Champaquí is a delightful tune that carries enough weight and has enough new edges to hold my attention. Yet in its being, it would be easy to argue that this tune is superior to most progressive tunes out there. I’m absolutely smitten with the smooth laid back emotional quality, to which I can only dance … Continue reading Flexible Fire – Champaquí
Straight from Australia and into your heart, One Minute Longer ventures into the atmospheric realm of shimmering harmonic instrumentation and deeply lush vocals designed to spirit you into the night, where tender earthbound songs resound, recounting an honesty so seldom heard in today’s music. One Minute Longer hauntingly delivers, setting my soul on fire with … Continue reading Approaching Black & Brandon Mignacca – One Minute Longer (Instrumental Mix)
Once we get used to the idea that time is ineluctable, we make sure we embrace beauty in each moment as much as we can. We get an entirely discrete space outside the depredations and rude entropy that time just loves to enact. Here With Me is not without its sadnesses, but it approaches with … Continue reading Schodt & Sundriver feat. Aida Fenhel – Here With Me (Schodt Vocal Mix)
Odsen’s material is certainly interesting, notable and breaks new ground in Deep House. It has a deeply familiar feel to it, a patchwork that floats effortlessly, a tune filled with comfortable synths to slap a mile-wide smile across your face. In My Bones is designed to rapture your wayward ears and will pound from your … Continue reading Odsen – In My Bones
Jelly is laced with depth and character and is nothing short of transformative. I found it to be an awakening of emotion spurred on by sonically muted tonalities that nearly insisted on lulling me into a narcotic haze of relaxation. It will make you sit back with a sly smile of intuitive understanding, making you … Continue reading Meeting Molly – Jelly
Marsh designed Wasn’t Enough to create a floating dynamic musical soundscape, that effectively enhances that inner journey, all while setting the pace for the floor that was shifting under one’s feet, along with the ceiling that was floating away, leaving listeners lost in the matrix-ed air they were breathing! To say the this tune simply … Continue reading Marsh – Wasn’t Enough
Daylight is a true sonic marvel – rich, varied, beautiful, filled with lush and simple melodies. You will be inclined to venture into those magical harmonies and bigger than life presentations that make up this tune, where you feel forever out of reach, etherial in the fact they are unable to be memorably captured. Oddly enough, … Continue reading Luttrell – Daylight
Generate, perhaps more than any other of Luttrell’s tunes seems fashioned with rustic confidence designed to glide. But that’s only half the story, as entirely unexpectedly, the tune shifts gears during the breakdown, upping into flowering distortion, where the synths seemingly twist and turn around each other, around each note, all filtered through a heavy … Continue reading Luttrell – Generate
What You Are is laden with dreamy delightful synths along with washed out blissed vocals, all woven together through a series of evenhanded textures designed to deliver a kaleidoscope of sounds, some expected, some not, though all going down like a syrupy medication designed to lay waste your soul. Luttrell is a genius in the … Continue reading Luttrell – What You Are
Böhmer, Malou and Sentir clearly set out to create a tune of purity and simplicity in this tune. Lost In Mind has notes flowing and flowering into the next with effortless emancipation of lightness and grace. Every synth and every beat has been designed to be understated yet ever-present, riding on a smooth current that … Continue reading Ben Böhmer & Malou – Lost In Mind (Volen Sentir Vision)
The story behind this ethereally blissful tune is that of the space capsule Nightwhisper drifting off its planned orbit, ebbing into uncharted regions of the cosmos, beaming back these haunting yet beautifully lost transmissions, letting anyone interested, anyone paying attention, know that they are still out there and alive, and though lost, seeming to be … Continue reading Jody Wisternoff & James Grant – Nightwhisper
When you lose someone special to the cosmos, you realise that in this strange anomaly of space and time, your lives have crossed. You found them, but more importantly, they found you. The only possible way that you could return the gift of love that they bestowed upon your life – is to give it … Continue reading Assaf & Cassandra Grey – All Of You
Counting Down The Days always sweeps me away with a gentle hand, where Gemma’s voice fills the tune with soothing melodies and heartfelt lyrics. Yet it wasn’t until Yotto’s rehash ebbed from my speakers that I came face to face with a new vision. This tune is carefully crafted with passion for a wondrous effect. … Continue reading Above & Beyond feat. Gemma Hayes – Counting Down The Days (Yotto Remix)
Lost Boy is some sort of a new deep house hybrid, snaking its way as a listening experience that’s feather-light, haunting, beautiful and entirely enigmatic when one seeks to understand a line such as “Cause in the dark there are no strangers.” At the heart of its being, Lost Boy is intellectual and a firmly-rooted … Continue reading The Midnight – Lost Boy (A.M.R. Remix)
Last night in the city and already feelings of being both lost and out of time lingered around. Emotions were getting carried forth in a flowing erotic manner, making the moment suitable for a dark dancehall filled with upturned heads waiting on the chemicals to mythically materialise just as the clock strikes midnight – to shower … Continue reading Zimpzon & Braak – Signals
I was truly alone feeling worthy of the delightful moment that embraced me and flowered on – shaking with raw energy, carrying with it seams of exuberance and excitement. It was like watching the sky prepare itself for rain, the coming of the morning sun, or the moon edging its way over the mountains in … Continue reading B.O.N.G. – Small Things (Aeron Aether Breaks Remix)
Izlaz is a romantic pace-setter which makes you remember that delicious relaxed adventurous atmosphere involving some dynamic explorations. The unparalleled softness of the moment that enabled you to weave with grace through each other, making for an entirely collective collaborative affair. While many Sound Quelle tunes are epic tales, none more so than Izlaz. This … Continue reading Sound Quelle – Izlaz
I was just home from an alien nation when this tune broke. I realised that I’d left a world wrapped in psychedelic experiences, only to be smitten by it on my return. A brilliant bit of intoxicating night time – an essay on the wonders of just letting the moment roll you over. Aeron Aether … Continue reading Stefan Anion – Strangers (Aeron Aether Remix)
Hover consists of a downbeat vibe, complete with a detailed narrative that flows with my relentless imagination giving it a more personal mode of songwriting and vision. Strangely enough, the tune’s stylish diversity is derived from my own actual and real rendezvous – a short story of sorts in itself that is enhanced, amplified and … Continue reading Blue Symmetry – Hover
Kaivalya stands somewhere between hypnotic breaks and heartfelt progressive, the sort that finds you leaning into a hazy half memory that may or may not have any basis in truth. The kind of moment you deeply get lost in from time to time in order to catch each lingered gaze of that patchwork affair. Where … Continue reading Elfsong & Aeron Aether – Kaivalya
That time where I was entirely unable to find myself with my explorations of the grandeur. Seeming just out of reach, ungraspable, leaving me floating and lost in some inner space. Far more rewarding to my ears, coupled with those hums of enlightenment, Pulse was perfect for that moment in time. With its lush string … Continue reading Hexlogic – Pulse
Contrails is an enchanting hypnotic bit of sonic wanderlust with deep roots in the progressive, melodic and emotive manifestations. Terry’s remix is always compelling, belaying a sense of emancipation, delivered with a bit of swagger, where Anita’s vocals don’t just stand in juxtaposition to the music, rather they’re intrinsically part of the sound she rolls … Continue reading Allay, Narrow Skies & Skyline Drive – Contrails (Terry Da Libra Remix)
Hope Unchained is a dreamy tune, infusing as many visuals as musical notes – a track that creates a warm hypnotic feel, where the vocals don’t just simply float through the air but hang there momentarily, and then drift off like puffy clouds on a calm day. Excellent synth work, unparalleled, laced with classic infusions … Continue reading Aeron Aether & Terry Da Libra – Hope Unchained