Featuring Corona, Snap!, Livin'; Joy, 2 Unlimited, Sash!, Faithless, Haddaway, Gala, Ultra Nate, ATB, Whigfield, Cappella, Technotronic, Baby D, Dario G, Alex Party, The Tamperer, Alice Deejay, Reel 2 Real, Black Box, The Shamen, The KLF, The Prodigy, Ven

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01-Key to life - Forever

2011 My edit of Frankie Knuckles & Satoshi Tomiie amazing song 'Tears' featuring Robert Owens

Frankie Knuckles Presents Satoshi Tomiie and Robert Owens 'Tears (Shield Re-Edit)

The Balearic Gabba Soundsystem is back, back with a new EP that features three more leftfield remixes from curious electronic specialist Enzo Elia that have all been licensed officially by Irma Records. The source material for his three unhinged reworks is a track by 90s Italian house duo Soft House Company and two from cult Italian DJ and producer Don Carlos.

Soft House Company released only two EPs, both in 1990, but made a big impact with them: pretty much everyone has heard ‘What You Need’ and that’s the track that gets remixed here. Elia turns it into a slightly more bouncy and disco leaning cut with raw silvery drums, huge vamping piano chords and those classic vocal cries and already Eddie C and Gerd Jansen have been playing it. At the breakdown there is the sound of waves breaking on a beach before pianos go wild: It’s a freewheeling and sure fire party starting track that still does the trick nearly quarter of a century after original release.

Don Carlos was behind such seminal club tracks as 1991’s ‘Alone’ and produced five studio albums in the nineties and naughties. He fuses Afro rhythms with deep house vibes and has DJed all over the world since the 70s. The first of his to get re-worked is ‘Overture’, which starts with tropical bird cries, whistles and loon calls. It’s the sound of a humid jungle that gets slowly consumed by lush pads, delicate piano melodies and stirring string sounds. With a truly magical atmosphere and uplifting joyousness permeating the whole thing, it cannot fail to make you feel on top of the world.

Finally, Elia tackles ‘Chicago’ (a track that’s already been supported by Soft Rocks) and does so with swathes of mesmeric effects. Organic hand congas, breathy vocal snippets and a bristling nebula of synths, pads and strings all dance around each other in reservedly euphoric symphony.

This might just be one of the most beautifully and bizarrely Balearic releases yet from the ever unhinged Balearic Gabba Soundsystem.

Soft House Company - What You Need (Enzo Elia Balearic Gabba Style)

Our Full Intention remix of Tears released in 1999 on FFRR / Essential recordings

Frankie Knuckles Presents Satoshi Tomiie - Tears (Full Intention mix)

Equinox

Equinox (Heavenly Club Mix)

Can You Feel It

Can You Feel It (MK New York Dub Extended)

Second Toughest In The Infants

Pearl’s Girl (Remastered)

Storybook (Mood II Swing Presents Wall Of Sound)

Critical (feat. Gerald Lethan) (Original Mix)

The Promise

The Promise (Space Brothers Rethink Remix)

Global Grooves

Johnny Corporate - Sunday Shoutin

Moonman - don t be afraid

DJ Sneak - Keep on Groovin (Ian's Fierce Mix)

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Dance (Do That Thing)

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