It feels like an almost indecent amount of time since Mark Sherry served us a Prism collection… On second thoughts, there’s no “almost” about it – it has!
Captain Outburst has been anything but idle though, spending the interim DJing, A&Ring, label running, ‘Confirm Humanity’-releasing, remixing, producing and mastering his way around the known dance universe. Cast an eye over its third volume (dropping July 24) though and you’ll get a sense of recompense for ‘Prism’s absence.
‘3’ by name, three by its nature, for this edition Mark’s expanded his mix-comp to a third disc, meaning (no calculators needed!) it’s got two co-mixers attached. Scene legend Scot Project (not Scottish) and David Forbes (like Mr. Sherry, 100% Scot!) have jumped aboard, bringing heaps of the fiery stuff along-with. Collectively the trio deliver an awe/ear inspiring 60+ tracks to a release that’s less a music compilation, more a force of sonic nature!
In various forms, incarnations & guises, the productions of Corsten, Picotto, O’Callaghan, Durand, Genix, Sneijder, Vini Vici, Shapov, NERVO, Three Drives, Lostly, Shugz and manifold others run riot. As is its established, the third ‘Prism’ reserves plenty of track-space to newer creators and recently-arriving talent too, with young heel-snappers like Richard Tanselli, Systembreaker, Jardin and others work passing through this ‘Prism’. The mixes are naturally triple stacked with a mass of its protagonists’ own and pooled aliases like Gentech and Thick As Thieves. Premieres, exclusives, new collabs and first-hears abound, as Prism’s force multiplying Pt. 3 turns hard into a science!
Mark’s mix commences in the calm, some might even say graceful waters of… Nah, just kidding - it starts exactly as it continues - with the insanely powerful teeth-rattling trance-terrordome that is his KETNO collab, ‘Space Monkey’. From there comes a track-triple from Thick As Thieves (Sherry & Forbes), before he releases Will Rees’ ‘Candy Jack’, ’Perseverance’ from Richard Durand and his remake on Pulp Victim’s ‘The World’ out into the wild. Richard Tanselli’s max-out of Picotto’s ‘Like This Like That’ and BIG CMV’s Ariel/‘A9’ renovation set it on course for the big finish. All of which allows Joint Operations Centre’s (John O’Callaghan) ‘Meraxes’ and ‘Change Your Heart’ from Sherry/Scot Project paring Gentech to mop up the stragglers!
Conversely, Scot Project’s disc does start in the beatific - specifically with Genix’s pad-paradising ‘Rave’ and his Golden Girls’ ‘Kinetic’ rework. From there though - and with all the subtlety of a meat tenderizer - Scot Project engages the ‘crank’ lever and opens the throttle. Fuelled by some of his own musical moonshine, he locks his mix into a ferocious groove. In their original forms ‘M [Metropolis]’ & ‘H [Hypnotize]’ surface, swiftly followed by rewires of ‘FM [Feeling Me]’ and ‘S [Outer Space]’. The German legend then barrel rolls into a hot-run of other artists’ gear, with Adrenaline Dept, Renegade System, Zatox, Vini Vici vs Shapov vs NERVO all contributing to its heads-down charge.
‘Prism 3’s less-than-holy trinity is completed by David Forbes, who commences his mix with the toughest, taughtest, techiest retell of ‘Greece 2000’ you’re ever gonna hear. Its techno themes continue with David’s own Sebrof & DMCK ‘Phenomenon’, before Thick As Thieves check back in for some ‘Brain Control’. From there Mr. Forbes gets on a big solo roll, sending in quick succession ‘The Music’, ‘Hold Me’ and ‘Evolution Of Dance Music’ down the cables. ‘La Bomba’ from Shugz eyes the mix apex, while its accent continues with Sneijder’s ‘Chuck Norris’, summiting with Forbes’ own ‘TimeWarp’.
Cake on top of a cake, burger on top of pizza - when it comes to hard trance, this is what indulgence looks like! Mark Sherry, Scot Project & David Forbes - Outburst Records presents Prism Volume 3 (full tracklist details below) is ready to rock-em & sock-em from July 24. Available to pre-order/save now, - hey, after the last few months, you’ve earnt this!!
Disc 1 - Mixed by Mark Sherry
01. Mark Sherry & KETNO - Space Monkey (Tea Vuckovic Remix) 02. Thick As Thieves - Tingles 03. Thick As Thieves - Collide (Peter Fern Remix) 04. A*S*Y*S - Acid Wall 05. Thick As Thieves – Lysergic 06. Mark Sherry - Fire & Brimstone 07. Mark Sherry - Total Eclipse 08. Will Rees - Candy Jack 09. Richard Durand – Perseverance 10. Pulp Victim - The World (Mark Sherry Remix) 11. Dominant Space - Acid Rave 12. Systembreaker – Porcupine 13. Mauro Picotto - Like This Like That (Richard Tanselli Remix) 14. Mark Sherry & Richard Durand - Cosmic Dawn (Systembreaker Remix) 15. Ciaran McAuley & Clare Stagg - All I Want (Mark Sherry Remix) 16. Systembreaker - The End Of The World 17. Ariel - A9 (BIG CMV Remix) 18. Scot Project - O [Overdrive] (Mark Sherry’s Acidburst Remix) 19. Richard Tanselli - Wake Up! 20. Kriess Guyte - Rudeboy 21. Peetu S - Infected Sector 22. Joint Operations Centre - Meraxes 23. Gentech - Change Your Heart
Disc 2 - Mixed by Scot Project
01. Genix - Rave 02. Nikhil Prakash - Momentum 03. 2sher & Chris de Seed - Welcome Home 04. Golden Girls - Kinetic (Genix Remix) 05. Junk Project - Brightness [2K20] (T78 & MOTVS Remix) 06. CYB - Now (Drumcomplex Remix) 07. Scot Project - M [Metropolis] 08. Scot Project - H [Hypnotize] 09. Scot Project - FM [Feeling Me] (Shugz & David Rust Remix) 10. Scot Project - S [Outer Space] (D10 Remix) 11. Skysurfer - Colors (Wavetraxx Remix) 12. Sneijder & Billy Gillies - Rhino 13. Sam Jones - Because Of You 14. Darren Hall - Got 2 Keep 15. Adrenaline Dept. - U Got 2 Be There 16. Kinetica & Inversed - Amphetamine 17. Dave Steward - Planters Prism 18. Liam Melly - PowerTrip 19. Renegade System - When I Rock 20. Sholan - Savage System 21. Jan Vervloet vs DJ Ghost - Super Dry 22. H! Dude - Sexual Destruction 23. Vini Vici vs Shapov vs NERVO - My World 24. Black XS - Il Gato 25. Zatox - Let Me See Ya
Disc 3 - Mixed by David Forbes
01. Three Drives On A Vinyl - Greece 2000 (Thick As Thieves Remix) 02. Sebrof & DMCK - Phenomenon 03. Thick As Thieves - Brain Control 04. David Forbes & Lostly - In My Mind 05. David Forbes - The Music 06. David Forbes - Evolution Of Dance Music 07. David Forbes - Hold Me 08. Mickey Marr - Annihilation 09. Shugz - La Bomba 10. Jardin – 82 11. Sneijder - Chuck Norris 12. Sharkey & McFalane - ZEPHYR 13. David Forbes & Paul Denton – Format 14. Ashley Smith - Rock the Beat 15. David Forbes - TimeWarp
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