Mixing amazing vocals, with modern Touchstone beats and some classic producers from the birth decade of real dance music there is no better combination. This remix is likely to be one of Digitized most popular and it’s easy to see why.
The tension just builds and builds and then boom as the beat drops in full you get hit with uplifting vocal trance of the quality that is doesn’t come around every week, or even month. From the first time you hear this track, if you’re a DJ, you will just know that this is going to go off when you play it to a crowd. Big chords and pianos bring the vocals back in and build the track to its climax. The atmosphere keep building behind the vocal taking you though to the main drop. Again, built around the vocal this is uplifting vocal trance at its best. Tight claps and rolling hats, mix with rolling mid basses and thumping kicks.
Back up at 138bpm you can instantly tell the Touchstone influence on this, even before the main bass comes in. Touchstone Remix takes this track down a whole different route. This is sure to be great hit and the original will appeal to perhaps a wider audience than normal due to the slower tempo, but if you like vocal trance, you’re sure to love this gem from some of the people who were leading the way in dance in late 90’s. Build gradually throughout the break the drop brings the vocal back in in full and is sure to have crowds signing along whether in the car, at home or in the main room of a club. It’s even got a slight commercial feel to it, but in a good way. With a slightly old school sound and feel, the hook will have people bouncing with delight. Lush pianos and pads fill the break and complement the vocals, before the lead chords come in. Vocal around the vocals this 132bpm track is filled with atmosphere and has a modern trance feeling to it. A Vocal Trancer where Gillian’s voice sounds amazing and has a tune to match. To Love Again, is a slower release than normal for Digitized, but it’s easy to see why we are putting it out as soon as you listen to it. He went on to perform at clubs all over the world as well as at dance music festivals such as Trance Energy, Mysteryland, Electric Daisy Carnival, Global Gathering, Nature One and others. Successive releases such as "Spirit", "Last Light Tonight" and "Better World" followed, as did numerous remixes for "Mark Otten - So Serene", "Karen Overton - Your Loving Arms" and the classic "Hydra - Affinity". Intuition made its debut in 2005, and the second release on the label was de Jong's own "Tundra." Like "Guanxi" and "Second Thoughts" before it, "Tundra" proved popular within the trance community and was championed by many of the style's leading DJs, including Tiesto and Armin van Buuren. The success of these initial productions inspired de Jong to found his own label, Intuition Recordings. Later that year he released a few additional productions: "Second Thoughts" as Sayla on Dedicated Holland, "Watermark" as Halcyon on Captured Music, and "Millionfold" as Myth on Remark Records. While he took up DJing as a teenager, he first established himself as a producer with the release of "Guanxi" on the British label Anjunabeats in 2004. The layer gel to together perfectly and listeners will love this track wherever they hear it. At the drop the track kicks it with a pure uplifting drop. Big dreamy and glassy pads dominate the break and subtle break beat rhythms give the track a new vibe at the drop and create a real feeling of euphoria to build the crowd to a state of frenzy before the uplifting arp filters in to build the track to a massive hands in the air moment. More progressive in the build, like the original the chords give the track a real warmth and the subtle acids give it energy so it rolls along nicely, before filtering down for the break. In this rework big chords filter in raising the temperature and tension of the track as it builds towards the break. Acids build the track to the bass drop and low bass is clean and warm.
This remix has a pure uplifting feeling to it and that’s evident right from the outside by the rolling saw bass and pumping feeling on the mid basses.
First up on remix duties is Digitized regular, UDM.