månadsarkiv: januari 2012

Podcast: Podgressive Ep. 026

So, here we are. January 2012. I was actually getting really sick of the last design and not to mention the non-existing functionality of the previous site. So, I started to make some scetches and coming up with some cool ways to make this page more intresting. So as a new start of the podcast, we put our heads together with one of our favorite Tatsumi Suzuki. He’s on the third year of his podcast Podgressive, and we have decided to let him run our exclusive bejbi.se mix in the future, once a month.
And, as a special feature we are going to have a exclusive clip from our interview with that month artist. Isn’t it a beauty!?

We would be really happy if you all started to use the features on podgressive.com as the new awsome poll, populating the Flickr – Album and reading the articles powered by us at Bejbi.se. Don’t forget to give your feedback and use the share, Facebook like, G+ etc. Just to help us reach out to even more lovely listeners.

How about some music? Let’s start with KIMONO! This dude has been in the scene since we started to go on parties back in -98. He was all ready bangin techno at a warehouse temple in Stockholm called Docklands. Many years has passed since then and his career is really on the top with lables, countless releases and impressive gigs.
Next guest for this month is the local talent KOLIZZ! He came from nowhere and got massive response from his gigs at one of swedens most respected clubs in this scene, Monday bar. After that he earned himself a slot at the mainstage. Pretty impressive!
Pop your beers because it’s Podgressive time!

So head over to Podgressive.com and grab the new episode!

Interview: Novaline

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Novaline [Photo: Patric Franksson @ bejbi.se]

Interview with Novaline
This is the first in our series of interviews with Scandinavian producers and dj’s.

To read it, click on more!

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Classic for the Weekend: Cosmic Gate feat Jan Johnston – I Feel Wonderful (AM to PM Remix)

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5C4gHY68gk&w=680&h=461]

The next classic is actually a remake of an older track. The track i’m thinking of is Cosmic Gate featuring Jan Johnston – I Feel Wonderful (AM to PM Remix) (Buy on Itunes)

The original track which its based on, Freefall featuring Jan Johnston – Skydive, released back in 1998 was made by Alan Bremner and Anthony Pappa and used the same vocals by Jan Johnston as Cosmic Gate did.

Cosmic Gates track is a real progressive monster, especially when listening to their extended version, the AM to PM remix which is nearly 11 minutes of pure orgazm.

Nic Chagall and DJ Bossi, real names Claus Terhoeven and Stefan Bossems, began producing under the Cosmic Gate-name back in 1999 and their older material was more to the hard side of trance. Their music has since then evolved to the more progressive side of trance.

Just look at some of their hits since this track came out:

”Body Of Conflict” (featuring Denise Rivera) (2007)
”Not Enough Time” (featuring Emma Hewitt) (2009)
”Sign Of The Times” (2009)
”Under Your Spell” (featuring Aruna) (2009)
”Barra” (2010)
”The Theme” (2011)
”Be Your Sound” (2011)

Just ”Be your sound” was IMHO one of the best tracks from last year, will probably feature that track sometime in the future!

Also worth noticing is that in 2006 Nic Chagall released some tracks under his own name and went around DJ’ing. He released a track called Monday Bar which (IMHO) is linked to the fact that he played for Monday Bar in sweden the same summer.

Lyrics:

I feel wonderful

The first moment, before the first touch
We know the longing, we have to hold each other
I will drown you in love, must suffocate your needs
Now we’re healed
We have our own language

I feel wonderful, I could skydive from the moon
Sail an ocean, on my fingertips
When the wind screams my name, take his hand
I’m free, to run, run, run, to you..

I feel wonderful..

The first moment, before the first touch
We know the longing, we have to hold each other
I will drown you in love, must suffocate your needs
now we’re healed
We have our own language

Collect your words, I have them when you’re gone
I silently smile, I even miss you in my sleep
No rush, no lust, no lies
This journey is our love
You’re my hero, from heaven did you come?

[x2]
I feel wonderful, I could skydive from the moon
Sail an ocean, on my fingertips
When the wind screams my name, take his hand
I’m free, to run, run, run, to you..

This is one of those tracks that you just want to close your eyes and feel Jans lyrics flow thru your body.

Goosebump-points:

1:00 when the bass kicks in
2:13 when the synth kicks in
3:38 when the lyrics starts
6:46 when the break comes

Jan Johnston, who was one of the best singers back then, sang on most of my favourites from that timeperiod.

Just check out some of her resume:

1995 Libra Presents Taylor – ”Anomaly – Calling Your Name” UK #71
1997 Submerge – ”Take Me By the Hand” UK #28
1997 BT – ”Remember” UK #27
1998 Freefall – ”Skydive” (single release, re-issued in 2000 and 2001) UK #75 (1998), UK #43 (2000), UK #35 (2001)
1999 BT – ”Mercury & Solace” UK #38
1999 Libra presents Taylor – ”Anomaly” (Remix/Re-release with new video) UK #43
2000 Tomski – ”Love Will Come” UK #31
2002 Cosmic Gate – ”Raging (Storm)” UK #48
2003 DJ Cor Fijneman – ”Venus” UK #109
2003 Paul van Dyk – ”Nothing But You” (also featuring Hemstock & Jennings and Kym UK #14.
2003 Svenson & Gielen – ”Beachbreeze” UK #163 (through import sales) (Originally titled ”Ocean”)
2004 Serge Devant – ”Transparent”
2005 Cosmic Gate – ”I Feel Wonderful” (an update of her song recorded with Freefall ”Skydive”) UK #122
2006 Leama & Moor – ”Waiting” (originally titled ”UR My Book”)
2007 DJ Shah – ”Beautiful”
2010 Tenishia – ”Flesh 2010” (an update of her track ”Flesh”)
2010 Dave D’Mello – ”Remember” (an update of her track with BT)
2011 Cosmic Gate – ”Raging 2011” (an update of the track released in 2002)

The cool thing is that Cosmic Gate is still sounding fresh after nearly 23 years in the music industry. I hope to hear more tracks in the near future that will give me special feelings and goosebumps. In this case, i’m not worried at all.

Tracks and remixes related to this post:

Freefall – Skydive
James Horner – I see you (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Kyau vs Albert – I Love You (Cosmic Gate Remix)
Cosmic Gate – Be your Sound (Extended Mix)
Cosmic Gate – Fire Wire (DJ Scot Project Remix)
Svenson and Gielen feat Jan Johnston – Beachbreeze
BT feat Jan Johnston – Remember

News: Luminosity Beach Festival 2012

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The lineup for Luminosity Beach Festival 2012 just got released, and there are some really great names on it!

Aly & Fila, Andy Moor, John O’Callaghan, Sean Tyas, Simon Patterson, Marcel Woods, Leon Bolier, John ’00’Fleming, Giuseppe Ottaviani Live, Super8 & Tab, Kyau Albert, Menno de Jong, Daniel Kandi, Signum, Airwave / Capetown, Solarstone, Talla b2b Taucher, Johan Gielen, The Thrillseekers, Binary Finary, Airbase, Orkidea, Artento Divini, Ummet Ozcan, Bryan Kearney, Activa, Manuel Le Saux, Ferry Tayle, Bjorn Akesson, Arctic Moon, Bart Claessen, Mark Norman, Ton TB, Estiva, Greg Downey, Oliver Smit, Galen Behr, Juventa, Aerofoil, Indecent Noise, Basil O’Glue & Ronny K.

Tickets
Early bird weekend tickets of € 59,- are available at http://www.luminosity-events.nl/tickets/ or at your local Free Record Shop. Only 300 early bird tickets are available.

Accommodation
Hotels are every year very quicky fully reservated so if you need a place to stay, make sure you book your room as soon as possible before all are full. Haarlem is only 5 min away from Zandvoort, and Amsterdam 15/20min away! There is also a camping just across the street. Check here for the best hotel deals:

Time: 12.00-00.00
Location: Beachclub Riche, Zandvoort
Genres: hardtrance, trance, progressive
Presales: buy your tickets online at http://www.luminosity-events.nl/tickets

Bejbi.se will be there, are you?

– Patric

Classic for the Weekend: Cass & Slide – Perception

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl9tAtGsjTs&w=680&h=491]

The next track i´m gonna feature is Cass & Slide – Perception [New Vocal Mix] (buy on iTunes which came out in the end of 2000.

I’ve got an amazing story around how I first heard the track.
It all started sometime in the beginning of 2000 when a friend of mine posted a sample of the track with only the vocal part which he heard in some DJ-set back then. I was a member of several housemusic-forums and the sample was posted on one of them in a section called ”Name that tune”.

I was usually really good at naming tracks regarding all types of housemusic but this was a track I’ve never heard of before. I downloaded the sample and listened to it from time to time and even googled it (or whatever you used to use back then) with no result. I think it was perhaps 1,5-2 years later that I found out what it was called.
Until then I’d probably listened to the sample I had more than 100 times.

Lyrics:

You can see forever
Look inside of your mind
Find a sense another wonder
Just release the fears you left behind

Feel your way through the darkness
Guide your soul into the light
Swim into the open water
Drift on the tides that you may find

Find your soul in the sunrise
Look around you can see it in their eyes
Be as one together
Rise up as the emptiness subsides

You can see forever
Rise up together
Search and you will find the answer
If you look deep inside of your mind

Personal goosebump-points in the song:

2:12 into the song when the main synth starts
5:04 into the song when the vocals starts
5:47 into the song when the 2:nd verse comes in, also notice the main synth in the background fading up.

First time I heard the whole song was really amazed by the lyrics and the progressive sound that build and builds until the vocals start around 5 minutes into the song when everything starts to build once again.

I havent had the opportunity to hear anyone play it at any club but Markus Schulz (Buy on iTunes) did a remake of the song 2010. I first heard his version in march 2010 when he played at the Mondaybar Spring Cruise. Back then he only had a non-vocal version but later that year he had Justine Suissa sing the new vocals for the track.

IMHO, Justine Suissa’s vocals is pretty flat compared to the original vocals by Naimee Coleman which has more feeling to them. Don’t get me wrong, I love Justine Suissas voice but in this case i’d go for the original any day of the week.

Worth noticing is that Naimee Coleman did the vocals on Aurora’s big hit, Ordinary World (Buy on iTunes), which was a cover of one of Duran Durans biggest hits. Aurora later did another cover on Tasmin Archer’s big hit, Sleeping Satellite. Besides singing on these tracks, she’s had an impressive Solo-career, opening gigs for bands and artists like Van Morrison, Susanne Vega, Jackson Browne, 10,000 Maniacs, Sinead O’Connor and Sting.

Cass & Slide are Cass Cutbush and Pete Martin and they first teamed up back in 1999 when they both worked on a recordlabel called Flying Rhino Records in London. Their first release, Diablo was released on the label.

Cass later started his own recordlabel with fellow DJ, Lee Burridge, called Fire records where most of the Cass & Slide-material later was released. The track, Perception was an instant hit when world-famous DJ Sasha featured it on his compilation, Global Underground 013: Ibiza. Tiesto also featured it on his In Search Of Sunrise 2-compliation, which came out in 2000.

After releasing their full-lenght album, Burning The Candle At Both Ends, in 2002 there has been pretty quiet from Cass & Slide, especially after Cass’s label, Fire, went under in 2003. I saw some remixes by Slide in the mid of 2000 but none of them did any big impression on me.

I hope that you also find this track as good as I do so the spirit of Cass & Slide will live on forever.

Additional links:
Markus Schulz feat Justine Suissa – Perception (YouTube).
Aurora feat Naimee Coleman – Ordinary World (Above & Beyond Remix) (YouTube).

– Niklas

Classic for the weekend: Chicane – Offshore [Disco Citizens Remix]

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mplayysPDZU&w=680&h=491]

Welcome to an all new section on bejbi.se.
This section is going to present an important Tranceclassic just before the weekend starts, all written and presented by a long time friend and a walking wikipeda of music: Niklas.

The first track in this section is my all-time-favourite. I first heard this sometime in 1997 on a mix-cd called Club Mix 97 which contained loads of great tracks that I still listen to.

The track i’m talking about is Chicane – Offshore (Disco Citizens Remix) [Buy it on iTunes!]

The things that stood out most was the atmospheric strings, the piano and the guitar-riff.
The track was originally released back in 1996 and became an instant Ibiza-anthem with the balearic sound that’s captured in the song.

The track was later re-released under the name Offshore ’97 with vocals. Offshore ’97 was originally a bootleg made by Anthony Pappa with vocals from a track called ”A Little Love, a Little Life” by the group Power Circle, which later became the official vocal version called ”Chicane with Power Circle – Offshore ’97”

Lyrics:
A little love, a little life
A little love, a little life
Let it show
A little love, a little life
Let it show
A little love, a little life

I feel in my mind, I’ve got to let go, I’ve got to unwind
I need a good time, I need to find love, I’ve got to get high
I feel in my mind, I’ve got to let go, I’ve got to unwind
I need a good time, I need to find love, I’ve got to get high

You’ve got the passion to feel inside
A little love, a little life, now you decide
There ain’t no reasons why we can’t share
A little love, a little life can take us there