Solarstone, Airscape, Super8 & Tab, York, ZOYA and Markus Schulz - In Search of Sunrise 20 [Songbird]
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Bobby Summa
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marcopm
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I agree that Schulz's mix is better than his previous attempts, but it's still not up to the quality expected from this compilation.
Solarstone's is still the best mix IMHO, the others sound too disjointed and/or lack the proper "summer" feeling.
Since a few pages ago we were talking about putting together our own tracklist that would best represent ISOS today (if that's even possible), I'm going to do some absolutely shameless self-promotion for a moment and share two of my latest Santorini Waves mixes. They are not meant to replicate the ISOS feeling, but rather are my personal interpretation of "modern balearic trance & progressive". And yes, the tracks are all recent, mostly from the year of the mix or max 2-3 years before.
Solarstone's is still the best mix IMHO, the others sound too disjointed and/or lack the proper "summer" feeling.
Since a few pages ago we were talking about putting together our own tracklist that would best represent ISOS today (if that's even possible), I'm going to do some absolutely shameless self-promotion for a moment and share two of my latest Santorini Waves mixes. They are not meant to replicate the ISOS feeling, but rather are my personal interpretation of "modern balearic trance & progressive". And yes, the tracks are all recent, mostly from the year of the mix or max 2-3 years before.
Time has passed. With some distance I can say: I underestimated the Airscape mix. It’s ISOS20‘s swimming pool on a hot summer day, resonating until sunset and beyond, being in a state, listening to the crickets in the dark, smelling damp air of fruits and grass, having snippets of these melodies in mind and doing a secret dance between the fields on being alone. Yeah, I think it has some of this certain ISOS atmosphere inside I didn‘t recognize on the first listens. As I said before, mixes can evolve in a later context.
If I had to decide for 3 mixes, I would take the following: Solarstone (the most quality and going deeper one on here), Airscape (the most happy summer one) and last … I don’t care, I am fine already with these two ones. S8&T I won’t touch anymore. Markus is more or less indifferent. York was fun, but had no further effect. Zoya lacks of inertia, but is definetely more emotional as the other ones. She has the biggest take off moment of complete ISOS20 with mixing in the lush Above & Beyond and then going deeper with The Thrillseekers. Yeah, I go for Zoya as third. She has even the most interesting cover, too. The discussions here, having space for social and friendly resonances was equal valuable. Happy jubilee!
If I had to decide for 3 mixes, I would take the following: Solarstone (the most quality and going deeper one on here), Airscape (the most happy summer one) and last … I don’t care, I am fine already with these two ones. S8&T I won’t touch anymore. Markus is more or less indifferent. York was fun, but had no further effect. Zoya lacks of inertia, but is definetely more emotional as the other ones. She has the biggest take off moment of complete ISOS20 with mixing in the lush Above & Beyond and then going deeper with The Thrillseekers. Yeah, I go for Zoya as third. She has even the most interesting cover, too. The discussions here, having space for social and friendly resonances was equal valuable. Happy jubilee!
Finally listened to Solarstone's mix. Enjoyed it and would listen again. Hard to comment on much else with only one pass through but he was a great choice for this series. Enjoyeds that Sinful Biz track, flawless and the When I Dream remix.
marvas
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Dyon
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Received the vinyl today. Nice artwork. Personally i would've picked other tracks from the compilation(always curious what the track selection critera are for samplers)
Anywho, a nice collectors item
Anywho, a nice collectors item