Afterburn - Frattboy (2000)
Well, nearly everybody loves the famous a side 'North Pole' and yes it is a great track (considered as a true classic, a general opinion which I am not really conform with).
But the b side 'Frattboy' (Or Fratty Boy if you prefer the edited version in Tiesto's In Search For The Sunrise comp) is nothing but pure perfection. Already the intro is like a dream with the telephone sample, the distance sound and ghostly voice samples. Then suddenly, the sun shines through the green woods like in a fairy tale and then the best came and..... no further words. Just listen by yourself. After 10 minutes of closely listening you are another person. It's so magic and deep, so atmospheric and organic, it still blowns my mind to this day. It was the time when PVD was in his prime and no surprise that I first discovered this track as an opener in one of his sets. It was his very own style in the 1999/2000/2001 era and it is maybe the best example why trance can be so soo damn good.
True spirit here and for me still the best trance track in the world, in an era of golden trance music (if you count out 2000 Psytrance because this genre was in a crisis during that year).