Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Inc. Remixes) [2003]

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Motorcycle
Release title
As The Rush Comes
Label name
Armind
Release year
2003

Daybreakers

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No classic trance section would be complete without the two greatest of all time, Beautiful Things and As The Rush Comes. Someone already posted Beautiful Things so ill do As The Rush Comes. This is my #2 all time favorite vocal trance track. The Gabriel & Dresden Sweeping Strings Remix is the one. Some other remixes are good as well but nothing comes to this. The Original Mix is great, it's pretty similar to the sweeping strings mix. Another honorable mention goes to the Coldharbour Remix! I loved this chilled out remix as well.

Side note: I found it odd how many dislikes these mixes have. This is widely considered to be one of the greatest vocal trance tracks ever produced and usually these type of trance classic have like a 99% like ratio. These only seem to have around 80-90%. Which, don't get me wrong, is still great...i just didn't expect it to have so many dislikes.

Side note II: The Metronome & Morten Granau Remix has over 38 million views. I don't ever remember hearing this track, so im not sure if it's relatively new or old or what. But the G&D remix has only 1.5M views, which i find strange. Anyway, enjoy!







 
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Side note: I found it odd how many dislikes these mixes have. This is widely considered to be one of the greatest vocal trance tracks ever produced and usually these type of trance classic have like a 99% like ratio. These only seem to have around 80-90%. Which, don't get me wrong, is still great...i just didn't expect it to have so many dislikes.
Count me in because I dislike the vocals. The only version I find bearable is the Perry O'Neil dub:
 
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I wish there was a dub version of the original track, i cant stand those cheese vocals. Otherwise i think Perry O Neil and Markus Schulz remixes are easily the best versions. Armin and A&B mixes are so fucking boring, always been.
 
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i think people who "dislike too much vocal versions" have some mental disorder of a kind, because i can totally understand and love pure instrumental tracks and so on, but vocals in 90% of the time don't make a track worse. you need to understand what vocals are just an instrument so to get the same density you would need to replace it with something otherwise it will be more empty most of the times. if you know the vocal version and after you listen to dub most of the time you have the feeling "something is missing".

and about the track it's classic/legend. i remember hearing it as a recording from sunshine life radio (didn't know what it was) and instantly loved it. thats the most crucial point i think don't have idea about the stuff but still loving it.
 
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how about not getting triggered lmao. it's totally fine if you don't like the track at all. people just share stuff here.
 

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Haven't heard every remix out there, but Perry O'Neil's is pretty great and may be my favourite. Actually just going through them swiftly, I remember some. Armin's was the first version I've heard, still like it. Other versions, besides Perry's and Armin's, aren't my thing. This release is/was popular, but I'm sure we can all agree it's not the high point in trance history. There were better (commercial) vocal trance tracks as well. Was it the start of an era? I mean a lot of producers went down this route.

Got tired of the vocals actually, and a part of that was because we had a remix competition on TF, in which I participated. So I heard them a thousand times.
 
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vocals are just an instrument

Instruments can still be bad, generic, annoying, dull, empty etc.

after you listen to dub most of the time you have the feeling "something is missing"

A good exception (for me, at least) would be Armin's Birth Of An Angel (which is an instrumental to Shivers). I don't have a feeling anything is missing here. This one has a better drive, and feels more like a journey. Always preferred it to the version with Susana on it, although it's not bad by any means.

 
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i think people who "dislike too much vocal versions" have some mental disorder of a kind, because i can totally understand and love pure instrumental tracks and so on, but vocals in 90% of the time don't make a track worse. you need to understand what vocals are just an instrument so to get the same density you would need to replace it with something otherwise it will be more empty most of the times. if you know the vocal version and after you listen to dub most of the time you have the feeling "something is missing".

and about the track it's classic/legend. i remember hearing it as a recording from sunshine life radio (didn't know what it was) and instantly loved it. thats the most crucial point i think don't have idea about the stuff but still loving it.

Im sorry but this might be the most retarded thing i have ever read. Vocals in 90% of the time dont make a track worse? HAHAHAHA OMFG. Are you for real? If you like non cheese quality trance, vocals make a track worse 99% of the time.
 

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A good exception (for me, at least) would be Armin's Birth Of An Angel (which is an instrumental to Shivers)
because it was the original and after he/they added the vocals on top which i would say works good, but the composition was complete before it. for example in case of live another life it's awful idk. (and there are many other examples if you add vocals just for the sake of it)
but to say what vocals in as the rush comes are "miss placed"/bad is weird) i remember asot 100 or something and drunk dudes singing along xD
 

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because it was the original and after he/they added the vocals on top which i would say works good, but the composition was complete before it. for example in case of live another life it's awful idk. (and there are many other examples if you add vocals just for the sake of it)
but to say what vocals in as the rush comes are "miss placed"/bad is weird) i remember asot 100 or something and drunk dudes singing along xD

Ha, it's funny you mention Live Another Life. That's the one and only track that comes to mind when vocals were added to a trance track that i thought were truly awful and didn't fit the instrumental one bit!
 

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Always loved the Sweeping Strings Remix deeply. It's one of the first tracks I owned on vinyl as a teen and me and my friends would play this and all the other Armin, Ferry, PVD, G&D, Tiesto classics around this 03/04 period. It's immensely nostalgic for me, especially first getting into the rave scene. The vocals are cheesey I guess, but not too cheesey, not like what we have today...they are iconic as it comes, although I can understand why its not for everyone, especially those who hearing it well after its release. Either way I fucking love the vocals and will sing them quite happily :)
 

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Another timeless classic that I'm just not very fond of for some reason. Only the AvB mix is pretty nice in my opinion.
Birth Of An Angel (which is an instrumental to Shivers)
Nice, I've been looking for that one. On ASOT2005 Armin uses the vocal version of it (which is just called Shivers without any indication to Birth of an Angel), I thought it was unreleased or something.
 
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*popcorn*

how about not getting triggered lmao. it's totally fine if you don't like the track at all. people just share stuff here.

It's difficult not to at least get triggered given your earlier claim:

i think people who "dislike too much vocal versions" have some mental disorder of a kind

Back to the track itself:

I actually kinda like the vocals, though I get why the like:dislike ratio is lower than other trance classics. As the Rush Comes is poppier than most trance tracks from its era, so people who were used to earlier iterations of trance didn't respond well to it. Despite sounding "commercial," the track lacks the drive and melody from golden-era anthem trance. That's why it could feel boring.
The vocals aren't particularly energizing; they're more like cruising along and blending in the background. For people who do enjoy vocals, this could be a turn-off, as they're used to vocals being engaging and in the spotlight. For people who don't like vocals, the particular style wouldn't have mattered.

Personally, I think it's a very good track, but has low chances of appealing to die-hard '90s classics or even anthem trance fans.
 
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The 'Original' you've got there might be the same as the "Exclusive Demo Mix" that appears on Tiesto's Nyana compilation, which is essentially the Sweeping Strings mix in a rougher form. You can hear that the version in this particular video is a reconstruction from a DJ mix - towards the end, the percussion from the next track starts coming in, before some layers from the intro are cut into place - so I think the title of 'Original Mix' is not really correct.

There is also no 'Tiesto Remix', it's the same as above.

To add to the confusion, here's the original original demo mix:

 
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To add to the confusion, here's the original original demo mix:

That was really good. It fixes some of the issues from the released Sweeping Strings version. The demo has much more drive, feels more melody/synth driven, is more mysterious, and showcases the vocals more prominently.