Tunes released in the year 2018 that stole my heart.
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
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
Sound Quelle continues his electronic saga with the incredible Chanunpa. This tune can be loosely considered a conceptual masterpiece, leading through a string of events, regarding a day in your life. From a seemly small insignificant event, how you manage to weave what would seem to be a lifetime of events into a beautiful story of … Continue reading Sound Quelle – Chanunpa
What Sound Quelle has done here with Jukepin, is drawn the most treasured and imaginative aspects from across the musical spectrum, where these visions from the past are reassembled, rearranged and kindled with new warmth, a new life, lightly bewildering and entirely fascinating perceptions. It would be far too easy to employ the label of ‘progressive’ … Continue reading Sound Quelle – Jukepin
There are some tunes that are good, and there are some that are essential. Long Road To Nowhere is one of these tunes to delight your ears. It has been mastered with great care and attention that sets it on a shelf far above the previously released. This is far more than just a tune, … Continue reading Taglo – Long Road To Nowhere
When you can see nothing but that glittery side of your life. You can have all that you want, and still, you are drawn only to that particular moment, that you cannot buy, cannot own, and cannot possess. But it is in the looking back that brings the smile. For all of the madness that … Continue reading David Broaders – Hold On
I can still clearly visualise that time where I allowed myself to get lost in what was being laid down, where a feeling of wellness filled my being, as the moment seeped into my soul. Feeling explorative, I was able to travel down a well-known road, which would culminate with a scenery that was magically … Continue reading Airdraw & Jo.E – Lightness (Club Mix)
Melodia is far more layered and mature than any of Terry Da Libra’s productions, creating a celebratory tune that’s instantly gripping. A tormented trip though the thoughts of that someone, where the emotions flow, the music is true, resoundingly successful, convincing, capturing the essence and nurturing the spiritual cadence of a time long forgotten, while … Continue reading Terry Da Libra – Melodia
Hold On is catchy and uplifting, albeit with a darker side. There are those, and truth be told, who think that the bass and synths should be a background experience within a track, that these instruments should not define a tune, when the actual truth is, they always do. When I first heard this track, … Continue reading Lane 8 feat. Fractures – Hold On (Ben Böhmer Remix)
On Board is very much in and of the times we find ourselves living, yet is resoundingly so much more expansive than one could imagine; a tune that will not only stand the test of time, but reshape the very texture of intimate moments we are living through. On Board carries you high above the … Continue reading Dosem – On Board
Enamour is going deep with this one, fulfilling his role as the underdog of the year, set to surprise the world. Grooving bass takes center stage in Ruby, making sure that the deeper side of the tune was properly represented. Quietly catchy and comforting in its own way. As long as the beats are this good, who has time to do anything but listen? Blissful pads, hypnotic … Continue reading Enamour – Ruby
A rendezvous so consuming in its longing and emotional grandeur. Far from the teenage dreams filled with whines and despair. Rather, an indulgence into the melancholic regions of the subconsciousness formulated to challenge the very nature of being as you come face to face with all you thought you knew. Then discovering the lies you’d … Continue reading Vadim Spark & Cari – Beat Of My Heart (LTN Sunrise Remix)
That was one lovely day when the airwaves crackled their desire to project the magic aura of this great personality. Would she care to know that years down the ever-winding time road that I would still be reliving that reverie? Maybe, maybe not, but what glints brighter then the white of her eye, is the … Continue reading Roman Messer & DJ Xquizit feat. Osito – Empire Of Our Own (LTN Sunrise Remix)
Northern Soul has been written for effect, purposely to pluck at the listener’s heartstrings, inspiring a moody atmosphere of melancholy, filled with synth arrangements and a strong bassline that have been wrapped around with vocals which make it seem like Richard Bedford is telling this tale first hand, nearly breaking into shivering tears as echoes … Continue reading Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford – Northern Soul