Out on Beatport: http://bit.ly/SurroundedRemixes_BP

The crisp air of 2013 is laden with musical promises. Dance land awaits the brand new album of BT, and with the brand new Aqualung collab ‘Surrounded’ kicking in, anticipation rises only higher… Along with the Super8 & Tab, MK, Au5 & Fractal and Tony Awake remixes, ‘Surrounded’ embraces the summer of 2013. 

BT is a man of quality over quantity, and despite creating no less than 7 studio albums throughout the over 15 years of his career, it’ll never be enough for fans of his ever-evolving sound. There’s no style or technique that BT can’t handle and that’s exactly why his tunes work so well. After months of high chart positions for his latest collab, ‘Must Be The Love’ with Arty and Nadia Ali, BT returns with a new pre-taste of what’s coming. ‘Surrounded’ is going to be the next thing on your mind, for quite a whi le. From the flashing synths to the dubstep intermezzo’s, warm breaks and melody. Featuring the vocals of UK singer Matt Hales, better known as Aqualung, ‘Surrounded’ simply gets under your skin. 

Super8 & Tab, the Finnish dream-team of trance, bring out the uplifting in ‘Surrounded’, while MK makes his remix hard to pigeonhole, yet flirting with prog-house. Tony Awake brings out the most experimental remix of all three, ticking the box on breaks, prog, down-tempo and much, much more.  The Au5 & Fractal remix closes the deal with a break-beat tipped interpretation, warm and flowing

Surrounded (Remixes)

Surrounded

BT & Aqualung - Surrounded (Tony Awake Remix)

ROGER SHAH PRESENTS
SUNLOUNGER 
- BALEARIC BEAUTY 

Now perhaps considered the consummate master of Balearically-inclined music, this August sees the return of electronic music composer Roger Shah’s best-known sobriquet. Three years on from his last Sunlounger excursion, Shah is ready with a new wave of captivating sun-tipped audio, all primed to take the world’s lounges, chillout areas and more cultured dancefloors subtly by storm. 

‘Balearic Beauty’ brings to life 14 new Sunlounger recordings. Through them Roger has involved the vocal talents of many, including ‘A Beach Side of Life’ album alumni Inger Hansen, Yoav (of ‘Beautiful Lie’ fame) and EDM singer/songwriter/hit-maker JES. Also on board are an ensemble of newly discovered male and female vox talent, including Sason Bishope Parry, Chase, Alexandra Badoi, Kingseyes and Suzie Del Vecchio. Arriving in its now customary Album and Chillout versions, ‘Balearic Beauty’ picks up exactly where ‘Beach Side’ left off… So bring your pulse rate to resting, find your spot in the sun, hit recline and prepare for the Lounger. 

“Balearic Beauty’s list of strength areas is considerable. It’s singing and song-writing work (and the stylistic breadth between each track) is impressive. The pace is beautifully measured and admirably Roger is discernably making regular use of live instrumentation at every turn.” 
– MIXMAG September Album of the Month 

Chill at will…. Arriving at the apex of the 2013 Ibiza season, Roger’s fourth Sunlounging collection once again equalises White Isle rush with downtime chillseeking. 

The album cruises out with a quartet of instrumentals. Threading together hazily strummed guitars, echoing pianoforte evocation, live percussive loops and aquiline melodies, tracks like ‘Sunkissed’, ‘Coconuts & Pineapples’ and the album’s title piece chart a course to sundown. 

“While having a couple of trademark instrumental guitar tracks on ‘Balearic Beauty’, I also tried to find some new voices again to give this album a special note.” – Roger Shah

Sing it back… both tempo and tone-wise the album progresses at indolent speed, as Roger starts to bring forth its vocal pieces. From the female side, Alexandra Badoi advances an achingly fragile pathos to the verses, and endearing resilience to the chorus of ‘I’ll Be Fine’. On ‘If You Were Here’, Suzie Del Vecchio laments lost friendships and loves, while JES stirs the river deep n moody on ‘Glitter & Gold’.

Comparably, Roger has plenty of Y chromosome vocally intensifying ‘Balearic Beauty’s range. Having previously collaborated with Shah on several track projects, Inger Hansen returns once again, rocking up a storm on ‘Come As You Are’. Ever the musical explorer, Roger sightsees new ground, drawing on Yoav’s Caribbean inflections for ‘Today Tonight’. ‘I Just Want To Dance With You’ meanwhile presents the hazy, languorous tones of singer Kingseyes, who brings the track a discernable dubby/reggae-ish sway. With its indie folk vibe, Chase lyrical and vocally channels baroque pop on ‘Surrender’, while Sason Bishope Parry brings an irrepressible effervesce and spirited uplift to ‘Find My Way’.

Relax-Trax … … collaborations prove equally expansive on the album. ‘Relaxation’ is all but commanded on Roger’s co-production with Jörg Stenzel (part of famed trance act York). Having worked extensively on Sunlounger’s ‘Another Day on the Terrace’ album, he and Roger reteam to compose an epic, heterogeneous piece of music that draws on progressive rock era guitars and gently modulating trance synths. ‘Mojito’ meanwhile (recorded alongside South African producer Andre Frauenstein) synthesizes coolly syncopated drums and percussion loops with smoothly oscillating, modulating synths to create 360° summer surround-sound.
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“People who follow my studio work will know by now that I’m a fan of many different types of music, both electronic and un-synthesised. There are few I love more than ambient and chillout though. Through Sunlounger I’m able to travel deeper into this area - the ‘ying’ to my club ‘yang’. It’s something that will always be fundamental to Sunlounger’s musical identity.”
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The New (New) Art of Chill … Dropping the lounger back another couple of notches, on it’s second disc, ‘Balearic Beauty’ fluently glides into 4/4-free, drum-less terrain. Casting its net wide, by turns Roger brings it washing seaside atmosphere and rainforest vistas, before further transposing the tracks into other beatific, drift-away sound environments. Allowing its live instrumentation greater realm and placing the vocals yet closer to the centre of focus, he brilliantly recasts the music to the after hours, post-club play.     
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* The iTunes product is Mastered for iTunes, full digital ‘Balearic Beauty’ booklet and, exclusively, a special Bonus Outro track. Pre-order before day of release (20th August 2013) and you’ll also receive Sunlounger’s Fahrenheit-pushing remake of the current Roger Shah, JES & Brian Laruso smash single ‘Higher Than The Sun’ as a Pre Order Only track.

TEASER 11 Sunlounger featuring JES - Glitter And Gold (Chillout Mix)

TEASER 05 Sunlounger featuring Alexandra Baboi - I’ll Be Fine (Chillout Mix)

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The first real deal acquaintance of Envotion with the Russian club audience happened in very early 2014. The Dutchmen celebrated their 10 years anniversary of united creative activity with a tour through Russian cities and later they even created a national fan-community entitled «Russia is envoted». The very first step on the Russian electronic scene was made with their remixes of «All Again» by Alexey Sonar and «Stargaze» by Sunn Jellie. Finally, today Envotion proudly present their first full-featured single on Intricate Records – it is called «Still Here». The trio from Maastricht depicted their current ultra-sensible electronic sound at one hundred percent in this newest work. The headline track is piece of bright melodic progressive with a very soulful, heartfelt male vocal part – there is no doubt that the radio edit will enter multiple FM-charts right after. Two solid additions to the original version are a beatless interpretation which offers a special possibility to hear the entire strength of the voice and its light huskiness, and a dub version which, in contrary, underlines all the smallest details and gradations of the sound. The remix by PROFF unexpectedly starts with the roll of drums in keeping with the best traditions of Plastikman and then shifts to the very well known signature sound by Vladimir, where melodics and funk entirely control the atmosphere. Another fellow Russian producer, Andrey Poison Pro, in his turn, did two very special interpretations for this single, both very atmospheric and dancefloor suitable, a vocal one and a dub one.

Envotion - Still Here (Beatless Mix)

Chris Wonderful Kris Vanderful - Valley Of Tears (mp3.cc)

"A chillstep track with a subsonic bass that just warms, Scullious gracefully uses the lyrics in concert with the celestial vibes to make for a soulful track.  Sampling the pouring rain, the melancholic piano, and Scullious reminds us of a powerful, lighter side to dubstep. There’s something other-worldly about this track and I for one welcome it." - ElectroJams

Credits:  JdR
               Tiff Lacey
               Internos

Chris Wonderful Kris Vanderful - Valley Of Tears (mp3.cc)

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