THIS.

Come "neil" before me...

A much discussed topic in various Trance communities... everyone is mellowing out. It's 2007. The sign of the times... euphoria, hard and almost everything stupidly obvious has been chucked out the window by most of the respectable international peers and forerunners. And in case you get a shocker when you go see Matt Darey next week, he plays a whole lot more variety and styles now; as profiled on his weekly shows. Most recently even German hardbangers Cosmic Gate have also turned their dial towards the "sensible" department. Their remix of Kirsty Hawkshaw's "Outsiders" (coming out on Armada in April) is a stunner. I'm beginning to like them :)

3 Comments:

At 2:17 PM, Adminstrator said...: Coldharbour is one of the saving graces for the Progressive genre in an age when everything else has gone senselessly minimal or crappily electro.
At 3:25 PM, Anonymous said...: been taking note of Markus Schulz/Coldharbour's stuff for a while...

jus' had a listen to this track on beatport...like the original (MS Coldharbour mix), nice tempo and arrangements...positive uplifting track. :)

the remix's a lil bit too heavy for me, not sure which one they featured cos both Mike Shiver and Jose Amnesia/Shawn Mitiska's versions sound the same....
At 5:13 PM, Adminstrator said...: problem with markus schulz original material of today, it gets going but ends up nowhere. and with today's impatient audience, it just doesn't work. thus his previous "Without You Near" single, it took two "tougher" remixes to get the job down and to make it a sellable single.

notably, he doesn't play his original version of this tunes coz he cited once that they were more suitable for armchair listening.