Etikettarkiv: Johan Gielen

Classic FTW: Svenson & Gielen – Beachbreeze

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This weekend’s classic comes from a dynamic duo who´s been active since 1994 under different aliases, for instance Body Heat, DJ Don & Svenson, T-Phobia, Boccacio Life. The aliases that this article will focus on are Airscape and Svenson & Gielen and this week’s featured track is Svenson & Gielen featuring Jan JohnstonBeachbreeze (Remember The Summer). (Buy on Itunes)

Lyrics:

You smiled
It helped me capture
Was no ordinary feeling
Sweet, ultimate, endless
You changed me forever
Awaken my passion

Theres no dark clouds in my world now
Theres no dark clouds only sunshine
Theres no dark clouds in my world now
Theres no dark clouds only sunshine

I’ll remember the summer forever
You took my lips
You took my hands
Took me to the ocean
Made love to me

I’ll remember the summer forever
You took my lips
You took my hands
Took me to the ocean
Made love to me
In the water
Water
Water.

The ocean
Serenading us
Being grown ups in the sand
Sweet, ultimate, rapture
an aura of our moments
You aroused
My, passion

There’s no dark clouds in my world now
There’s no dark clouds only sunshine
There’s no dark clouds in my world now
There’s no dark clouds only sunshine

I’ll remember the summer forever
You took my lips
You took my hands
Took me to the ocean
Made love to me

I’ll remember the summer forever
You took my lips
You took my hands
Took me to the ocean
Made love to me
In the water
Water
Water.

I’ll remember
Always
Always.

Ohh I’ll remember
Always
Always.

I’ll remember
I’ll remember
I’ll remember
Forever

I’ll remember the summer forever
You took my lips
You took my hands
Took me to the ocean
Made love to me

I’ll remember the summer forever
You took my lips
You took my hands
Took me to the ocean
Made love to me

I’ll remember the summer forever and ever
Always

Belgian born Johan Willy Maria Gielen and Sven Frans Yvonne Maes met in 1996 after being introduced to eachother by Oliver Adams who worked with Gielen on Body Heat. Oliver Adams quit the project in 1996 and Svenson joined instead.

Gielen was already using the Airscape-moniker together with Jos Borremans from 1992. After having some success with the Body Heat-project, Gielen asked Svenson to join the Airscape-project in 1997. The first 2 years (1997-1998), Jos Borremans was in the project and later left Airscape to pursue his own career.

The first single for Svenson as Airscape, Pacific Melody was a chart-success and peaked at no 27 in the UK chart. I really like the warm sound that they managed on that track.

The followup, Amazon Chant feels almost like something out of a fairytale, especially in the breakdown with it’s birdsounds, those warm strings and that chant. It was another chart-success and peaked at no 46 in the UK chart.

The first track I heard from Airscape was L’Esperanza. The track, released in 1999 peaked at no 33 in the UK Chart and was the first track without Jos Borremans and has that signature sound that most Airscape-tracks and remixes after 1999 has.

Airscape was also busy remixing other artists and of the earlier remixes i’d recommend you to take a look at Praga Khan – Breakfast In Vegas, Vengaboys – Kiss and Delerium – Silence.

Between 2000-2003, they put the Airscape-project on the shelf and started focusing their effort on the Svenson & Gielen-project instead. They still produced some remixes as Airscape but no original productions.

Their first release, Beauty Of Silence (with singer Christel Ferket) kept that signature-sound from Airscape and became another success. This was also the first year that Svenson & Gielen had their track become the official anthem for Trance Energy.

The same year also saw some major remixes from Airscape, including Chicane – Halcyon, Scooter – I´m Your Pusher, Alice Deejay – The Lonley One & Sylver – Turn The Tide. They also did a Svenson & Gielen-remix of Push – The Legacy

The 2001-single, Twisted (with singer Paul Mendez) is another legendary track. I especially love that hook after the break. Simply amazing! It was also the official Trance Energy-anthem for 2001.
The remix-work this year included Safri Duo – Played-a-live (as Airscape), Ultra – Free, Ayumi Hamasaki – Depend On You & Tiesto – Lethal Industry (as Svenson & Gielen)

2002 saw the release of We Know What You Did and Answer The Question. Both tracks were official Trance Energy-anthems. Of the two tracks, I prefer We Know What You Did, especially the part with the strings in the breakdown. Svenson & Gielen-remixes worth mentioning include ATB – Hold You, The Thrillseekers – Dreaming Of You & Lexicon 4 – Reach Me.

The last release as Svenson & Gielen, Beachbreeze (with singer Jan Johnston) was another legendary track. Though never released in England, only as an import from the legendary ID&T-label, it still reached no 163 in the UK chart. The working-name for the track was Ocean, but later renamed to Beachbreeze (Remember The Summer).

In 2003, Svenson announced that they were splitting and going solo. The last track they ever released was an Airscape-single, Sosei which were released the year after.

In 2009, Gielen revived the Airscape-moniker as a solo-project and released a new single, My Love (with singer Jes Breiden). The single is more pop-ish than previous tracks. Even the Johan Gielen-remix has lost the original Airscape-sound. He also re-released L’Esperanza with a new Svenson & Gielen 2009-remix. The 2009-mix is also slower than previous and alot more commercial than the original sound.

2010 also saw the release of the long-awaited debut album from Airscape, Now And Then which contains new collaborations with Josh Millstone, Cor Fijneman, Daniel Wanrooy, Mark Green & Ben Jujbregts, all under the Airscape-moniker.

When I look back to the results of what the dream team of Johan Gielen and Sven Maas accomplished under those active years I see true classics. Classics that will live on forever, both in their original material and also their remixes.

Back in the days when I started listening to trance I knew that if the sleeve mentioned either Airscape and/or Svenson & Gielen, there was some really good tracks inside. I still play loads of their stuff on my stereo and they always gives me goosebumps, and sometimes even tears of joy.
Their music will live on in my memory forever.

Related tracks:

Airscape – Pacific Melody
Airscape – Amazon Chant
Airscape – L’Esperanza
Airscape – My Love
Svenson & Gielen – The Beauty Of Silence
Svenson & Gielen – Twisted
Svenson & Gielen – We Know What You Did
Svenson & Gielen – Answer The Question
Praga Khan – Breakfast In Vegas (Airscape Mix)
Vengaboys – Kiss (Airscape Remix)
Delerium feat. Sarah Mclachlan – Silence (Airscape Mix)
Chicane – Halcyon (Airscape Remix)
Scooter – I’m yor Pusher (Airscape Mix)
Alice Deejay – The Lonely One (Airscape Remix)
Push – The Legacy (Svenson & Gielen Mix)
Tiesto – Lethal Industry (Svenson & Gielen Remix)
The Thrillseekers – Dreaming Of You (Svenson & Gielen Remix)
Lexicon 4 – Reach Me (Svenson & Gielen Remix)

Pictures: Luminosity Beachfestival 2012

Third and last round of pictures from the legendary Luminosity Beachfestival in Zandvoort outside Amsterdam.
This years lineup was really huge, but here it is: 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, Solarstone, Talla b2b Taucher, Johan Gielen, The Thrillseekers, Airbase, Jonas Steur, 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 Smith, Galen Behr, Juventa, Aerofoil, Indecent Noise, Basil O’Glue and Ronny K

This is the second of three photosets by our three photographers.
If you want to use one of the pictures, make sure to get the watermark too!

Patric, Oljo and Niklas

And with this last Luminosity Beachfestival post I would like to thank my two co-photographers Oljo and Niklas. Without you it would have been impossible! :D

Luminosity Beachfestival 2012, Beachclub Riche, Zandvoort an Zee, The Netherlands, 20120623 – 20120624
Pictures: 164

Pictures: Luminosity Beachfestival 2012


Second round of pictures from the legendary Luminosity Beachfestival in Zandvoort outside Amsterdam.
This years lineup was really huge, but here it is: 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, Solarstone, Talla b2b Taucher, Johan Gielen, The Thrillseekers, Airbase, Jonas Steur, 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 Smith, Galen Behr, Juventa, Aerofoil, Indecent Noise, Basil O’Glue and Ronny K

This is the second of three photosets by our three photographers.
If you want to use one of the pictures, make sure to get the watermark to!

Thanks to guest photographer Oljo for the photos!

Luminosity Beachfestival 2012, Beachclub Riche, Zandvoort an Zee, The Netherlands, 20120623 – 20120624
Pictures: 210

Pictures: Luminosity Beachfestival 2012


First round of pictures from the legendary Luminosity Beachfestival in Zandvoort outside Amsterdam.
This years lineup was really huge, but here it is: 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, Solarstone, Talla b2b Taucher, Johan Gielen, The Thrillseekers, Airbase, Jonas Steur, 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 Smith, Galen Behr, Juventa, Aerofoil, Indecent Noise, Basil O’Glue and Ronny K

This is the first of three photosets by our three photographers.
If you want to use one of the pictures, make sure to get the watermark to!

Luminosity Beachfestival 2012, Beachclub Riche, Zandvoort an Zee, The Netherlands, 20120623 – 20120624
Pictures: 142

News: Luminosity Beach Festival 2012

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