[i:Vibes] John O'Callaghan - Foreign Delusions [expanse recordings

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John O'Callaghan - Foreign Delusions [expanse recordings - XPA001]

16:50 - March 3, 2004

by Ian

The debut release from the expanse label brings us Irelands John O'Callaghan & Features a remix from Greg Murray as here we bring you a World Exclusive review!!

Foreign Delusions (Original Mix)

John O'Callaghan is a name who is starting to make an impact in trance productions, having won a remix contest for Scott Bond & Solar Stone and also having productions signed to various labels. This mix starts out with a kick & a background melody, softly echoing around and with the use of some clever percussions, seemingly sparkling. Joining us after a couple of minutes is a bassline, and this allows us to move forwards, with the melody that has been with us from the beginning beginning to get more intricate and a pad softly coming in too. The pad begins to dominate more & more, and it's time to lose the kick anytime now. Sure enough this happens, and we glide softly into a beautiful feeling of bliss, sparkling with the melody on top of it, like silk, softly and intelligently progressing. Sounding almost oriental, we soon have a breakdown, to allow the kick to rejoin us, and this is where the track totally takes off. Already upto 6 minutes in, the track has had so much going on that you don't realise you're that far when we take it down into another section with pads & melody, giving the track something different, and not a feeling of sameness and that is continued up around 8 minutes time when a lovely breakbeat section is incorporated, and leaving us plenty of time to mix out now with the sounds fading out as delicately as they came in.

Foreign Delusions (Greg Murray Remix)

Greg Murray provides us with his take on things now. Greg is a name who is a little bit further down the path to stardom than John, Having had releases on labels such as Platipus, Lost Language, Anjunabeats and Fundamental Recordings. He begins his mix with a kick & some funky percussions, adding more hats soon, to give it a driving effect. Bringing the melody in next, we're soon joined by the bassline also. The kick reappears here and progresses us on. After 3 minutes we're back down, and it's time for Greg to goto work, with the preliminary melody fading out and into a huge deep bassy string, which slowly rises, adding the main melody on top softly in the form of a piano and beginning to rise too, delicately gracing the string, fitting together sublimely. Adding another sound on top later on helps to stave off any threat of being very similar from now until the end, and does so really well. Gracefully fading out at the end as per normal, it's the end of a great track.

Conclusion:
As a debut release, this is hugely strong, and with the next releases scheduled to be John O'Callaghan vs Kaymak - Frostbite (Original, Recluse Mixes) and Octagen - Curium (2004, Greg Murray & Surrogate Saviour Mixes) we are in for a great year from this new label! Great stuff!