OUT Rank 1 - Airwave (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix) [High Contrast Recordings]

[Quethas]

Something we definitely wanted? At least it seems to be number 1 at Beatport trance

Beatport

 

[TeardropNL]

Horrible really. How can they have ever signed this remix

 

[Archon]

It's simple, really. The new crowd might love this and buy it. Some might listen to the original and buy that instead. Or both.

It's like when those gender-sensitive reworks of older books get released. Sales of the originals spike. The owners win either way - the market almost doubles.

 

[Progrez]

Seriously both Guiseppe and Ferry Corsten have forgotten how to make a good sounding track.

 

[Magnevi]

Yeah it's garbage. Giuseppe Ottaviani also remixed the Haddaway-rip-off from David Guetta ('Baby Don't Hurt Me'). Blegh.

Such a shame since he does know how to make good music (Nu-NRG, but also more modern stuff like Magenta, Till The Sunrise, Through Your Eyes, No More Alone.

 

[Pokkryshkin]

Wow, that's impressive and I mean that in a shit way

 

[Magdelayna]

This era will go down as a really bad one for Trance when we look back at it - i noticed he put that techno hi hat to cater to the current fad. And to say he was my favourite producer around 5 years ago. Everything sounds really 'default' sounding - that sub melody has not delay,just played from the MIDI file - and the main pads,he hasnt done anything with it,just put them though a generic saw sound.

And after the break - wasnt Patterson doing that kind of thing over 10 years ago hehe?

 

[Freezer]

Of course this is really bad in every possible way 2/10

 

[aSeb]

What a stupid track.

Ottaviani sucks nowadays.

 

[Enlusion]

I wonder what kind of feedback do people expect when they make 1048576th remix of a classic track.

 

[PegaSus]

Yes! We needed more remixes. Ottaviani for the rescue!

 

[Progrez]

Yeah it's garbage. Giuseppe Ottaviani also remixed the Haddaway-rip-off from David Guetta ('Baby Don't Hurt Me'). Blegh.

Such a shame since he does know how to make good music (Nu-NRG, but also more modern stuff like Magenta, Till The Sunrise, Through Your Eyes, No More Alone.

I want to hear this kind of stuff. He probably like armin ignores all of the criticism



It seems to be drawing the crowd.

 

[Hoplite]

I want to hear this kind of stuff. He probably like armin ignores all of the criticism



It seems to be drawing the crowd.

Drawing a lame crowd haha.

This Airwave Remix is such a cheap downgrade, as expected, almost sounds as if some kid making a YouTube music production tutorial did it as a quick example.
From Nu-NRG to No-NRG, it's a shame he's declined so much in the recent years.

 

[Peenuts]

It's not unlistenable but it's a very lazy remix. Doesn't sound he did much with the breakdown at all. Even though I don't mind the techy drop, it sounds very basic and devoid of any creative sound design.

 

[sszecret]

When he says 'super intimate vibes' I think this would fit better (it's a collab but still):


Airwave definitely didn't need another remix. Least of all this one.

 

[Tranceyclopedia]

GO lost his magic imo.
It's all so techno like nowadays with him

 

[chillseeker]

Holy fuck! He completely butchered it.

 

[MDD]

Yes! We needed more remixes. Ottaviani for the rescue!

On point sarcasm. 🫡

 

[Magnevi]

But... does Airwave really have that many pointless remixes from the last decade? I can only recall a few (apart from the old official release with ATB and such).

 

[sszecret]

But... does Airwave really have that many remixes? I can only recall a few (apart from the old official release with ATB and such).

Imo it doesn't need to have that many remixes for people to just leave it alone.

Official releases haven't been that many, but coupled with the unofficial ones, there's quite a few. If we count both trance and house variants of it, official and unofficial:

- Rank 1 vs Dutch Force Mix (1999) - sure, included on the original release, but technically a different mix so I'd say it counts.
- ATB Mix (2000)
- Junior Vasquez Marathon Airwaves Remix (2000) - really rather strange this one
- Sunset Chillout Mix (2000) - very nice chillout rework
- 21st Century Mix (2014):


- twoloud Remix (2014)
- Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix (2023) - the fact that this is the first (official) remix since 2014 is quite unfortunate

If we're looking at bootlegs and unofficial releases:

- Cykiq's TMT Remix (2000)
- Wrongun! Remix (2008) - no sample for this. The Airwave remix of When Things Go Wrong comes up in search. Not the same track (though still nice).
- Hughes & Ballantine Drop Ur Drawers Rework (2013)
- @Magdelayna Resurrection Mix (2016)
- Johan Gielen Bootleg (2016)
- Inversed Remake (2019)
- Eufeion Remix (2019) - really nice Rave-y kind of remake
- Metta & Glyde Bootleg (2019)
- Jay Flynn Remix (2020)
- Steve Allen Rework (2020)

I'd say it's been remixed enough.