Matt Darey - Feat - Marcella Woods - Beautiful (2000)

[Progrez]

Beautiful vocals and those riffs are truly amazing. Sister of Michael Woods

 

[TheTranceHistorian]

It's definitely one of the stronger vocal trance tracks. Not quite top-tier, perhaps, but still among my favorites. 4.5/5.0 stars.

 

[trancedanne]

So many Matt Darey productions were ruined by horrible vocals and this is certainly one of those tracks.

 

[Hoplite]

Personally prefer the Pulser Remix:

 

[Progrez]

Personally prefer the Pulser Remix:

@Pulser Was there an instrumental mix of this? I coudn't find it on discogs but this guy uploaded a mix of an instrumental edits and it sounds lovely with the percussions and without the vocals.


By the way, I just saw in the credits that Rick Simmonds, Stephen Jones aka Space Brothers were involved in writing the lyrics.

 

[Pulser]

@Progrez I probably did a dub mix with less vocal but doubt I made an instrumental. I lost a ton of work to hard disk failures around that time and learned the hard way about backups. I guess that is why I don't have any other mixes of this in my archives.

 

[Magdelayna]

Love both original and pulser mixes...great sing along trance.

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

Yeah the vocals aren’t ugly.

In for example Gouryella tracks the vocal is wayyy worse.

Cool cheesy happy trance.

 

[Dyon]

Lovely

 

[Progrez]

@Progrez I probably did a dub mix with less vocal but doubt I made an instrumental. I lost a ton of work to hard disk failures around that time and learned the hard way about backups. I guess that is why I don't have any other mixes of this in my archives.

Have you tried going to someone who can restore those hard disk failures? I know I have gone to them they were able to recover 40% of it. They have gotten a lot better at recovering files.

 

[Pulser]

Have you tried going to someone who can restore those hard disk failures? I know I have gone to them they were able to recover 40% of it. They have gotten a lot better at recovering files.

I tried. I lost an almost complete album and hundreds in the process but that's 20+ years ago. I religiously back-up these days.

 

[Pulser]

Did anyone spot the vocal isn't the same as the original? I had to pitch it in certain places and change it to fit the minor key of the remix

 

[Progrez]

I tried. I lost an almost complete album and hundreds in the process but that's 20+ years ago. I religiously back-up these days.

I did notice that the vocal did sound different to the original hence why I wanted an instrumental mix because the original mix is engrained it's the only version I am used to listening Would love it if you could show fans and people who want to make this kind of trance once again whether it be uplifting or progressive trance I would love to know how you guys made those tracks back in the day and would pay top dollar to know because that skill and knowledge should be retained.

 

[Progrez]

It's definitely one of the stronger vocal trance tracks. Not quite top-tier, perhaps, but still among my favorites. 4.5/5.0 stars.

It reached top 10 on the UK charts. It was competing with the likes of Madonna. It's a shame that Matt Darey won't be producing Trance music anymore.

Looks like Ricky Simmonds and Stephen are credited because Matt used the lyrics the same as Chakra - Love Shines Through that's why they are on there.