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Kamil Polner and Mark Hoogkamer teamed up for the seventh release on Selective. Next to the original, Menno de Jong has provided his own interpretation. Both are being hammered by every respectable trance jock, so let's find out what all the fuzz is about!
Both Kamil and Mark are producers we should be keeping our eyes on in the future. Kamil has recently signed productions to labels like Armada and Total Digital, with his tunes being heavily supported by Armin, John Askew, Ernesto vs Bastian etcetera. Mark is busy building up his his Sequentia and Spiral Motion guises, with both projects earning releases on different labels in the near future.
'Distant Planet' has gained devastating support during the last few months, with plays by a list of DJ's which is too extensive to list here. Anyway, to the tunes...
A-side: Original Mix
This original mix of 'Distant Planet' commences with a rather standard building section, consisting of some very straightforward sounding percs and a bubbling bassline to get the drive going. As the track progresses, a very full sound is being created, led onwards by arrays of chanting synth, high pitched summerish melodies and sets of trancy FX. On the contrary, a sidenote must be made about the overall sound: it's kind of an example of most contemporary trance, and in essence doesn't have much to it that makes you remember it. Anyway, the melodies háve been worked out very nicely, inducing a subtle, very gentle vibe to be created. The breakdown is of the in-your-face caliber: no endless string parties, just a full-on riff building itself out right away. It's a very rapid, elevating melody but it just isn't able to grab my attention fully. The whole production of this track is good, but the tune lacks when it comes to inventivess and originality, unfortunately.
Rating: 6,5/10
B-side: Menno de Jong Interpretation
Young Dutchman Menno de Jong, one of the co-founders of the succesful Intuition label, steps up to provide us with his version. Let's just start off by saying that this is the exact opposite of the original when it comes to originality and all... Menno has succeeded in creating one of the warmest, smoothest productions that I've heard in recent times. Everything sounds immensely slick and gentle, with a great use of percussion, a massive bubbly, dark bassline that makes me feel all fuzzy inside and arrays of slowly evolving, sunny rhythms on top of everything. The synths during the build have a gloomy vibe coming with them, eventually returning in the main breakdown. It encompasses a slightly emotive melody which is being combined with that amazing synth from the build soon enough. Again, I just have to accentuate how astonishing the overall sound is: it's so calm and clean, but on the other hand retains a great amount of energy with that phat, infectious bassline and great melodic intermezzo's. Mister de Jong shows that his productional capabilities are far beyond what we've heard from him until now, creating what must be one of the best trancers of the last few months in my opinion. Massive!
Rating: 9/10
Conclusion:
While the original is nicely produced and all, it wasn't able to catch my attention. On the other hand, man of the moment Menno de Jong has produced a fantastic trancer with a lot of feel coming with it. Go get this when it's released, 'cause you're eventually going to be disappointed when it sells out!
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