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This man needs no Intro! The god that Is Ferry Corsten. Arguably the best trance producer around today, has begun a journey of musical discovery with his latest works. Including Indigo (4x4 Originally) and the recent number 11 UK smash Rock your Body Rock (On Positiva). Can he do better still!
Right Of Way 136BPM
The new Ferry Corsten style isn?t every ones cup of tea, but the is no denying the Genius of the man. He knows how to make people dance and how to create tunes that?ll have you humming the main sequence till your blue the face and gasping for breath on the floor! Which is what this does! Right of Way is almost a nod back to the old classic synth stuff I grew up with, with areas sounding very Popcorn like. (You remember Popcorn?yes???...Oh I?m getting old!) The build is frantic with dark sequences pounding out the speakers.
The building sequences for this song are looped techno sounding beeps and chirps. (Quite Annoying actually) It certainly has a lot of ?club? style effects, making it feel as if it?s around you, whilst all being lead along by the trademark claps. The break is quite simply brilliant, Ferry breaks down to just the beeps, the fading in main sequence, which sneaks in before you know it and some excellent whoop, whoop sounding bass. (Watch your speakers here please!) Then a power effect zooms up with a snare and the tracks away.
The main sequence is more complex than some of his other Ferry Corsten outings and works to bring the song back overall after those horrible build sequences. Perhaps people will say it?s too much like Rock Your Body Rock, but while that track was seen as a little to simple and even a little irritating , this track smoothes other some of those cracks and crosses Electro/Trance/Techno barriers. Be warned the build up sequences come back around the half way mark, but luckily Ferry keeps the Dark sequences from the main sequence rolling, kerbing there effect until the next break, snare and effect, which swooshes but into action and the tracks away again. For me it?s the best Electro style track on the album. It?s a good track, but it could have been so much better, as with the album itself!
Kyoto 135BPM
Not Ferry Corsten Here! Very System F in style! (I know it?s the same bloke, but you know what I mean) Again, it?s different stuff for Ferry, this being more along his Dance Valley Influences like System F?s Lost In Motion. The beat is slow, as is the funky techno style bass lines that dominate the song?s first two and a half minutes. But this track has something over the A side. A nice build sequence, after around a minute we get a lovely trancey sounding sequence which helps to lift the song up.
The sequence continues into the break and starts to morph slightly into chords and introducing deep bass changes and dark background sequences, which lead into an almost flat trancer.The dominate bass seems to just disappear. The claps help to keep the track danceable but there is nothing to enjoyable or memorable here.
Kyoto sounds more like an attempted Oliver Lieb remix of an Armin Van Burren song, which fails to hit the mark on both counts. It has almost no energy and the main sequence (Which runs through out, in one guise or another) is just instantly forgettable. There is a nice come down to the song after the second break, (The bass is rein fused) which loses the main sequence altogether, making for easier mixing, but it really does lack something I?m afraid, which is a shame.
Conclusion:
With this charge of sound, the A side is the best Ferry has done in that particular style. Surpassing Rock Your Body Rock. But with that said, Right Of Way is in no way perfect. With the build/secondary sequences are a let down, in much the same way as his Build sequences of Gouryella?s Ligaya or Eon-Pocket Damage. While his main sequences and the substance of the song, as with the other tunes I mentioned make up for that, mostly. I don?t recommend the B side on this record. Kyoto sounds like a very tried attempt. Not at all like a Ferry Corsten Track
I really don?t like dogging on Ferry Corsten because he is the reason I like trance. So I?ll leave it at, good if not the best!
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