Belfast’s Stuart Millar is resident on RTE Pulse radio and has previous releases on High Contrast, Solaris and Crashing Waves amongst others. His debut ‘Vanishing Point’ on Touchstone is a melodic trance affair. Melodically the track features a huge big-room smashing synth riff and sparkling sequenced arpeggio riff. The Original Mix is at a progressive 126bpm tempo whereas the Club Mix pushes things up to a rousing 136bpm. First up on remix duties is fellow Northern Ireland resident Josdar with something a little bit different which remind the listener of late 90’s trance which fused breaks and 4/4 rhythms. The melodic content of the original is serviced well and floors will be moved by plenty of drops and builds along the way. Wrapping up the package is DJ Shy under his ‘Horizons’ guise with something for the more progressive trance floors. Kicking off with a cheeky ‘French Kiss’ style sequencer groove, Shy builds the tension slowly creating something of an intense prog monster.
Dimitri Kechagias review: Touchstone recordings is the source of pure trance that you can trust with incredible high class releases so far. The latest one comes from the hands of Stuart Millar who slowly builds very strong reputation about his talent and ability to compose phenomenal anthems. Vanishing Point in its original mix is a solid driving progressive trance beauty with multiple melodic sound layers in play and superb tight percussion with energetic electro inspired basslines. His main epic synthy theme is really cinematic and travelling so expect to travel without moving to faraway places and spaces. The Club mix is the uplifting pure trance makeover perfect for your pure trance dj sets. Energetic and dynamic sound perfect for those full on prime time dj sets. When he introduces the main melodic theme you feel shivers all over your body and you carried away from them to follow Stuart in his sound adventure at any cost. His climax is full on and hands in the air with the superb epic synthy lead lock you into its mystery and underlined melancholy. Josdar remix is the superb progressive meets uplifting trance rework with very solid and tight drum beats, dark and deep basslines with the various melodic layers working like a treat to offer you the trance trip you were waiting for. Lastly Dj Shy who slowly builds his good name service his proglifting trance rework that is danceable, energetic and very relaxing and dreamy at the same time. Touchstone trance beauty not to miss. Love IT!
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