Trance
Northern Lights 豆瓣
Gareth Emery 类型: 电子
发布日期 2010年9月23日 出版发行: Garuda Music
全球百大DJ第九位!Paul van Dyk、Ferry Corsten力挺之新生代巨星!。重回钢琴/爵士音乐根源,打造完美古典巴洛克式前卫传思电舞篇章!。
倘若您是Podcast的忠实听众,想必对于Gareth Emery这名字不会太陌生才对。曾以自制Podcast节目连续3年入围Miami WMC年度最佳奖项的他,堪称近年以网路迅速崛起的新生代Trance DJ代表人物。
出身于英国南安普顿、现扎根在曼城的Gareth Emery,深受古典钢琴与爵士音乐背景的薰陶,对其日后投身电子乐圈有显着的影响。初期先以The Shrinks〈Nervous Breakdown〉的White Label混音引起Pete Tong与Dave Pearce等人关注,接着以GTR化名发表的Trance经典〈Mistral〉,成为他闯荡舞曲圈子的首支成名作。接下来几年,Gareth Emery的Podcast节目不断于Trance乐界大获好评,让身怀优秀音乐底子和出色技巧的他,获得各大派对巡回/驻场邀约,其间并与另一Trance天王级人物Lange合谱出多首脍炙人口的舞池佳作。
冲着2009年首度攻占全球百大DJ第9位的惊人气势,Gareth Emery此张录音室大碟《Northern Lights》格外受到乐界的期待和瞩目,以Progressive取向为主轴的专辑曲风,在开场的〈Stars〉长达7分多钟的微妙气氛转折变换中一览无遗,并延续至次曲的〈El Segundo〉,以人声堆叠和层层前卫音色包覆的操弄,展现出他前卫浩室功架的扎实概念;接着〈Too Dark Tonight〉、〈Arrival〉则不约而同铺上沾染了古典风采的华丽外衣;而专辑当中邀来女伶Lucy Saunders献声的首支单曲〈Sanctuary〉,典型的Vocal Trance曲式持续酝酿,终于在末段融合Melodic氛围,绽放出绚丽的耀眼锋芒,足以媲美任何一首年度舞池巨作!
正值而立之年的Gareth Emery肯定是当今乐界英雄出少年的最佳证例,那旺盛的创作力与音乐才华,如今将不仅由网路媒介呈现于世人面前,这张《Northern Lights》不但是他埋首录音室的呕心沥血之作,更是这位Trance新霸主征服广大Trance信众的重要里程碑!
Empire 豆瓣
Super8 & Tab 类型: 电子
发布日期 2010年9月13日 出版发行: Anjunabeats
Super8 & Tab - Empire
超8与陶勃双人组 - 传思帝国
Anjunabeats旗下北欧Trance代表首张专辑力作!
DJ Mag、Mixmag两大电媒齐声高评价推荐!
收录Beatport超高下载率单曲〈Black Is The New Yellow〉、〈Irufushi〉
是什么样的组合能够让Trance天团Above & Beyond原先己筹备好的新专辑推迟延发?答案就是Super8 & Tab!
来自芬兰赫尔辛基的Super8(Miika Juhani Eloranta)与DJ Tab(Janne Mikael Mansnerus)本是两名互不相识的录音师,透过朋友的介绍一拍即合,并以很短的时间激荡出首张单曲〈First Aid〉。随后他们除了密集的创作外,也尝试走出录音室,游走世界各地演出打碟,逐渐以前卫的旋律走向与空灵激荡的人声表现,定位出自身的音乐风格,并受到Above & Beyond、Tiësto、Paul van Dyk与Ferry Corsten等大牌DJ的青睐。此外,两人加盟英伦Trance领导品牌Anjunabeats、并操刀主理该厂牌重量级混音钜作《Anjunabeats Worldwide》后,水涨船高的声势和紧锣密鼓的演出邀约,更使得Super8 & Tab成为全球各大舞场派对的焦点!
这张令传思乐迷们引颈期盼的首张创作专辑《Empire》,Super8 & Tab邀来Jan Burton、Anton Sonin、Julie Thompson和Betsie Larkin等一线Vocal献声,缜密扎实的Uplifting Trance架构之上,不仅有大量运用流行感强烈的人声交出〈Empire〉和〈Mercy〉等佳作,也有如同经典史诗般以前卫旋律音色为主导的〈Black Is The New Yellow〉与〈Bliss〉,而以Downtempo节拍揉合弛放取向的〈Perfect Day〉以及〈Free Love〉两首作品,则流露出Super8 & Tab细腻而感性的Saint Etienne式风格意向。
长年于舞曲国度立于不败之地的Anjunabeats,于巿场需求与创新突破间取得了完美平衡,取悦乐迷耳朵之际,亦致力于推广舞曲视野,而《Empire》无疑是Anjunabeats此等野心的另一个里程碑!
Mirage 豆瓣
Armin Van Buuren 类型: 电子
发布日期 2010年9月14日 出版发行: Ultra Records
Harmonic Motion 豆瓣
Lange 类型: 电子
发布日期 2010年6月29日 出版发行: Maelstrom
2010 release from the Trance DJ, who is recognized as one of the most influential Dance artists of the past decade. After one of his most prolific years in recent times, Harmonic Motion is set to be another key marker in his ever-rising career, and considering his production success of the last 12 months, is going to be shaping many a DJs record box for the months to come. Where his last album 2007's Better Late Than Never was an experiment in sound, Harmonic Motion is a confident representation of Trance in its multitude of forms, taking a spectrum of influences, counting among them working alongside some of the most talented and innovative song writers within and from outside the genre.
Giants 豆瓣
Chicane 类型: 电子
发布日期 2010年8月2日 出版发行: Armada Music Nl
Chicane本名Nick Bracegirdie,英国著名DJ,曾经为Everything But The Girl、Bryan Adams、BT等的歌曲制作过舞曲混音版本.个人首支单曲<Offshore>在英国销量已超过10万张.Chicane至今共发行过3张录音室专辑,1张合辑.新专辑首波单曲<Middledistancerunner>盛邀Owl City联袂打造迷幻Disco风.专辑共收录了12首正式单曲+一首混音Bonus,电子味浓烈,为典型的夜店风格.很潮! [Intro/FANA]
Touchstone 豆瓣
Solarstone
发布日期 2010年6月22日 出版发行: HINOTE(映象唱片)
“Solarstone’s new artist album will shake up expectations of what trance should be.”
DJ Magazine – March 2010 Touchstones are:
(1) The recognition of, or reference to, a visionary source of inspiration
(2) A standard by which others can be measured
In ways big and small, conscious or otherwise, inspiration happens to everyone, everyday of their lives. Musicians are perhaps intrinsically even more open to it. Lines thick, thin, straight and curved are drawn to productions that span back over many decades... In his own production work, identifying these inspirations, down to their smallest fraction is something that Solarstone (composer, producer, singer & DJ Richard Mowatt) has long been captivated by.
Touchstone, his new artist album, brings these inspirations out of the cortex and into the light, ‘musically mapping’, for the first time, an artist that has at every turn sought to redefine the word trance. As with every album ever produced, influences are there to be picked up on by the listener. On Touchstone though they are first illuminated, clarified and examined by the artist himself. Richard goes on to explain: "To me musical inspiration comes in many forms. It can be artists that I’ve fallen in love with wholesale and still venerate to this day, or simply fragments of music that made a lasting impression at arbitrary points in my life. 'Touchstone' is a culmination of all those inspirations."
Touchstone’s Microsite Hits The Web: Solarstone's brand new artist album 'Touchstone' will be released on June 28th 2010 on Solaris Recordings. Its dedicated microsite has just gone live and will be there in the run up to the release and beyond to keep you up to date with all the info-bursts. Featured on it over the next few weeks will be some incredible on-location mini-documentaries that take you behind the musical creation of ‘Touchstone’. There will also be some great free music downloads (on the site already is an exclusive, unreleased, don’t-miss mix of the new Solarstone single ‘Electric Love’) and amazing competitions (more about which below!). //
Send Touchstone Viral: In a wholly new cutting-edge fashion we want your portal's users to Participate in the album’s release! We have created a points = prizes feature on the website for registered users to help us spread word of ‘Touchstone’ around the worldwideweb. They can help us by embedding 'Touchstone' widgets on their social networking pages, forums & websites. The widgets enable people visiting their pages to listen to tracks from the album and then themselves get involved. They can recommend friends to join and every time your widget has a friend sign up or creates a sale, they automatically get points added to their account. And remember best of all: Points are going to equal some pretty incredible Prizes!
Rising Sun 豆瓣
Aly & Fila
发布日期 2010年5月28日 出版发行: Armada
Aly & Fila feel right at home in that group. Their debut album ‘Rising Sun’, is the result of their life-long passion for the trance genre and all its treasures. On ‘Rising Sun’, the guys join forces with talented vocalists and producers such as Tiff Lacey, Sue McLaren, Josie, Denise Rivera, Philippe El Sisi, Bjorn Akesson and many more. The characteristic sound of Aly & Fila, uplifting and euphoric trance, is represented in all tracks of debut album ‘Rising Sun’, bringing you one disk of pure energy.
A State of Trance 2010 豆瓣
Armin Van Buuren
发布日期 2010年4月20日 出版发行: Armada Music Nl
众人期待的2010年电音盛典到来,伴随着全球首席电台节目A State Of Trance第450期的到来,蝉联全球DJ排名第一两届的荷兰天皇Armin van Buuren如约送来了A State Of Trance 2010的专辑,依然保持了Progressive Trance风格。
Dreamcatcher 豆瓣
Nitrous Oxide 类型: 电子
发布日期 2010年3月22日 出版发行: Anjunabeats
As the Eastern European dance scene has exploded into the worldwide arena, so have their leading lights. Polish star, Krzysztof Pretkiewicz, aka Nitrous Oxide, made his debut on Above & Beyond’s Anjunabeats label back in 2006 with ‘North Pole/Frozen’, the track having caught the ears of the UK’s biggest DJs who subsequently snapped it up for their acclaimed trance imprint.
In the intervening years, Nitrous Oxide has come to further international attention, with support from Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz, and many more, for tracks including ‘Magenta’, ‘Red Moon Slide’, and ‘Cornflake’. Kryzstof has appeared on many leading compilations including Trance Nation and Anjunabeats Volumes 4 to 7 mixed by Above & Beyond, Cream Ibiza mixed by Paul van Dyk and A State Of Trance mixed by Armin Van Buuren, whetting the trance community’s appetite for his distinctive, euphoric take on the genre.
‘Dreamcatcher’ is the full-length album the forums have anticipated, bristling with the type of energy, musicality, and deft production touches he’s become renowned for. With increasing progressive and electro elements evident in his music, the album brings together some of his previous highlights (‘North Pole’ / ’Frozen’ in an exclusive 2010 edit), alongside a wide range of new tracks that move from full vocals (‘Follow You Feat. Aneym’, lyrics co-written by Justine Suissa from OceanLab) to techier bombs (‘Mirror’s Edge’ / ’Dreamcatcher’), epic instrumentals (‘Muriwai’), and tranquil, beatless moments (‘Alderan’ / ’Amnesia (Chill Out mix)’.
United Destination 豆瓣
Dash Berlin
发布日期 2010年3月29日 出版发行: Armada
Dash Berlin--荷兰电音天才,以他为核心的电音团队,也算是从幕后走到幕前。由dj Armin van Buuren 提携,由三人组成的Dash Berlin 核心人物Jeffrey Sutorius荷兰人原来是个爵士鼓手,后来到唱片行工作,不仅成为了狂热黑胶收集者,也培养了对电音的兴趣,常以 Dash 为名搞混音且四处放歌,某次在德国 Love Parade(德国每年举办一次的著名电音派对) 的场子裏见识到万人空巷的盛况大受感动,为了向这伟大城巿及景观致敬,便主动把名字多加了个 Berlin.造就今日的Dash Berlin .想必Dash Berlin 绝对是下一个电音指标。