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This is amazing chillout.
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I first heard Clear Blue in a beautiful Lemon8 proggy house/trance set found here. On a good stereo it really grabs you. It was one of my favorite tracks on that set, and I was constantly skipping back and forth to hear it. I’ve found it at Beatport, and can hear this mammoth, 12:00 progger any time. It’s kinda hard to find 2 representative minutes of a 12 minute monster.
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In a more trancy and less proggy vein, I also found this beautiful cheesy trance track while I was searching for Clear Blue. Very catchy, and top notch production values. If you dig trance, you’ll dig this, cheesy lyrics and all. Mmmm… candy!
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It’s time to unleash two absolutely stellar trance tracks, as I notice many of my visitors are into the trancier side of things.
I can’t decide which of these is doper; I’ll leave that to you.
Above & Beyond generally do what I call sacharrine-cheese trance, which is a little too over-the-top cheesy for me (think vocal trance, and lots of it!). But Tri-State is freakin’ awesome… Make sure you’re chewing gum when you hear this, we don’t want you to grind your teeth flat… ;)
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This next song is aptly named Ambience, by Michael Burns. MB has some other fresh tracks under his belt, but we’ll get to that some other day. For now, feast your ears:
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If you’d like to chime in on which track is even doper than the other one, leave a comment below or drop me a line. I’m also always on the look-out for more great material, not that I’m running out of fresh tunes any time soon, so if you have any suggestions, get in touch.
Opencloud is one to watch… I first heard of the duo (Blake Potter, who has a dope remix elsewhere on this site, and Corey Spengler who I’ve never heard of) when they won a remix contest on Protonradio.com and since then, Opencloud has had many fine releases, mostly on the relatively new Proton label.
These guys are prolific, having released like 16 tracks on Beatport… in 2006! And we’ve got half a year to go!
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To grab this Opencloud track for free, sign in to Beatport (or register with them if you haven’t already), search for Opencloud, and view page 2 of their releases… it’s right at the top. You have to be signed in to see free content (of which there’s quite a bit!).
The Fallujah remix is just… raw and nasty. It has almost a Drum & Bass sensibility, and you know how I feel about D&B… This track just steamrolls in like a tank, plowing down everything in its path.
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Micah opens up a can of progressive whup-ass with his very popular free mix, Ruhn Song 003. Micah is a talented producer, and a good DJ, but this mix… surpasses all expectations! Dope from start to finish, it has such solid gold tracks as Shiloh’s beautiful remix of Change Your Ways, as well as their unreleased remix of Imogen Heap – Loose Ends.
Grab it for free from Hybridized.org stat!
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Fresher than a thousand freshes, the UK label Method is well worth watching. If you like cold, smooth, synthetic progressive trance with decidedly druggy overtones and stellar production values, you’re in for some head-bopping treats.
My all-time favorite from this label is Central Rush’s Out Of Focus (Tkac and Haverlik remix). One word: WOW. A beautiful, rich, vibrant and enveloping 3 dimensional soundspace surrounds you, disorienting you while tweaked female vocals repeat the drugginess-inspired title of the song. The proggy freshness builds, slowly, into more and more intense, tighter circles of sound around you. What was merely beautiful starts to become vaguely menacing. This song gives me E flashbacks in a big way.
This track will make the hair on your neck stand up. This is a MUST HAVE.
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Speaking of druggy proggy trance tracks, this next one will make your teeth rattle with its pounding, merciless, metallic punctuating drones, while freaky male vocals urge you to leave your law-breaking raver friends and find a Safer Place without them. Mind-numblingly hypnotic, and anxiety inducing, you will love this track’s druggy feel… it’s only a matter of time.
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I stumbled across a track by some artist named The Runner called The Creeps (DJ Pisces remix). This track is gorgeous, deep, and weird, just they way I like my down-tempo chilled beats… deep, thick, dark lumbering bass throbs envelope you like a warm and muggy summer’s night, and wind chimes softly clang in the background, reminding me of the sailing boat storage yard at Jericho Beach. When a breeze blows there, hundreds of sails clang and clung in the shipyard.
Gregorian chant-style vocals drift in and out; a male vocal “Ahhh…” punctuates the black space, a light-hearted female vocal samples asks a bizarre question… This is some seriously great chillout material for warm summer nights with the windows open. I’m very pleased with this mature, unique, unusual gem… 5 stars.
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