Be Yourself releases week 49
Format x RobJanssen – Solid Session [Be Yourself Music]
Format being none other than dance legend Orlando Voorn, brought bang up to speed by RobJanssen, another Dutchman of many aliases, as ‘Solid Session’ re-emerges from its 1991 starting point as a techno-trance hurricane. Beats are tough and uncompromising, bass rumbles are a harsh, ugly sprawl, synth melodies stay delicate but deadly, the atmosphere is smoky and on-edge, and the breakdown is a textbook example of trance tension. The latest update to Voorn’s illustrious back catalogue thrives when all light is blocked out.
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Elle Hollis – Selfish Ways (Acoustic) [Be Yourself Music]
Elle Hollis her track ‘Selfish Ways’ tells a story many are familiar with, about how you tend to pass on the hurt you received from your past relationships onto the people you care about. Captured in an upbeat song with lyrics that hit home, Elle approaches this a positive way: sometimes hurting someone else is inevitable, or maybe even justified, if it means you can protect your own well-being. Stripped to the basis, Elle Hollis brings an acoustic version of Selfish Ways.
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Equinøx – Mesmerize [High Contrast Recordings]
Joris Voorn and Paul van Dyk lead the pack clamouring for equinøx’s ‘Tear Apart/‘The Answer’: six minutes of mystical, tech-stimulated progressive later, and the reaction to ‘Mesmerize’ will doubtless be the same. It’s a classic game of contrasts – light and dark, weightless and intense – where digital raindrops are swept along by turbo injected chord changes, measuring the exact distance between a black hole and the final frontier. The track always feels one step away from danger, but equinøx’s expert navigation embraces the fear to gracefully drift away from what lurks below. Fire yourself up and fall under its spell.
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Zero Days – Follow Me [I AM HARDSTYLE Amplify]
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Stym – Lulu [Casual Chill Music]
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