trance music
Articles about trance music:
Sylver – Nighttime Calls
Nighttime Calls, and if you’re looking for straight-ahead euro dance/trance music to liven up the evening, Sylver delivers with this CD.
Sylver, made up of the vocalist Silvy De Bie and dj/producer Wout van Dessel, hit the charts in Europe a few years ago with their debut single Turn the Tide. As you might expect based on their names, De Bie and van Dessel hail from Belgium, but they’ve taken their music around the world, reaching the top 10 around Europe and elsewhere.
Here’s a video that captures video doing a live remix of Earth Wind and Fire’s September:
Looks like this is from a NAMM session with M-Audio. Not a great set, but it gives you an idea of how he remixes in Live.
Electronica wunderkind BT has released a preview of is upcoming release, This Binary Universe.
It’s available as a download for iPods with video capability and also for web viewing:
The release will be a 2-Disc Set CD + DVD, with a standard stereo CD and the DVD playable in 5.1 or stereo. The DVD will feature widescreen animations created for each track.
Asura – Lost Eden
Asura’s latest CD, Lost Eden, blends dance, trance, ambient and world music elements into a musical gumbo.
Asura is a French electronic group, made up of producer Charles Farewell, flutist Christopher Maze, and bassist/guitarist Alex Ackerman. There are echoes of artists like Peter Gabriel, Tangerine Dream and Banco de Gaia in Asura’s global groove style. The band builds many of their tracks around sampled vocals, including Turkish, African and Guinean vocalists, along with western choral and solo samples. This, along with the inventive synth work, helps give Lost Eden an epic sound.
Paul Oakenfold – A Lively Mind
The first single from Paul Oakenfold’s latest CD A Lively Mind, Faster Kill Pussycat, featuring Brittany Murphy on vocals, is scorching hot. It puts Murphy’s sexy vocals on top of a great electro beat.
Unfortunately, the rest of the CD doesn’t come close to rising up to the level of the first track. Oakenfold brings in a collection of well-known names, ranging from Pharrel Williams to Grandmaster Flash, but none of them adds the visceral energy that Murphy delivers.
