My podcast offering this week is in many ways the direct follow-on from our outing 2 weeks ago. Not least because it finishes tying up the loose ends from the last 2 or 3 months and brings us firmly into 2012.
Like our last episode, there's a rather tasty, back-to-back Anjunabeats double, there's another fresh remix of Sean Tyas' epic Lift, and, once again, we're packed with so much big house and progressive that we're generally pushing quite a steady tempo. Our golden oldie is just as big as last time out and, just as people may have been surprised to hear Rihanna kicking off the podcast in 2012, there's at least one track here that will raise an eyebrow or two. This does feel very much like Episode 24 part 2.
There are a number of tracks here that I've wanted to play for ages; particularly Gregori Klosman's huge remix of Jochen Miller - Flashback, Marcus Schossow - Lights Out, Richard Durand's typically robust single, Chopstick, and Cosmic Gate's track with Arnej, the impressively-titled, Sometimes They Comes Back For More. I’ve also included Gareth Emery’s new vocal single, Concrete Angel. The John O’Callaghan remix is causing a huge stir amongst trance fans at the moment and I guarantee that version will turn up in just about every podcast when it is released. For now we make do with the original version which, like Sanctuary, ain’t too shabby itself.
The tune that will raise the eyebrows is a pretty obscure remix by Thomas You (no, not heard of him either…) of the Mortal Kombat theme from October last year. I remember listening to Swedish House Mafia's Antidote before it went into Episode 24 and thinking that it sounded bizarrely like the Mortal Kombat theme, or at the very least like those cheesey 'rave' tunes of the same era. Maybe that was the attraction. So, it's pretty weird that only months later I've stumbled across an actual electro house remix of this hugely nostalgic film/videogame theme. The final decision to include it, and I did umm-and-arr over it a bit, was purely based on that nostalgia - I had both Mortal Kombats for the gameboy as a kid and I remember endlessly watching the films with my old friend Tom all those years ago - but then again, it does actually have a pretty sick drop on it anyway. Hopefully it will generate more smiles than frowns because it had to go in. Just be glad I didn’t play Scooter – Fire.
By the way, before I receive hate mail for revealing a fondness for the Mortal Kombat films, I do realise that the 2nd one has an IMDB rating of 3.3. It’s a film that has stood the test of time; it was sh*te when it was released in 1997 and it’s still sh*te now.
I found it bordering on the impossible to choose a ‘Tune Of The Episode’ this week. It was a straight shootout between Interno, Chopstick, Hybrid and Giuseppe Ottaviani’s rather slamming remix of Let’s Go Out Tonight. In the end, I gave it to Hybrid as the first grade A, top-of-the-shelf, uplifting trancer of 2012; fittingly released the day of my birthday.
And our oldie, well, it's a monster. Sat at number 16 in my own 2008 rundown of my all-time favourite 150 trance tracks, and coincidentally only one place above Advanced in that countdown, Adagio For Strings is the seminal classical-to-trance reworking. Tiesto's version is the one everyone talks about, and by everyone I mean the 'great unwashed' outside trance music. But Ferry Corsten's remix is head and shoulders above Tiesto's, bringing that burst of euphoria to an already deeply emotional piece of music. Tiesto’s is the ‘clichéd student anthem’; Ferry’s is the ‘timeless trance master class’. Plus, another record I bought an actual CD copy of as an impressionable teenager, one that hold’s pride of place in my CD wallet.
And with that, here it is....
THE PHIL-HARMONIC PODCAST EPISODE 25
2. Jochen Miller - Flashback (Gregori Klosman Remix) [High Contrast Recordings]
3. DJ Analyzer vs. Cary August - Mortal Kombat 2011 (Techno Syndrome) (Thomas You Electro Mix) [Mental Madness]
4. Markus Schulz presents Dakota – Sinners (KhoMha Remix) [Armada Digital]
5. Gareth Emery feat. Christina Novelli – Concrete Angel [Garuda]
6. Space RockerZ feat. Ellie Lawson - So Out Of Reach (Daniel Heatcliff Remix) [Amsterdam Trance Records]
7. Marcus Schossow - Lights Out [Tone Diary]
8. Cosmic Gate & Arnej - Sometimes They Come Back For More (Stoneface & Terminal Remix) [Black Hole Recordings]
9. Richard Durand – Chopstick [Magik Muzik]
10. Arcane Science feat. Melissa Loretta – Confession (Cramp Remix) [Adjusted Music]
11. Tritonal - Slave (Tritonal & Ben Gold Club Dub) [Air Up There Recordings]
12. Norin & Rad – Bloom [Anjunabeats]
13. Ost & Meyer – Scarlet Heaven (Dan Stone Remix) [Anjunabeats]
14. MEM – Interno [Reset Records]
15. Sean Tyas – Lift (Thomas Datt Remix) [Discover]
16. John O'Callaghan & Kathryn Gallagher – Mess Of A Machine (Sean Tyas Remix) [Subculture]
17. Stonevalley – Hybrid [Enhanced Recordings] <<<(Phil’s Tune Of The Episode)>>>
18. Nexus 3 - Last Flight (Activa Rework) [Discover]
19. Simon Bostock – Overload [Discover Digital]
20. Activa vs. Tom Colontonio - Enlighten [Conspiracy Limited]
21. Francis Davila feat. Flaminia – Let's Go Out Tonight (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix) [Istmo Music]
22. William Ørbit – Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix) [WEA Records]
By the time Episode 26 arrives, The Phil-Harmonic Podcast will be teetering on the brink of its 1st birthday. To mark the occasion, I will be taking the podcast back to my own roots and substituting the house music for more of the driving, up-tempo trance. If the last half an hour of this week’s episode was anything to go by, a full hour of the truly banging stuff is long overdue. See you in 2 weeks.
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