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REVIEW: Danilo Ercole - A Man with Two Names / Quasar on Coldharbour/Armada


1.A Man With Two Names (Original Mix)
2.A Man With Two Names (Club Mix)
3.Quasar (Original Mix)
4.Quasar (Styller Remix)

A favorite of Coldharbour followers over the years, Brazil’s Danilo Ercole begins 2012 in impressive fashion, with two tracks that illuminated Markus Schulz’s Los Angeles ’12 compilation.

Regularly contributing to the label with tech-laiden yet beautiful melodies, Danilo’s previous efforts such as Harbour, Below the Equator Line and Water That Birds Don’t Drink helped establish his credentials as someone to keep an eye on. Setting the tone for disc 1 of Los Angeles ’12, A Man with Two Names immediately registered itself as a fan favorite, with the listener taken on a journey combining deep moments with euphoric. Danilo’s own Club Mix gives the track a more uptempo feel, and provides a nice alternative to choose when planning DJ sets.

Quasar is also found on LA’s first disc output, and follows in similar vein to Water That Birds Don’t Drink. Throbbing basslines with an incredibly catchy melody is the order here. To give the track a different dimension, Danilo invited fellow Coldharbour alumnus Styller, fresh from a huge release of his own on the label in the form of All That Remains and Quantum Mechanics, to give Quasar a nice melodic flavour.

Danilo proves with both tracks that he continues to go from strength to strength, particularly with consistent plays in Markus’ livesets. Between A Man with Two Names and Quasar, at least one will appeal.


Dimitri Kechagias review: Deep atmospheric progressive trance at its highest quality is what you will find sealed and approved on the latest EP of the Latin American dj and producer Danilo Ercole on Coldharbour. Danilo is heavily supported by Markus Schulz in his radio show and dj sets as he has proved himself many times always with well composed  and uncompromising productions. A Man With Two Names is solid powerful progressive trancer with an anthemic but at the same time deep melancholic melody that reminds me the quality of the first synthesizer classics. For more than 8 minutes you travel far and away riding the exceptional Danilo beats. Club mix as the name suggests is a bangier approach that is more upfront with added electro tech influences that add some roughness to the final result. The main melody in the breakdown is recreated in a more aggressive way with huge rave style synthy riff. When the beat is back get on board for a nice BIG ROOM adventure with hands in the air. Quazar continues on the same deep and dark sound  but powerful and driving approach that includes a large atmospheric breakdown that reveals a hair raising big synthy lead to drive you out of your heads. The upcoming talent Styller transforms the track in his own style that is spacey progressive trance with techy spacious mysterious edge more bouncy than the original version. Overall is a magnificent EP of the finest progressive trance. Love iT!

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