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XIRA - Feel (J Ribbon Remix)
J Ribbon knows exactly why Anjunabeats built an empire on XIRA's voice and keeps it front and center on this proggier, driving Feel remix.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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Paul Oakenfold x Markus Schulz x Grace - Not Over Yet
Read more . . . →Two trance institutions in one credit line. Paul Oakenfold basically helped invent the modern superstar DJ template, and Markus Schulz has been holding the global club night sound together for twenty-plus years, so a collab on “Not Over Yet” reads like a summit meeting. The Grace vocal is the giveaway about where this is aimed, pulling from that classic late-90s trance vocal lineage that still gives goosebumps to anyone who was there. It’s nostalgic without feeling like a tribute band. The production is widescreen and polished, the kind of mix that sounds enormous on a festival rig and still works...
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Atlantis - Fiji (Oliver Smith Remix)
Read more . . . →Oliver Smith remixing anything guarantees a certain quality ceiling and this one hits it. The original Fiji has been doing rounds in trance circles for a while, and Oliver Smith takes it somewhere more propulsive without stripping what made it worth remixing in the first place. Anjunabeats as a home for this makes sense — they have a specific taste in how melodic trance should be structured and this fits. The breakdown is where the remix earns its keep: about three minutes in everything opens up into something that sounds genuinely vast before the beat comes back and grounds it....
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