OUT Ferry Corsten & Trance Unity ‎– Free [Flashover Recordings]

Julian Del Agranda

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It sounds cool to have a track with 24 producers. But does it make sense? I mean... did Sin Sonic select a percussion loop or something? Did Peter Santos select the snare? It's hard to imagine how it actually worked...

The melody itself sounds 'nice', but it's not very special. I mean, if you work on a melody with 24 people... It would be nice if it was more special. An unexpected chord change or whatever.
 
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Gagi
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Ha, look at that, Hamza Messaoudi. The guy who had the most votes (even abnormally so) on my remix competition.

The track is really nothing special, possibly bad. It almost feels like these 100 people held back Ferry's (and maybe each other's) creativity. I mean, sometimes even three producers are too much for a track. Having a 100 is just bound to result in a generic mess, especially if there's no producer as an "executive".
 
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Snowknight26

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Having a 100 is just bound to result in a generic mess, especially if there's no producer as an "executive".
I think the most I've ever seen that made what I consider a successful track was 7: The Avengers - Yugen.
 

Daysleeper

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Hahaha, what is it with known producera teamlng Up with really random unkonwn soundcloud/Spotify "producers"?

Yhe track isn't really that bad though haha, ironacally now when i listen. I actually hear a little of the old corsten melancholic poptrancevibe in this. The first minute was pretty awful with this stadium/Martin garrix sharp middletempo percussion, but grown into a catchy melancholic poptrancevibe number with that muted corsten flashover synth in the background.
 

aSeb

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Not bad actually. Not on par with some of his solo releases this year, but a fine track nonetheless.
 

PegaSus

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Actually not that bad indeed. Nothing special, but expected worse.
 

Bluemoon

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Track is pretty average, not bad but not special either.

Maybe i will grab a copy and save it on my computer like this:

Ferry Corsten Feat Alex Wackii & Amandu Wu Pres Arkash & Artem Panteleev Feat Borix & Deneck Vs Froglord & Hamza Messaoudi Pres Hkm2hou Vs Jontax & Kollin Feat Laurent V & Lee Su Min Vs Lesot Feat Marana & Martinius Deurloo Feat Misaelo & Petor Santos Vs Sin Sonic & Sodiumhot Vs Sygma & Yellowdodo - Free (Original Mix)
 
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Marana

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It sounds cool to have a track with 24 producers. But does it make sense? I mean... did Sin Sonic select a percussion loop or something? Did Peter Santos select the snare? It's hard to imagine how it actually worked...

As being 1 of the participants, thought to open up, how the project actually worked..

So initially Ferry posted 2 raw melody ideas, the riff and the lead. From those, all who took part to the competition, made their own full track or just a single part / some parts of the track, like bassline, pad, beats, etc.
From all participants, Ferry chose parts from 22 of them, that would be included in the final track, sent in as audio stems.
So basically we provided the parts, that Ferry put together as a whole track.
So each element you hear in the track was done by 1 person, not all of us together. Well except of the 2 melodies basically, that Ferry composed at first and the persons who provided the stem for those, could have done some changes to them, so those would have been worked by 2 persons.

I actually was able to meet Ferry after I was informed about my selection to be in the final version of the track. And I did joke to him about the number of people involved, with the old saying "too many chefs in the kitchen", that hopefully it won't be the case. Heard the track later and it was clear, that there was only 1 chef in the kitchen, with 22 ingredients in the project. :)
Personally, it was a huge honor to work with Ferry (and the others), who has been most likely the biggest influence in my own music. And as a project, this was something that has never been done before, as far as I know. And that makes the project really cool.

Here's a breakdown of the track by Ferry;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYmZ-kMDeUQ