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The second release on Be Yourself Music's trance label is here, and has been chosen as the official Sensation Belgium Anthem! A rather well known producer is behind this one, so read on to find out everything about it...
Having released Ernesto vs. Bastian's 'Dark Side Of The Moon' just a few weeks ago, this new label has already proved that they are able to release quality.
Some of you might be surprised when I tell you that the main producers behind this track are Airbase (Jezper Soderlund) and his brother André. A few months ago, Jezper put a message on his website stating that he no longer wanted to produce trance, and head towards a totally different direction in dance music. So why did he release this track, then? There's a simple answer: this was produced before he made that particular decision.
Most of the Sensation anthems we have heard until now included orchestral or choir samples in some way, and that's exactly what has been done here as well. While Jezper did most of the work on the more trancy parts of the track, André created the orchestral breakdowns. The sticker on the sleeve says that the track includes samples from the Vienna Symphonic Library, so let's see if it's anything good...
A-side: Original Mix
The small intro part of this track relies on some chill-out sounding FX, church bells and a tiny prelude to the main bassline. It is definitely hearable that Airbase has co-produced this release: the percussion and b-line are made of them distinct Jezper samples / synths, which makes you get used to the track very easily. The overall drive in the build is being powered up by a swarm of synths, pulsating and injecting themselves throughout the track. A small backing melody is being accompanied by this rapid set of tones, changing chords up and down every once in a while to create a more uplifting ambience. At a certain point, things starts to fade away and some melancholic sounding choir samples enter in on top of the percussion. With the church bells doing their thing once again, the tension gets built up a bit, making you want to hear the breakdown immediately... And it's really something! At first, a few sad sounding instruments enter the soundscape, playing a beautiful melody that would definitely not misstand in a movie soundtrack. Powering themselves up, the melodies get accompanied by more and more backing instruments, all sounding like they were taken directly from a huge orchestra. The real goosebumps moment is the point at which the sounds of a gigantic choir come in, inducing an amazing load of emotion to be spread out through the track's structure. At all of a sudden, everything comes to a halt and a short silence appears... this is where Jezper comes in again, this time using a rather powerful synth playing a catchy melody that certainly goes along very well with all the elements from the breakdown. The climax itself works out very nicely, consisting of the fast paced percussion and bassline of the build, together with the just introduced main melody. This is exactly what an anthem should be like!
B-side: Director's Cut
This one has been made by André completely, being a four and a half minute track that basically is an extended (but heavily modified) version of the breakdown from the A-side. While this is completely 'classical', I'll try to describe it anyway. The overall production of this one is very diverse, with different tempo's, the use of choirs, many beautiful instruments and some amazing melodies. At first, everything starts off in a dark and vigorous way by bringing in some choirs. The tempo here is very fast, mainly being caused by a load of fast drums on the background. In some way, this is comparable with trance a bit: the first portions of the track could be seen as a build-up, introducing all the elements and gearing up for an unleashing of energy at the end of it. After a tiny bit of silence, the 'breakdown' starts coming in by introducing one of the melodies we heard on the A-side as well (the sad one). This stuff is literally perfect to be used in a movie like The Lord Of The Rings or something. Though it of course is hard to compete with the master composers from the big movies, this definitely is not far from it considering the overall quality of the piece! The emotion and melancholy are just insane, resulting in a damn fine piece of classical inspired music.
Conclusion:
The orchestral breaks in both of the tracks on this vinyl are fantastic. Though the trance part on the A-side is sometimes a bit too 'standard', this gets compensated completely by the diversity of the breakdown and the nice main melody that goes along with it in a cool way. While the Director's Cut doesn't have much to do with trance, you should certainly listen to this because of the very well created atmosphere in it. I hope André will release more of his stuff in the future. All in all a kicking release on HCR again!
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