[i:Vibes] M.I.K.E. - Massive Motion [Armind]

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M.I.K.E. - Massive Motion [Armind]

21:01 - March 6, 2005

by Dreej

M.I.K.E. brings us a new track under his own name on this Armada sublabel. Does he continue in the style we’re used from him, or can we expect something just a little different? Find out here!

Mike Dierickx is a man of many aliases. A few of his most successful ones are Push, Plastic Boyand Solar Factor, with which he has created numerous classics like Push – ‘Strange World’, Push – ‘ Universal Nation’, Plastic Boy – ‘Twixt’, Plastic Boy – ‘Silver Bath’.
The previous tune under his M.I.K.E. guise was released in 2003 on Armind, and carried the name ‘Turn Out The Lights’. In 2004, he collaborated with artists like Armin and John "00" Fleming, and created a bunch of other tunes under various guises. Let’s see what he did this time!

A-side: Original Mix
Bongo’s, a thick bassdrum and a cool amount of agileness create an early devastating vibe throughout the build of the track. A typical repeating synth transports itself right into the main structure, phasing, modulating and energizing its way onwards. At this point, power is already pounding out of this track, being upgraded by a few cool string lines at the background. At a particular point in the build, a new synth comes in, replacing the other repeating one from the beginning. All this sounds immensely solid; there’s a lot of repeating in there, but it has this X factor which makes it unbelievably strong until now. And it gets better: during the first real breakdown, a truly ‘massive’ synth comes in, which reminded me just a little bit of a few Marcel Woods productions. Blasting itself throughout the track, this synthie surely knows how to play with the crowd! All the synths together create an enormously tight vibe, filled with tasty chord changes and cool playing with the elements. Bulldozering everything to pieces, the track flows on and on just until it reaches a small piece of silence with one of the synths still playing for a second or so. True mayhem emerges again when the fantastic fat rhythms kick in again, completing the track in a superb way. All in all a gorgeous piece of techy trance, which just has to be heard live to hear it in its fullest potential!

B-side: Enter Ku Remix
The beginning of this mix made me laugh. A vocoded voice saying ‘Massive Motion’ in a way that sounds like if the guy who says it has a severe cold is just a cool joke.
The initial pieces of this remix are quite similar to the original: the same hi-hats, claps and kickdrums are being used, ensuring that this just has to be done by M.I.K.E. himself. Soon enough, a bunch of relaxing string melodies start coming in, being guided onwards by using small pieces of one of the repeating rhythms we heard during the build of the original. You might notice that this mix has a somewhat more melodic vibe to it; the drive is still there, but is being compensated a bit by the strings on the background. One of the first breaks in the track has the repeating synth playing on and on, but then changes into something totally different by bringing in this highly uplifting, yet rather simple melody. The typical M.I.K.E. ‘backing basses’ are there as well, enabling the track to become quite the ‘hands-in-the-air’ uplifter! The uplifting melodies are being brought in again during the second climax, with the guy-having-a-severe-cold saying Massive Motion once again. A classy remix which definitely adds this extra sparkle to this already amazing vinyl.

Conclusion:
The Original Mix is a wonderful piece of techy trance, filled with massive synths and huge amounts of energy. The Enter Ku remix sounds a bit like the original, but stands out with its more trancy approach by using the big synth in the break and climaxes. A superb release which will surely cause loads and loads of damage around the world!