1. Extended Mix
2. Virtual Vault Remix
3. Extended Instrumental
4. Radio Edit
With ‘Endless Forever’ kicking the year off (“Tune of the Month” proclaimed MIXMAG – “a track that fills every square inch of the biggest room!”) and the similarly colossal ‘Welcome Home’ ushering in the summer, the last 12 months formed a renaissance year for Airscape. As it draws to a close, Johan Gielen’s most celebrated alias prepares to place the last piece of the 2013 jigsaw. The third precursor single to be taken from his 2014 comeback album (forthcoming though Black Hole Recordings), this is ‘Promise’.
With accredited club classics like ‘L’Esperanza’, ‘Pacific Melody’ and ‘Amazon Chant’ long secured in his discography, 2013 has gone down as the rebirth of Airscape.
In its Extended and Instrumental versions, ‘Promise’ delivers all the auditory aspects that you have come to expect from its creator. Animated, ebullient melodies, yearningly beautiful harmonics, castaway chords & pads, all constellated around a floor-jammer of a production. Dealing ‘Promise’ its anthemic topline, the Extended Mix features the vocals of Johan’s fellow Dutchman, Radboud. Through the gifted newcomer’s straight-from-the-soul rock-ish phonics, production & vocal fuse to deliver on the ‘Promise’.
Making it an all-Dutch line-up, Breda boy Virtual Vault are quick to the studio desk to give ‘Promise’ a suitably arena-sized overhaul. They mass the speaker-challenging kick-drums, hats, crashes and fearsome LFO to point it stadium-side. Locking in an energising sub-melody it surges upwards, before, at the critical instant, it deploys its TKO titan of a lead riff. The Second Coming of Airscape continues apace. ‘Promise’ is released on December 9th.
Dimitri Kechagias review: The beloved unforgetable trance project from the past is back with another soon to be crowned as classic anthem. Airscape returns with a must play progressive trancer called Promise. The extended vocal mix remains on that feel good balearic trance sound with tribal techy beats, deep driving basslines, warm classical orchestral music strings, euphoric feel good synths and old school balearic pianos as well. Radboud is on the rise as well with great collaborations so far and on this track shines with his incredible performance. His vocal has the need pop touch to make the track accessible to more mainstream audience and secure some space on the well known Dream Dance style compilations. The always on great shape Virtual Vault reshapes and remodels the track in his full on big room trance sound that will wake up memories of his trance classics released before some years on imprints like In Trance We Trust. Full on banging driving monster with musicallity and power to move big festival crowds and take them on board for a nice journey. The package includes the instrumental mix as well dedicated to those who would like to focus on the emotional melodic content that will make you feel in that romantic wishful mood to escape for a while. Love iT
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